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PlayStation 4 hits 20.2 million units sold worldwide (high sodium content warning)
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They would have still been steamrolled WW. The gains Sony is making in the Middle East and Asia were never on the table for Microsoft. As for Europe, even a 15 month head start at a lower price point, at a time when MS were doing and saying the right things, still didn't matter at the end. With the PS4 and X1 launching at the same time and the Sony console being the cheaper one, I doubt MS would have seen any substantial increase in market share. Now the US might have been a little different, but still I don't think it would have made all too much of a difference in WW sales.
I hope so. I know the PS4 is still selling like crazy but 400 is still a steep price for me at least.
What is this, madeupchartz?
deltacanuckian
Member
I expect Sony to really push hard on MGSV as well. That series has been so closely associated with PlayStation for so long that there are people I know who are surprised to find out The Phantom Pain is even coming out on Xbox consoles. Mortal Kombat X should get some attention as well.
They would have lost even if the system was the same price out of the gate and didn't have a bad pre-launch period.
Playstation brand is simply more popular worldwide and both consoles released at the same time. Only thing that would probabaly be different is the system's position in the US and UK.
360 did many things right alongside the mistakes of the PS3, had a head start, but yet the PS3 still caught up in worldwide sales.
Shin-Ra
Junior Member
The eyes are amazing.
Americanmushroom
Banned
This year is way too soon, and the PS4 is not even big to begin with, I would say 2017
LegendofDragoonLives
Member
Mediocre would be a better term. It had some 3rd party support and lot of them being half assed. It lost that support during the first year. The Wii U's library has generally been absolutely pitiful bar the killer 1st party titles during 6 months of each year. Look at Wii U's overall library the first 6 months of 2014. It's garbage. It did release some of its major franchises and that's the only time you can see a beating heart in terms of sales from that machine. Without that, I doubt it would have sold half as much by now.
The Wii U's problem unfortunately is also some of the worst marketing ever done for a console. Especially since some people still don't know that Wii U is a console by itself not some addition to their Wii. Whichever marketing team decided to name it Wii U deserves to be thrown out of the building.
kenji_sama
Member
2017 is too late, PS3 slim was available in 2009, 3 years after the launch.
Rebel Leader
THE POWER OF BUTTERSCOTCH BOTTOMS
I don't think anyone remembers E3 2013 outside of hardcore gamers. MS has turned it around as best they can. At the end of the day their console does not have the same mindshare that PS4 does. MS didn't do a good job of bolstering their 1st party at the second leg of the 360's life and they are paying the price now. If the Xbox One can't outsell the PS4 at a $50 price delta in the US as we found out in January and will confirm for sure in February, there's not much it can do other than drastically undercutting Sony.
moltonasty
Member
Lmao holy shit thats some skillfull giffage right there
fluffydelusions
Member
LMAOOOOOO. My sides!!!! T_T
Amazing how well it's selling considering its lack of good exclusives. Sorry but it's true. From good will established prelaunch, to initial price advantage, hardware advantage, and knowing Sony has many of the best devs so games will in some time come, not to mention MS handing them this gen, that's what's saving them.
The lack of quality first party games is incredible. How can't Sony and MS get this right already at launch to one year? I mean infamous is solid and all, but that's about it. Especially with the firepower Sony has developer wise, it's shocking.
Anyways, business will pick up this year with bloodborne and Uncharted, but hopefully for their sake they have more than that.
The lack of quality first party games is incredible. How can't Sony and MS get this right already at launch to one year? I mean infamous is solid and all, but that's about it. Especially with the firepower Sony has developer wise, it's shocking.
Anyways, business will pick up this year with bloodborne and Uncharted, but hopefully for their sake they have more than that.
PeakPointMatrix
Member
Shin-Ra
Junior Member
This'd be 10x funnier if it had a waterproof Xperia tablet held just under the water surface, playing Knack, covering
The Artisan
Member
1.7 million consoles sold in 2 months? pfft
sony be slackin'
sony be slackin'
TacticalFox88
Banned
No.
