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PlayStation 4 Sales Surpass 7.0 Million Units (April 6th), 20.5M Software (April 13)
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It will have a sales bump no doubt, but not to the extent it needs to sell YOY. Nintendo is making people scratch their heads with these decisions.
Jesus christ, I know right?
#TheKartWon'tChart
He misspelled Kart. I fixed it for you. Carry on.
Amazon I checked because its tge only chart indication we have. But as I posted earlier the price is nationwide. Xbox is largely similar to the ps4 price.
cheapest I saw was 330 at gamestop, ps4 no games, 365 with ea game and 370 with infamous.
Xbox with titanfall was 345 and with both titanfall and ghosts 370.
In such a price conscious market and so xbox friendly in the past, price parity or better, wouldn't surprise me if the xbox is clawing back nationwide. Which is why if so sony should react imo.
Cornbread78
Member
If they "won" March as anticipated, I'm sure you will see some more detailed numbers. I have thought that them beign ahead in March was s forgone conclusion for everyone, well that was before Bish posted that bunker pic.... I just hope I get enough service on my phoen to follow the NPD thread tonight from my other job.
They could do it... with good summer titles and little more excitement with fall titles [not only more 3rd parties, but something more than Driveclub/Order from 1st parties].
As of right now, I am targeting 12-14 mil.
Kabuki Quantum Lover
Member
My gut is telling me Microsoft won March handily. That said, I've seen XB1 units in good supply everywhere and PS4s are still in drought mode (saw my first PS4 in the wild a week ago; just one unit).
KoopaTheCasual
Junior Member
Is an attach rate of almost 3.0 not good? I figured it was pretty great for a console that just got out there.
ultratruman
Banned
How about a GTA V bundle like they had for the PS3?
Karsticles
Member
Well, it has went up significantly in the last month, so that is good.
I think folks also need to contextualize that 3.0 under the existence of Playstation Plus and some of the FTP offerings the PS4 has. You can be enjoying yourself a lot with this system right now without buying a lot of titles. I still haven't bought any!
MK8 is coming in a month though. If this doesn't help I agree they are done.
I've seen some PS4's sitting along side an equal number of Xbox Ones just north of Toronto at some local Bestbuys.
Usually only a handful of each.
1st Course
Member
I'm sure Destiny will sell more PS4s than whatever Sony is cooking. The hype for that game is huge, I'm expecting GTA/COD numbers from it.
That is fucking crazy.
Bundles for the fall season will be interesting to see for both consoles. If we ignore 1st party games, there is a lot of 3rd party titles that are ripe for bundling:
- GTA5
- AC Unity
- Batman
- Nextgen COD [this time with fish AI 2.0]
- Destiny [PS4 bundle for sure]
- NBA 2K15
FalsettoVibe
Member
PS4 #5 in Amazon best sellers...
http://www.amazon.com/best-sellers-video-games/zgbs/videogames/ref=sv_vg_12
http://www.amazon.com/best-sellers-video-games/zgbs/videogames/ref=sv_vg_12
Amazing how fast and consistently these things are selling. Applause all around to Sony.
Its been there for about a month straight now.
Its been there for about a month straight now.
gamechanger87
Member
I think the sales of Destiny will be seriously underwhelming compared to what Activision is hoping for. I'm really struggling to get excited about the game. It feels like a Halo game without this history/lore that someone expanded into a pseduo-MMO. The videos I've watched just don't get me excited or show me anything "fun" about the gameplay. Am I missing something?
On a side note, I think the release of 7M yesterday was a jab to take the sting off of the loss today. Otherwise they would just wait and release as part of their NPD response. That's the only reason I can think of, its not like they finished counting and immediately published.
Which thread was the bunker pic in?
Earlier in this one.
Anything less would be a big disappointment for Activison IMO.
Destiny is a tricky game to try to divine its sales [online-only, multiplatform, crossgen, first big game after summer]... But no matter what, it wont hit GTA/COD numbers. I can barely see it surpassing Black Flag numbers [10mil].
Not really becasue both are late 2015 games at the earliest. Supply should be a lot better then.
ultratruman
Banned
Funny how you never really see sports games bundled. I guess it makes sense since so many people buy a console just to play the latest madden or fifa, you're basically upselling them an extra game they wouldn't buy otherwise.
Dark Souls 2 HD bundle would be cool.
The PS4's price was raised because of the weakening Canadian dollar in comparison to the US dollar.
Anything less than around 25-33 million can be ridiculous huge successes. It's completely insane to say if you're not the best selling game ever on your debut title in a new franchise you're a disappointment.
The great thing about that list is, other than COD, all those games will be advertised as ps4 games.
OnionPowder
Member
Absolutely insane sales.
Cornbread78
Member
Ya know, it is funny though. I work retail PT and I was looking at the sales of each unit over the past 5 weeks the other night. (1 PS4 sku and the XB1 & Titanfall bundle sku combined) Even though we have only gotten 2 shipments of PS4s in those 5 weeks and have had a constent stock of both XB1s sku's, we sold more than 2:1 PS4>XB1. Personally, I was really surprised to see that number seeing as our store mods/displays, as well as, with the way our distributer/buyers orders our games are very much geared to favor MS . I mean, we basically do not get any Sony games to sell outside of the big main titles (Madden/Fifa/CoD/BF4, etc.) We didn't even get a shipment of TR until 2-3 weeks after it was already released, we have not gotten any copies of Knack since we sold out at launch, (only got 1 copy of FF10HD on PS3 a week after launch) even though there has been interest in the title... Yet, we have multiple copies of every MS game released to date we have only sold 4 copies of Plants vs. Zombies on XB1 and 1 copy of Kinect Sports.. That is also surprising... This is only 1 store however, I do not have access to district/regional sales data as some others around do, so call it anecdotle....
