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Forums - Sales Discussion - More consoles were sold in the UK in 2018 vs 2017. PS4 #1

chakkra on 03 January 2019
Evilms said:

UK 2018 :

1. FIFA 19 : 1.889.401
2. Red Dead Redemption II : 1.757.212
3. Call of Duty Black Ops 4 : 1.172.855
4. Spider-Man : 676.621
5. Mario Kart 8 Deluxe : 458.675
6. Far Cry 5 : 434.133
7. Crash Bandicoot Trilogy : 430.551
8. God Of War : 399.395
9. Forza Horizon 4 : 392.960
10. FIFA 18 : 351.788
11. GTA V : 339.805
12. Spyro Reignited Trilogy : 333.725
13. Battlefield V : 313.100
14. Assassin's Creed Odyssey : 305.937
15. Super Smash Bros Ultimate : 284.155
16. Super Mario Odyssey : 240.710
17. Call of Duty WWII : 230.576
18. Pokémon Let's Go Pikachu : 227.767
19. Shadow of the Tomb Raider : 226.125
20. Fallout 76 : 218.534

After seeing the acceptance of FH4 on UK I can´t help but wonder if a Tokyo setting would have helped with the japanese gamers perception of the X1.



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GOWTLOZ on 03 January 2019
Evilms said:

UK 2018 :

1. FIFA 19 : 1.889.401
2. Red Dead Redemption II : 1.757.212
3. Call of Duty Black Ops 4 : 1.172.855
4. Spider-Man : 676.621
5. Mario Kart 8 Deluxe : 458.675
6. Far Cry 5 : 434.133
7. Crash Bandicoot Trilogy : 430.551
8. God Of War : 399.395
9. Forza Horizon 4 : 392.960
10. FIFA 18 : 351.788
11. GTA V : 339.805
12. Spyro Reignited Trilogy : 333.725
13. Battlefield V : 313.100
14. Assassin's Creed Odyssey : 305.937
15. Super Smash Bros Ultimate : 284.155
16. Super Mario Odyssey : 240.710
17. Call of Duty WWII : 230.576
18. Pokémon Let's Go Pikachu : 227.767
19. Shadow of the Tomb Raider : 226.125
20. Fallout 76 : 218.534

Its amazing Forza Horizon 4 sold almost as well as God of War despite being released few months ago and being available for free on Game Pass.

Just shows that Sony fucked it up by closing their arcade racing studios.



Intrinsic on 03 January 2019
Kerotan said:
Wasn't it widely predicted that Sony stuffed the channels big time in 2017 to hit the 20m goal. So for all we know they could be up in 2018 in terms of actual sales.

Not quite.

  1. sony actually shipped fewer units in 2017 compared to 2016 because they had an excess of units from 2016.
  2. stuffing channels doesnt mean anything with regards to selling 20M units in one year. If the demand for your product isn't there it wont sell anyways and you end up with a supply excess.
  3. Unless you are literally doing firesales (looking at you XB1) and main all manner of deals and promotions all year round to ensure you sell all those units which sony didnt do.
  4. What really happened is that sony shipped alot out in 2016 but quickly realized that they had reached the limit of how many consoles they could sell effectively at $399. Hence why the price was dropped in 2016 to spur sales. Where it has remained since probably because they are ok selling at their current pace. Cause we all know permanently dropping t $199 could at least make the baseline go up...... though at this point maybe it will only keep it flat YOY.


Kerotan on 03 January 2019
Intrinsic said:
Kerotan said:
Wasn't it widely predicted that Sony stuffed the channels big time in 2017 to hit the 20m goal. So for all we know they could be up in 2018 in terms of actual sales.

Not quite.

 

  1. sony actually shipped fewer units in 2017 compared to 2016 because they had an excess of units from 2016.
  2. stuffing channels doesnt mean anything with regards to selling 20M units in one year. If the demand for your product isn't there it wont sell anyways and you end up with a supply excess.
  3. Unless you are literally doing firesales (looking at you XB1) and main all manner of deals and promotions all year round to ensure you sell all those units which sony didnt do.
  4. What really happened is that sony shipped alot out in 2016 but quickly realized that they had reached the limit of how many consoles they could sell effectively at $399. Hence why the price was dropped in 2016 to spur sales. Where it has remained since probably because they are ok selling at their current pace. Cause we all know permanently dropping t $199 could at least make the baseline go up...... though at this point maybe it will only keep it flat YOY.

 

So what did sony ship in 2016 and 2017?



Miyamotoo on 03 January 2019
Kerotan said:
Miyamotoo said:

On other hand, Switch had launch in March 2017. and launch always gave huge sales in any case, and January and February of this year shouldnt be strong in any case. So March of last year should easily be stronger than this years January and February.

 

PS4 in US and Japan is down YoY.

On other hand it wasn't severely supply constrained this year. 

Who and when was supply constrained?



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MasonADC on 03 January 2019

Mario Kart 8 deluxe sold more in 2018 than it did in 2017...That's kinda crazy



Kerotan on 03 January 2019

Spiderman the highest selling exclusive this year. Mighty impressive.



JRPGfan on 03 January 2019
MasonADC said:
Mario Kart 8 deluxe sold more in 2018 than it did in 2017...That's kinda crazy

Install base of Switch's grew more this year than last, and MK8 is still one of the best reasons to own a Wii U or Switch.



Intrinsic on 03 January 2019
Kerotan said:

So what did sony ship in 2016 and 2017?

Can't remember.

I just know they shipped fewer units in FY 2017 than they did in FY 2016. But sold more units in 2017 CY than they did in 2016 CY.

Maybe someone with those numbers can put them up.



PwerlvlAmy on 03 January 2019

Sony leading in EU, water is wet. I'd be shocked if they ever didnt.



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