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Forums - Sales - 50 million PS4s sold-through as of 6th December 2016, Black Friday week in the history of PlayStation

DialgaMarine said:
potato_hamster said:


Really? 50 million in the three most expensive years (price wise) the console is on the market makes you think it cannot equal that in the next 4-7 years the console is likely to be produced? Many are saying 2016 likely won't be the best year for sales for the PS4. It just seems like a given to me that it's going to sell at least 100 million based on historical sales trends.

 2017 will be PS4's peak year, I think. 20 - 25 million solid during the 2017 year should be very likely, especially if God of War, Spider-Man, and Death Stranding release next year. 

Its GT that will push most consoles in other markets and Euro mainland not even all those put together.



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DialgaMarine said:
Cirio said:
How fast did the PS2 and PS reach 50 million?

 If I'm not mistaken, PS4 is still tracking ahead of PS2.

I think the PS4 fell behind over the last couple of months. it could be back ahead after this November though. 



yaskar69 said:

PS4 is the faster selling console ever?

The Wii was a beast at the time, but dropped like a rock and only sold a little over 100 millions.



Barkley said:
daredevil.shark said:
Awesome. Some nice numbers. But I still think 100 million is too much for PS4.

Maybe, I think it has a very good shot. It basically just depends on when the PS5 launches.

PS4 should be at least 70 Million sold through by end of 2017.... 85 million 2018? 95+ million 2019? 

It's not going to immediately stop selling when ps5 launches either, assuming PS5 doesn't launch till Holiday 2019 I'd be surprised if it didn't reach the 100 million mark.

PS4 Pro will extend the life of the generation a little. But I don't think we're going to get a lifespan as long as the 7th gen. Because PS4 (and Scoprio) can't deliver Native 4K on AAA titles but they are delivering upscaled 4K they will manufacture demand for true 4K and thus bring on the 9th generation. Which still will only be able to deliver native 4K on AA titles, but not AAA. 

100 million is possible, but unlikely.

I wonder if this puts PS4 at 2:1 over Xb one? Probably not, I imagine Black Friday put Xb one over 25 million if it wasn't already there before BF.



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binary solo said:

PS4 Pro will extend the life of the generation a little. But I don't think we're going to get a lifespan as long as the 7th gen. Because PS4 (and Scoprio) can't deliver Native 4K on AAA titles but they are delivering upscaled 4K they will manufacture demand for true 4K and thus bring on the 9th generation. Which still will only be able to deliver native 4K on AA titles, but not AAA. 

100 million is possible, but unlikely.

I wonder if this puts PS4 at 2:1 over Xb one? Probably not, I imagine Black Friday put Xb one over 25 million if it wasn't already there before BF.

You are putting too much stock into the relevance of native 4k. And as for the lenght if this gen, I still stand by my original assessment that we won't see 9th gen consoles from Sony/MS till chip fabrications processes shrink from 14nm to 7nm. Chip fabrication is the harbinger of a new generation of consoles. 

I also think that 100M is pretty much guaranteed at his point. Say by the end of this year Sony does 54/55M. And then puts in a 20M year next year (which is very likely cause we will have a sub $199 PS4 then) we are looking at around 75M at the end of 2017. Now even if sales drop off a cliff all it has to do is sell 12..5M consoles each year for 2018 and 2019. Mind you, this gen has still not yet got its RDR, GT or GOW. Can you imagine how sales will be for a $199 console with games like RDR, GTS and GOW looming around? Still think it's unlikely? 

 

On another note, here is an interesting observation. 3 of the top 5 best selling home consoles of all time are Playstations. And The PS4 is racing to make that 4 out of the top 5. Yet some people still doubt the relevance of Sony in the home console market?



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binary solo said:
Barkley said:

Maybe, I think it has a very good shot. It basically just depends on when the PS5 launches.

PS4 should be at least 70 Million sold through by end of 2017.... 85 million 2018? 95+ million 2019? 

It's not going to immediately stop selling when ps5 launches either, assuming PS5 doesn't launch till Holiday 2019 I'd be surprised if it didn't reach the 100 million mark.

PS4 Pro will extend the life of the generation a little. But I don't think we're going to get a lifespan as long as the 7th gen. Because PS4 (and Scoprio) can't deliver Native 4K on AAA titles but they are delivering upscaled 4K they will manufacture demand for true 4K and thus bring on the 9th generation. Which still will only be able to deliver native 4K on AA titles, but not AAA. 

100 million is possible, but unlikely.

I wonder if this puts PS4 at 2:1 over Xb one? Probably not, I imagine Black Friday put Xb one over 25 million if it wasn't already there before BF.

It is very hard to know since we don't get numbers since  2014, and only shipped since july 2015.

 

In the ast Microsoft reportt they shipped 1-1.1 millions of Xbox One in the same quarter that the PS4 did 3-4 millions alone.

 

I would not be surprised if the Xbox One is at 25 millions or less after the Blackfriday.



poklane said:

Software sales are now at 369.6million games sold across retail and digital http://www.gamespot.com/articles/ps4-sales-pass-50-million-units-worldwide/1100-6446051/

Attach ratio of 7.392:1

Very impressive! This machine is a software beast



Sony are half way to returning to selling 100 million home consoles after the PS3 failing to reach it. They'll get there in 2019 most likely.



PS4 is seriously under tracked on VGChartz. Unless in last 5 weeks sold 4.2 mln units.



Go go Ps4! 

It will be so nice to see how you easily pass the mark of 100mil sold. And then up up and more. This is the way to go. You gotta love what she's serving us. Such an amazing line up. . . Always