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Might make my prediction of 7 mil by the end of March. Amazing job Sony.
Could happen. Depends on how much of a killer-app Infamous turns out to be.
Might make my prediction of 7 mil by the end of March. Amazing job Sony.
Why do people say "Microsoft must be worried? etc"
I just can't imagine Microsoft worrying that the PS4 is selling that much when they know they have things that people will gravitate to. I'm sure they are playing the waiting game and not getting all in a bunch just because of a couple million. Maybe I'm wrong but I just can't imagine it
Why do people say "Microsoft must be worried?… etc"
I just can't imagine Microsoft worrying that the PS4 is selling that much when they know they have things that people will gravitate to. I'm sure they are playing the waiting game and not getting all in a bunch just because of a couple million. Maybe I'm wrong but I just can't imagine it
Why do people say "Microsoft must be worried?… etc"
I just can't imagine Microsoft worrying that the PS4 is selling that much when they know they have things that people will gravitate to. I'm sure they are playing the waiting game and not getting all in a bunch just because of a couple million. Maybe I'm wrong but I just can't imagine it
I'm sure it will have an impact, doubt it will change the world wide results though in the long term, but it's looking like it could be the system seller to the casual public. All I see on Social media is people complaining about not getting titanfall on their ps4 or willingness to buy the xbone just for it.
So around 800k PS4s still sitting on shelves world-wide.
Yeah, that doesn't seem correct at all.
His guys numbers are off.
Could happen. Depends on how much of a killer-app Infamous turns out to be.
Yeah, that doesn't seem correct at all.
His guys numbers are off.
I find it kind of amazing that a big publisher like EA so incredibly misread the market. I hope in a few years someone writes a book about Xbox One's development and spills the beans on the Titanfall exclusivity deal. I'm sure they were assuming Xbox One would repeat 360's success in NA and whatever MS paid them for exclusivity would make up for lost PS4 sales.
The problem is that, despite all the talk about fanboyism, there's hardly a precedent for back-to-back marketshare domination...
I just find it amusing/hard to believe that EA must have thought MS had it in the bag. It should have been evident after the prices and specs were announced following the disaster the Xbox One reveal was that the average joe gamers wasn't going to pony up an extra $100 out of pure brand loyalty to MS when there was a cheaper and more powerful system released on the market.
http://www.examiner.com/article/titanfall-xbox-exclusivity-ea-partnership-and-xbox-360-port-discussedThe deal is one game only. I assume this talk by EA is part of their pitch to Respawn. Vince Zampella seemed visibly annoyed when EA sold the exclusivity to Microsoft.
Good, now make me that PS4 FFVII remake Square-Enix. It's a no brainer right?
Hardcore fps gamers prefer xone controller. Mlg cod was played on xbox. Still is I think.
Could happen. Depends on how much of a killer-app Infamous turns out to be.
Heard back from my supply chain guy, reworked the figures:
Code:Production Air shipping Sea shipping August 0.2 0 0 September 0.4 0 0.6 October 0.9 0 0.8 November 1.7 0 1.8 December 1.7 1.0 0.7 January 1.2 0.3 0.9 February 1.2 0.2 1.0
Figures in millions.
Yup. 1.7m peak production per month. Crazy times if he is right. Makes sense though.
Hardcore fps gamers prefer xone controller. Mlg cod was played on xbox. Still is I think.
Could happen. Depends on how much of a killer-app Infamous turns out to be.
Could happen. Depends on how much of a killer-app Infamous turns out to be.
I think in April you'll see lots of negative numbers because people are returning their PS4 and buying a Xbone.
LMAO...highly doubt it.
Might make my prediction of 7 mil by the end of March. Amazing job Sony.
Didn't know this was worthy enough for a new thread!
For greater context, I expanded the sales to an even 34 month comparison.
Somebody can make a new graph if they want.
PS1:
4 months (one territory) - March 31st, 1995 - 0.85 million
10 months - September 30th, 1995 - 1.77 million
16 months - March 31st, 1996 - 4.26 million
22 months - September 30th, 1996 - 8.07 million
28 months - March 31st, 1997 - 13.50 million
34 months - September 30th, 1997 - 22.50 million
PS2:
1 month (one territory) - March 31st, 2000 - 1.41 million
7 months (one territory) - September 30th, 2000 - 3.52 million
13 months - March 31st, 2001 - 10.61 million
19 months - September 30th, 2001 - 19.58 million
22 months - December 31st, 2001 - 24.99 million
25 months - March 31st, 2002 - 28.68 million
28 months - June 30th, 2002 - 33.27 million
31 months - September 30th, 2002 - 41.56 million
34 months - December 31st, 2002 - 49.59 million
PS3:
1 month - December 31st, 2006 - 1.7 million
4 months - March 31st, 2007 - 3.5 million
7 months - June 30th, 2007 - 4.2 million
10 months - September 30th, 2007 - 5.5 million
13 months - December 31st, 2007 - 10.4 million
16 months - March 31st, 2007 - 12.6 million
19 months - June 30th, 2007 - 14.2 million
22 months - September 30th, 2007 - 16.6 million
25 months - December 31st, 2007 - 21.1 million
28 months - March 31st, 2008 - 22.7 million
31 months - June 30th, 2008 - 23.8 million
34 months - September 30th, 2008 - 27.0 million
PS4:
1 day - November 16th, 2013 - 1 million
2 weeks - December 1st, 2013 - 2.1 million
1 month - December 28th, 2013 - 4.2 million
3 months - February 8th, 2014 - 5.3 million
Hardly. The Xbox One is doing fantastic sales wise and has yet the launch in several key territories.
