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The PlayStation 4 is the best selling console worldwide for calendar year 2018
- Thread starter patapon
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I think I saw someone claiming to be Chad post stuff on Twitter last year, but as far as I know nobody knows if its the real one.
The irony is that this more or less always has been the case in Europe. With a few exceptions, Sony tends to perform better than Nintendo. Especially in the UK, Italy, Spain.
Well they are poised to dominate if we forget 90% of the worldmarket where they don't matter at all in like many like to do on Era to show a more "even" picture :D
But yeah thats it for Sony anyway
Don't you all see how they are struggling since the Crossplay disaster?They are afraid
Software sells hardware. PS4 simply has the best overall lineup for the mass market for years now. And their biggest game has yet to come. TLOU2 will probably crazy numbers.
Wow, Sony once again on top. I'm a bit surprised at this result considering all of the Switch threads about record breaking hardware sales this year. Congrats to both consoles for selling well be especially good for the aging PS4. Truely cant be stopped.
I was led to believe it wasn't the best selling console of 2018, so this comes as a surprise.
Man, when you spend enough time in NPD threads, you really do start to believe that America is the whole world huh.
Man, when you spend enough time in NPD threads, you really do start to believe that America is the whole world huh.
Well Switch and PS4 were very close in the NPD, and they are very close Worldwide. It's not that different really.
PS4 is still a beast after five years. People in the NPD thread acted like Japan and the US were the whole world, but they forgot about most of Europe. They only saw numbers of France, the UK and Spain, but those countries don't even make up for half of the population. PlayStation is dominating here in The Netherlands for example.
Yup, it's why I don't read too much into NPDs. It's good to know how well the consoles are doing regionally but it's important to remember that there's a whole world out there. When you focus too much on one region's sales you tend to forget the rest of the world and live in your own bubble.
Sell-in (shipped). Sell-through numbers are actually higher (18 million in 2018).
Hasn't PS4 sold more in UK in 2018 ?
Yep. That's so awesome about the PlayStation. It's a worldwide brand, doing good everywhere.
Congrats Sony, soon they'll run out of space in that "best selling console of 20xx" circle thingy they sometimes put in their vids ;)
Switch is a beast too, the race was pretty close. Next year gonna be extremely interesting to watch, I can see Sony still holding onto the crown if they do a significant price drop and a bunch of the remaining big 1st party games do actually release in 2019.
Switch is a beast too, the race was pretty close. Next year gonna be extremely interesting to watch, I can see Sony still holding onto the crown if they do a significant price drop and a bunch of the remaining big 1st party games do actually release in 2019.
Really impressive so late into generation, beating Switch in its second year with its huge selling franchises Pokemon and SSBros. And also without great deals in December in the US, and with not great ones in Europe during BF either. They really have margin to do solid numbers in 2019 if they play with price and place the remaining exclusives strategically, especially TLOU2.
I really see them having trouble on how to manage PS5 reveal with PS4 still so strong.
I really see them having trouble on how to manage PS5 reveal with PS4 still so strong.
It's not like Sony is getting manhandled in those bigger markets. They're beating MS and they barely lost to Nintendo in the US. Japan is another story, but the odds that Sony wins in the US next years aren't exactly slim and that would be a really, really fun thing to see.
Sony did at least step up their digital sale/deal game in the EU. Back then, good digital sales always were only for NA. Now, you get good/big deals on PSN like every two weeks.
EU had only the better Hardware Bundles most of the time.
That terrible Q2 really killed the chance at 20m
It may have gotten there had LABO been a bigger hit.
It may have gotten there had LABO been a bigger hit.
This is why you aren't in charge of Nintendo! Their software is there bread and butter. Pretty sure they don't care about console wars with PS4 selling 300k more...
holy shit thats actually...scary?
I wonder how this stuff is going to affect next gen.
As someone who usually prefers buying games physical I realize this year i probably was about 70% digital because of PS+ sales and deals I got on PSN credit
Well, they're losing worldwide against a console that is 5 years old with their hot new thing and they sliced their forecast by 3 millions. Q1 and Q2 next year will tell the story of how well the Switch can handle software droughts.
The bottom line is that Nintendo is doing great despite a software strategy that is proving to be less effective than it could. They're aware of it and they addressed it in their forecast slash statement. I'm sure they'd want to do better, if they had the resources to.
See, this is precisely why people who limit themselves to "who sold more consoles in the US is the healthiest company" statements end up having to eat crow. Nintendo has a lot of work to do.
Don't paint the picture like Sony sat on their hands twiddling their thumbs. At the end of the day Sony's first party drove sales, and when Sony is not there, Third party pick up the slack considerably. In my mind, it's a miracle Nintendo comes out on top at all. Just this month 2 heavy hitters in KH3 and RE2 which will be driving sales in Q1 for PS4.
Despite PS4 being five years old, this was their second best year ever. And according to Ben and others, a lot of that was Fortnite in the US.
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The ban should be lifted, he deserves the chance to update all is posts claiming that switch was the best selling console of the year (based in his distorced read of news and comments).
Playstation 4 is a beast even that is doesn't have the portable factor and lacks of a long time established IPs like Nintendo has. Sony should have, in addiction of their actual library, more party titles and plataformer like Nintendo has. Recently they only try it with knack (with no much success) and Ratchet and Clank, they need to keep delivering titles like these, and hopefully create some icon chars like Mario.
2019 is 99% Switch year, the only chance to PS4 its a price cut and TLOUS 2 at 2019.
Luckily people still buy consoles for games and not for services.
And Plus is fine imo, great sales and often very good free games.
EU making them gains.
But but but he should be fired, he talk bad about bc ... lol
All thanks to this man.
But but but he should be fired, he talk bad about bc ... lol
