The Playstation 4 sales thread - 100m shipped!!

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PostRe: The Playstation 4 sales thread - 79m shipped
by Victor Mildew » Mon Apr 30, 2018 7:43 pm

so if my subscription lapses do I get to keep the games?

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PostRe: The Playstation 4 sales thread - 79m shipped
by KK » Mon Apr 30, 2018 8:01 pm

Nope.

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PostRe: RE: Re: The Playstation 4 sales thread - 79m shipped
by Gemini73 » Mon Apr 30, 2018 11:22 pm

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KK wrote:And they still put the price of a Plus subscription up. :x

Should mean they have a lot of money to play with for PS5...right?
Be interesting to know how many people won't be renewing as a result. My current subscription ends December and at this time, not bothered about renewing it.


I was going to renew my subscription on firing up GT Sport this evening, but seeing so much more offline content has been added since I last played said game I decided not to. For now at least. I use Xbox for the brunt of my online gaming and it's a tenner cheaper.

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PostRe: The Playstation 4 sales thread - 79m shipped
by NickSCFC » Tue Oct 30, 2018 5:50 pm

Outsold both the PS3 and 360 (approx 84m each) in less than 5 years.

Next milestone is Wii at 101m

twitter.com/BenjiSales/status/1057155772822548480


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PostRe: The Playstation 4 sales thread - 86m sold
by Gemini73 » Tue Oct 30, 2018 7:24 pm

I suspect PS5 will have been announced before PS4 hits that Wii figure so gamers will have all eyes on that.

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PostRe: The Playstation 4 sales thread - 86m sold
by NickSCFC » Tue Oct 30, 2018 7:43 pm

Gemini73 wrote:I suspect PS5 will have been announced before PS4 hits that Wii figure.


With PS4 still selling this well despite hardly any price drops, I see no reason for this.

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PostRe: The Playstation 4 sales thread - 86m sold
by Poser » Tue Oct 30, 2018 9:43 pm

NickSCFC wrote:
Gemini73 wrote:I suspect PS5 will have been announced before PS4 hits that Wii figure.


With PS4 still selling this well despite hardly any price drops, I see no reason for this.


That's the amazing thing. Been expecting a significant price drop for a couple of years now, but they just haven't needed one.

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PostRe: The Playstation 4 sales thread - 86m sold
by NickSCFC » Wed Oct 31, 2018 9:53 am

Poser wrote:
NickSCFC wrote:
Gemini73 wrote:I suspect PS5 will have been announced before PS4 hits that Wii figure.


With PS4 still selling this well despite hardly any price drops, I see no reason for this.


That's the amazing thing. Been expecting a significant price drop for a couple of years now, but they just haven't needed one.


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PostRe: The Playstation 4 sales thread - 86m sold
by NickSCFC » Tue Jan 08, 2019 9:04 am

PLAYSTATION 4 SALES SURPASS 91.6 MILLION UNITS WORLDWIDE AFTER THE STRONG HOLIDAY SEASON

~ Marvel’s Spider-Man Sells more than 9 Million Copies Worldwide ~​

SAN MATEO, Calif., January 7, 2019 - Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) today announced new sales milestone for PlayStation®4 (PS4™).
PS4 has now cumulatively sold through more than 91.6 million units*1 globally as of December 31, 2018.
Within the above number, PS4 has sold through more than 5.6 million units*2 globally during the 2018 holiday season*3.

Moreover:
More than 50.7 million*4 PS4 games were sold through globally during the 2018 holiday season, which sums up to 876 million*5 PS4 games cumulatively sold through worldwide as of December 31, 2018.
Marvel’s Spider-Man, launched in September 2018, has cumulatively sold through more than 9 million copies*6 worldwide as of November 25, 2018.

Source: https://www.sie.com/en/corporate/releas ... 90108.html

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PostRe: The Playstation 4 sales thread - 86m sold
by NickSCFC » Tue Jan 08, 2019 9:13 am

Second best year for PS4 sales

twitter.com/ZhugeEX/status/1082444883183439872


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PostRe: The Playstation 4 sales thread - 86m sold
by Preezy » Tue Jan 08, 2019 9:14 am

The PlayStation! How mighty its aspect! How far-reaching its boundaries! As one console dies ten more are brought into the fold. Fear us, for we count the lives of units, not men!

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PostRe: The Playstation 4 sales thread - 86m sold
by Poser » Tue Jan 08, 2019 9:17 am

Preezy wrote:The PlayStation! How mighty its aspect! How far-reaching its boundaries! As one console dies ten more are brought into the fold. Fear us, for we count the lives of units, not men!


