PS4 hasn't sold that great for a while now, since the honeymoon period of its launch wore off, it's been wishy washy for a while. It's doing well in the context that everything else is selling like dog sh*t though. August is just more of the norm, of course they will get a large bump next month because of the Destiny bundle. 

Oh... well then. Great minds think alike?

I'm teasing. xD I got ignored when I pointed it out anyway, so maybe you'll get a response. =P

Lol, PS2 has been kicking PS4's ass pretty soundly for several months now. This month is par for the course, nothing special. 

People are just specifically citing this month's numbers because they're the newest and most relevant numbers we have. 

Exactly.

i dunno how to say this to you... but i will try.

markets change and so do trends. Consoles are sold and priced differently than how they were back then. manufacturing methods improve. New markets are entered...etc.

Just an example, back then it was practically impossible launching a new console worldwide and selling as much as 4M consoles in 2 months. launches were usually staggered which meant that sales were spread out over subsequent months as opposed to being front (or seasonal) loaded as they are today.

Having said all that, the PS2 may be "kicking the PS4s ass" according to you these past few months, but it doesn't change that fact that somehow the PS4 still managed to get to 10M sold before it. Front loaded, more markets, monthly sales, it doesn't really matter. How many consoles were sold over a set period of time from launch is the best way to measure the success of any console. 

And as far as that goes, the PS4 is winning. it doesn't matter if the PS4 sells 100k per month if it somehow sells 6M in 2 months and still ends up beating the PS2. Unless you have your head in the sand that is.

So lets make it fair, lets see how many months it takes the PS4 to get to 10M, then 20M then 30M then 40M in relation to how long it took the PS2 to do the same. Whenever the PS2 reaches any of those milestones before the PS4 we can then say its outpacing the PS4. That should be the logical thing to do. Then again, I have just illogically said all this to someone that probably would agree/understand a single line here. 

Common sense is not so common these days. And this post is proof of that, cause if i did have any sense, i would know better to have even bothered explaining this to you.

The problem is that the market environments the PS2 and PS4 were released in are very disimilar. It's easy to just put the numbers side by side, compare them, and call it a day. However, the context of those numbers are hugely different.

Also, no two consoles have the same sales pattern, giving another reason why you can't just compare numbers side by side. Each console's journey is different and it's quite obvious that the PS4 is taking a different path from the PS2. Games are much more expensive to make nowadays in comparison to the early 2000s. As a result, Sony's current strategy is vastly different from its strategy back then. Consequently, this also affects their target audience. As a result, you can't make a conclusion from just a temporary dip in sales. You need to look at the whole picture.

Learn something new everyday!

PS4 hasn't sold that great for a while now, since the honeymoon period of its launch wore off, it's been wishy washy for a while. It's doing well in the context that everything else is selling like dog sh*t though. August is just more of the norm, of course they will get a large bump next month because of the Destiny bundle. 

I am looking at the whole picture and suffice to say I'm partially dissappointed about the PS4's performance ... 

Just because things have become harder does not excuse a leading platforms weak performances. Look I'm not saying that the PS4 is doing bad but Sony needs to fix it's minmum ASAP.