News & Rumours: Playstation 4/ Orbis *spin*

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Cjail said:
1 mil in 24 hours it's great.
EU is PS stronghold so imagine it will sell even more in EU.

I feel sorry for the WiiU now.
MS and Sony are going to rule Christmas.
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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.
 
scf said:
They have to be able to produce demanding amount of consoles. To sell 5 mil you need to produce it :) Let's hope they will manage to cover demand!
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Given those first day US sales numbers, I've got a feeling we'll see major shortages here in Europe. :cry:

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.
 
MfA said:
So exactly how do you calculate the loss per box then if you count non recurring costs?
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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.
 
RenegadeRocks said:
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.
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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.
 
Cjail said:
1 mil in 24 hours it's great.
EU is PS stronghold so imagine it will sell even more in EU.

I feel sorry for the WiiU now.
MS and Sony are going to rule Christmas.
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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
 
messyman said:
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
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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 :)
 
messyman said:
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
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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.
 
Graph for perspective, first month USA sales. Canada usually has ~10% USA sales I believe.

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