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Aaron Lee, Taipei; Joseph Tsai, DIGITIMES [Monday 6 May 2013]

Sony's PlayStation (PS) 4 may have trouble achieving shipments of 12-16 million units in 2013 as expected, as the related upstream supply chain has not yet received any shipment instructions from the Japan-based vendor, implying a possible delay in the game console's mass shipment schedule, according to sources from the upstream supply chain.

Sony originally told its upstream suppliers that it will start shipping its new PS4 game consoles in June with mass shipments scheduled in August, and shipment volumes would have a chance to reach 20 million units in 2013.

Because of handheld devices such as tablets, games consoles, which used to be the mainstream of the gaming market, have seen shrinking demand over the past few years with overall sales dropping 40% from the peak of 55 million units in 2008 to only 34 million units in 2012.

I know nothing about Digitimes. so grain of salt.
http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20130506PD202.html
http://www.nowgamer.com/news/1915923/ps4_sony_may_not_meet_expected_shipments_in_2013.html

 

[Nibel]

Europe will not forget, Sony

Don't do this to us

 

[Fivefold]

Does anyone actually expect Sony to ship 12-16 million units in 2013?

It's gonna be a supply-constrained launch. 720 likewise.

 

[CrunchinJelly]

I know nothing about Digitimes. so grain of salt.
http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20130506PD202.html

DigiTimes is widely regarded as a joke of a website.

 

[R3TRO]

12-16 Million units in 2013? In what world lol

 

[Omikaru]

Delayed in Europe confirmed.

I'd be sad, but after the P4 Arena fiasco I'm getting a US console. Import ahoy!

Edit: Oh wait, silly shipment figures. Yeeeah, not trusting this. <_<

 

[Starphoenix]

Money's tight these days. Another $500 system is even worse now than before.

 

[Nirolak]

12-16 Million units in 2013? In what world lol

Well clearly Sony was hoping to notably outsell the Xbox 360's first year in two months.

 

[metalslimer]

Utterly ridiculous. Sony would jump to the moon if they could produce and ship half that by the end of their fiscal year.

 

[Ricky_R]

How many will come to PR ?

 

[electroplankton]

Those units seem to much for what, 4 months?

 

[Zoramon089]

Hope they weren't expecting to sell anywhere near that many in 2013...maybe through the end of 2014...

 

[Skiesofwonder]

12 million in 2013? Any of these consoles would be lucky to sell 4 million worldwide in 2013.

 

[Sylver]

those news are preparing people to finally delay European launch.

 

[Hana-Bi]

How many consoles did Sony and MS sold in their first year this gen? 12-16 million consoles are way too much for just 2-3 months this year after the PS4 launch.

 

[SMT]

Digit website is satire.
If anything, it will be like the wii situation during the holidays.

 

[Izick]

I have my doubts of the source, not to mention the article is kind of vague in what the exact ramifications of this will be. Delayed launch in general? Large shortage? I mean I expect there to be a shortage. There's been a shortage of almost every console within months of launch in my surrounding area as long as I can remember, except for the Wii U.

 

[Iacobellis]

This keeps looking more and more like the PS2.

 

[Kazuma Kiryu]

Europe will not forget, Sony

Don't do this to us

we're gonna get screwed again.

 

[Loris146]

This news make no sense.

 

[Nirolak]

Those units seem to much for what, 4 months?

Hope they weren't expecting to sell anywhere near that many in 2013...maybe through the end of 2014...

It would be like trying to sell as much as the iPad in peak season, if not more given that this won't be out the entire quarter most likely.

 

[China Dont Care]

QUICK Get in a circle and start jerking.

 

[The_Monk]

Well, guess I'll get my PS4 on March 2014.

 

[AgentP]

Does anyone actually expect Sony to ship 12-16 million units in 2013?

It's gonna be a supply-constrained launch. 720 likewise.

If they get 4 million out by the end of Nov they will be fine. 12-16 is none sense.

 

[benny_a]

That number (12-16M) is even unreasonable if you talk about Fiscal Year 2013.

 

[metalslimer]

This keeps looking more and more like the PS2.

The PS2 didn't come close to pulling these numbers. Nothing except iDevices could pull these kind of numbers and even then supply constraints would stop it.

 

[onQ123]

June?

 

[Guevara]

Is "2013" some funky fiscal year nonsense or were expectations really 6 million+ per month in Nov and December?

 

[dragonelite]

Ooh lawd hold me bad ps4 news.

June?

Shipping to warehouses i guess.

 

[THE:MILKMAN]

Yeah, not believing this. 34 million consoles (Wii, Wii U, PS3, 360) in 2012, but upto 20 million for PS4 between June/August and December?

I'll just say no.

 

[8bits]

Does anyone actually expect Sony to ship 12-16 million units in 2013?

Ship? Probably not.

Sell? Definitely not.

 

[Nibel]

I guess that means I gotta go with the console manufacturer that doesn't shit on Europe.

Oh. Yeah. Shit.

One day a new console manufacturer will rise from the middle of Europe into the hearts of gamers

 

[Cat]

That number seems ridiculously high as it is.

 

[Busaiku]

Is "2013" some funky fiscal year nonsense or were expectations really 6 million+ per month in Nov and December?

Even through March is a ridiculous number.
Not even Wii, PS2, or DS did that.

 

[Cidd]

TALES FROM MY ASS? TALES FROM MY ASS..

 

[Iacobellis]

The PS2 didn't come close to pulling these numbers. Nothing except iDevices could pull these kind of numbers and even then supply constraints would stop it.

I was referring more to how Sony won't be able to meet their shipment expectations. PS2 was 500K, right?

 

[MrDenny]

COD ghost is coming for next gen, so I can imagine it will sell out quick.

 

[VariantX]

12-16 million is a crazy number. The numbers should be roughly half that to be sane.

 

[ThatStupidLion]

i think it's the cross generational games that will affect this next launch the most..

why do i need a ps4, when the majority of it's initial library wont be exclusive?

 

[Thoraxes]

Lol what?

 

[DeaconKnowledge]

Don't think there's as much demand for consoles as there was even 5 years ago.

 

[1st Course]

Maybe they mean PS3/PS4 shipments for FY13? Sony use this weird method to report their sales these days.

 

[InsaneZero]

12-16 million is a crazy number. The numbers should be roughly half that to be sane.

In 2013? The numbers should be a quarter.

 

[DBT85]

I don't think any of us expected that rumour ages ago of these numbers being accurate for 2013 anyway. I wonder if this report is based off that early rumour rather than actual info.

 

[metalslimer]

I was referring more to how Sony won't be able to meet their shipment expectations. PS2 was 500K, right?

We don't know Sony's expectations. Digitimes is a joke website that made up a joke headline for hits.

 

[Crimson_Gold]

I don't think any of us expected that rumour ages ago of these numbers being accurate for 2013 anyway. I wonder if this report is based off that early rumour rather than actual info.

Has to be the rumor. I can't find a legitimate place that claims Sony actually had this shipment target.

 

[SJRB]

We don't know Sony's expectations. Digitimes is a joke website that made up a joke headline for hits.

Why is it not banned then? This sounds stupid as hell.

 

[Baconsammy]

Ooh lawd hold me bad ps4 news.


Shipping to warehouses i guess.

Those warehouses better be owned by Sony then, because there aren't any suppliers out there that are going to let you store your millions of consoles in their warehouses for 5 months.

 

[iceatcs]

Holy shit!!! 16m in first 2 or 3 month. No way.

 

[guek]

Well clearly Sony was hoping to notably outsell the Xbox 360's first year in two months.

How, you ask?