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JPL78 on 13 August 2014

Awesome news. This gives me great hope that while motion control and media features may continue to exist, there are a lot of gamers that just want traditional gaming on a traditional console. I honestly thought with the wii/Kinect/move phase that we were heading in a bad direction. My nephew grew up on Wii doesn't understand how to use a traditional controller. I'm trying to teach him!



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BeElite on 13 August 2014
Neodegenerate said:
BeElite said:

how so ? its doing 60% this year with what games... Infamous thats all and a dry spell of multis.  Indies maybe ???  Its easily domminating with nothing really fueiling it, it gonna murder them when it starts dropping big exclusives.

Its only gonna get worse the longer it goes, its been going that way since day one.  


I think that MS (and to a lesser extent Nintendo) will have enough high quality game releases to cut into the market share and bring PS4 <50% by the end of the gen.  I don't think PS4 will ever not be in first, or will ever lose a comfortable lead, but maintaining above 50% market?  Just don't see it.

Exccpt sales already show how little effect their games have vs PS4, and let not pretand PS4 will not get more exclusives.  MS cant compete with sony on equal footing there.  While ninty already blew most their load, only smash and zelda left.

Its already doing more then 60 in NA for the year, else where its dommianting even more.  Its not only mainting it already but growing it, so you cant see what staring you in the face ?



jnemesh on 13 August 2014
Neodegenerate said:
Teeqoz said:


It's 45,6 total now for PS4, with this year being 61,8% (I redid all the math using the 10 million figure). Looks pretty good to me.

I think the 2015 bet has a solid chance.  I just don't think that by the end of the generation the marketshare will stay that lopsided.


He's going to win that bet by the end of THIS year...and by the end of the gen, it will be even MORE lopsided.  MS has nowhere to go but down at this point.  The longer time goes by, the larger the advantage Sony has...their library is ALREADY double that of the XB1...what do you think it will look like at the end of 2015?  

Not only that, but Sony has PS Now...MS has nothing comparable to it.  (Sony still has to figure out the pricing though, admittedly)  Sony is also releasing a VR headset for PS4...MS has nothing to compete with THAT either!

WiiU still has a chance of keeping 2nd place...they should do well this fall with Super Smash Bros and the Amibo (?  whatever the Skylanders-like toys are called) products...but Xbox is going to struggle this Holiday season...just watch.



Teeqoz on 13 August 2014

Lol, I hijacked the thread by mentioning my bet. Shouldn't have done that.



outlawauron on 14 August 2014
TechnoHobbit said:
So according to that press release the sales are tracked up until the 10th. That means VGChartz is more like 500k off, not 700k-1m like some are saying. Still awful though.

Anyway, here are some comparisons:
Wii - 13.17 million shipped in 10 months, 11 days
PS4 - 10 million sold in 8 months, 26 days
Wii - 9.27 million shipped in 7 months, 11 days
PS2 - 10.61 million shipped in 1 year, 27 days (not quite fair considering it wasn't out in the US or Europe for about half that time)
Xbox One - 5 million shipped in 4 months, 26 days
Xbox 360 - 5.9 million shipped in 10 months, 8 days
Xbox 360 - 5 million shipped in 7 months, 8 days
PS3 - 5.63 million shipped in 10 months, 19 days
PS3 - 4.32 million shipped in 7 months, 19 days
Wii U - 3.91 million shipped in 10 months, 12 days
Wii U - 3.61 million shipped in 7 months, 12 days

I can't what you think of other trackers that find 10% to be an acceptable margin of error.



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AZWification on 14 August 2014

Congrats on that achievement, Sony!



                
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Saeko on 14 August 2014

i have a ps4 but i think ppl forget X for wii u, me and 3 friend waiting this game and the first price cut for buy a wii u ^^

on note, its possible ps4 stay at 50% marketshare if this come this years with holydays but i think this will be more 45/30/25



Viper1 on 14 August 2014
BreedinBull said:
Viper1 said:
BreedinBull said:

You haven't heard about the downloadable PS4 SKU exclusively available globally in the USA?

The best feature has to be the option to download more RAM.

As long as Sony doesn't pull a Vita memory card pricing model on it :/

It's OK.  They plan to make it a subscription model.   For just $4.99 per month, you get to download 2 free GB's of RAM every 30 days.*

* - Resolution of the RAM is limited to 720p at 30 fps at 1.21 jiggawatts per frame.



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Teeqoz on 14 August 2014
Ka-pi96 said:
Dusk said:

Okay. So basically it all comes down to a load of BS than :) They just make up a bunch of garbage numbers that have no factual reference in the slightest. So all the systems could be over or under tracked. We all knew this, but to be off by just short of a million this quickly in the life span of the console is dumb. Might as well shut down the site :P


VGChartz has 100% accurate information for a small number of stores and then extrapolates that to the whole population, make some adjusments based on sample bias. No it isn't 100% anymore, but it does have a solid start point and is an approximate estimation based on that. Other trackers such as NPD do the exact same thing, they are only more reliable because they start with a much larger sample.


I think NPD gets data from like 48 % of all US retailers.



Aerys on 14 August 2014
BreedinBull said:
Calm down guys, that 700k deficit is obviously digital ps4 sales.




Predictions for end of 2014 HW sales:

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