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ICStats on 15 January 2014

3DS is selling 13.3 million / year and not increasing.

Why does nobody think PS4 can do 13 million a year? It's on it's way, and it could also disrupt 3DS sales a bit.



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Turkish on 15 January 2014
ninetailschris said:
Somini said:
ninetailschris said:
Turkish said:
Ocilayton said:

The 3ds is still beating the ps4 by a healthy amount weekly. When will this change? The most obvious choice would be when the ps4 comes out in Japan.

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I cant believe you didnt come up with the most obvious answer: when the PS4 stops having supply issues and readily available in stores in the west.

I notice some people saying this. While true in November and December I had no problem finding ps4s in stores in Janurary.  Looking at the sales in America and Xboxone I highly doubt there under shipping that badly in janurary.

You must be shopping on another planet then. As that's not how most people are experiencing it.

Take a look here to see the difference between PS4 stock and the Xbone's;

http://www.nowinstock.net/videogaming/consoles/xboxone/

http://www.nowinstock.net/videogaming/consoles/ps4/


Nowinstock is really only good at tracking online stores. I remember someone quoting me the same back when the wiiu was released. 

So the PS4 demand will plummet like wii u demand? Lol. The Wii U was readily available some weeks after it launched. So much so that it took Nintendo a whole year of bad shipments to retail because the retail wasn't through their original stock, in Europe even resulting to negative shipments as some retailers sent stock back to Nintendo because it wasnt selling.

The PS4 is still in crazy demand, it will take a long while until it becomes readily available, it gets sold out literally minutes after its back in stock on Amazon.



aryu on 15 January 2014

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KBG29 on 15 January 2014

PS4 should start to outsell the 3DS for the rest of the year. 3DS is on a downward trend, and PS4 should only get stronger. PS4 could sell 15M this year, and I doubt 3DS will do much more than 10M. Once Sony has it's live TV service running in the US I see a major shift in the way they sell consoles. I can see 2 year subscriptions to their TV service with PS4 being included for free or very little. At $400 PS4 could be as little as $16 a month for a 2 year plan, or Sony could sell it at $99 - $199 and make up the rest via the service.

PS4 is just to much of a broad device for it not to overtake a niche product like the 3DS.



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KBG29 on 15 January 2014

Additionally, considering that 3DS was only capable of 150K - 200K in every week of Jan - Mar of last year, I would expect PS4 to out sell 3DS the rest of this quarter.



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bosslug on 15 January 2014
JWeinCom said:


You can.  You can argue that it's not a fair comparison without Sony having launched in Japan, but you could also argue that it isn't a fair comparison if you take out the 3DS's best market.  Basically, comparing 3DS sales to PS4 without including Japan would be like comparing PS3 to 360 sales without Europe.  It significantly skews the results.

But, at any rate, sales aren't about arbitrary bragging rights, but about getting machines into people's hands, creating a market, and generating money so that companies can survive.  So, regardless of the PS4's availability, the 3DS is building its install base more at the moment which is really what matters.

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kirby007 on 15 January 2014
KBG29 said:
PS4 should start to outsell the 3DS for the rest of the year. 3DS is on a downward trend, and PS4 should only get stronger. PS4 could sell 15M this year, and I doubt 3DS will do much more than 10M. Once Sony has it's live TV service running in the US I see a major shift in the way they sell consoles. I can see 2 year subscriptions to their TV service with PS4 being included for free or very little. At $400 PS4 could be as little as $16 a month for a 2 year plan, or Sony could sell it at $99 - $199 and make up the rest via the service.

PS4 is just to much of a broad device for it not to overtake a niche product like the 3DS.


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radishhead on 15 January 2014

There'll probably be quite a long period where they alternate at the top spot.



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Aerys on 15 January 2014

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