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Forums - Sales Discussion - PS4 has sold through 35.9million units as of January 3rd!

zorg1000 on 05 January 2016
Metroid33slayer said:
zorg1000 said:

It wouldn't surprise me to see 2016 higher. It has a pretty solid list of exclusives releasing throughout the year, PS VR could potentially be a system seller along the lines of the original Kinect, Japan has its big hitters releasing, price will be lower throughout the year.

But you also have to factor in that most of the people that want a ps4 have already got one. I remember people saying that 3ds would sell gangbusters in 2013 because of poke'mon x & y, monster hunter 4, zelda ALBW and animal crossing etc. It actually sold worse than the previous year when there were no huge exclusives.

And i got it wrong it actually sold 17.4 million for the year. For some reason i thought it sold 18.2 million at the beginning of jan 2015 but it was at 18.5 million.

 

PS4 is not 3DS so that comparison is invalid.

Also how do u know most people who want one have one by now? So u think PS4 won't reach 70 million?



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Puppyroach on 05 January 2016

Great numbers and awesome tracking by VGC :).



FIT_Gamer on 05 January 2016

Well done Sony. Should be around 55 million by the end of 2016.



Guitarguy on 05 January 2016
zorg1000 said:
Metroid33slayer said:

But you also have to factor in that most of the people that want a ps4 have already got one. I remember people saying that 3ds would sell gangbusters in 2013 because of poke'mon x & y, monster hunter 4, zelda ALBW and animal crossing etc. It actually sold worse than the previous year when there were no huge exclusives.

And i got it wrong it actually sold 17.4 million for the year. For some reason i thought it sold 18.2 million at the beginning of jan 2015 but it was at 18.5 million.

 

PS4 is not 3DS so that comparison is invalid.

Also how do u know most people who want one have one by now? So u think PS4 won't reach 70 million?

 


Agreed. So the 2 year mark is the magical and arbitrary 'cut off' for when most people who want a PS4, have bought a PS4.... RIght...

So the PS4 will sell 40 million lifetime. Yeh no worries man.... It will hit 80+ million units sold(lifetime) with fucken ease.



Nate4Drake on 05 January 2016

Congrats Sony, and also VGC to be so accurate !

PS4 is doing amazingly well, really impressive numbers, both Hardware and Software !



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JRPGfan on 05 January 2016
DonFerrari said:
36M very good, how was PS2 in the same timeframe?

http://vgsales.wikia.com/wiki/PlayStation_2

28.68 million.





DonFerrari on 05 January 2016
Viktor said:
OK, my bad. I see, Dec.12 refers just to the weekly sales.

Weekly  Software



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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"

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

DonFerrari on 05 January 2016
JRPGfan said:
DonFerrari said:
36M very good, how was PS2 in the same timeframe?

http://vgsales.wikia.com/wiki/PlayStation_2

28.68 million.

So still 7.2M to spare =]

And about almost anyone wanting a PS4 already having bought one, it's possible that X1 won't get to 40M LT and WiiU won't pass 16M.



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."

AEGRO on 05 January 2016
JRPGfan said:
DonFerrari said:
36M very good, how was PS2 in the same timeframe?

http://vgsales.wikia.com/wiki/PlayStation_2

28.68 million.

Wow. Just WOW.





JRPGfan on 05 January 2016
DonFerrari said:
JRPGfan said:
DonFerrari said:
36M very good, how was PS2 in the same timeframe?

http://vgsales.wikia.com/wiki/PlayStation_2

28.68 million.

So still 7.2M to spare =]

And about almost anyone wanting a PS4 already having bought one, it's possible that X1 won't get to 40M LT and WiiU won't pass 16M.

"PS4 haz no gamez!"

In 2016 thats no longer true..... theres plenty of people that want one that dont have one yet.

Id honestly be really surprised if the PS4 doesnt break 80m.

 

PS2 started slow... and just accelerated, its 3rd and 4th years where much stronger than its first and secound.

Unless the PS4 does the same, it ll drop off compaired to the PS2 at some point.

I still think it ll be ahead of the PS2, by next year as well, in the same time frame.

 

 

I really hope Sony are working hard at getting a die shrunk version of a PS4 out.

A slim version thats 50$ cheaper than whats on the market now, will give the PS4 the push it needs, to follow along the trajectory the ps2 did.