He face timed his TV and it shows up on his iPad which he brought to the bathroom
It's actually a pretty easy setup. I guess that's what he had to resort to since it's an iPad.
Have to target China's 1% more fiercely.
moltonasty
Member
Seriously, this gen is a wrap. If you had any doubts that ps4 would be the undisputed champ, well now's the time to wake up
crimzonflame
Member
Imagine if it was doing well in Japan too
orthodoxy1095
Banned
I still don't understand how this GIF was made. Amazing work.
I know its an old post but...
That doesn't make any sense. Out of 1.8 million in the last 2 months, about 400 thousand were sold in the US in the slowest months of the year. That's not an insignificant portion even though its dwarfed by WW sales. If one looks at the PS4 console statistic sales by region, the US also has a pretty big portion too
StrongBlackVine
Banned
Bloodborne, MLB The Show, Tearaway Unfolded, Until Dawn, No Man's Sky, Persona 5, Uncharted 4 and probably at least one more unannounced retail game for Fall like LBP3 at last year's E3. Lots of digital games coming too.
Very solid lineup for 2015.
Dragonborn
Member
Most of those don't count for reasons though. The PS4 literally has nothing
Why not?
Sorry, but it's not. And it also has good multiplats.
Sylverstone14
Member
Nice numbers.
Still haven't bit the bullet yet, but when my brother decides to sell me his (because he almost never uses it, surprisingly), that'll be the day.
Still haven't bit the bullet yet, but when my brother decides to sell me his (because he almost never uses it, surprisingly), that'll be the day.
The Artisan
Member
have they even launched the console there yet
orthodoxy1095
Banned
Absolutely.
- Bloodborne: Too hardcore. Doesn't count.
- MLB 15: Lol sports. Doesn't count
- Tearaway Unfolded: Just a port of a Vita game. Doesn't count.
- Until Dawn: Looks like a B-horror movie. Too cinematic. Doesn't count.
- No Man's Sky: What do I even do in this game? Doesn't count.
- Persona 5: Niche JRPG. Doesn't count.
- Uncharted 4: Counts
I'm buying all of them.
everyday math
Banned
Wow nice
Opinions are like assholes. Everyone has one, and yours is terrible. PEACE.
ProfessorMoran
Member
That's like saying Joe Montana doesn't have a Heisman trophy, it'll just get laughed at.
Bloodborne, MGSV, Persona 5. Also, surely the Monster Hunter publisher will need to address the PS4 market, but I have no idea about their deals with Nintendo.
I think, when Morpheus hits, with schoolgirl VR shenanigans we might see a purely coincidental spike in PS4 sales in Japan...
I do hope it starts selling over there eventually, gaming isn't quite the same without Japan at the core, but Japanese devs do need to catch up, although MGSV, Bloodborne and FFXV all show promising signs of Japanese devs making comparably well realised games as their Western counterparts, but with Japanese sensibilities.
Sony's success with the PS4 is staggering and shows just how far that goodwill created by them has gone, along with of course the far more important matter of better specs AND lower price compared to the XB1 has been what "won the war". Microsoft did indeed massively derail their highly successful Xbox brand, surely a lesson for the future of letting corporate asshats run the show and try to arrogantly extort money from their customer base (no second hand sales etc is effectively that). Sony did everything right by their customer that they could reasonably have been expected to and sales success is a sweet result. Also, I think their VR could genuinely take PS4 success to beyond Wii levels. Base system that's affordable and an affordable VR headset that is comfortable and does the job very well will get PS4's in many more living rooms around the world.
SmokedMeat
Gamer™
You mean the "analysts" on GAF, or real analysts?
The Artisan
Member
quick question: is no man's sky only going to be available digitally?
Angelus Errare
Banned
I just noticed his ear is fucked up in the close up. It makes me itch.
The Artisan
Member
haha
ArkkAngel007
Member
Good movement. Holiday is going to be crazy.
