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quickrick on 21 October 2018
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AngryLittleAlchemist said:
quickrick said:

lol no, not even close, ps4 only had 4.1 million for the holidays and launch, its first 2 months just to put in perspective switch had 2.7 million just for launch with out the holidays its first  2 months. i know switch had stock issues but they were minor in slow months.

Wrong.

The PS4 SOLD 4.2 million units by December 28th, 2013. That's SOLD through to consumers. (https://www.sie.com/en/corporate/release/2014/140108a.html)

I can't tell whether or not the IR report is shipped or sold (I'm assuming shipped, lord knows we've come to that conclusion on many previous discussions after heated debate, and either way it doesn't matter considering that PS4's number is sold through) but it took Switch 3.75 months to hit 4.7 million units (https://wccftech.com/nintendo-switch-sold-4-7m-units-june-30/) 

In other words, PS4's sell-through rate in it's holiday launch was almost as much as Switch's shipments in almost FOUR MONTHS

4.2 million shipped.  dudejust compare time frames, with out a launch boost  and see the massive difference in shipments numbers. ps4 could have shipped 7- million easy with a holiday and launch boost, its regularly ships around 6-8 million during that period look at what switch is shipping this year in the same time period when it was supply contrained.