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Forums - Gaming - IGN ''What Sony's '4.2 Million PS4s Sold' Figure Actually Means"

MepH on 09 January 2014
Rogerioandrade said:

Another unprofessional and biased IGN article with either incorrect or manipulated data.

Where are the holiday sales? Where are the handheld sales?

Why they say the Wiiu sold 2 million on its first weeks when official data points 3,08 million auntil Dec,13,2012 (5.5 weeks)

Why trying so hard to make XboxOne sales seems bad when actually they were pretty good?



IGN can´t be taken seriously anymore, I give up reading IGN long time ago.


You are completely wrong. I know IGN are really bad with this kind of analysis but you really doesn't understand everything here.

1: it is about home consoles. What's wrong with it?...

2: Nintendo shipped 3.06m Wii U as of Dec, 31st, 2012. It was clearly overshipped in the WHOLE Europe. Even in France where the players buy a lot of Nintendo stuff, they shipped 240K in 2012 and sold less then 50% of it with 118K (so 122K in stock). 2.2m as VGC shows is a nice estimate, IGN might be slightly understimating it with 2m but it's still not a "bad" estimation.



Prediction: End of 2015 Hardware sales (as of January 20, 2015)

Wii U: 12.1M | XBO: 19.8M | PS4: 36.0M | 3DS: 58.5M | PSV: 11.7M

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WebmasterX on 09 January 2014

This time the numbers use it for marketing. And you believe...thanks Sony for the joke



Aerys on 09 January 2014
ethomaz said:

For undestand what IGN is trying to say.

 

 

 

 

 

Hahaha :D



Predictions for end of 2014 HW sales:

 PS4: 17m   XB1: 10m    WiiU: 10m   Vita: 10m

 

Angelv577 on 09 January 2014
ethomaz said:

For undestand what IGN is trying to say.


lol



chocoloco on 10 January 2014
TheLegendaryWolf said:
chocoloco said:
2 million Wii U sales in 6 weeks

3 million Bones in 5.5 weeks.

Seems fairly reasonable to assume the rates of sale will continue to be higher for X1.


In the Wii U's first 6 weeks, it sold 3.06 million consoles from Nov 18 2012 to Dec 31 2012. Some IGN writers like to skew numbers on purpose. Also as a few days ago, Microsoft confirmed that the XB1 sold 3 million.

If you do not show a reliable source this will convince me of nothing.



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DonFerrari on 10 January 2014
ethomaz said:

For undestand what IGN is trying to say.


Genius figure.



duduspace11 "Well, since we are estimating costs, Pokemon Red/Blue did cost Nintendo about $50m to make back in 1996"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=8808363

Mr Puggsly: "Hehe, I said good profit. You said big profit. Frankly, not losing money is what I meant by good. Don't get hung up on semantics"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=9008994

Azzanation: "PS5 wouldn't sold out at launch without scalpers."

FlamingWeazel on 10 January 2014
WebmasterX said:
This time the numbers use it for marketing. And you believe...thanks Sony for the joke


?? WTF? Someone is in major denial.



DonFerrari on 11 January 2014
FlamingWeazel said:
WebmasterX said:
This time the numbers use it for marketing. And you believe...thanks Sony for the joke


?? WTF? Someone is in major denial.

I think it's because of the post about rumour of MS saying over 3M when they sold 2.8~2.9... don't pay much attention.



duduspace11 "Well, since we are estimating costs, Pokemon Red/Blue did cost Nintendo about $50m to make back in 1996"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=8808363

Mr Puggsly: "Hehe, I said good profit. You said big profit. Frankly, not losing money is what I meant by good. Don't get hung up on semantics"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=9008994

Azzanation: "PS5 wouldn't sold out at launch without scalpers."

DonFerrari on 11 January 2014
bubblegamer said:
Nintentacle said:
It's like they tried to make PS4 look better. They should have waited until Q3 results to fairly compare it. There's a 3 month difference in the Wii U and PS4's updates for f**ks sake!


There's not! They're comparing the comparative periods these consoles were sold on the market and not 6 weeks vs LTD, like you are trying.

There most be a 3 month in favour of PS4, don't you know it got sold through even before start of manufacturing?



duduspace11 "Well, since we are estimating costs, Pokemon Red/Blue did cost Nintendo about $50m to make back in 1996"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=8808363

Mr Puggsly: "Hehe, I said good profit. You said big profit. Frankly, not losing money is what I meant by good. Don't get hung up on semantics"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=9008994

Azzanation: "PS5 wouldn't sold out at launch without scalpers."

greenmedic88 on 11 January 2014
FlamingWeazel said:
WebmasterX said:
This time the numbers use it for marketing. And you believe...thanks Sony for the joke


?? WTF? Someone is in major denial.

I expect to see a lot more denial from various brand fans in the coming months, mostly likely followed by dead silence when reality finally sets in. 

Wait and see...