18 M with the price at 299 and less promotions than last year is amazing. I don't think any home console achieved such sales in the fifth year.
18 M is still higher than the best X360 year ( and this is sold through vs shipments).
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PS4 sell through at 91.6 million as of Dec 31st 2018. Spider-Man sell through over 9 million. (Sony PR)
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18 M with the price at 299 and less promotions than last year is amazing. I don't think any home console achieved such sales in the fifth year.
18 M is still higher than the best X360 year ( and this is sold through vs shipments).
Seems kind of inevitable with the big games trying to last longer with continual engagement, but /shrug. Still great numbers. Ridiculous hardware especially for five years in :/
I dunno what they can expect next year. Switch will have a super strong release lineup, and PS4 is reaching saturation. A price cut will spike them like crazy though.
What? They just sold 18M last year and they still have price cut in reserve to keep sales steady along with a strong exclusive pipeline (TLOU 2, Ghosts, Death Stranding). Sony also tends to sell their console further in next gen life cycle than MS/Nintendo. They'll hit 120M for sure.
Crazy how everyone is ignoring how bundled it was, but yeah big numbers for Sony none the less.
100M will happen during this year. No matter if the PS5 is released this year or not. 120M at the very least.
Why give the number of PS4s sold up to Dec 31 but then give Spiderman's only until Nov 25? I'm willing to bet Spiderman sold another million in those additional 36 days.
Some of y'all are really intent on running that niche gag into the ground huh
Anyhow, great numbers.
Anyhow, great numbers.
Yeah still good but with Spider-Man, GOW and RDR I'm a bit surprised
We don't know how much the PS3 eventually sold but it's safe to say that yes, it's passed the PS3. And this is sell through, not shipments. Shipments are probably ~94m.
With ease. Their previous most successful game was Ratchet & Clank 2016.
Anyway, it's no wonder they didn't even bother offering deals in December in the US because these are really impressive sales for its 5th year.
And crazy Spider-Man sales, it'll be well above 10m by now and probably 11m too. I always knew it'd do well but I didn't think it'd blow up this massively, I thought they'd have to wait for a sequel to pull this off.
So not down by much despite Sony predicting being way down for the year. That's insane it was only down 300k despite having no official deals in December and it's still its second best.
Yes, by far. The closest was Spyro, who sold close to 5 million.
just clarification for "holiday season":
Data collected during 11/19/2018 – 12/31/2018.
Cetainly puts the looming December NPD data in perspective, which is nice. Playstation is a lot more than whatever's happening in the US for any given month.
Right? One uninformed guy with an unfortunate opinion said it was niche and you guys can't get over it. It wasn't like you're proving some big shot from a AAA publisher who said single player games without micro transactions can't be sustainable or something. It was literally one random poster on Era.
So they even out performed their own re-re revised numbers. Started out at 16 million, upped to 17 million in the summer and then 17.5 million in the autumn information release.
People like to be petty over pointless stuff on the Internet all the time but, yeah, I'm surprised so many people actually still harp on about that :P
I'm not sure what's that supposed to mean. Marvel wouldn't let them include an additional month of sales?
Those are shipment numbers for the Financial Year (April 1st 2018 - March 31st 2019)
I wonder how much money Sony makes off of every PS4 console sale. Unlike at launch I'm assuming the days of losing money on each box or just breaking even are long gone and now they're actually profiting right?
Also consider that one of the things that ended the lifespans of the PS2 is that after a certain point it's almost all used software being sold along with those systems, which sony doesn't really make much profit from, if at all. The PS4 has a much more robust digital store, along with PSN subscriptions- so Sony has an incentive to keep producing those even when used game sales become the majority of physical game sales.
More happy for the Spiderman sales than anything else, insomniac deserves everything good going their way.
It's a freaking meme! It says more about the people getting annoyed by it than the people saying it. You ever heard about the green waves represent noises, shot themselves in the foot, Japanese culture and other memes people from GAF who migrated to Era keep using? Yeah, because those too are memes.
