Which will be all retread when quarterly reports come out.
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Sony announces 18.5 million PlayStation 4 consoles sold WW
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Which will be all retread when quarterly reports come out.
LOL
Back on topic. I say mid feb before ps4 is 20 mil sold to consumers world wide.
But you're forgetting that PS4 will likely launch in China before February. So even if they sell the PS4 to 1% of the population thats around 13 million extra sales right there.
So we should see over 30m sold through by Feb. Not 20m
Nightengale
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Jokes aside. mid-Feb seems like a decent timing.
Chinese speaking regions like HK/Taiwan/SEA should get a CNY Red Packets bump. And unless Sony is terrible at their job, they'll need to sort out their China issue by then, to take advantage of the thicker wallets in February.
Chinese speaking regions like HK/Taiwan/SEA should get a CNY Red Packets bump. And unless Sony is terrible at their job, they'll need to sort out their China issue by then, to take advantage of the thicker wallets in February.
95% ? More like 5%...
Besides the big guns (FFXV,MGSV,...), I am expecting most japanese games to de facto go PS4 exclusive. And we are currently seeing that, as some have shown you.
GribbleGrunger
Dreams in Digital
I have to completely disagree here. It's not going to make much of a difference short term other than 'perhaps' a 1m boost (at best).
Dreamgazer
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GunslingerVit
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psn
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It was a joke post bro.
GribbleGrunger
Dreams in Digital
PoweredByHentai
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They're already getting a sort of special edition version of the PS4 with a dragon engraved onto the cover.
http://kotaku.com/first-look-at-the-china-only-ps4-1669715469
I think he's parodying that other guy.
Unknown Soldier
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I think it will depend on which direction the wind is blowing that day just how many PS4 the Chinese will buy on launch day.
Dreamgazer
Member
While we're at it, insignificant China news:
Certain retailers shipped out the PS4 they have on hand anyway.
Certain retailers shipped out the PS4 they have on hand anyway.
psn
Member
Just wait until they get their 40% market share in Germany and other countries in Europe.Isn't this 1% already taken by the XBO and its China release?
Not necessarily 1 billion Xbones. Maybe Mehdi was just optimistic about the PS4.
Nightengale
Member
Well, Sony can't officially comment on them, yet.
Unknown Soldier
Member
Which way did they go? MS shipped the Bones destined for China up the Yangtze River. If Sony's ship with the PS4s are going that way too, we're going to have to pray for an eastern wind or the ships carrying the PS4s will catch on fire instead of the ships carrying the Bones.
Dreamgazer
Member
Consumers in China, by law, can claim for 2x of their preorder deposit if the product can't be delivered. Most of the major retailers were screwed by this during the brief x1 delay.
I would assume some retailers are shipping the stuff out so they can avoid that penalty.
(Sony has been fully refunding 2x deposits in their own stores, and has offered to do the same for any affected retailers. Earning them some goodwill against MS)
To be fair, a lot of people do this. Maybe it because we gain some social sastisfaction by asking and explained directly rather than searching and reading the cold results from search engine.
Aquamarine
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PoweredByHentai
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Wow, why do we NOT have this as a consumer protection law in the US?
Because he's human and he likes to be special. Because that's rewarding and feels good. And that creates increased bursts of dopamine which have a possitive feedback. And eventually you become a fanboy as soon as oxytocine kicks in. And that further increments the positive feedback. Add the male gender into the table and have testosterone bursts also involved further amplifying the effect, plus creating an increased competitivenes and agressivity.
Because like it or not, that sequence of factors is BASICALLY everything the global economy is based around. That's the reason people buy 100K watches and $800 iPhones when they obviously are not even close to need them. That's why people buy 3 titan black cards if they can afford them. That's why social clubs exists, and the closed, the cooler they are. Red carpets. Nespresso. Management workshops. Bose. Sport subscriptions. Political choice.
Get Tekken 7 announced exclusively for PS4 and all of a sudden you're making a lot of people feel special when they're not used to. Dopamine burst. Positive feedback. Oxytocine. Bam. You're a fanboy.
travisbickle
Member
There's some classic moments in there.
