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Having high hopes on its Playstation 4 (PS4) game console, Sony internally expects the machine's annual shipments to reach 16 million units in 2013 with the supply chain expected to start mass shipments in August, according to sources from PS4 component makers. For more info, read the website

http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20130304PD221.html

Boy, are they gonna push.

 

[The_Monk]

I'll take one, please!

 

[burnfout]

For Sony's sake I hope they launch in Europe this year.

If BF4 and the new COD are only available on the new Xbox in 2013, a lot of people I know will be locked in to that console for the whole gen.

 

[ionicbluebird]

For Sony's sake I hope they launch in Europe this year.

If BF4 and the new COD are only available on the new Xbox in 2013, a lot of people I know will be locked in to that console for the whole gen.

Not to mention GTA V; which has the highest likelihood of being exclusive.

 

[Brinbe]

Highly doubt it'll be anything insane like that, but I'm hopeful for a healthy supply. The easier to obtain at launch, the better.

 

[DSN2K]

would have to be worldwide to push that number in 2013 alone...

 

[Maxrunner]

600€ ? good luck with that...

 

[hadareud]

Clearly someone has misunderstood something. Looking at the shipment numbers for the PS3, it would take them a good 2 years to sell 16 million consoles.

 

[HocusPocus]

They really are betting their life away on this console.

 

[UrbanRats]

They said they won't launch at 599.
They won't be this dumb.

 

[Beermeister]

Good luck.

 

[SneakyStephan]

1 : The greed is so thick in the air you can smell it.
2 : Scalpers : remember to cut along the river
3 : gaf latching on to 599 number to have something to shit on.

 

[Triple U]

600€ ? good luck with that...

uh...

 

[LukasTaves]

14 millions as in by the end of September?

Insane target if true

 

[max-pain]

DigiTimes bullshit as usual.

 

[iLLmaticV3]

This can honestly be Sony's best console launch ever, if the price is right and they have a great launch library.

 

[Uncle Rupee]

Still think it's a typo.
1.6 million would be a reasonable, if still somewhat ambitious, goal.

This can honestly be Sony's best console launch ever, if the price is right and they have a great launch library.

The PS2 was their best chance coming off the enormous worldwide success of the PS1.

 

[Socky]

15.6 million worldwide (shipped) for PS3 + PS2.

But obviously demand for the PS3 is waning.

Cheers.

I'm guessing it's ~10m PS3s and ~6m PS4s.

Maybe. Nintendo are (now) expecting to sell 4M WiiUs in a similar time-frame and that's being considered a failure sales-wise, so surely Sony are targeting around that (for a more expensive console) by end of March 2014. 6M by March seems a little high though.

I'm beginning to get more hopeful about a worldwide release - I'd forgotten they had one planned with the PS3 and then had to call it off. After that, there's no way they're going to call another one until they are sure they can do it. That doesn't explain why Vita didn't have one, although it didn't have direct competition at launch so that may be why they didn't feel the same pressure then as they surely will this year against Xbox3.

the comments are coming from component manufacturers, so are more likely to be specific to PS4.

they might simply be reporting that the supply chain has been told to ramp up to annualised 16m units by the end of fiscal 2013 - so basically preparing for 16m units per year for 2H14 onwards. That seems more reasonable and actually has no bearing on launch volumes at all, so I'll go back to being pessimistic on a Euro launch this year :/

That sounds reasonable.

 

[Radec]

600€ ? good luck with that...

Never gets old.

 

[Triple U]

Still think it's a typo.
1.6 million would be a reasonable, if still somewhat ambitious, goal.



The PS2 was their best chance coming off the enormous worldwide success of the PS1.

1.6 would be terrible. There's obviously a misunderstanding somewhere though.

 

[blade85]

16 aint happening man....

6 would be doable..

 

[omonimo]

Ok sony now I don't want to hear more excuse for 2013 ps4 launch in pal land... if it's just for usa+jap you will be damned.

 

[Alchemist]

Whatever it takes to get this out in the UK by the end of the year.

 

[sublimit]

That's just crazy,even for $350.

 

[Xater]

I just hope this means they are pushing for a world wide launch. I don't want to wait.

 

[davious88]

Try and ship 16 million PS3s first. Baby steps.

FY2008?

 

[Kun Aguero]

It's got to be 16m units shipped in the first 12 months of production?

Mass shipments starting in August, would give them roughly 4m units by November, and over 5m in December, enough for a WW launch?

 

[Gacha-pin]

The company is just trying to evaluate the cost of manufacturing PS4 by requesting a quotation like if we order components with that amount in a year, how much will it be? They can also tell if the factories of those manufacturers are capable of providing those amount of units by this action...

 

[Jowy]

That sounds risky...Well at least it means they are confident the console will sell well.

 

[NemesisPrime]

They said they won't launch at 599.
They won't be this dumb.

Well they seem to be dumb enough to expect 16M shipments.

 

[Celestial]

Sony shouldn't even think about 599.

16Million for 2013 ONLY seem higly unlikely.It is either a false report or Sony is extreme optimistic about everything like games,launch,price,post-launch games etc.

 

[UrbanRats]

Well they seem to be dumb enough to expect 16M shipments.

Lol, well but they specifically spoke about the 599 thing.

 

[Triple U]

Well they seem to be dumb enough to expect 16M shipments.

context, how does it work?

 

[Midas]

Well they seem to be dumb enough to expect 16M shipments.

They don't.

 

[Kafel]

so they plan to ship that number of consoles before April 2014 ?

 

[snowdog1971]

There's absolutely no chance in hell of that being possible. The CPU and GPU will be on a 32nm or 28nm process and the GDDR5 will be 4Gbit chips, which is a new process. There's going to be an absolute shitload of wasted silicon. Not going to happen.

 

[Vazra]

The Ps4 has to give BJs in order to sell that much in 2013.

 

[Respawn]

This is madness.

This Is Sonyyyyy!

 

[Miles X]

Not happening, they've never even managed to top 14.5m in any FY for PS3.

 

[Neo C.]

They haven't finalized the case, and console production isn't trivial. I would be surprised if anyone can make 2 million consoles a month at the start of a new console.

 

[abstract alien]

There has to be more to this system that we don't know for this to even be a legitimate number. It's gotta be something more than just hope or confidence.

 

[slaughterking]

There has to be more to this system that we don't know for this to even be a legitimate number. It's gotta be something more than just hope or confidence.

It's free.

 

[Violater]

Yet everyone is acting as if this is an official statement from Sony.

 

[AOC83]

There has to be more to this system that we don't know for this to even be a legitimate number. It's gotta be something more than just hope or confidence.

599

Spoiler

cent

 

[MDX]

There is basically zero chance that the PS4 comes even close to the abysmal WiiU sales.

So it will do much worse?

 

[Cornbread78]

sweet, no shortages at launch for EVERY major market; 10 mil would be more than enough though

 

[Violater]

Do shipments = sales?

 

[AOC83]

So it will do much worse?

I´m predicting 570 units for the January 2014 NPD numbers.

 

[Mihos]

I will be attempting to buy 2 this year. I just hope there is not some crazy shortage.

 

[Unknown Soldier]

Manufacturing 16 million PS4s starting in August for a targeted launch date only a few months later? How is this even a believable rumor?