Teeqoz said:
Welfare said:
You assume that shipments would stay consistant going into Q2, when it always goes down. Sony shipped the lowest amount of units last quarter they have had for the PS4 yet, with 2.3m, or less than 800k a month. In April, that would either go down or stay flat since they have UC4 in May, so the PS4 is probably less than 41m shipped at the end of April.
Sold through is a bit trickier, but if we assume the PS4 continued to sell around 1/3rd of its total worldwide sales in the US this year, the PS4 has sold around 3 million this year, or 1 million a month, or 39m worldwide by the end of March. April is a slower month in sales than March, so 1 million sales would not happen, so the PS4 should still be below 40 million by the end of April.
So I'd say as of the end of April, the PS4 is <40m sold through, and <41m shipped. Over 40 million at the end of April doesn't make much sense.
|
Actually Q2 is bigger than Q1 for Sony. Just look at their shipped numbers (rembember that Fiscal Q4=calendar Q1, so in this chart, Q1>Q4 => Q2>Q1:
http://www.sie.com/en/corporate/data/hardware_sale.html
That said, they most probably did not ship 1.4 million in April.
|
Only three times has Q2 been a larger quarter than Q1 in almost 10 years for Sony. The PS3 in 2010 (2.2m in Q1 and 2.4m in Q2), the PS3 again in 2014 (700k in Q1 and 800k in Q2), and the PS4 in 2015 (2.4m in Q1 and 3m in Q2).
