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Jazz2K on 06 January 2015
kowenicki said:
Jazz2K said:
bananaking21 said:
Jazz2K said:
Nice achievement. More than 18M in a little more than a year is great for PS4.

How do people know it's not shipped though? So they announced it was sold through as of jan4th but doesn't it take time to know that? Like every retailers from the world submitted their numbers? I say this because they have to compile everything and maybe they stopped counting like a week ago or more or are estimating. This is kind of weird imo.

I though every console makers shared only shipped numbers.


because sony said sold through. 

So they know one day before how many they sold through in the world? Didn't know they could track this fast. NPD is kind of pointless then.

Its an estimate.  Could be too high or too low.  But it is sold through.

Shipped will likely be 19m or so.

Ohh that's what I thought. It's an estimate. Thanks.

For the others, I'm not trying to minimize the feat though.



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fluky-nintendy on 06 January 2015

Amazing numbers and definitely above any first year of any Sony console ever in the past. PS4 is here to stay!



...Let the Sony Domination continue with the PS4...
Burek on 06 January 2015
kowenicki said:
So, House was banging on about how supply would be tight this holiday.

Does this mean that they didnt sell as well as they expected this holiday and thus supply was actually fine or it is tight supply and shipments are similar to sold through?

Either way, I cant see how the shipments can be more than 20m for the next report and nowhere near the 24.5m the Wii had by March.

The shipments are definitely not more than 20m. They said they were supply constrained in Europe, so it is reasonable to assume that they don't have over 1.5m consoles sitting on shelves after the holiday rush.

Still, about 6 - 6.5m shipped in this past quarter is a very good number, and basically we get an average of 1.4m shipped monthly since launch, which I consider a success.



walsufnir on 06 January 2015
fluky-nintendy said:
Amazing numbers and definitely above any first year of any Sony console ever in the past. PS4 is here to stay!


Which console is set to leave?!



fluky-nintendy on 06 January 2015
walsufnir said:
fluky-nintendy said:
Amazing numbers and definitely above any first year of any Sony console ever in the past. PS4 is here to stay!


Which console is set to leave?!

WiiU in 2016?!



...Let the Sony Domination continue with the PS4...
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walsufnir on 06 January 2015
fluky-nintendy said:
walsufnir said:
fluky-nintendy said:
Amazing numbers and definitely above any first year of any Sony console ever in the past. PS4 is here to stay!


Which console is set to leave?!

WiiU in 2016?!


Well, if you put it this way all consoles are set to leave somewhen. I was just surprised you said PS4 is here to stay while I don't even expect PS360 to leave anytime soon. The PS4 is not alone to stay or do you believe otherwise?



DonFerrari on 06 January 2015
Jazz2K said:
DonFerrari said:
Jazz2K said:
Nice achievement. More than 18M in a little more than a year is great for PS4.

How do people know it's not shipped though? So they announced it was sold through as of jan4th but doesn't it take time to know that? Like every retailers from the world submitted their numbers? I say this because they have to compile everything and maybe they stopped counting like a week ago or more or are estimating. This is kind of weird imo.

I though every console makers shared only shipped numbers.

Why would Sony estimate shipments?

And considering they shipped 13.5M by September's end and shipped/sold 4.1M holidays (November 23rd to January 3rd/4th) how would they have shipped/sold only 0.9M on October plus 3 weeks of November?


Well I mean I do you guys know it's sold to customers and not to retailers?

Because Kaz Said it is sold through.

And the press release says it's estimated (shipping would be a know number), no need for estimative.



duduspace11 "Well, since we are estimating costs, Pokemon Red/Blue did cost Nintendo about $50m to make back in 1996"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=8808363

Mr Puggsly: "Hehe, I said good profit. You said big profit. Frankly, not losing money is what I meant by good. Don't get hung up on semantics"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=9008994

Azzanation: "PS5 wouldn't sold out at launch without scalpers."

fluky-nintendy on 06 January 2015
walsufnir said:
fluky-nintendy said:
walsufnir said:
fluky-nintendy said:
Amazing numbers and definitely above any first year of any Sony console ever in the past. PS4 is here to stay!


Which console is set to leave?!

WiiU in 2016?!


Well, if you put it this way all consoles are set to leave somewhen. I was just surprised you said PS4 is here to stay while I don't even expect PS360 to leave anytime soon. The PS4 is not alone to stay or do you believe otherwise?


Of course PS4 is not alone ad won't be isolated during its lifetime! You weren't supposed to take that sentence so literal xD



...Let the Sony Domination continue with the PS4...
walsufnir on 06 January 2015

Btw, PS+ numbers is PS4+PSV+PS3 combined, right?



S.Peelman on 06 January 2015

18.5m is still pretty damn good by any standard, but sadly it means it's overtracked here. All in all I don't think anyone should be disappointed, and especially not Sony themselves, by this console's first full year !