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[AnthonypUK]

It's also possible that the XB1 has a pretty huge lead over PS4 for the month, maybe even so much that they are neck to neck LTD. (which is bunker worthy because the XB1 is 100 $ more and also the "weaker" hardware.)

That just doesn't tally up though, why would there be these continued price drops and deals for the Xbone if the huge demand was there.

They'd need to sell over 300k in the month to be neck and neck, and just not happening.

Now if the Xbone was selling out everywhere i could buy the theory, as it stands with the other evidence and hints from he who should not be named, theres no way its selling 300k more in a month in the US.

And as for your $100 more, thats not true anymore because of said deals.

you can get a new Xbone for $430

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00CMQTVUA/?tag=neogaf0e-20

in the UK retailers are selling it at the same price as a Solus PS4 with Titanfall.

http://www.totalxbox.com/74928/xbox-one-with-titanfall-costs-pound34999-at-asda/

 

[MavFan619]

well that's good sony

now give those money to small / indie japanese teams instead of financing ND / guerrilla / other boring people

I like Japanese game and indies but also have enjoyed ND games and Killzone, in other words Sony don't listen to this guy

 

[Go_Ly_Dow]

You sure? Have a look at the spin in this new CNET article:
http://www.cnet.com/news/sony-playstation-4-passes-7-million-in-worldwide-sales/

Hahaha..comedy gold.

 

[Mooreberg]

What the hell am I reading?

It is a lot like Techchrunch trying to explain why mobile operating system market share doesn't matter because.... reasons.

Only worse there because the "dollar value" of sales doesn't mean much without know what (if any) margins there are on the hardware, and they didn't even point out the correct price retailers were selling the Xbox One for. JOURNALISM!

 

[DemonNite]

Somewhat aligned:

Note that 3.9 Mio Xone is shipped not sold through.

 

[HORRORSHØW]

What the hell am I reading?

my god. did speedybluedud write that?

 

[Donos]

That just doesn't tally up though, why would there be these continued price drops and deals for the Xbone if the huge demand was there.

They'd need to sell over 300k in the month to be neck and neck, and just not happening.

Now if the Xbone was selling out everywhere i could buy the theory, as it stands with the other evidence and hints from he who should not be named, theres no way its selling 300k more in a month in the US.

And as for your $100 more, thats not true anymore because of said deals.

you can get a new Xbone for $430

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00CMQTVUA/?tag=neogaf0e-20

in the UK retailers are selling it at the same price as a Solus PS4 with Titanfall.

http://www.totalxbox.com/74928/xbox-one-with-titanfall-costs-pound34999-at-asda/

I know of the deals, but i was referring to the "normal" price in the US. But then again i already said in an earlier post that the possibility of XB1 selling way more than PS4 this month (100.000 - 300.000) is not totally out of the question because of the insane deals the XB1 had, especially the Titanfall Bundle.
Sorry if i'm not clear with what i write. Still struggling with my english.

I also see that XB1 catching up LTD in this month alone is very very unlikely. Like i said, i just added a "fallout" scenario to mrklaws post.

 

[Mung]

These figures are obviously far more important and significant than the sales of a single territory for a single month. MS should easily win NPD in this month with Titanfall launching, bundling, and effective price drops. A Pyrrhic victory if you will.

This here is the big news. An absence of MS numbers is annoying, but we should find out shipped numbers at least soon enough in their financial reports.

 

[Johnny Cage In The Shower]

You sure? Have a look at the spin in this new CNET article:
http://www.cnet.com/news/sony-playstation-4-passes-7-million-in-worldwide-sales/

I love how this article goes into great detail explaining the reason(s) why PS4 might be selling well, I like the mention of good sales on PS4 exclusives like InFamous SS, Killzone SF etc. They also mention the solid number of sales on third party PS4 games compared to the Xbox.

Spoiler

/sarcasm

 

[DieH@rd]

Hope we see Kaz this year at E3

Minimal chances. Howard Stringer never appeared on E3, that's the job of SCE leaders. Expect House, Yoshida and whoever replaced Jack.

