PS4: Over 1 million sold the first day in North America
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1 million units in 24hrs is crazy.... I'm not sure if MS could match that. The only thing that could sway in their favor is supply if they could flood the market with XB1's so they are readily available they could catch Sony and be even when the holiday sales reports come out in January.
I'm still undecided if I should hunt down a PS4 on launch (UK) but I'll be holding off on the XB1 as I'm expecting MS to drop Kinect next year and get a cheaper model out there. A £300 XB1 sounds very tempting.
I'm still undecided if I should hunt down a PS4 on launch (UK) but I'll be holding off on the XB1 as I'm expecting MS to drop Kinect next year and get a cheaper model out there. A £300 XB1 sounds very tempting.
Interesting article from the financial industry today...
Booming PS4 sales are little consolation for Sony
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/bac6356e-5019-11e3-9f0d-00144feabdc0.html#slide0
EDIT: I'll add - Microsoft is in the same exact boat from an industry perspective.... What the article highlights is the need, now more than ever, to market towards the casual gamer since the industry has changed so much.
Booming PS4 sales are little consolation for Sony
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/bac6356e-5019-11e3-9f0d-00144feabdc0.html#slide0
EDIT: I'll add - Microsoft is in the same exact boat from an industry perspective.... What the article highlights is the need, now more than ever, to market towards the casual gamer since the industry has changed so much.
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I wonder how many of those 1 million are fools who bought multiple PS4 that I now see being sold on local classified ads for anywhere between $550 to $1000 (lol). Page after page after page and I live in a city with around a million in population. It's pretty obvious that no one is buying them because for every 20 posts of an overpriced unit, I see someone asking for $450 which is the price after taxes.
I hope the dillholes who bought a bunch to try and turn a profit lose out. Seriously.
I hope the dillholes who bought a bunch to try and turn a profit lose out. Seriously.
Americans sure like their FPS's.. Kind of crazy that more than 2k people bought the sixty-dollar Angry Birds, the first two days.. :-/
PlayStation 4 Launch Sales Are In - Call of Duty: Ghosts Leads the Pack
by William D'Angelo, posted 1 hour ago / 3,447 Views
The PlayStation 4 launched on Friday in North America and set a record for the biggest opening for a console in history. The console sold 984,212 units in the US week one, according to VGChartz. The PlayStation 4 also sold 1.06 million units across North America. Week one sales is also for only two days, Friday and Saturday.
Software figures for the US first two days are also in. Call of Duty: Ghosts leads the pack with sales 703,638. That would add up to a 71 percent attach rate. Battlefield 4 sold 396,187 units. That would put the attach rate at 40 percent for the game.
Killzone: Shadow Fall was the top selling exclusive with 355,148 units sold. The attach for the game is at 36 percent in the first two days on sale.The other launch exclusive, Knack, ended up selling 102,749 units.
In total, 2,417,516 games were sold in the first two days in the US. For every PlayStation 4 that was sold gamers picked up 2.46 games.
1. Call of Duty: Ghosts - 703,638
2. Battlefield 4 - 396,187
3. Killzone: Shadow Fall - 355,148
4. Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag - 345,176
5. Madden NFL 25 - 133,176
6. NBA 2K14 - 111,674
7. Knack - 102,749
8. Need for Speed Rivals - 94,157
9. FIFA Soccer 14 - 77,914
10. LEGO Marvel Super Heroes - 32,188
11. NBA Live 14 - 21,652
12. Skylanders SWAP Force - 18,681
13. Just Dance 2014 - 17,569
14. Injustice: Gods Among Us - 5,143
15. Angry Birds Star Wars - 2,274
PlayStation 4 Launch Sales Are In - Call of Duty: Ghosts Leads the Pack
by William D'Angelo, posted 1 hour ago / 3,447 Views
The PlayStation 4 launched on Friday in North America and set a record for the biggest opening for a console in history. The console sold 984,212 units in the US week one, according to VGChartz. The PlayStation 4 also sold 1.06 million units across North America. Week one sales is also for only two days, Friday and Saturday.
Software figures for the US first two days are also in. Call of Duty: Ghosts leads the pack with sales 703,638. That would add up to a 71 percent attach rate. Battlefield 4 sold 396,187 units. That would put the attach rate at 40 percent for the game.
Killzone: Shadow Fall was the top selling exclusive with 355,148 units sold. The attach for the game is at 36 percent in the first two days on sale.The other launch exclusive, Knack, ended up selling 102,749 units.
In total, 2,417,516 games were sold in the first two days in the US. For every PlayStation 4 that was sold gamers picked up 2.46 games.
1. Call of Duty: Ghosts - 703,638
2. Battlefield 4 - 396,187
3. Killzone: Shadow Fall - 355,148
4. Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag - 345,176
5. Madden NFL 25 - 133,176
6. NBA 2K14 - 111,674
7. Knack - 102,749
8. Need for Speed Rivals - 94,157
9. FIFA Soccer 14 - 77,914
10. LEGO Marvel Super Heroes - 32,188
11. NBA Live 14 - 21,652
12. Skylanders SWAP Force - 18,681
13. Just Dance 2014 - 17,569
14. Injustice: Gods Among Us - 5,143
15. Angry Birds Star Wars - 2,274
Not sure I would put much stock in VGChartz number...especially when what they say contradicts Sony. A 2.46 attach rate with 2,417,516 games would total 982,730 units sold, less than the number Sony said was sold in the first 24 hours. Where do they even get these numbers from anyways?
Sony's over a million were north-america, US and Canada - normally Mexico would be there also I think, but Mexican consumers need to wait for their PS4's since Taco Bell gave all of their units away, instead of selling it to other mexicans.
- The numbers you referred to from the article is supposedly US only - they said 1.02 million with Canada.
VGChartz base their estimates upon NPD and a few other sources. The sales-estimates are usually pretty good, good enough for Square Enix to use it in their quarterly reports to investors - so I guess it should be good enough for us here on this forum for the most part.
So sad that COD: Ghosts sold that much. It truly shows dude bros pay no attention to the reviews
Naw, zombies for blops1 was amazing. Could have and should have been its own game. Otherwise I agree.
Yeah Zombies is fun. Just sick of them using same engine over and over and not making a new one.
Doesn't attach rate also include accessories like controllers and cameras.
Yeah, but the number in the VG link KongRudi posted said 2.46 games per console, I just shortened down to attach rate.
At any rate though, how can VG even have estimates based on NPD for something that NPD hasn't even published any numbers for yet...seems to me it's just guess work like most of their numbers. Honestly, if I was an investor for a company quoting numbers from a site that openly admits to guessing I would be calling for a management reform.
I tend to think MS might pass it for the 24 hours total because they are releasing in all their initial territories at once, where Sony split NA and the rest between the 15th and the 29nd. So really need to wait until after the 29th to get a good idea of where both sat.
Sony's over a million were north-america, US and Canada - normally Mexico would be there also I think, but Mexican consumers need to wait for their PS4's since Taco Bell gave all of their units away, instead of selling it to other mexicans.
- The numbers you referred to from the article is supposedly US only - they said 1.02 million with Canada.
VGChartz base their estimates upon NPD and a few other sources. The sales-estimates are usually pretty good, good enough for Square Enix to use it in their quarterly reports to investors - so I guess it should be good enough for us here on this forum for the most part.
They have had the PS3 at over 80m just about all year yet Sony only shipped that number a couple weeks back. The sites to be way off with its numbers.
And SE are a mess right now.
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History of first month sales numbers so far (to be updated later)...
Can you imagine what the PS4's first month of sales is actually going to look like?