Batman and Assassins Creed are this year? Well, damn. Getting ridiculous how fast some franchises put sequels out. Well, as long as people still buy them it's good for them.
Well, thats why some companies use another dev teams to get the latest last gen versions out. Rocksteady for example are working on the new Batman title for 3 years, after they finished Arkham City. Origins was developed by another team.
Arkham Knight was done by original Rocksteady team, so that got 3 year of development time [Origins was made by brand new team, that was their first big game].
As for Assassins Creed, Ubi has rotating teams, each of their games gets 2-3 years of production time.
Don't forget, last year every COD:Ghosts console video was played from PS4 console.
That will be the norm for almost everyone from now on, PS4 is console of choice for public showcase and for media reviews.ultratruman
Banned
The retailers/distributors favouring MS is very real in the UK too. Hard to tell if it's hold-over attitudes because the 360 was so dominant, higher margins on the Xbone or favourable treatment from MS in general.
KoopaTheCasual
Junior Member
So... upward of 25 million units, for a brand new IP with no pre-existing fanbase?? Gurl, please.
KernelPanic
Member
Need Harper to raise the value of the CDN dollar first.
To hit 15m they will have to continue to seel 1mil a month right upto holiday season in Late December.
If they are limited to how many they can produce currently won't they be holding some back the latter half of the year for the Holiday sales?
Meaning they may take a hit say from Sep to Nov (say 250K held back each month) but then have a huge blowout over xams to sell 2mil to reach the 15Mil by year end.
If Destiny in September drives a lot of sales could this then impact the amount they have ready for Holiday period, also there will be another COD, BF etc.which could also drive a lot of sales.
If I was a parent intending on getting one for Xmas this year I would probably buy early and hide it away, come December I think the hype train will return and the console will be very hard to come by yet again.
If they are limited to how many they can produce currently won't they be holding some back the latter half of the year for the Holiday sales?
Meaning they may take a hit say from Sep to Nov (say 250K held back each month) but then have a huge blowout over xams to sell 2mil to reach the 15Mil by year end.
If Destiny in September drives a lot of sales could this then impact the amount they have ready for Holiday period, also there will be another COD, BF etc.which could also drive a lot of sales.
If I was a parent intending on getting one for Xmas this year I would probably buy early and hide it away, come December I think the hype train will return and the console will be very hard to come by yet again.
That sucks for Canadians. Sony didn't mess with prices when the US dollar dropped to be only worth 75 yen instead of 100 yen. And that shit lasted for 2 years. During the exact 2 years I lived in Japan being paid in US dollars.
Crimson_Gold
Member
Impressive. Most impressive. Sony is really off and running this generation. I look forward to seeing what the 1st and 2nd parties do this gen. Please, please, and please release a jrpg for the PS4 Sony. I've already bought 2 PS4s. I'll buy a 3rd if you do.
Alas, the age old problem of the value of a currency dropping and a company not wanting to take a bath on it. Sony should use some of the money it made from selling buildings and shuttering studios to subsidize the Canadian price.
Alas, the age old problem of the value of a currency dropping and a company not wanting to take a bath on it. Sony should use some of the money it made from selling buildings and shuttering studios to subsidize the Canadian price.
I'm kidding
I knew that with Batman and that Ubi had different teams for AS and i don't doubt the quality of the games but i had it in my mind that these two were early 2015 titles. AC can get away with it more since every game has a different setting but for Batman it's not going to be easy to bring fresh new things to the fantastic Batman games. That reminds me that i still have to try Origins (finished A-Asylum and A-City)
ultratruman
Banned
Next-gen numbers are great, but are they growing fast than last-gen is collapsing?
1st Course
Member
Tell that to Kotick
http://www.mcvuk.com/news/read/kotick-destiny-will-be-best-selling-new-ip-in-history/0127852
Activision will do everything they can to turn this into a billion dollar franchise. Sony has been heavily promoting it in their at their conferences. Destiny had longer stage demo than any game at Sony conference last E3.
DryvBy
Member
To be fair I did only mention 'UK' 3 times in my opening post, my mistake
I only saw this:
I didn't jump too far back, or I missed it.
RealityPales
Member
It's money. Microsoft pays for in-store displays I would imagine. Unless they're really trying to get rid of all that XBO stock.
zomgbbqftw
Banned
Because Sony do better out of strong yen than weak yen in the US. They had no incentive to raise the US price since it had a marginal effect on their proftiability. It was the other currencies that killed them, and you can see that in pricing even now where European and Asian prices are buffered against a sudden strengthening of the yen in case of an external shock or natural disaster.That sucks for Canadians. Sony didn't mess with prices when the US dollar dropped to be only worth 75 yen instead of 100 yen. And that shit lasted for 2 years. During the exact 2 years I lived in Japan being paid in US dollars.
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