Sony consoles have always benefited big from 3rd parties, 1st party is just icing on the cake.
PlayStation 4 Sales Surpass 7.0 Million Units (April 6th), 20.5M Software (April 13)
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Sony consoles have always benefited big from 3rd parties, 1st party is just icing on the cake.
well, in reality, $199 is where it is at... so if they drop down to $199 by E3, then they are winning war for realz.
Ranger Taffles
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Impressive figures. This is going to be an insane first year for Sony.
Oh, time to update my graph:
I am using this graph to help my little brother understand what a slope is.
Not merely how to calculate it, but what it means (beyond how it looks). This is good stuff.
If you seriously think that "exclusives" are still the reason why people buy those systems, then you clearly missed the last two decades in gaming. The biggest guns and most sold games are multiplats. People want to play their FIFA, GTA, AC, CoD, BF etc. Exclusives help here but multiplats are driving the sales as well as word of mouth, especially since social networks spread the word like fire.
Ever heard of FIFA, Call of Duty, Battlefield and Assassins Creed?
Dude, it's startlingly cheap. The author saw the price and looked like a rabbit trapped in headlights. He sat bolt upright and exclaimed 'oh my!' as his coffee cup tumbled to the floor.
Evidently so, yes. Amongst all the other titles.
Because out there in the not Internet world gamers are mostly buying multiplat games , of which the PS4 has and will always have the best console version.
Exclusives are great for list wars but they're not the be all and end all.
JordanN
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Can't wait for when PS4 really goes super saiyan.
Bring on e3 first and third party support.
Man-is-Obsolete
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Which is why May will interesting. Watch Dogs is supposed to be bundled with the PS4, and that title has a lot of mind share. Add to that MLB the Show comes to PS4 early that month as well, and there is a couple more reasons to buy a PS4. As an added bonus for owners Transistor comes out May 20th and might be the best game of the month.
It has the best console versions of the worlds most popular games - what's surprising about this? Assassins Creed, Call of Duty, FIFA are literally some of the worlds biggest selling games?
Really not sure why people think only exclusives matter, but as a consumer they are often an added bonus rather than the main deal. As it happens Sony's exclusives are far more to my taste than the Xbones, but that wasn't the primary motivator for my purchase.
jedmaxwell
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I think Watch_Dogs is going to sell most of its copies on PS4.
Today's the day! And what a wonderful start to the day!
I wake up knowing it's NPD nuttiness. I know today is pay day. And THEN, when I looked in my bank account, I got like 70 extra bucks for some class action settlement on my bank over overdraft fees. I didn't even know there was a case!
Today is going to be a good day!
I wake up knowing it's NPD nuttiness. I know today is pay day. And THEN, when I looked in my bank account, I got like 70 extra bucks for some class action settlement on my bank over overdraft fees. I didn't even know there was a case!
Today is going to be a good day!
googleplex
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I can't see that happening, would be mindblowing to me. inFamous sold 1 million WW recently, so say WW attach-ratio of 1:7, 2.5 million PS4:s in the US, about 350k infamous copies in the US. if attach-ratio of Titanfall in the US is same/close to what it was in the UK (1:4), it would make it about 550k sold in the US. And I got the impression it was a pretty big systemseller for the hardcore.
that'd just be crazy. Would also be surprised if PS4 outsold X1 in the NPD as well. I always got he feeling titanfall would "balance" the numbers.
Double rainbow!
AnthonypUK
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And it has the most games, it has a wider variety then its competitor, it has "free" games given away each month, it has, more F2P games, more MMO's, more Indies along side what you said.
i wish people would stop trying to push the narrative that the PS4 doesn't have any games,or they only have killzone and infamous.
For £349/$399 it offers everything you need as a console player outside of titanfall, and thats why its selling.
But they're all available on last gen consoles, I can't imagine that audience would be interested in investing all that money just to play the same game but in a slightly higher resolution and framerate.
I can understand the possibility of the PS4 becoming the best selling console gradually over time, but not the huge spike in sales at the start of it's life. What's causing the rush?
You act as if BF4,COD,AC,Madden,NBA2k,etc next gen style has no significant meaning to gamers thad have been playing games on a system 8 years long. ...seriously dude...wheres the logic in your thinking here, NO offense because we all have them brain farts but man come ON..there are two choices and one cost 100 dollars less and is quite a bit more powerful.
Yes i see why PS4 has sold 7 million so quickly...fast selling console to date, correct me if i am wrong. Peeps were tired and worn of these old last gen consoles..even my nephew kept asking me when the next xbox and playstation will come out and he's only 14 at the time when he asked me this.
