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leo-j on 25 November 2017

A lot of management has mentioned to me they received hundreds ofmps4 consoles.... and sold out within hours of each shipment leading up to a dramatic ramp up in demand on Thursday.... completely out of stock.... of 199 ps4....



 

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zorg1000 on 25 November 2017
zogs88 said:
zorg1000 said:

Doubt it would have set a record, Wii did over 2 million in Nov 2008.

vgchartz numbers says 1,75m for NOV 2008

NPD has it over 2 million

 

http://vgsales.wikia.com/wiki/NPD_November_2008



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AngryLittleAlchemist on 25 November 2017
zorg1000 said:
zogs88 said:

vgchartz numbers says 1,75m for NOV 2008

NPD has it over 2 million

 

http://vgsales.wikia.com/wiki/NPD_November_2008

It could happen. If you read that link it says the PS2 was the first console to do it, in 2003. The Wii was a phenomena that was a bit front-loaded(mostly Nintendo's fault). I'm sure PS4 could pull it off. 



thismeintiel on 25 November 2017
Aura7541 said:
thismeintiel said:

Let's not jump to conclusions.  MS may win the Amazon battle if it moves up past it in tomorrow's update, which should be the last one for NPD, but Sony may have won a large B&M battle.  We won't know for awhile, though.

Reuters specifically mentioned the PS4 as one of the biggest sellers on Thanksgiving and Black Friday if that means anything.

Noice.



 

zorg1000 on 25 November 2017
AngryLittleAlchemist said:
zorg1000 said:

NPD has it over 2 million

 

http://vgsales.wikia.com/wiki/NPD_November_2008

It could happen. If you read that link it says the PS2 was the first console to do it, in 2003. The Wii was a phenomena that was a bit front-loaded(mostly Nintendo's fault). I'm sure PS4 could pull it off. 

It says PS2 did it in DEC 2003, not Nov. Wii is the only console to hit 2 million in a non December month.



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AngryLittleAlchemist on 25 November 2017
zorg1000 said:
AngryLittleAlchemist said:

It could happen. If you read that link it says the PS2 was the first console to do it, in 2003. The Wii was a phenomena that was a bit front-loaded(mostly Nintendo's fault). I'm sure PS4 could pull it off. 

It says PS2 did it in DEC 2003, not Nov. Wii is the only console to hit 2 million in a non December month.

Ah, yep. Thought you guys were talking about December for some reason. Could still happen - just very unlikely. 



thismeintiel on 25 November 2017
AngryLittleAlchemist said:
zorg1000 said:

It says PS2 did it in DEC 2003, not Nov. Wii is the only console to hit 2 million in a non December month.

Ah, yep. Thought you guys were talking about December for some reason. Could still happen - just very unlikely. 

Unless things have changed, Nov is the largest shopping month of the year. It contains Black Friday, after all. December actually has an entire week where sales plummet, since holiday shopping is over.

My guess is Sony couldn't get enough stock for Nov, so those sales poured into Dec.



 

AngryLittleAlchemist on 26 November 2017
thismeintiel said:
AngryLittleAlchemist said:

Ah, yep. Thought you guys were talking about December for some reason. Could still happen - just very unlikely. 

Unless things have changed, Nov is the largest shopping month of the year. It contains Black Friday, after all. December actually has an entire week where sales plummet, since holiday shopping is over.

My guess is Sony couldn't get enough stock for Nov, so those sales poured into Dec.

(that's what I thought too, but I wasn't willing to argue over something I wasn't sure about ) 



Insidb on 26 November 2017
AngryLittleAlchemist said:
thismeintiel said:

Unless things have changed, Nov is the largest shopping month of the year. It contains Black Friday, after all. December actually has an entire week where sales plummet, since holiday shopping is over.

My guess is Sony couldn't get enough stock for Nov, so those sales poured into Dec.

(that's what I thought too, but I wasn't willing to argue over something I wasn't sure about ) 

It may be an NPD thing: Cyber Monday has reportedly passed Black Friday, and it falls in December's NPD.



thismeintiel on 26 November 2017
Insidb said:
AngryLittleAlchemist said:

(that's what I thought too, but I wasn't willing to argue over something I wasn't sure about ) 

It may be an NPD thing: Cyber Monday has reportedly passed Black Friday, and it falls in December's NPD.

True. But, that is a recent thing.  I actually think last year was the first time that happened. Either way, it definitely wasn't the case when the PS2 was out, or even the Wii.