:lol:

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PostRe: The Playstation 4 sales thread - 86m sold
by NickSCFC » Tue Jan 08, 2019 9:26 am

Still tracking ahead of PS2

Hard to imagine it passing PS2's 155m sold though

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PostRe: The Playstation 4 sales thread - 86m sold
by KingK » Tue Jan 08, 2019 9:45 am

NickSCFC wrote:Second best year for PS5 sales

twitter.com/ZhugeEX/status/1082444883183439872


:shock:

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PostRe: The Playstation 4 sales thread - 86m sold
by Preezy » Tue Jan 08, 2019 9:59 am

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Preezy wrote:The PlayStation! How mighty its aspect! How far-reaching its boundaries! As one console dies ten more are brought into the fold. Fear us, for we count the lives of units, not men!


:lol:

I just can't help but imagine Nick waking up each morning, kneeling before his PS4 (polished daily, on a golden pedestal) and reciting the daily pledge of allegiance to spread the Good Word of Its Glory to the heretical masses so that the whole world can be cleansed in Its glorious light. Then he cuts his hand and squeezes some blood onto the console, and then his mum comes in and shouts about the mess.

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PostRe: The Playstation 4 sales thread - 91.6m sold
by Moggy » Tue Jan 08, 2019 10:15 am

It’s sold less than 100million? What a strawberry floating disaster. Broom it and start again Sony.

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PostRe: The Playstation 4 sales thread - 91.6m sold
by Peter Crisp » Tue Jan 08, 2019 10:51 am

Moggy wrote:It’s sold less than 100million? What a strawberry floating disaster. Broom it and start again Sony.


7.6 Billion people have decided that the PS4 is so gooseberry fool they don't want it :capnscotty: .

Sony should take a moment to think about that.

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PostRe: The Playstation 4 sales thread - 91.6m sold
by NickSCFC » Fri Feb 01, 2019 9:40 am

94.2m shipped and...

twitter.com/BenjiSales/status/1091225541879967746


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PostRe: The Playstation 4 sales thread - 86m sold
by Rapidly-Greying » Fri Feb 01, 2019 9:51 am

Preezy wrote:
Poser wrote:
Preezy wrote:The PlayStation! How mighty its aspect! How far-reaching its boundaries! As one console dies ten more are brought into the fold. Fear us, for we count the lives of units, not men!


:lol:

I just can't help but imagine Nick waking up each morning, kneeling before his PS4 (polished daily, on a golden pedestal) and reciting the daily pledge of allegiance to spread the Good Word of Its Glory to the heretical masses so that the whole world can be cleansed in Its glorious light. Then he cuts his hand and squeezes some blood onto the console, and then his mum comes in and shouts about the mess.


At least I now know that it's not only me that does that. No mother to moan about the mess though.

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PostRe: The Playstation 4 sales thread - 94.2m shipped
by Saint of Killers » Mon Feb 11, 2019 7:15 pm

Why they're not at E3:

You're not the first big company to bow out of the big E3 video game show in June, but I'm curious why you chose this year to drop out?

When we decided to take video games out of CES, back in 1995 during the PlayStation 1 era, E3 served two constituencies: retailers and journalists.

Retailers would come in -- you'd see a guy come in, and he'd say, "I'm from Sears, and I handle Hot Wheels, Barbie, VHS and video games. So what are you about?" There was a huge educational component.

Then you had journalists who had magazines and lead time and jockeying for position on the cover. And there was no internet to speak of. So a trade show at that time of year for this nascent industry was exactly what we needed to do.

Now we have an event in February called Destination PlayStation, where we bring all retailers and third-party partners to come hear the story for the year. They're making purchasing discussions in February. June, now, is just too late to have a Christmas holiday discussion with retailers.

So retail has really dropped off. And journalists now, with the internet and the fact that 24/7 there is game news, it's lost its impact around that.

So the trade show became a trade show without a lot of trade activity. The world has changed, but E3 hasn't necessarily changed with it.

And with our decision to do fewer games -- bigger games -- over longer periods of time, we got to a point where June of 2019 was not a time for us to have a new thing to say. And we feel like if we ring the bell and people show up here in force, people have expectation "Oh, they're going to tell us something."

We are progressing the conversation about, how do we transform E3 to be more relevant? Can E3 transition more into a fan festival of gaming, where we don't gather there to drop the new bomb? Can't it just be a celebration of games and have panels where we bring game developers closer to fans?

https://www.cnet.com/news/sonys-shawn-l ... ion-games/


I think that's the first time I've heard of Destination PlayStation :?


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