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TheGoldenBoy on 25 February 2014

Well, I was only off by 200k, but I was overly optimistic in the first place anyways. 322k is still great.



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WebMasterFlex on 25 February 2014

Better than I expected. Great...



chapset on 25 February 2014

Knack made this happen :D good job Sony



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DD_Bwest on 25 February 2014

Congrats sony!!! so i guess we ccan assume with this weeks numbers the PS4 is #1 for next gen home consoles



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fatslob-:O on 25 February 2014
Normchacho said:
fatslob-:O said:
Normchacho said:


Any evidence to support that? Demand is still very, very high. Anytime it comes into stock at most places it sells out very fast. 

Also, what numbers would be "The real deal"?  Lets be honest here ok? You had your post for this pretty much planned out before we knew the numbers. It has nothing to do with the PS4s sales and everything to do with you wanting to downplay.

I'm not going to keep going around this circle with you this time. You either don't get it or you're just posting to stir people up, which is against the forum rules btw. Either way it's not worth the energy.

Oh jesus ...

http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2013-12-03-sony-expected-to-ship-1m-ps4s-per-month

If you go take a look at the year to date totals the PS4 is maybe behind 500K units in terms of production already. 

Why would I want to downplay when the PS4 is likely to be my ONLY choice of console early this generation ? I'm not anti Sony and infact I'm very much pro Sony seeing as how I was a fan of the PS1 and especially the PS2 but maybe not so much of the PS3 ... What I am is ANTI HYPE and many of us here were expecting the PS4 to do much better as evidenced by this thread. The "real deal" is when I expect the PS4 to be able to do at least 350K in march by NPD numbers and that should be an easy target considering that infamous is a moderate franchise. 

I'm not here to stir up the people around this forum ... I want to lower the amount of hype so that people can comeback to making a more realistic outlook. 


Just because they can make a million a month doesn't mean they have 1.5 million ready to be bought in 1.5 months. Especially considering that it's the first 1.5 months after launch.

Also, they were holding stock for the Japan launch were they not? So lets say Patcher was off by 10% and Sony are making 900K a month (1.35M in 1.5 months). So if they saved 350K for Japan then that leaves them with 1 million left over and they've sold 980k through the 15th of this month. It's not exact math of course but it's not hard to imagine that Patcher was just off.

Do you really mean 350K in March from the NPD numbers? NPD is JUST the U.S. Even the Wii only did 286k it's first march in America.

Even though infamous is not a huge system seller it should be able rack up atleast 100K gamers from NA. The way I see the PS4 needs more games to have WII like phenomens. The WII especially had goods legs in it's first 3 years until nintendo reverted back to their gamecube ways ... Even though playstation consoles are known for having much better sustained legs over 5 years it will need alot of decent software to be able to pull it off. 

The WII had the best quality games whether you like it or not and I don't think the PS4 will have a great deal of alot of games that sell over 20+ million coppies. The PS2 on the other hand had the best library for consistent quality since there were tons of games that went over the 1 million mark but I highly doubt the PS4 will be able to match that up because AAA game development is getting prohibitively expensive. 



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Normchacho on 25 February 2014
fatslob-:O said:
Normchacho said:
fatslob-:O said:
Normchacho said:

 


Just because they can make a million a month doesn't mean they have 1.5 million ready to be bought in 1.5 months. Especially considering that it's the first 1.5 months after launch.

Also, they were holding stock for the Japan launch were they not? So lets say Patcher was off by 10% and Sony are making 900K a month (1.35M in 1.5 months). So if they saved 350K for Japan then that leaves them with 1 million left over and they've sold 980k through the 15th of this month. It's not exact math of course but it's not hard to imagine that Patcher was just off.

Do you really mean 350K in March from the NPD numbers? NPD is JUST the U.S. Even the Wii only did 286k it's first march in America.

Even though infamous is not a huge system seller it should be able rack up atleast 100K gamers from NA. The way I see the PS4 needs more games to have WII like phenomens. The WII especially had goods legs in it's first 3 years until nintendo reverted back to their gamecube ways ... Even though playstation consoles are known for having much better sustained legs over 5 years it will need alot of decent software to be able to pull it off. 

The WII had the best quality games whether you like it or not and I don't think the PS4 will have a great deal of alot of games that sell over 20+ million coppies. The PS2 on the other hand had the best library for consistent quality since there were tons of games that went over the 1 million mark but I highly doubt the PS4 will be able to match that up because AAA game development is getting prohibitively expensive. 

That just seems like a really high expectation...Even Halo 3 only gave the 360 a 4-5 week bump that added up to around 100K units.

The Wii had a crazy first couple of years but that's because it was being bought buy the casual market. People who had never bought a console before, and probably will never buy a console again.



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GribbleGrunger on 25 February 2014

I'm going to attempt to ask this question one last time: How do Famitsu know how many copies of Knack sold? If anyone answers 'because it came with every PS4' I'll bite my table.



 

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Fusioncode on 25 February 2014
GribbleGrunger said:

I'm going to attempt to ask this question one last time: How do Famitsu know how many copies of Knack sold? If anyone answers 'because it came with every PS4' I'll bite my table.

I'm not sure why you're so confused. Knack is bundled with every PS4. 322k PS4s were sold, so 322k Knacks must have been sold. 



Sigs are dumb. And so are you!

GribbleGrunger on 25 February 2014
Fusioncode said:
GribbleGrunger said:

I'm going to attempt to ask this question one last time: How do Famitsu know how many copies of Knack sold? If anyone answers 'because it came with every PS4' I'll bite my table.

I'm not sure why you're so confused. Knack is bundled with every PS4. 322k PS4s were sold, so 322k Knacks must have been sold. 

How do they know how many PS4s sold? And if you say it's because of how many copies of Knack sold I'll die of laughing.



 

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Meret on 25 February 2014

Nothing special. Vita sold 324K in 2 days in Japan. Next week it will drop hard.