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theprof00 on 17 October 2014
reggin_bolas said:
The sad fact is the XB1 has more appealing exclusives in 2014 yet it's still being outsold. I don't really regret my PS4 purchase because I know the games will come but I'm bummed I can't play Sunset Overdrive and D4.

Yeah, it sucks we will miss out on some good looking games, but ms won't hold out long. The reason these games aren't selling many consoles on xb1 is because the gamers know how history played out last time. MS will do this for a couple years and then give up. I'm beginning to think MS just might come out with a new console in a couple years.



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bubblegamer on 17 October 2014
prinz_valium said:
no.

13-14m will be the end of 2014 sales...

I know i's bad for the industry but we're almost there with 25% of the year remaining.



TheJimbo1234 on 17 October 2014

Possibly not.
If the current rate of ~120k a week/500k a month carries on up to December, that brings it to 12.3 million. Now say you make ~300k a week sales all of Christmas, that is another million sold, so looking at 13 m.
Now you could bump them up with launches pushing it to ~180k sales a week, but you are looking at shifting 5 million in the next 12 weeks........which logistically is horrific.



DerNebel on 17 October 2014
TheJimbo1234 said:
Possibly not.
If the current rate of ~120k a week/500k a month carries on up to December, that brings it to 12.3 million. Now say you make ~300k a week sales all of Christmas, that is another million sold, so looking at 13 m.
Now you could bump them up with launches pushing it to ~180k sales a week, but you are looking at shifting 5 million in the next 12 weeks........which logistically is horrific.

...The PS4 shifted over a million units in September, way over.



TheJimbo1234 on 17 October 2014
DerNebel said:
TheJimbo1234 said:
Possibly not.
If the current rate of ~120k a week/500k a month carries on up to December, that brings it to 12.3 million. Now say you make ~300k a week sales all of Christmas, that is another million sold, so looking at 13 m.
Now you could bump them up with launches pushing it to ~180k sales a week, but you are looking at shifting 5 million in the next 12 weeks........which logistically is horrific.

...The PS4 shifted over a million units in September, way over.


But that is due to game releases giving it a nice bump. Don't get me wrong, I would love the PS4 to hit 17 m by Christmas, but when you factor in games, people already owning it and many parent sstill being broke, there are a lot of factors against it at the moment.



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Jumpinbeans on 17 October 2014

I reckon about 14million will be the total....if they had china onboard then it would be 17million i reckon.



Troll_Whisperer on 17 October 2014
TheJimbo1234 said:
Possibly not.
If the current rate of ~120k a week/500k a month carries on up to December, that brings it to 12.3 million. Now say you make ~300k a week sales all of Christmas, that is another million sold, so looking at 13 m.
Now you could bump them up with launches pushing it to ~180k sales a week, but you are looking at shifting 5 million in the next 12 weeks........which logistically is horrific.

You're assuming a baseline of 120k, when the PS4 hasn't even been near that low a single week this year.



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DerNebel on 17 October 2014
TheJimbo1234 said:
DerNebel said:
TheJimbo1234 said:
Possibly not.
If the current rate of ~120k a week/500k a month carries on up to December, that brings it to 12.3 million. Now say you make ~300k a week sales all of Christmas, that is another million sold, so looking at 13 m.
Now you could bump them up with launches pushing it to ~180k sales a week, but you are looking at shifting 5 million in the next 12 weeks........which logistically is horrific.

...The PS4 shifted over a million units in September, way over.


But that is due to game releases giving it a nice bump. Don't get me wrong, I would love the PS4 to hit 17 m by Christmas, but when you factor in games, people already owning it and many parent sstill being broke, there are a lot of factors against it at the moment.

You're really underestimating the holidays it seems. 17 million definitely isn't given or something but it's not out of the cards either.



TheBlackNaruto on 17 October 2014
TheJimbo1234 said:
DerNebel said:
TheJimbo1234 said:
Possibly not.
If the current rate of ~120k a week/500k a month carries on up to December, that brings it to 12.3 million. Now say you make ~300k a week sales all of Christmas, that is another million sold, so looking at 13 m.
Now you could bump them up with launches pushing it to ~180k sales a week, but you are looking at shifting 5 million in the next 12 weeks........which logistically is horrific.

...The PS4 shifted over a million units in September, way over.


But that is due to game releases giving it a nice bump. Don't get me wrong, I would love the PS4 to hit 17 m by Christmas, but when you factor in games, people already owning it and many parent sstill being broke, there are a lot of factors against it at the moment.

Games have yet to be an issue that has held sales back so I am not sure why they would be during the best sales times of the year(the next 3 months). And there are "sold" according to VGCHARTZ 11.4 Mil(pending adjustments which will make it even more)  it's not like there aren't over 100 million potential customers so the people already owning it thing is kind of odd as well.  And heck people have been borke all year long so that really is kind of not a strong point either. And heck many parents have so you think over the next 3 months it will only sell 1.6 mil? That would be HORRIBLE sales wise it will EASILY sell WAY MORE than 1.6 million for the rest of year.



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TheBlackNaruto on 17 October 2014
Jumpinbeans said:
I reckon about 14million will be the total....if they had china onboard then it would be 17million i reckon.


Wait what? The PS4 currently sits at 11.4 mil after adjustments for this month and other months it should be clsoer to 11.7 or 11.8 mil. So you seriously think that the PS4 will only sell 2.2 mil through Oct, Now AND DEC(about 750k average per month)? That is REALLY low balling 14mil is a given with or without China. I think it will sit at around 15.5-16.15 mil personally.



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