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Forums - Sales - PS4 Shipments Reach 63.3 Million, 3.3 million units between April 1 and June 30

PAOerfulone said:

Yes. PlayStation systems tend to have strong legs even after their successor releases. And the PS5 isn't coming until around 2020, 2019 at the earliest. So it'll have the rest of this year, plus next year, which is looking like a VERY strong year for the PS4 from the software side, plus 2019 to get there. It still has God of War, Gran Turismo, Last of Us, and Elder Scrolls VI, and GTA VI coming up. It's not a question of "Will it outsell the Wii?" but "By how many units?"

There will be no new TES and GTA this generation. Bethesda will make 2 new games before TES VI (which is still not in development) and Rockstar will milk RDR2 with microtransactions and Rockstar games long legs are not helping either.



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PEEPer0nni said:
PAOerfulone said:

Yes. PlayStation systems tend to have strong legs even after their successor releases. And the PS5 isn't coming until around 2020, 2019 at the earliest. So it'll have the rest of this year, plus next year, which is looking like a VERY strong year for the PS4 from the software side, plus 2019 to get there. It still has God of War, Gran Turismo, Last of Us, and Elder Scrolls VI, and GTA VI coming up. It's not a question of "Will it outsell the Wii?" but "By how many units?"

There will be no new TES and GTA this generation. Bethesda will make 2 new games before TES VI (which is still not in development) and Rockstar will milk RDR2 with microtransactions and Rockstar games long legs are not helping either.

I agree. I believe Bethesda and Rockstar are going to take these franchises to VR in the next iteration. Bethesda has already showed incredible intrest in VR, and appear to be shifting all future development in that direction. Rockstar has been pushing the boundries in games with GTA for years. Many can not fathom the thought of TES VI and GTA6 being VR exclusive, but I think it is inevitable. The creative minds in the tech, programming, and development want to create the best expereince they can, and remove as many limits as possible. VR is the ultimate form of expression possible on current technology. These major publishers, with major franchises, will use their influence to usher in the next evolution in "gaming". 

PlayStation VR, HTC Vive, and Oculus Rift are a test bed for the future. Major publishers and developers are building the tools, and skills required to make heavy investment in major franchises when the tech is ready to deliver a mass market expereince. PS5 + PSVR2 will be the baseline for the push to mass market adoption of VR. GTA6, TESVI, and Gran Turismo will lead the push, and bring the masses. 

That is why PSVR is absolutely crucial for Sony. They are getting in early, and putting themselves into position to use VR in much the same way Apple used Smartphones to catapult themselves in the last decade. If they stay on it and continue to expand and solidify the market leader position in VR, they will be seeing massive year over year results for years and years to come. This is Sony's gateway to being in the same conversation as Microsoft, Apple, and Google. 



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Considering the shipments and last release of sales it shall be around 61.5M sold... very good. Too bad they had a OI drop due to price drop so maybe they will hold the new price drop a little longer.



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."

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Lenny93 said:
Does anyone still expect it to surpass the Wii in sales?

Everyone who knows what they're talking about and isn't blinded by bias. Yes.



Hiku said:
Lenny93 said:
Does anyone still expect it to surpass the Wii in sales?

That seems to be what most people expect.
Do you still believe PS4 will only outsell PS3 by 3 million?
Not like PS3 had any problems or anything.

I think it will sale 92 million and I expect the PlayStation 5 to be released in November 2019. 



Sales prediction, PS4: 122 Million, Xbox one: 50 million, Switch: 105 million. 

Lenny93 said:
Hiku said:

That seems to be what most people expect.
Do you still believe PS4 will only outsell PS3 by 3 million?
Not like PS3 had any problems or anything.

I think it will sale 92 million and I expect the PlayStation 5 to be released in November 2019. 

Based on?

You do know that new gens are usually brought when HW sales drop steepy and SW drop as well right?

Do you expect MS to but Scorpio this holiday and in 1 year kick another generation to make Sony release a PS5? Or do you expect Scorpio to outsell PS4 vanilla so much that Sony get desperate to launch PS5 or what?



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."

Lenny93 said:
Hiku said:

That seems to be what most people expect.
Do you still believe PS4 will only outsell PS3 by 3 million?
Not like PS3 had any problems or anything.

I think it will sale 92 million and I expect the PlayStation 5 to be released in November 2019. 

Even with a November 2019 ps5 release, the ps4 will easily surpass the Wii. It will ship 18 Million this year as forcast by Sony, bringing the total to 78m by March 2018, let's say the following year this number drops to 14 million, that's your total of 92m already shipped by March 2019. Then there's another 7 months till it's successor and let's not forget sales post-ps5.



CartBlanche said:
Wait till PS4 Pro price drop in November, to counter the Xbox One X release. Then you'll see PS4 sales hit 3:1 next year!!

They actually have been around 3:1 the whole year already, if one can believe VGchartz's weekly numbers at all (It strangely doesn't reflect in their overall numbers).

Or were you talking about U.S. sales only?!

 

Noobie said:
CartBlanche said:
Wait till PS4 Pro price drop in November, to counter the Xbox One X release. Then you'll see PS4 sales hit 3:1 next year!!

Looking at Sony forecast and expectation for sales, i doubt Sony is going to cut PS4 price. If they cut PS4 price, they will not be able to reach their 1,980  billion yen target of sales. 

Also i am sure if they had planned for a price cut then they would have predicted more than 20 million PS4 sales. 

You can bet they'll have a price drop by 50,– to counter the X1X. They already had one a few weeks back as a timed promotion. 

 

349,- PS4Pro (or/and 399,- for certain bundles) against 499,- X1X it will be. Microsoft better include some games in their offering.