Ps4 @100mill shipped!

[DonFerrari]

zorg1000 said:

DonFerrari said:

Would be very unlikely to overship 1M this late on the life of the console. Seems more like they reduced the forecast to keep certainty they will exceed as they have all years.

That makes no sense, you dont adjust a forcast down if you're currently meeting/exceeding your expectations.

You do if you see the future state you had when making original forecast change. So if they expected to sell something on Q4 at the start of the FY but now they think they won't sell they will reduce forecast.

drkohler said:

zorg1000 said:

That makes no sense, you dont adjust a forcast down if you're currently meeting/exceeding your expectations.

We roughly know how the PS4 is selling in NA and Japan thanks to leaked/reported numbers. And they are down, more or less significantly from last year's numbers. Shipping the same number as last year, we can easily see that the shelves are getting full pretty fast. So they are currently selling below expectations in all likelyhood.

My guess is somebody wanted a neat 100M number to report in this quarterly fiscal report, even if that meant overstocking. At least for prices, in Europe, they are still unchanged, as high as ever (in the $329-$349 range). So I wonder what The Plan is, actually...

You don't overship, that simply don't exist. This have been a lengthy discussion on VGC during PS3/X360 battle that Xbox fans claimed Sony was overshipping (almost every quarter for several years mind you).

You ship what stores order, you can't force them to accept inventory.

Barkley said:

DonFerrari said:

The fact Nintendo prioritized another system doesn't makes Virtual Boys stop to exist. Should we exclude PSVita because Sony decided to focus on PS4 when they saw Vita wasn't going to be a strong seller?

The Vita received FAR more support than the Virtual Boy, it had a clear place in Sony's lineup (Handheld, successor to PSP), it wasn't discontinued after a year, it isn't any more atypical than the WiiU and it wasn't put out to die.

Virtual Boy didn't even have a place. N64 came out a year later, Virtual Boy was never meant to be Nintendo's Home Console and certainly not it's handheld.

I never claimed VB was supposed to be the successor to N64, it could very well be Game Boy successor (it even shares the name), and Nintendo being faster to kill it than Sony to PSVita doesn't make VB not being accounted for.

Xbox original had like half the life time of X360 in the market, should we discount it?