 

[Occam]

Hahaha..comedy gold.

Yeah, that's why I posted it. The guy who wrote it is missing the Groucho Marx eyebrows and beard, though.

 

[MogCakes]

my god. did speedybluedud write that?

speedybluedude has cooled off from the console wars from what few posts I've seen him make over the past few months.

 

[Jack cw]

These figures are obviously far more important and significant than the sales of a single territory for a single month. MS should easily win NPD in this month with Titanfall launching, bundling, and effective price drops. A Pyrrhic victory if you will.

This here is the big news. An absence of MS numbers is annoying, but we should find out shipped numbers at least soon enough in their financial reports.

You can bet that Infmaous and MGS GZ did something too for Sony and the PS4. TitanFall had a lot of marketing buzz around it, but PS4 had some great games too at this time, so the margin might not be as big as many think. 7 million PS4s globally against around 4.5 million xbones is rather huge to be honest.

 

[jayu26]

PS4 slim incoming?

 

[erawsd]

I really don't understand the appeal of the PS4 at this moment, the motivations of the buyers, but it was already the case for the very successful PS2, 14 years ago... Congrats Sony, I guess.

I think a lot of the initial rush is based on trust. For nearly 20 years, Sony has delivered an amazing outlet for videogames.

I don't think any of the current games are "must have", but I'm certain those games will come -- in the mean time, I've had a blast with the few exclusives and ports that play, perform, and look better than games I would've bought on the old consoles.

 

[gundamkyoukai]

Later today going to be crazy, will try to watch from the side lines .
Also great to see Sony and console gaming doing well .

 

[Kinan]

Oh, time to update my graph:

 

[Johnny Cage In The Shower]

And as for your $100 more, thats not true anymore because of said deals.

you can get a new Xbone for $430

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00CMQTVUA/?tag=neogaf0e-20

in the UK retailers are selling it at the same price as a Solus PS4 with Titanfall.

http://www.totalxbox.com/74928/xbox-one-with-titanfall-costs-pound34999-at-asda/

I know dude, I learned about all these, great cheap Xbox One offers when I read CNet's "7 Million PS4s Sold " success story article.

 

[quetz67]

Not even a million a month, that does not carry them very far.

They should design a slim already, ramp up the production to 2M/month, get some insane deals on components and announce $299 at E3.

Then the war would be over and we could enjoy one console future.

 

[geordiemp]

These figures are obviously far more important and significant than the sales of a single territory for a single month. MS should easily win NPD in this month with Titanfall launching, bundling, and effective price drops. A Pyrrhic victory if you will.

This here is the big news. An absence of MS numbers is annoying, but we should find out shipped numbers at least soon enough in their financial reports.

Nail on the head. I guess there is allot of interest in NPD as many here are US gamers and it is the largest single market for consoles......

But the rest of the world is more important, I can see Sony being to easily ship 1 million a month for 2014 world wide, many countries unlike USA and UK have not had good Ps4 shipments (anecdotal from GAF posters)...

Microsofts heavy focus on their home market, stuff like NTSC TV / Watercooler / NFL and the like only resonates in 1 market, and is their downfall this generation world wide...

Sony stated 7 million sales world wide is nothing to do with NPD, its telling world that PS4 install base is getting there so you can expect third parties to take serious notice....

 

[madmackem]

Dat cnet article wow, since when has 4.5m and 7m been neck and neck, i thought ps4 was the best selling console last npds?.

 

[bebop242]

Now, this is interesting.

 

[King Beyond the wall]

You sure? Have a look at the spin in this new CNET article:
http://www.cnet.com/news/sony-playstation-4-passes-7-million-in-worldwide-sales/

What the hell did I just read?

 

[AnthonypUK]

I know of the deals, but i was referring to the "normal" price in the US. But then again i already said in an earlier post that the possibility of XB1 selling way more than PS4 this month (100.000 - 300.000) is not totally out of the question because of the insane deals the XB1 had, especially the Titanfall Bundle.
Sorry if i'm not clear with what i write. Still struggling with my english.

