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You have a morbid mind. Getting enjoyment from two crippled consoles battling it out to the death in a bloody battle that is pretty much lost anyway... That's pretty fucked up.

Think about it for a minute, you are no worse than those filthy romans watching a fight in a colliseum.



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Anfebious said:
You have a morbid mind. Getting enjoyment from two crippled consoles battling it out to the death in a bloody battle that is pretty much lost anyway... That's pretty fucked up.

Think about it for a minute, you are no worse than those filthy romans watching a fight in a colliseum.


Didnt expected such words from you.



Hmmm... If the market keeps dropping, I would guess PS4 to sell 4 million LT. If it somehow jumps back to life (huehuehue), around 7 million.

That spin at the last paragraph tho.



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daredevil.shark said:
Anfebious said:
You have a morbid mind. Getting enjoyment from two crippled consoles battling it out to the death in a bloody battle that is pretty much lost anyway... That's pretty fucked up.

Think about it for a minute, you are no worse than those filthy romans watching a fight in a colliseum.

Didnt expected such words from you.





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Aerys said:

Only 800k behind Wii U whereas it has been released 1 year and 2 months later, should outsell it early in 2016, before April for sure

Not so sure about that. 750k is a huge gap by now in the japanese home console market which will take quite some time to close. The beseline of the PS4 is at slightly over 10k, the one of the Wii U is at slightly over 6k, so while in percentage this constitutes a huge difference, in absolute sales with just 4k it ain't. The PS4 however gets bigger boosts from it's game releases than the Wii U and naturally also more often, so I'd say we could calculate with a mean value of ~8-10k per week above Wii U sales. At that speed, the PS4 would take at least until the 2016 holiday season.



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Bofferbrauer said:
Aerys said:

Only 800k behind Wii U whereas it has been released 1 year and 2 months later, should outsell it early in 2016, before April for sure

Not so sure about that. 750k is a huge gap by now in the japanese home console market which will take quite some time to close. The beseline of the PS4 is at slightly over 10k, the one of the Wii U is at slightly over 6k, so while in percentage this constitutes a huge difference, in absolute sales with just 4k it ain't. The PS4 however gets bigger boosts from it's game releases than the Wii U and naturally also more often, so I'd say we could calculate with a mean value of ~8-10k per week above Wii U sales. At that speed, the PS4 would take at least until the 2016 holiday season.


Only in droughts period, but now, during a normal period, the baseline of PS4 is more around 20k and it can easily reach more than 60k with big games, so we have MGS V coming and a lot of big western games that will impact sales in Japan too, there are also the next Tales and Zestiria, Star Ocean 5, Dissidia FF, DQ Heroes 2 and a lot of other japanese games to be announced ( like the next Level 5 game). The gap will close even faster since Wii U has no big games this year, they can only make bundles and price cut

 

The gap was more than 1,5M when PS4 released in Japan, and now it's half of that in just one year, whereas Wii U had SSB and Mario Kart, so what do you think it will be in one year  without big games (as system seller) in 2015 ?



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 PS4: 17m   XB1: 10m    WiiU: 10m   Vita: 10m

 

Aerys said:

it can easily reach more than 60k

WTF, not even with Dragon Quest and BloodBorne PS4 hit 50k, how you can say it will EASY sell 60k with a game released!?

And the PS4 basis is not 20,000... or better, yes, is the PS4 basis for the first Q1 of the year, but after that, the normal week is always 10,000 or in the best case 15,000, that's is always happen with the Vita for example.

Even Vita was at +20,000 costant for first 3 month of year, but after that is dropped at 10,000 / 12,000 ... like in 2014... for PS4 is the same.

Around 20,000 for Jan to March, after that around 10,000 / 12,000 ; a boost with the games (will depend by the game) and of course the holidays boost... but that's what happen in all market, not only in Japan.

The same in the US for all console, the first 3 month are strong (maybe just January is low, but February and March are massive, exepecially February), and by april is starting the dropped until a game boost or holidays... 



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