PlayStation 4 sold 1 million units to customers in Germany

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colafitte on 18 November 2014

Dallinor said:

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This has to be shipped, right? As others have pointed out why would sales rise so much in Germany over the last 4 months? Incredible if it's sell through, but it sounds more like an error on the part of the sales article, even ioi is saying it's shipped numbers.

"even ioi" doesn't really add much to the shipped theory, since he doesn't know either and has been way under PS4 numbers too often.

I doubt he's going to weigh in, with a very definitive statement, if he has no knowledge on the topic at all.

We're looking at ~460k in 4 months. When it took 8 months, a launch and a holiday period to reach ~540k. If true, the Germany baseline for PS4 has nearly doubled over the past 4 months.

People need to remember that in Europe, September is almost like a relaunch because of FIFA 15. FIFA is the biggest system seller in Europe. There was Destiny too. I'm sure most people in Germany were awaiting to FIFA 15 to buy a next gen console, so is very possible PS4 exploded in just one month.

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Solid-Stark on 18 November 2014

Okay so if the number is shipped as of Oct 21, then that means there are nearly 300k PS4s on shelves in Germany alone?

Seems unlikely.

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Maaaann.... The PS4 is so undertracked in Germany that it's not even funny!

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Lusche on 18 November 2014

Solid-Stark said:

Okay so if the number is shipped as of Oct 21, then that means there are nearly 300k PS4s on shelves in Germany alone?

Seems unlikely.

why not ? its just 100k more than the wiiu is on the shelves worldwide

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but I wished sony would be more clearer about it.
the one article was saying sold to consumers, but it would be easier for us all if sony say it more clearly.

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Yafea on 18 November 2014

The ps4 is killing it. 2 millions next!!!

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ethomaz said:

Dallinor said:

I doubt he's going to weigh in, with a very definitive statement, if he has no knowledge on the topic at all.

We're looking at ~460k in 4 months. When it took 8 months, a launch and a holiday period to reach ~540k. If true, the Germany baseline for PS4 has nearly doubled over the past 4 months.

Germany was one of the EU countries that had bigger supply issues... even after April it didn't have the console in stock yet and a lot of time in June and July the Amazon.de got sold out.

That is not ture. The PS4 had only noticeable supply issues until the end of March.
The Ps4 was never that hard to find since April. The April - June supply issues reports are form other (small) European countries like Finnland and Denmark.

And that's the reason, why the PS4 sold more in the first half of 2014, than launch in Germany, while the PS4 in UK sold less in the first half of 2014 compared to its launch.

250k launch in Germany
290K fist half of 2014

530k launch in UK
<470k fist half of 2014

This 460k in 3 1/2 month is only explainable by the great deals the whole time over the last 4 months and very weak competiton form Xbox One (sales wise, not price wise)