At one point the guy with the Xbox Mafia avatar made some calculations trying to show how Sony lied and he says "in the US, PS4 sold 850K Nov, and (est.) 900K Dec, and we'll add 350K global sales for each of those months"
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And you're like oh right they don't have a clue how big the market is outside US. But then the main dude says "MS probably shipped 3-4 million end of Nov." and you realise oh they've lost the plot?!
While your neurochemistry is off, you are not that far from the truthh. People aren't actually that complicated. It does get harder to manipulate things to sell shit tho the older.people are.
Android autocorrect is shit, really annoying.
Bitch Pudding
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motorised mallard
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<Insert joke about US politicians being corporate puppets here>
So because Xbone is selling like shit outside US/UK, PS4 must be selling like shit too!
No "MS must sell just as good as Sony or gaming is doomed"? I'm dissapointed. Because they sound like ones that would go with that...actually it still is a pretty close race in the US. What? They say that Sony sells almost 3/4 of their consoles in the US like MS but why would MS ship so many consoles world wide? -_-
I'm getting less intelligent just by thinking about those clowns and their wild ideas.
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So, what are we going to talk about next, it's still monday and NPD doesn't hit until thursday. We can't let this die now, right?
slavesnyder
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As long as search engines don't add animated gifs to their results they are no match for NeoGAF.
AmaterasuOni
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No, it's a universal phenomena. We have these kiddies here in Finland as well. They're the loudest people on the forums. Annoying brats.
Birgitte2004
Member
In the PS3 vs. Xbox 360 some games I wanted PS3 exclusives because the DVD format hurt some games.
To this day I think Final Fantasy XIII turned out the way it did because of the decision to support DVDs, on the heels of the disc-swapping fiasco that was Star Ocean on the 360.
There is no such equivalent on the One vs. PS4, so let them all be multi-platform.
I do understand that the market outside of the big 5 is much smaller. But using numbers from 2006/2007 isn't going to prove anything about the state of the market today. In fact the PS4 in GER, FRA, ITA, SPN has sold about the same in H1 2014 as the entire console market for europe did in H1 2006. So thats some big growth.
And as i've mentioned before, we've seen the EU adopt PS4 in much stronger numbers compared to the PS3 and the europe market has really grown.
Yes, ROW does add up. But its not impossible to believe that PS4 in all of Europe has sold the same as in the USA. (More than 6.5m)
Do you have a source for the 45k number?
Nightengale
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I recall there being a PAL report that... came/or was it leaked out, which implies the 90% thing is true... only for XB1. (5 countries make up practically all XB1 sales in Europe)
But not true for PS4.
But not true for PS4.
UK, Germany, Spain, Italy and....?
Chobel
Member
France. Not sure about Spain and Italy.
Nightengale
Member
France, I think.
I think the UK equivalent of a dudebro is a chav.
AmaterasuOni
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In Finland dudebro is called a "jonne".
BibiMaghoo
Member
Chavs are pond scum, dudebro = rudeboy.
Personally, I think he is being too optimistic about the demand for the XBox One as well but I could be wrong too
Mid February sounds right. And hopefully, The Order 1886 is a commercial success and manages to move more units
Yeah, and whereas elsewhere they play CoD, in Finland they play NHL.
In Belgium a 'Johny' (so close!) while the female version is called a 'Marina'.
Welfare
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I worded poorly. I mean, when you're in a forum discussing something, you interacting with people. When some unknown term or anything that stumble upon in the middle of discussion, you just unconsciously asked what it is directly because you feel talking directly to other people.
In my own personal experience though, when I'm in group chat or a forum I prefer to asked the attending people directly because most of the time, not only they just give me better explanation, but also makes me feel closer to someone or a community. When you use search engine, of course I wouldn't feel something like that.
Also this.
serversurfer
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Yes, exactly.
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So, first you claim the deal was due entirely to Sony's deep pockets, and now you say MS didn't even need Ono's game. Well, okay.
Actually, he said that he approached Sony about exclusivity.
A place like GAF allows one to engage their instructors directly. If the lessons raise questions, they can (typically) get answers. Plus, some people just learn more effectively through tutoring than textbooks or whatever.