Playstation 2 is the most sold console ever with around 150 million units sold, around 50 million more than the wii I think.
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Sony FY2015 Q2: PS4 shipment 4 million, cumulative sell in at 29.3 million
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Playstation 2 is the most sold console ever with around 150 million units sold, around 50 million more than the wii I think.
Ahhh yes. Totally forgot it launched later in the west. Launch aligned maybe the two would be about the same I'd think.
Yeah I also expect it to slide behind PS2. It can't surely maintain this momentum and the PS2 was such a fine legacy console in it's later years.
I think the PS brand is so synonymous with video gaming outside of US and UK it would take a lot of effort on MS parts to regain or increase the mind share it had globally with the 360. Or a colossal Sony screw up again next gen haha.
Jarod McChicken
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Sony increased their annual shipment target for PS4 : that's 17,5 million now instead of 16,5 million. That mean they have to ship 10,5 more million between october and april.
The Game & Network Service Division also has a new annual target for operating income with 80 billion yen instead of 60 billon yen.
For the year, that would put the video game above music, pictures, mobile, cameras and TV.
The Game & Network Service Division also has a new annual target for operating income with 80 billion yen instead of 60 billon yen.
For the year, that would put the video game above music, pictures, mobile, cameras and TV.
It is.
1) PS2
2) PS1
3) Wii
Just meant PS4 will surpass the Wii over time and thus also pass the PS1. The Wii and PS1 are fairly close.
The Artisan
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anybody think they can get to 30 million through before the end of the year?
Great results, didn't expect 4m PS4s.It should be at 36m+ by the end of this year.
They also upped the full year profit forecast of the gaming division from 60 to 80 billion yen of operating profit.
PS4 got its second upward revision.
From 16m to 16.5m to now 17.5m for the fiscal year from April 2015 to March 2016.
They also upped the full year profit forecast of the gaming division from 60 to 80 billion yen of operating profit.
PS4 got its second upward revision.
From 16m to 16.5m to now 17.5m for the fiscal year from April 2015 to March 2016.
gundamkyoukai
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Get_craycray
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Almost 160 million units for the PS2. The Wii should end just behind the PS1 (which the second best selling console).
Hydrargyrus
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Dios mio!
It's normal for MS to stop telling numbers after seeing this!!
It's normal for MS to stop telling numbers after seeing this!!
AnotherDayAnotherDollar
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The PS1 is the second best selling home console of all time.
ninjablade
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Oh for sure, we're looking at least 110 million by the end of this gen.
vita did well enough in japan. for a while it looked like it could hit 5 million, but i don't think that is the case anymore. as it stands, it outsold the gamecube there, which was enough for it to have a solid userbase, especially combined with the psp, ps3, and later, ps4. it was more or less dead in the us after 2013, but it still managed to outdo the sega saturn. in the end the vita should be the second-best selling non-nintendo handheld ever, after the psp (game gear was 10-11 million).
Sephiroth_VII
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But they're doing much better. Profitability doesn't look so far off now.
Pretty good chance of that I'd imagine.
They sold 4.1 million last holiday season.
The Artisan
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through?
EDIT: nvm. they probably will be well over 30 million come my quarter century birthday
which will be in january
I think that's what he was saying.
damnnnnn, I didn't know it was that much. and by holiday season I'm guessing you mean halloween/thanksgiving/christmas/basically Q4?
It is, 102.49m vs. 101.59m for Wii.
It's a very distinct possibility.
DidntKnowJack
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Props to Kaz for turning that company around. They were pretty much floundering.
i feel like a 20 million shipment should be a lock for the year ending march 2017. i'm not expecting everything to land in 2016, but enough big stuff should happen in that time.
Brad Grenz
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Good thing MS isn't reporting numbers anymore or everyone would know the PS4 outshipped the Xbox One by something like 4:1 last quarter.
HeWhoWalks
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They were in definite need of a turnaround, though I wouldn't say it was a bad as some thought.
OT: I expect the 3rd party exclusives to continue.
Beautiful Ninja
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The more gloomy estimates were around 1 million shipped, right? I think last quarter it wasn't much above that.
It's nuts that PS4 could be outshipping 4 to 1 with how close the US is. Mainland Europe and Asia must be going in HARD on PS4.
The Artisan
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what do you mean?
Deifnitely. Same was true for the PS3 last gen which is why it caught up to 360.
Sony's better position this gen just helps even more.
I don't think is that low. They shipped 2.4m combined in the same quarter of last year.
HeWhoWalks
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Agreed. I'd say it is a very distinct certainty!
The Artisan
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word. maybe dude was sorta joking
What 3rd party exclusives? Japanese games with low sales in west?
Yes. Like Street Fighter 5 and bloodborne..
I'm interested in Sony software performance on PS4. We get some figures when a game hits a million or launches strong, but I'm curious what their top-selling PS4 title is at this point.
Sony published and owns the Bloodborne IP.
If I were to guess, Destiny or GTA5.
HeWhoWalks
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Nail. On. The. Head.
ninjablade
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These sales are pretty incredible, more amazing then ps2 sales, when you factor in ps2 had a year head start against the competition, and the competition was joke compared to the Xbox one which gets every big third-party and has a strong brand in the US/Uk.
The Artisan
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bloodborne isn't 3rd party dude. in this case i don't this sf5 is either, since sony is funding it.
the yakuza series is 3rd party
I mean first party releases. I want to see Sony's software performance.
I've been saying this forever. It's when all the delayed games I wanted to play the previous year come out.
Any company can buy exclusive games, but there isn't a trend of PS4 receive 3rd party exclusives outside of japanese and indie games.
bananafactory
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Oh boy
HORRORSHØW
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lmao truth
ninjablade
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Yea it was the new meme for a few die hards after the wiiu bombed.
I'm saying something wrong?