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Welfare

Prophet of Truth - You’re my Numberwall
Member
Oct 26, 2017
5,912
PS4 at $199 will beat Switch.
Will we actually see that again? Given sales this year and what's coming out the next few months in addition to their fiscal forcast, they don't really need to drop the price to $199.

I guess it would be weird to be more expensive this Black Friday than last year but I would think Sony would increase their shipment goal even higher than they did if they were planning that.
 

allan-bh

Banned
Oct 25, 2017
425
Will we actually see that again? Given sales this year and what's coming out the next few months in addition to their fiscal forcast, they don't really need to drop the price to $199.

I guess it would be weird to be more expensive this Black Friday than last year but I would think Sony would increase their shipment goal even higher than they did if they were planning that.

Let's see. I think the lack of $199 deal can hurt a little, despite all the great momentum PS4 is having.

Black friday attracts shoppers that are very price sentitive, they can go for a $199 Xbox One instead of paying $50 more for a PS4, assuming MS will drop the price to this level (There's no 500GB anymore).
 

Penny Royal

The Fallen
Oct 25, 2017
4,158
QLD, Australia
Why not? they made alot of exclusives for playstation to date, more than any other second-party studios afaik. it would be a fantastic opportunity for them to join to sony's legendary first parties and have all the fantastic supports/budgets to make everything they want under sony's flag. Rejection of such a proposal like this is the biggest mistake that can be made by Insomniac games IMO.

Ted Price on reading this post:

'Damn! I've been running the company for 20 years but what I really needed was the insight of an anonymous poster on a message board who has all the life experience & skills in running a company to point out that I've made a huge mistake.'

Since you're such a fan of Insomniac I'm sure you've seen the interview with Ted where he spells out why Insomniac are still an independent studio with no interest in selling.
 

Deleted member 2785

User requested account closure
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Oct 25, 2017
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Meta only has a ballpark .25 to .3 r-squared to sales, so it certainly wouldn't be impossible or a sub 9 meta game to break into the sales neighborhood of 9+ games. It's rare to be sure, but that's why they're called outliers when it happens.

God of War is already one massive positive sales outlier for PS4 this year. Looking quite likely that Marvel's Spider-Man could give the platform two.

This happening is exceptionally rare, obviously. If Spider-Man can hit the type of numbers that seem possible, well, certainly something special.

However, it'll still be good to keep in mind that outlier positive performers are outliers because they are so rare, and to expect that kind of performance with other games or even sequels to these particular outliers would be risky and probably unreasonable.

I am looking forward to the September numbers. Gotta get through August first though.
 

Expy

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Oct 26, 2017
9,861
Are the PR departments waiting on something before sharing their thoughts on the results ?
 

lost7

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Feb 20, 2018
2,750
It would be very interesting if we could know the trend of sales over the course of the month. Like, I reckon PS4 picked up towards the end because of Spiderman hype, but initially Switch sales were higher.

Anyways, thanks Magicpork
 

Katana_Strikes

Unshakable Resolve
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Oct 29, 2017
10,737
Jees a million for Switch in August /sweating

Thanks magicpork!

Close battle this month then it seems between them all really, but it was a pretty uneventful month. September is going to be exciting to see though.
 

Lelouch0612

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Oct 25, 2017
21,200
So :

NSW : 215k
PS4 : 209k
X1 : 172k
3DS : 75k

Others : 299k

EDIT : previous numbers were inaccurate.
 
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talkTOmyHAND

Banned
Aug 25, 2018
452
Didn't expect to see a PS4 close 2nd. Expected a heavy drop in August because waiting for Spider-man bundles in September
 

klanar

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Jun 9, 2018
398
Switch with 58k/week compared to july with 66k/week. So it lost some summer momentum but is it enough to make it 2018>2017 YTD?
 

Thorrgal

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Oct 26, 2017
12,303
I don't think they even need a $199 PS4.

Why lower the price if it keeps selling like it's selling
 

Gibordep

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Nov 1, 2017
1,282
September and October will be to PS4, (Spider-man, RDR2), November, December will be to Switch, unless PS4 goes to 199.
 

Edigar

Banned
Oct 25, 2017
352
Brazil
2018: PS4 x Switch x Xbox One

Code:
+-----+-----+-----+-----+
|Month| PS4 | NSW | XBO |
+-----+-----+-----+-----+
| JAN | 255k| 270k| 240k|

| FEB | 365k| 280k| 310k|

| MAR | 355k| 310k| 300k|

| APR | 325k| 170k| 130k|

| MAY | 225k| 165k| 145k|

| JUN | 375k| 320k| 255k|

| JUL | 185k| 260k| 150k|

| AUG | 195k| 200k| 160k|

| SEP |     |     |     |

| OCT |     |     |     |

| NOV |     |     |     |

| DEC |     |     |     |

+-----+-----+-----+-----+
| YTD |2280k|1975k|1690k|
+-----+-----+-----+-----+

Rounded to nearest 0 or 5.
 
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Visanideth

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Oct 31, 2017
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Jees a million for Switch in August /sweating

Thanks magicpork!

Close battle this month then it seems between them all really, but it was a pretty uneventful month. September is going to be exciting to see though.


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Visanideth

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Oct 31, 2017
4,771
I think that November and December at this point will tell us if the Switch has realistic odds to overtake the PS4 as the American Consoles of the Generation. But it's looking less and less likely.