Forum - View topicPS4 Sells 70.6 Million Consoles Worldwide, PS VR Sells 2 Million
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Emerje
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I wonder how the Black Friday sales were. It seemed like the PS4 Slim 1TB was outselling the XBox One S 500GB consoles at most retailers that day, though it's hard to tell without knowing how many were stocked of each. I ended up getting a PS4 myself and six games (Neir, Teken 7, FFXV, Horizon, World of Final Fantasy, and SAO Last Song), two of those used so I contributed a little to their sales numbers.
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Megiddo
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Absolutely phenomenal sales for the PS4. Sony really took advantage of Microsoft's bumbling at the start and never took their foot off the pedal.
Pretty sure at 2 million that puts PSVR close with the combined sales of Vive and Oculus so Sony seems to be making a very large dent in the niche VR market as well. |
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EricJ2
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The PS4's been moving faster now (saw a lot of 1TB Slims moving last weekend, not so much on the Pros), but how many found out that the Black Friday PSVR "price drop", was, as is the new time-honored Black Friday tradition, a big fat swindle? The price was dropped on the previous VR headset model's bundle in time for Sony to retire it and clean out old stock--Fortunately, I'd gotten the news early that the model bundling with Doom VFR and Gran Tourismo one week later on 12/1 was the new 2.0 model, and stayed home over the holiday weekend munching leftovers. And any new owner's who's played around with PSVR's "The Playroom" to get the hang of VR while waiting to get an actual game or Move controllers...hoo-boy--It ain't the 90's Lawnmower Man anymore: Floating glitchy polygons have come a long way in the last fifteen years since I put on a VR helmet at Disney World. 
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KH91
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As expected. 30 million to go. Early 2019 it is.
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Jose Cruz
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I guess sales are not higher because the Chinese market is used to PCs, I mean PS2 sold like 150 million units through 11 years, so about 13.6 million units per year while PS4 sold 70 million through 4 years, or about 17.5 million per year. Considering the growth in global gaming in the time in between it's sales are not that impressive.
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Emerje
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Problem with that is the growth in gaming is on phones and tablets, not consoles which haven't changed all that much. Emerje |
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BadNewsBlues
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There's also the fact that up until a couple of years ago China banned the manufacturing and sales of foreign game consoles in the country.
Part of what helped the PS2 though was the fact it could play DVD's and it's inception is was one of the cheapest the four doesn't have that chip on it's shoulder with it's Blu-ray drive. Though even then that's still better than what Sony was doing a generation ago with the PS3. |
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