Personally, I don't know what people where expecting! I mean I can't tell you the countless hoards that yelled the "20 million" sales would be announced in January. Now 18.5 million is massive, this is PS2 level stuff! But I don't know what people where expecting! I said 18-19 million seemed decent, but nothing more! It was followed by pages of abusive content, but lets not get into that. Anyway I really don't know, I think people where getting their expectations to high, and pushed it to far.... I mean think about it, 20 milliom was something even the Wii wasn't doing, and the ps4 just isn't that (not yet). Anyway congrats to Sony for 18.5 million, though I'm shocked vgchartz was actually overtracking it! Even I thought it had been a bit under! Anyway congrats to Sony, and hopefully we can have more numbers from Microsoft and Nintendo soon as for the love of god they haven't been said in ages....

18.5 million is an awesome number for any console so I think its pretty its a pretty awesome achievement! But I guess this means that the wii outsold it for the relative year then huh? The power of casuals indeed

People are disappointed because they've been conditioned to seeing PS4 being undertracked here. And they thought the "fastest selling console" thing would last through the holidays.

18.5 it's still massively incredible nonetheless.

I find it astonishing. But then again, I found the sales of the Wii more astonishing. People often surprise me.

Based on the PS4 library I would have predicted around 10m sales by now. The X1 with the price cut is about where I would have predicted. The Wii U was a blunder from the start so I would have predicted 12m by now and it's even falling well short of that.

18.5 is still amazing and considering what people predicted before the year, PS4 still beat almost everyone's expectations.

Also, the main reason some people were predicting 20 million was simply because they had believed PS4 had been undertracked as it has been a few times in the past.

The problem here is that people set their expectation too low when PS4 launched. Having high expectations after so many predictions were surpassed is only natural.

It was pretty unfair of Sony to let the PS4 sell so well during the year and do nothing in the holidays. That was specifically designed to make people overshoot with their predictions.

18-19 was i expected too and still its excellent number. Seems like VGC overtracked by little over 0.5 million here. And i expect same for XB1 too otherwise Microsoft would have provided sales number for their 10 million sales by now.

I think PS4 would have achieved 20 million easily if XB1 did not provide price cuts and bundles where some of the sales went.

And PS4 would've easily mitigated that with a pricecut on its own and more bundles. Yet they did nothing and as such let X1 sprint ahead.

Sony are the master trolls of VGC.