zorg1000 on 04 April 2018
| Farsala said: Been waiting quite awhile for this comparison, and finally the quarter has ended. It is simply Q1 and Q4 PS4 sales in Japan. 2014- Q1 2017 from Shadow. Everything else is my attempt at the numbers. Q1 2014: 493,338 (partial quarter; incl. 309k on launch week) Q4 2014: 244,588 Q1 2015: 378,434 Q4 2015: 456,834 Q1 2016: 382,680 Q4 2016: 797,172 Q1 2017: 512,789 Q4 2017: 651,736 Q1 2018: 719,753 Avg Q1: 497, 398 Avg Q4: 537,582 Conclusions: FFXV and MHW created quite the monster quarters, but otherwise they are fairly equal according to the averages . Holiday boosts seem nonexistent for PS4. However with each Q1 the next Q4 was always better except for launch year. Will Q4 be bigger this year? Obviously depends on games, but it is definitely a possibility. |
This is what i was trying to tell Megiddo last week in his PS4/NSW comparison.
Nintendo hardware gets a significantly stronger holiday boost than PS4 gets. Its not uncommon for Nintendo hardware to get 50% of its yearly sales just in Q4.
PS4 on the other gets a holiday boost but as you just showed its a far more mild boost and only slightly stronger than a regular quarter with the exception of 2016, but that was moreso from FFXV.
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