I also see that XB1 catching up LTD in this month alone is very very unlikely. Like i said, i just added a "fallout" scenario to mrklaws post.

Your english is just fine!, i just dont think the fall out scenario is even in the realms of possibility because of the other evidence

 

[2345425]

You sure? Have a look at the spin in this new CNET article:
http://www.cnet.com/news/sony-playstation-4-passes-7-million-in-worldwide-sales/

Sony's decision to release sales figures comes at an interesting time for the neck and neck state of next-gen console purchases. The PS4 only barely edged out Microsoft's Xbox One in February, with 258,000 Xbox One units sold that month. That pushed Microsoft ahead of Sony in hardware sales on a dollar basis due to the Xbox One's higher price tag.

And those figures didn't include the critically acclaimed game Titanfall, which was bundled with the Xbox One in the US in March in a startlingly low-cost $499 package that essentially netted buyers a free copy of the title. Microsoft and select regional retailers have both used Titanfall to aggressively push unit sales of the console, especially in markets like the UK.

What this is I don't even...

 

[Yoshichan]

Hmmmm...

 

[Doc Evils]

 

[hohoXD123]

You sure? Have a look at the spin in this new CNET article:
http://www.cnet.com/news/sony-playstation-4-passes-7-million-in-worldwide-sales/

The PS4 only barely edged out Microsoft's Xbox One in February, with 258,000 Xbox One units sold that month. That pushed Microsoft ahead of Sony in hardware sales on a dollar basis due to the Xbox One's higher price tag

Holy...did they just outspin microsoft?!

 

[anonymous_abc]

What the hell did I just read?

Don't go to the comments, they are even worse.

 

[Sapphire Dreams]

Oh, time to update my graph:

Wait, wernt the PS4 and Xbox One released in the same month?

 

[Into]

You sure? Have a look at the spin in this new CNET article:
http://www.cnet.com/news/sony-playstation-4-passes-7-million-in-worldwide-sales/

Article consists of 531 words

310 of them are spent talking about Xbox One, a product that is unrelated to the story.

Now wanting to put the PS4 sales into perspective is okay, but you typically end a news story with that "in relation, PS4 is at bla bla compared to competitor Microsoft and their Xbox One which is at." but devoting more than half of your article to some other product is pretty strange.

 

[RubenCordeiro]

I guess the prospect of new hardware excites consumers, since the software doesn't justify the sales for either PS4 or XBONE.

 

[DieH@rd]

PS4 slim incoming?

PS4 slim will come after Hynix/Samsung/Micron/etc start producing 1GB GDDR5 chips. So, not this year.

Wait, wernt the PS4 and Xbox One released in the same month?

Dots represent official sales reports, which can cover various dates.

 

[2345425]

Meanwhile, at CNET:

 

[HORRORSHØW]

I guess the prospect of new hardware excites consumers, since the software doesn't justify the sales for either PS4 or XBONE.

you're latest to chime in with this, and even though it gets tiresome to reiterate the obvious, there are games that people like to play on both systems. get that through your skull, please.

 

[Sidewinder]

you're latest to chime in with this, and even though it gets tiresome to reiterate the obvious, there are games that people like to play on both systems. get that through your skull, please.

Nextgen haz no gamez ;(

Well done Sony, I hope they will keep up the momentum for a long time!

 

[Visualante2]

Lot of people congratulating sony, saying how much they deserve it. But a good deal of it is just posturing. I'd go as far as to say they dont deserve such sales when you consider the release slate and that DriveClub is still MIA. Dont over think this with "salty" replies. Just think Sony is riding on a wave of mediocre competition to some extent.

 

[Into]

Lot of people congratulating sony, saying how much they deserve it. But a good deal of it is just posturing. I'd go as far as to say they dont deserve such sales when you consider the release slate and that DriveClub is still MIA. Dont over think this with "salty" replies. Just think Sony is riding on a wave of mediocre competition to some extent.

I dont disagree with you, i would go as far as saying that competition is abysmal. Nintendo is in crisis mode and their home console is Dreamcast 2.0 in almost every way imaginable. MS spent 2013 with a AK47, unloading rounds right at their feet every single chance they got.

