Sony to push for 16 million PS4 shipments in 2013
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That doesn´t count, Americans can easily get around this by creating an EU account.
flipswitch
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Let's hope that it's priced reasonably and has a strong launch line up.
What's DDR5?
Aquamarine
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scytherage
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That's a ridiculous number, even if the demand is high.
BriseFlots
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It's a kind of RAM.
Or... one of those mature hardcore games that you can find on Sony hardware.
"DDR5" is not a kind of RAM that exists. GDDR5 is, however.
Was being sarcastic, there's no such thing as DDR5 yet.
lastplayed
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That's 128,000,000 GB of GDDR5 RAM.
I think we're having translation problems here. The bolded doesn't make sense: you can't reach an annual shipment in under 12 months. If they mean they can perhaps reach an annual shipment rate of 16M per year in 2013 then they may mean a shipment rate of ~1-1.33M per month by the end of 2013 (actual or financial?).
That seems unlikely, but perhaps possible? PS3 was highly constrained at launch but seems to have shipped around 1M (no firm figures, probably less) by the end of 2006. I believe their target was 2M by that time but they didn't make it.
If they are aiming for that 1.3M pcm rate by end of 2013 then that could mean a stockpiled launch figure of a couple of million? That would seem about what they would want to have for a worldwide or strong US/Japanese launch.
bigboss370
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you act as if worldwide launch is easy for Sony. you think they intentionally "fuck over" europe? Europe usually gets stuff late because it's made up of a lot of territories/countries. so there's a lot of terms and conditions unique to each country in the region that sony has to go through. This also includes stuff like accounting for all the different languages, rules/regulations, shipments per country, etc.
In contrast Japan and NA are much easier to launch in.
BriseFlots
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So much for trying to be helpful.
Now that you say it, the G is missing indeed.
Karsticles
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Maybe someone forgot a decimal point between the 1 and the 6.
It's probably supposed to be 16 million for PS3 + PS4.
It's not like they've launched three consoles in Europe already and know what's needed.
I'd love something like this to happen. I know it won't but it would be beautiful. :'(
Both Nintendo and Microsoft managed to launch simultaneously with their last consoles (in Nintendos case their last two consoles) and i expect no less from Sony. It´s all about prorities.
You mean GDDR5 right?
and no they can't, the next-box will be using GDDR3 and its way to late the change everything and go with GDDR5.
I also don't sea the reason why you would want Sony to fail. more choice is win for consumers. or are you such a ms fanboy that you want nothing else then an Xbox future
Jezbollah
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16 million seems like an aspiration, a motivation point.
Have your absolute target, and challenge your suppliers with a target much higher to ensure they dont get complacent when they are getting near your original target.
I bet the real target is something like 8-12 million - and given that the parts are "off the shelf" - I think somewhat realistic unless there's some kind of unforseen shortage. You can be sure that there's already a shit ton of part allocation already in place for some of the components.
so, aim for 16m, get 12m, 12m is the real target, everyone is happy.
Have your absolute target, and challenge your suppliers with a target much higher to ensure they dont get complacent when they are getting near your original target.
I bet the real target is something like 8-12 million - and given that the parts are "off the shelf" - I think somewhat realistic unless there's some kind of unforseen shortage. You can be sure that there's already a shit ton of part allocation already in place for some of the components.
so, aim for 16m, get 12m, 12m is the real target, everyone is happy.
:lol
So they've upgraded again? Quick, someone make a thread!
If there is will, there is a way.
specialguy
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I'll let you guess which...
Quite possibly. Anyone know what PS3 shipments were in 2012?
For comparison, Nintendo were expecting to sell 5.5M WiiU's by the end of March, around 1.3M per month. Just an observation.
yeah, its probably just logistics. I don't think Sony would have any issues with the complexity of Europe, more with the time taken to affordably ship lots of units into markets and also supply three regions simultaneously.
bigboss370
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I dunno about Nintendo, but in MS's case, 300k units for all of Europe is hardly a sufficient launch lol.
sure, but its still a different product that needs to go through the process.
probably this is also the case.
ionicbluebird
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Neither.
ionicbluebird
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They had production problems because of the high end hardware didn´t they? The PS4 is much more conservatively built so that shouldn´t happen.
Anyway, i got my 360 at launch so 300k is better than nothing.
Aquamarine
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15.6 million worldwide (shipped) for PS3 + PS2.
But obviously demand for the PS3 is waning.
zomgbbqftw
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I'm guessing it's ~10m PS3s and ~6m PS4s.
Aquamarine
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Good bet. That's what I would peg as well.
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 :/
tomchoucrew
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French retailer FNAC is listing PS4 @ 599,90 with shipment in january
http://jeux-video.fnac.com/Console-...s-prix/a5556381/w-4#bl=Affaires-High-techBLO7
So, no Europe launch this year?
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http://jeux-video.fnac.com/Console-...s-prix/a5556381/w-4#bl=Affaires-High-techBLO7
So, no Europe launch this year?
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bigboss370
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no they just couldn't produce the system at a faster or fast enough rate, they launched too early.
maybe 300k is better than nothing, but I'd rather have a stable launch than MS's low production launch (+ RROD problems).
Dragon1893
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Tretton: If you can't find a PS4... I'll give you 1,200 Bucks.
ionicbluebird
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nice