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The PS4 sold 20.6 million consoles in (slightly) less than 1 Year, best selling 12 month period
- Thread starter Benji
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It should hit $200 as its standard price next year and that's going to be in combination with what could very well be the best lineup for the console yet.
Days Gone
Spiderman
Red Dead Redemption 2
Detroit
God of War
Last of Us 2
I dunno bruh, shit's looking pretty stacked.
Not to mention titles that are going to push Xbone/PS4 sales anyway, like Kingdom Hearts 3 or Dragon Ball FighterZ
Best believe you will see commercials for it on ESPN, ABC, Freeform, random youtube ads, smoke signals. This SHOULD be their biggest push.
Yep, one of my buddies at work who's still been gaming on his PS3 all this time, just went and picked up a PS4 black Friday week. He mainly plays GTA and RDR, so RDR 2 was a big motivator for him.
They are not in a good place to do it. It's no longer 2000 where they could buy up and money hat a bunch of studios for cultivation. Which they did do. But instead of cultivating those studios they have nearly all fallen apart
In 2017 there aren't many smaller devs you can bring into the stable. Nearly all studios are big AAA developers on their own right already. Even this gen when they worked with Insomniac, saw Insomniac go back to Sony immediately after
Sony have done a heck of a job of cultivating their studios across 3-4 gens now. From the guys like Naughty Dog to Guerrilla finally cracking the big time when given the time and ability to make what they truly wanted. I wouldn't be surprised if Ghosts of Tsushima is next to really make the big stage in the way Horizon did
MS should really have developers like Rare, Lionhead, Bizarre Creations, Bungie, Bioware, Itagaki in their stable and on point right now. Imagine all these devs still making games for MS like they were at their peak
I really want to see what Ghost of Tsushima is, because the concept of Infamous was extremely fun to play around with.
Yeah....dude, Halo used to be legendary.
The commercials and hype behind that game were crazy.
They're never getting that again. I feel like Destiny has just shat all over that built-up reputation.
Yeah....dude, Halo used to be legendary.
The commercials and hype behind that game were crazy.
They're never getting that again. I feel like Destiny has just shat all over that built-up reputation.
Sony already knows when they're launching PS5. Wether it's 2019, 2020 or 2021, they are not changing that date based on 2017 sales.
It's part of a bigger plan, with dozens of games and studios involved, They know what games they want for the PS5 launch, what games they want for the last PS4 year, for the first PS5 year...you just can't move the launch date around without affecting everyone.
Not only that, they know already the price point and the tech they want, they've talked and made plans with the tech manufacturers, secured commodities, made shipment and distribution plans etc, to make sure they can have a successful launch.
So all this people saying "They should extend the life of the PS4 one or two years!"
Sorry but it doesn't work like that
I have a hard time believing that. Market fluctuation, development cycles, component manufacturing etc are all subject to change, and Sony has to be able to react to all of them. Would seem very strange (and stupid) if the PS5 release date was written in ink with Sony having no ability to exercise flexibility.
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Indeed. Last of Us 2 and Death Stranding are 2019 imo
I'd be surprised if Spiderman outsells Arkham Knight, considering it was multiplat.
However with Sony this gen nothing will surprise me!
However with Sony this gen nothing will surprise me!
PS4 Pro was 10% of units sold after it came out which from these numbers puts it at 2 million. Nothing wrong with that but it's hard to say it's made a huge difference to the sales overall in this period
If The Last of Us 2 actually hits next year, that's easily going to be Sony's biggest exclusive game for 2018. Last one hit nearly 10 million on PS3. A very good chance the sequel will hit bigger numbers if it's received in a similar fashion. Spider-Man and God of War will be a distant second place to that.
Didn't the PS2 peak at like 150 million? I don't think it's possible for another console to sell that much. Handheld or otherwise.
Death Stranding is 2022, they are too busy making trailers. They will start working on the game later on.
It's how real life works, man. This huge projects take a lot of planning
Halo was THE FPS. I remember the hype for Halo 3 back in 2006. Insane. Now Halo 5 is "just" a very good game.
I could also go as far as seeing Death Stranding slipping into early/Spring 2020, and being a cross-gen title for PS4 and PS5 launch with notable improvements. But that is a wild card prediction, lol.
It was 20% wasn't it? They said 1 in 5 PS4's sold are a Pro. So that would be 4 million, and the sale coming up may boost a some more too.
Was selling at 20% throughout this 2017 iirc. Don't ask me for a sorce though
I would be shocked if Death Stranding were 2019. I'm guessing 2020... at best.
US =/= World. The only ones that did not expect this are the ones too busy following Media Create and NPD to realize that there's a huge world out there.
Would guess around 5, as Sony stated before it made up about 20% of all their consoles sold from the release of Pro.
It is on the most expensive console ever released; The PS3. Jep, the same PS3 that gained a lot of sales after the PS2 hardware was removed to allow for a cheaper version; which is what consumers actually wanted: a cheap, powerful machine with excellent titles and great 3rd party ports.
Should exceed it by a good margin easily if they keep doing what they are doing by this time next year.
An observation on the video game awards:
Most Anticipated Game
Most Anticipated Game
- The Last of Us: Part II
- Red Dead Redemption II
- God of War
- Monster Hunter World
- Marvel's Spider-Man
These are worldwide numbers. Sure the switch may be outselling the PS4 in Japan, and sure for maybe half the months the switch outsold the PS4 in the US, but worldwide the PS4 is probably significantly outselling the switch, and those markets are way larger than they used to be (and Japan way smaller than it used to be).
I feel like it will sell well for even longer if they can get an even cheaper, sub $200 msrp model out soon. Would have to be the super slim, 7/10nm, etc. I can't see it dropping much until late 2019 or 2020 imho.
They'll probably be at 85-90M by the end of 2018 and 105-110M by end of 2019. Announce Ps5 in 2020, cut sales by 50% and they'll still likely push 8-10M in 2020 I imagine.
When all is said and done I am willing to bet the PS4 ends up in the 125-130M range
They'll probably be at 85-90M by the end of 2018 and 105-110M by end of 2019. Announce Ps5 in 2020, cut sales by 50% and they'll still likely push 8-10M in 2020 I imagine.
When all is said and done I am willing to bet the PS4 ends up in the 125-130M range
What's interesting is that the release of the X has essentially allowed Sony to not worry about next gen consoles for a while. It's highly unlikely that Microsoft releases a new gen console in less than 2-3 years. So they don't even have to really concern themselves with another X360 early launch.
And to think that the PS4 is going to peak next year, judging by the line-up of games coming out at least. A Spider-Man bundle is going to do mad business alone, but then you throw everything else into the mix and momentum just isn't going to let up all throughout 2018.
Yeah, next year will be crazy for PS4 (2019 for Last of Us 2)
Because you're talking about US charts. Playstation is a world wide brand that sells well throughout the world. Not to mention, it's continued to sell well in the US. The Switch outselling is some months in the US by very small margins doesn't mean much.
Honestly believe at a majority of the year priced at $199 + exclusive count (specifically Spider-Man, God of War, & RDR2 relationship) they can do 30M from now to Jan 1st, 2019
What the hell! It is doing better even in software department? This thing is Insane.
It still won't sell 150 million.
