crissindahouse said:
maybe sony couldn't produce more than ~1m ps4 for this week ww two weeks after they already shipped 1m+ consoles to north america? just a guess but maybe nobody wants a ps4 (that's probably it lol)
just imagine what that means, shipping 2m+ consoles in 14 days. that was a lot of containers on freighters.
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Probably 2000 units per container, so ~1000 containers. That's a tiny fraction of global container movements in a 2 week period. And of course a lot of those containers would have been shipped in advance of the US launch.
This is actually not a very good BF week sales-wise. Compared to North America last year the console sales are down 15% and software sales are down about 8%. And last year was lower than 2011 (peak BF year in recent times). This year is also lower than 2010. But it did beat 2009, which shouldn't be hard given there's double the number of consoles on the market compared to 2009.
Pretty sure we can blame supply for both Xb one and PS4 for the low number. Also look at the low NA sales for PS4 outside USA, 4000 only.
I think PS4 is going to have a dismal holiday. I think they are only shipping 3 million prior to January, which means they will sell less than 1 million units through December.
If MS PR is right and Xb one is low in stock all over the place too it might not sell much more than 1 million through December either.
Probably 200-250K weeks for both, which means Wii U will win the holidays between the Nexgen consoles. Congrats Wii U, extending your sales lead should make 3rd parties take note.
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