Do not think the PS4 is (yet) a special console, the library is naturally not there yet. Its well made, powerful and has the right focus. When its all said and done, i am sure the PS4 will end up deserving its success.

 

[Majmun]

Lot of people congratulating sony, saying how much they deserve it. But a good deal of it is just posturing. I'd go as far as to say they dont deserve such sales when you consider the release slate and that DriveClub is still MIA. Dont over think this with "salty" replies. Just think Sony is riding on a wave of mediocre competition to some extent.

Maybe true when you look only at the exclusives.

But other than that, there are more than enough games available on the Ps4.

 

[Kaako]

I look forward to when the rest of the heavy hitters and talented indies go all out and release some crazy shit on PS4. Taste at E3? Confirm or deny.

 

[beercr8te]

BOOM!

Nice numbers for Sony, congrats.

 

[Prototype Viktor]

It is selling more like 1 million each 30-40 days... E3 is close to 60 days from now... so I guess close to 8.5m than 7.9m.

was factoring over the entire time it's been on sale so it's flawed due to top heavy sales (was going on the assumption of 17k a day and not the 22-28k that Swift came up with)

 

[StrongArmSteady]

He's saying hide yo kids, hide yo wife because tomorrow is going to be a nuclear fallout with the bombs dropped in the NPD thread.

Apparently the last time he used it was right before the CoD resolutiongate occurred.

oh ok, bombs will be dropped.

I just made a gif if that does happen (heh it was only a matter of time before someone did a PS4 itprintsmoney.gif).

First time I've ever made a gif from scratch. Gotta get those skills.

:lol rockslowclap.gif

 

[SmokyDave]

You sure? Have a look at the spin in this new CNET article:
http://www.cnet.com/news/sony-playstation-4-passes-7-million-in-worldwide-sales/

Blimey, that's fairly transparent.

And those figures didn't include the critically acclaimed game Titanfall, which was bundled with the Xbox One in the US in March in a startlingly low-cost $499 package that essentially netted buyers a free copy of the title.

Ultimately, how all this cost-cutting affects March sales of the Xbox One -- and whether that means Microsoft will once again outsell Sony in the console market -- will be illuminated by tomorrow's March NPD Group report.

I liked the bit where 'Outsell Sony' was a hyperlink to an article that said nothing of the sort.

 

[Gregorn]

I don't understand how it can be so popular, do that many people really want to play Killzone and Infamous?

 

[geordiemp]

Lot of people congratulating sony, saying how much they deserve it. But a good deal of it is just posturing. I'd go as far as to say they dont deserve such sales when you consider the release slate and that DriveClub is still MIA. Dont over think this with "salty" replies. Just think Sony is riding on a wave of mediocre competition to some extent.

That's a weird way of looking at things - Ps4 console is winning because competition is mediocre...

Is that just a pessimistic way of saying the Ps4 is the better console...

 

[hohoXD123]

I don't understand how it can be so popular, do that many people really want to play Killzone and Infamous?

Of course not, don't be silly. They want dat Knack awesomeness.

 

[Prototype Viktor]

I don't understand how it can be so popular, do that many people really want to play Killzone and Infamous?

dem Voxel's from Resogun

 

[Vashetti]

I don't understand how it can be so popular, do that many people really want to play Killzone and Infamous?

• It's the most powerful current-gen console
• Cheapest between PS4 and XB1 (because your average consumer and dev thinks "lol Wii U")
• Getting the best-version of multi-platform games on consoles (AssCreed, CollarDuty, BF, etc.)
• Promise of future games
• General goodwill from latter PS3 years

I don't understand how people are getting confused over it's success. It's very obvious.

 

[ShogunDarius]

• It's the most powerful current-gen console
• Cheapest between PS4 and XB1 (because your average consumer and dev thinks "lol Wii U")
• Getting the best-version of multi-platform games on consoles (AssCreed, CollarDuty, BF, etc.)
• Promise of future games
• General goodwill from latter PS3 years

I don't understand how people are getting confused over it's success. It's very obvious.

you missed potential Japanese support too.