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The PlayStation 4 is the best selling console worldwide for calendar year 2018
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Rising tide lifts all boats etc.:
A higher install base means many more (third party) software sales.
There are a lot more than just him that need calling out.
Oh it will beat the PS1 in sales easily. It will become the second best selling console of all time, only behind the PS2.
you dont count the handhelds? ds and gb? Then certainly number 2
I'm talking about consoles. Home consoles ;) Regarding handhelds, the PS4 will beat the Game Boy imho.
i can definitely see the PS4 surpassing GB in the end. The ps4 can sell for very cheap while the ps5 is on the market and catch up to them.
Yeah. I agree. The DS and PS2 are the only ones I don't see it surpassing in sales. But a super cheap super slim model could push it close.
Super slim sounds good! for 199 and it will even get the GB sales numbers...
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With all these threads and hype about Switch, I was sure it was easily the best selling console. Like damn, PS4 is 5 years old. Seriously impressive.
Says he's banned for trying to circumvent a ban with an alt-account.
$199 for the PS4 Super Slim would be awesome. But it's gonna be $249 when it launches :P Hopefully with a game bundled.
I'm rather impressed with the PlayStation brand to be honest. Since the PS1 Sony has been putting up a fight with their competition, and dominating during all but the PS3 era.
Spider-Man, Spider-Man, selling as many consoles he can
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Wait, what the hell did I miss???
I thought we all agreed the Switch was going to do it.
Unless we are just talking about NA.
Yes but I think Nintendo was very cautious, I think they will finish at 18.5 million or something.
Not really, and you can't really blame them anyway.
As long as there's football games and there's a new PlayStation to play them on, EU will be a guaranteed market for PS.
Take FIFA and/or PES out of the picture and Europe is suddenly a much less relevant market worldwide, but of course there's no chance of that happening.
Yeah Switch will do 18m at least
But even 2.3m PS4 in Q4 (to reach their 17.5m FY2018), I don't think it will reach that, I think 2m-2.1m
The lowest Q4 for PS4 was FY2015 (Jan-Mar 2016) at 2.3m
Possible, but unlikely.
Nin tend to over-perform in Holidays, but not so much in Q1 of CYs.
Otoh Sony with no promos in December should have a somewhat smaller drop than either MS or Nin in January, and has historically done "ok" in Q1s.
Yeah. Brazil here is a decent market as well and Sony dominates. Lots of friends bought last year and Sony has been doing good work with ads and prices with PSN and the likes.
Can't even try to compare it with Switch here because Nintendo doesn't sell it officially in Brazil which is freaking laughable.
This is without price cuts through the year too. EU and those smaller countries shouldn't be underestimated.
With that being said, I think Nintendo's poor first half has a lot to do with this result too.
With that being said, I think Nintendo's poor first half has a lot to do with this result too.
Nintendo actually has solid Q1 thanks to carry over from the Holidays. They actually beat Sony last year.
Sony's report came in:
PS4
Q1 2018 : 2,5M
Switch
Q1 2018 : 2,93M
The problem was their Q1.
If Sony plays it right with PS5 ($400, fully BC) they'll carry the majority of their user base and momentum over and keep dominating.
I feel like 360 did good here but mainly because of the awful PS3 prices. Otherwise, people prefer Playstation.
Apparently you can in the USA and Japan. FIFA land makes up for it though.
Huh, I was under the impression that the Switch had a significant lead. Guess I've been reading too much Era.
It's not just a matter of being cautious, it's that they know how much they have already overshipped. So at some point they need to compensate.
About PS4 obviously these are great sales, imo there is still a lot of potential in the console with the great lineup that Sony is preparing. Games like TLOU2, Death Stranding and Ghost of Tsushima. The main issue I see is that they need to permanently cut the price to 199$ to unlock those sales. New models or even smaller revisions for both base ps4 and pro using 7nm chips should be in the works. In any case they need to cut the price otherwise the drop in sales will be brutal this fiscal year.
You had Smash in December, its effect will still be felt in FY Q4. The Switch sales were huge in early january. And we had New Super Mario Bros U Deluxe as well. So I think they'll do very well. At least 3 million units.
Really nuts.
Wow...this can't be right......
Yup, and this applies to any reigon.
USA is USA
Japan is Japan
UK is UK
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The Switch does particularly well in the US, where the majority of posters are