News & Rumours: Playstation 4/ Orbis *spin*

It also puts to rest the idea that the 1 million pre-orders was world wide. It was N.America only by the looks of it. I wonder what the global pre-order numbers are?

It also lends weight the the rumour that it was the PS4 pre-order numbers that had MS react so strongly with it's policy 360's.

 

Given those first day US sales numbers, I've got a feeling we'll see major shortages here in Europe.

They'll probably make sure to sell as many consoles as they possibly can in the US before shipping more units to the EU (which is a market they obviously assume PS4 will dominate anyway) ...

I won't complain, though - considering that they won't even launch PS4 before next year in Japan.

 

They are making ~ 1-1.2 mil per month since september, more than enough to bring to market 5 million consoles until end of march.

What I wonder is how much consoles will they leave for Japanese launch in late February? PS2 almost reached 1 mil consoles sold in first day in Japan.

 

I've read that some users have consoles produced in August and even July. So they started earlier than September.

 

Can't a company calculate the total expenditure on a project till launch date? Then factor in the number of pre orders and forecasted sales at launch> use the figures for loss per box. I am sure they have hired enough economists to calculate just that. They have to.

 

Didn't sony say 0.4% ? 1% would be a lot of faulty products. I hope I don't get a faulty one :fear:

 

Sony sure, but that's not what I meant with you.

We all know where these bullshit numbers generally come from ... analysts. Now I think third party BOM cost analysis is almost always complete and utter bullshit to begin with, but when you start adding non recurring costs it becomes worse.

 

1% is incredibly low. 3-4% is average. Xbox 360 was 40%+

 

Amazing start!

For reference, it took 8 days for Wii to sell 600k in the Americas.

 

Calendar I believe. Fiscal target is 5 mi. They'll beat both handily.

 

Am I the only one who's interested in buying the WiiU now because of the new Mario game which looks fantastic?
Plus I can't find the PS4 at my local stores T_T

 

Well...good luck playing only Mario for the next 8 years on it

 

So what have we here ?

http://www.neowin.net/news/foxconn-intern-claims-ps4-was-sabotaged-during-manufacturing

Unhappy interns at Foxconn (can imagine... after the endless reports about Apple) sabotaging PS4 consoles ?

 

You aren't the only one.

Though I bought a PS4, I wish I could have both, just because of Super Mario 3D World

For now I will enjoy Resogun and KZ Shadowfall though, excellent games

 

But its not $300 good.

The PS4 looks good and hopefully can be made great as Sony refine their software over time. Overall, a good start to nextgen.

 

http://www.ign.com/boards/threads/ps4-brick-hdmi-workaround.453526025/

Nice one.. HDMI HDCP handshake issues...

Well, for me an alert went off when I saw that Sony is using Panasonic HDMI chipsets.... seen more problems with those.

 

Shocked if true

 

Im not familiar with US TV market. Is this 'insignia' tv this guy is using any good?

 

Graph for perspective, first month USA sales. Canada usually has ~10% USA sales I believe.

 

It's a quite popular retail brick-and-mortar model. One of the brands that non-demanding shoppers would pickup. It's likely a very prototypical tv.