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Forums - Sales Discussion - Global Hardware Up 6 December 2014

So despite holiday sales Smash U tracking below MK8 in Week 3. That's something.

Also bla bla no bundle bla bla.



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Wright said:
walsufnir said:


Japan always was the reason for PS3 to be close to 360 The gap in the west is incredebly in favor for 360.


Japan gave the boost to the Ps3 whereas it never really made any decent numbers-per-week for 360, but isn't Europe the main place where Ps3 pulls the biggest numbers in comparison to the 360?

Yep. After the PS3 Slim Model was released in Sept 2009, PS3 started to crush 360 in Europe, and month after month, year after year, thanks to Europe and Japan, PS3 overtook 360 in the Global.



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PS4 edging towards that 50% marketshare again! (only just)



Not seeing the Wii U getting to 9 million this year.



Won bet with t3mporary_126 - I correctly predicted that the Wii U's LTD at the end of 2014 would be closer to 9 million than 10 million. http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=6673287

Wii U basically flat yoy for this week (185k least year), did 265k on the week ending Dec. 14th last year and peaked the week after that at around 340k, all this in 2014 in the very recent wake of the second biggest title they will ever release on the platform, I wonder how long people will keep opposing my ideas for this console and its future.

One suffered a very big and equally predictable drop, NA accounting for almost 300k out of 515 shows the skewed balance in global numbers but also shows that my assumption all along is possibly correct (the One will win the US market, and likely the UK when all is said and done, and might end up at around 70% of the PS4's lifetime totals if things go well). At the very least; there is potential there for this console to do very well.

PS4 selling very well, as we've grown accustomed to over the span of 2014, actually showing numbers comparable to the Wii in the corresponding week in 2007, which was actually followed by a dip down to a "paltry" 680k the week after and then followed by a smashing week of over 1.4 million, showing for all how difficult, and possibly irrelevant, this comparison is since the Wii was ridiculously supply constrained and these numbers really reflect that. Another interesting tidbit is that the PS3 actually managed a 660k week in December 2007 in its first full CY, which also shines some light on the PS4's figures, and this was at a time when the PS3 was considered to still be moving very slowly overall and the price was very high and system selling software still lacking. The PS3 also managed two million selling weeks in a row in 2009, so numbers in this range are not automatically an indication of a "new PS2 era" that many seem to still believe we're seeing.

This is a good week, but not mindblowing by any measure, and the corresponding week in 2007 saw about 1.45 million home consoles sold against the roughly 1.4 million sold this week in 2014. The 3DS nails the biggest point though; it is down to almost 1/3 of the DS' numbers in the same week of 2007, that is really telling of the 3DS current situation and the health of the handheld market (about 2 million handhelds sold with the PSP added in, the PSP actually sold about 10% more on that week than the 3DS is showing in 2014).



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DanRybacki said:
My favourite console is undertracked and my least favourite is overtracked!

I think everyone can agree with this. ;)

On topic: Ugly WiiU numbers, PSV even worse, everything else seems OKish.



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Pretty much what I expected from every console except the 360, for some reason I thought it was gonna sell around 70k. Sucks to see the Wii U still struggling in December compared to the competition.



CGI-Quality said:
Mnementh said:

Ugly WiiU numbers, PSV even worse, everything else seems OKish.

PS4 and X1 are definitely far better than "OKish". They're excellent right now!


Agreed. I feel like people expected a larger drop compared to BF numbers, both Sony and MS should be happy with these stats.



UK and Japan are up.



Won bet with t3mporary_126 - I correctly predicted that the Wii U's LTD at the end of 2014 would be closer to 9 million than 10 million. http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=6673287

So....about those Captain Toad numbers....bad, or about what people expected?