Nah of course not, the 3 million sales were just from people who were watching playroom porn streaming and bought the games, not to play, but to keep Sony in business so that they wouldnt lose their playroom porn.
Everyone who's not an idiot knows that playroom streams is the PS4's only good exclusive.
cm osi
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eh... i think it's barely gonna reach the Move
Lagspike_exe
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PS4 seems to be really clicking well with consumers, even with a limited software offering. I think that sales will really ignite when the big Sony software hits (GT, Uncharted) along with other multiplatform games.
The last generation went on for far too long. People were super eager to upgrade.
Regardless of whether you can get those games for last-gen, the majority now want to buy those games for their new and shiny platform in a better quality.
JimmyRustler
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Yeah, this. It's very clear that people in general were becoming sick of the old consoles. I did expect that cross gen games go really well on the new consoles but didn't expect that new gen sales will already surpass the old gen sales.
test_account
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I think it would be an amazing success if the PS4 VR headset sells close to what Move sold. Didnt Move sell something like around 20 million controllers?
You'd be surprised. My roommate and little brother (two very different age groups but the same type of gamer) only play FIFA and Assassin's Creed and they're dying for us to get a PS4. Why? Because graphics and TV ads. He doesn't even know what Infamous is, and couldn't give less of a shit about indies. That is the true mainstream, as can be confirmed by just about any sales chart. It's all about the multi plats. FIFA sells more than The Last of Us. Call of Duty's shittiest, most repetitive game (think Black Ops VIII) would still sell several times more than The Last Guardian if it were ever released.
This comes as a shock to people who visit this site, but the idea of having these massively popular games in higher quality is what appeals to buyers outside these woods. This, however, can push them towards either console. The not-so-slight pivot towards Sony is due, in my opinion, primarily to price, and subsequently to word-of-mouth concerning its superior hardware.
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How does it have a limited software offering?
Sorry for repeating myself, but it has the best console versions of the worlds biggest selling games. How is this limited?
You can pick one up now and have hundreds of hours of gameplay ahead of you with what's released already, across a whole range of genres. From the way people talk it's as if it comes with a lock that only lets you play Infamous...
Nailed it.
I would add the list of Indies is growing and growing.
Edit - as for the limited software offering, I think people forget what previous launch software offerings were like. They were pretty dreadful. The PS4 has plenty of games considering the point it's at in its lifecycle.
Don't know about others but I sure am bored playing on the same console with the same graphic level for the last 7 or so years.
Oh, time to update my graph:
Can we draw conclusions from the fact MS is so hesitant to release X1 sales data?
anonymous_abc
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We constantly are, same goes for Titanfall.
SmokedMeat
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They just want to play the best console versions of their multiplatform favorites on the more powerful hardware for $100 less, with no forced camera in the box. From the brand consumers have trusted for generations to deliver the goods.
What's so hard to understand?
I'd say Microsoft also has built a great brand in the Xbox, but they've really shot themselves in the foot once too often going into this generation, and it's hurting them.
AnthonypUK
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Of course, Microsoft has never been hesitant to crow about numbers, they're aren't because they know it can't stack up to the PS4.
Expect more Xbox family* PR tonight, and more Shipped numbers come the quarterly calls
Go_Ly_Dow
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I love how this has become the norm saying on here when a company has made bad decisions haha
Shinier versions of favourite franchises, plus the relatively high price of PS360 mean the differential to next gen is pretty low
Thornton Reed
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these are mind boggling numbers, I'm i also right in thinking their goal was 8 by the end of the year? Looks like they're going to smash that
digoutyoursoul
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5m by March was their target
Most probably, as I wrote in another thread I don't expect Xbone to reach WiiU numbers this year WORLDWIDE. The US is a different thing though.
Thornton Reed
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are we thinking that 10+ is a real possibility by the end of the year?
Impeccable
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Easily.
Both price points open huge groups of buyers
7DollarHagane
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what's next? "most console bundles including titanfall sold in march?"
"most consoles that have HDMI in sold in march"
"Most consoles sold by volume/weight in march"
"most consoles that have HDMI in sold in march"
"Most consoles sold by volume/weight in march"
How could it not?
10M in more than a year??? Where do you want the PS4 to be in 6 years? 50M???
Anything below 15M would be a desaster.
GameAddict411
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I wonder if the PS4 will break the 15 mil by the end of the year.
illmatic22
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SmokedMeat
Gamer™
It's close already isn't it? X1 has to be selling more briskly than the Wii U which is limping along. I'm going to guess they'll pass the U in the fall.
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