I think the inevitable slight PS4 slow down is gonna happen.

It's still showing numbers between PS360 & Wii if we look back to March 07 week 1 sales (although PS3 didn't have Europe launched at that point).

I guess as it's the market leader that may not be the best sign.

I wonder what PS2's weekly sales were looking like at this point in time.

How will it happen though, what will drive the sales? The summer will be tough, I can't imagine that it will be able to keep up with the Wii's first year in Q2 and Q3, it's already gaining fast and that only leaves one possibility; an insane Q4, to the amount of up to 10 million, that's a 770k weekly average through all of Q4. I'm basing this on roughly 10 million lifetime by the end of August, even if it somehow managed 12 million by the end of August, that still leaves 8 million for Q4, 900k more than the Wii.

I just don't understand the reasoning behind the 20 million figure at all, especially with possibility of a comeback by the One is North America and Japan being more or less irrelevant for home consoles this gen. I think people have somehow got it in their head that; "Well, one console has to sell amazingly, especially if two of the others aren't doing fantastic numbers." But I think that this is a highly simplified and assumptive way of thinking (look at the 3DS, it's not set to break any records despite pathetic competition on the dedicated handheld market), by all appearances; the entire console market is currently trending rather heavily downwards and people are going way overboard with the PS4 sales predictions.

PS4's still sold out everywhere so this is only a sign that Sony is not shipping well, or it's severly undertracked.

+ 120000 to be added to that figure. Not arguing with you seece. Dark_Feanor is stating that it if it will undertracked in the US it has to be overtracked somewhere else. How does he know that?

VGC right now is showing Sony is shipping 150k units per week... 600-700k per month... too low unless it is undertracked.

Maybe the ships are stuck in traffic.

I assume some people are waiting for infamous ss and metal gear solid gz to buy a ps4 so that may be a contributing factor.

However, we might see another drop in April/May as demand dies down? I can't see the ps4 sustaining 150k sales continuously throughout the year.

At this rate SS isn't going to sell any extra hardware because there won't be any extra in stock without a huge shipment.

Let me say it: GDDR5 shortage > high price > Sony not willing to pay > less PS4s manufactored

Yes i have been drinking tonight

Great post Joe, showing the weekly results for the United States of America, Europe and Japan is what every original poster should do.