PlayStation 4 has sold over 4.2 million consoles
When Microsoft boasted yesterday that it sold over 3 million Xbox Ones in 2013, it seemed inevitable that Sony would quickly follow with yelling about its own success. During its CES 2014 keynote today, Sony declared that it had sold-through over 4.2 million PlayStation 4 consoles as of December 28.
When Microsoft boasted yesterday that it sold over 3 million Xbox Ones in 2013, it seemed inevitable that Sony would quickly follow with yelling about its own success. During its CES 2014 keynote today, Sony declared that it had sold-through over 4.2 million PlayStation 4 consoles as of December 28.
Sony launched the PS4 in North America on November 16, then trickled out to more territories over the following weeks. 2.1 million PS4s had been sold by early December, and it evidently kept pace over the holiday season.
Xbox One sales were close to the PS4 at first, but Microsoft's system seems to be slowing down. Which I mention purely for context, certainly not to fuel any sort of dreadful Internet namecalling.
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replyAlice O'Connor posted a new article, PlayStation 4 has sold over 4.2 million consoles.
When Microsoft boasted yesterday that it sold over 3 million Xbox Ones in 2013, it seemed inevitable that Sony would quickly follow with yelling about its own success. During its CES 2014 keynote today, Sony declared that it had sold-through over 4.2 million PlayStation 4 consoles as of December 28.-
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Only difference was the ps3 was trailing
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Except MS had a huge lead going into the last generation, considering the year and PS3's price.
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Why would you be concerned if it was 6 million?
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Concerned about shitty backward Japanese tropes dominating the gaming landscape again?
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Yeah, I kinda want my shitty Japanese tropes back.
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SUPPORT THE TROPES!
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shitty stagnant American tropes > shitty backward Japanese tropes
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How many do you think they were actually able to produce in the time frame? Albeit I'm not privy to their supply chain numbers but I would imagine this is close to the entire stock they could produce in time. If anything it's rather impressive they sold over 4 million.
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He's the XBOne superfan
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i think the $100 difference has an impact. i've known a person buying the ps4 simply because it was cheaper.
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I'm in the save $100 boat. I looked at all the exclusive games/features of each console, and for me nothing stood out. So is just came down to saving $100 and getting a PS4.
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A lot of people care. The better question is: Should you care about those people's opinions? And the answer to that is, 'No.'
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Does anybody really give a shit if anybody else really gives a shit?
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The only reason I can see cheering such things is a larger install base may mean more exclusives or more games coming to the system as well
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I give a shit because I'd rather have Sony dominate that space than Microsoft. Between GFWL, the paywalls, and their attempt to do always online, I would like to Microsoft leave gaming altogether.
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Not saying Sony's a saint but in these days Microsoft has just been pushing the industry in all the wrong directions.
Ideally everyone would own an HTPC and GOG and Humble Store would be vying for world domination, with Nintendo still making awesome handhelds.
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Whoever is winning usually has their practices adopted by competitors. So I'd rather the industry go more in the direction Sony has taken the PS4, as seen with the Xbox's 180 on DRM. I don't see Sony dominating to the degree they did with the PS2, and that still turned out to be a pretty good generation for games on all platforms.
So yeah, I don't hate the Xbox or anything but I definitely don't want them to walk away with the American market like they did last time.
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I think having a dominating company is bad for the industry and it's sad for someone to think so. The crazy shit both companies has done have pushed the consoles in directions I never though we'd see. Some are good for some people and some are good for others. But that's cool, let's go back to one company calling all the real shots. Sounds fun.
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As a Dreamcast owner, it does matter.
If more of you cunts bought a DC then it wouldn't have died. Simple.-
I couldn't afford that shit I was 14!
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I was there on 9/9/99 to get mine. Sony was just as responsible for killing the DC because they sold that thing to people like it would paint your house, cook you breakfast and give you a blowjob... and people (and developers) bought into it. In the end, it played the same games as DC but with blury textures.
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I don't get all worked up about, but I would be lying if I said I wasn't interested in hearing these kinds of statistics. I'm extremely curious about the industry and how the various companies in it are doing. Units sold is a bit metric for how a console is doing. That's pretty interesting I think.
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Man, if the Xbox had just stopped that fake punt it'd all be different, probably go into the half 28-3
oh god.
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I like my WiiU :(
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Don't let the console warriors get you down. Lots of good stuff in the future.
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Yep, very sad, but Nintendo brought this on themselves. You need to be more forward thinking than "Hey, people sure do like tablets! Let's throw one of those in the box!"
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And then not market it
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The main problem is the cost. The thing adds ~$100 to each Wii U when it's not even used in most of Nintendo's games. They have no chance of turning things around until they ditch that thing as a requirment, and then chances are still pretty slim. It will be very lucky to hit Gamecube numbers.
They should just make their next handheld compatible with all Wii's accessories and give it a TV out. That's the only way I see Nintendo staying in the living room.
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I'm looking forward to the day when the Super Mario games show up on Steam, for the PC.
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I don't really know what this means yet, since there are so few games available for either system and console selection may have been heavily influenced by the launch titles.
However, I will say that I could go to my Best Buy and buy an XBox One right now. PS3s are still on backorder. That could be because MS did a better job producing enough units. Or it could be that XBO isn't selling as well. Maybe a bit of both.
I don't think anyone will really be able to say definitively which one is selling better for at least 6 months, maybe a year.-
What it means is that both consoles are selling several times faster than any previous console generation so there will be tons of games coming sooner than any other generation. 4.2 plus 3 equals a huge new generation with easier than ever cross-platform games means developers can take bigger risks, try different things.
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