I do hope you're kidding, especially since both of MS' strongholds have fallen. I mean they still have Brazil, right?
Concerning MS resting on Titanfall, has any one game turned the tide for a company in the history of gaming?
You can have games like Mario 64 and Halo Combat Evolved that have historically high attach rates (or is that tie ratios?). A massive success relative to the install base of the platform. But it takes a lot more than one game to bridge a gap of tens of millions of units that the N64 and Xbox were facing. Xbox One isn't in that situation yet, but Microsoft has really allowed the tide to turn against them. MS in 2013 was a PR disaster on par with Sony in 2006.Concerning MS resting on Titanfall, has any one game turned the tide for a company in the history of gaming?
Or in other words this is what you get when you do the opposite of Nintendo. Good job Sony.THIS is what happens when you treat gamers with respect.
Thank you so much, Sony.
I would think of it as simply as "learn from your mistakes." It couldn't have been more obvious coming out of the PS3 what the correct approach was to getting a system off to a strong start. Launch at a price the market will respond to, release installments to franchises people are familiar with, and save the new IP debuts for when the install base is there.Or in other words this is what you get when you do the opposite of Nintendo. Good job Sony.
Concerning MS resting on Titanfall, has any one game turned the tide for a company in the history of gaming?
Monster Hunter did for psp in JapanConcerning MS resting on Titanfall, has any one game turned the tide for a company in the history of gaming?
I think in April you'll see lots of negative numbers because people are returning their PS4 and buying a Xbone.
Concerning MS resting on Titanfall, has any one game turned the tide for a company in the history of gaming?
Wii sports was the f**king moonWii Sports
That is a crazy amount of consoles per month and people still having problems finding them like me
I do hope you're kidding, especially since both of MS' strongholds have fallen. I mean they still have Brazil, right?
If your in the US amazon has them all the time. If your looking in stores yeah you might have hard time finding depending on location.
If a company is leading the pack, it's leading the pack. There's nothing anti-consumer about selling way more than your competitors; that's a result coming directly from your consumers.
I really wish I could find that Y2Kev post that addresses this 'sales parity is better for the consumers' garbage, because he summed it up perfectly. Basically, it's not the consumers responsibility to prop up a product doing worse than its competitions if the other products are of better value/more desirable to said consumers.
Yeah, but it wold piss me off if the industry as a whole messed up, we have an anti-consumer monopoly (which every monopoly is), or if one of them makes all the right moves but still fails (think Dreamcast) just because of this generation
We don't have a monopoly. There are three consoles on the market. One of them is doing what consumers want which is why it is doing good. Do you want the consoles that consumers don't like as much to do good too? What is happening now, isn't a monopoly. It is customers deciding their best choice at the moment. If this changes and Sony takes a turn for more anti-consumer ways, the consumer will react.
HA, You're the man Y2KevThis is a real shame. Sony doesn't have ANY software appealing to ME. Where is Atelier Uguugu? And how about a big JRPG franchise from Mark Cerny and based Yu Suzuki and Nobuo Uematsu? And why hasn't Guerrila Games, who sucks anyway, unveiled their new IP wrpg shooter hybrid with dating sim elements?
I saw from the Order gifs that the entire game takes place in a hallway and it's just a boring third person shooter, which is a genre nobody likes, so another fail on sony's part.
It's always been a bit hard to say, since most major exclusives come out around holiday season, so you always get that huge jump of sales to begin with.
I think a good example would be MGS4 for PS3, released in June 2008. Huge exclusive game, massive IP, bundled and everything. (numbers taken from NPD)
May 08 (PS3 208k)
June 08 (PS3 406k, MGS4 775k not including bundles)
July 08 (PS3 225k)
August 08 (PS3 185k, 360 takes the lead)
Much has changed since 2008. It'll be interesting to see how much weight an online only, new IP can bring.
Concerning MS resting on Titanfall, has any one game turned the tide for a company in the history of gaming?
I didn't mean it as a conscious strategy. However, funnily enough, learning from your mistakes is also the opposite of Nintendo.I would think of it as simply as "learn from your mistakes." It couldn't have been more obvious coming out of the PS3 what the correct approach was to getting a system off to a strong start. Launch at a price the market will respond to, release installments to franchises people are familiar with, and save the new IP debuts for when the install base is there.
Basically, the polar opposite of how PS3 went early on.
how did gears of war do?
I think a Titanfall bundle in the fall is a certainty now. I wouldn't be shocked to see one come out earlier than that but I doubt Titanfall would be free in that early scenario.