Last Tuesday, Sony (NYSE:SNE) announced that 6 million units of the PlayStation 4, the company's next-generation video game console, had been sold since its release last November. Because Sony had expected to sell 5 million units by the end of March, the news was taken as a good sign. The PS3, released in November 2006, didn't sell 5 million units until late summer 2007. Not only is PS4 an early success in comparison to its predecessor, it's also easily besting its competition from Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT), the Xbox One.
The video game-console industry overall is suffering, however. During the month of January 2007, 1.7 million total video games consoles were sold (that includes sales for all systems from Microsoft, Nintendo (OTCMKTS:NTDOY), and Sony), according to the market researcher NPD. That was two months after the launch of the PS3 and Nintendo's Wii, and 13 months after the November 2005 launch of Microsoft's Xbox 360.
Publisher Thunderful Games and developer Image & Form Games have released a “gameplay deep dive” trailer for turn-based RPG sequel SteamWorld Heist II.
SW: Heist was the first game in the series I played actually so I'm very excited to play this.
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“April was an indie-heavy month and it was hard to pick the best games but here we go! Hope you have fun and see something you like.” - A.J. Maciejewski from Video Chums.
lets not forget holiday 2006 360 had a price drop and it was the 2nd yr on the market and the Ps3 was fresh new in jan 2007 and the impact of phones weren't big yet. the economy was still well to b4 2008
consoles are fine fog with these articles
there are still great games on 360 and PS3 and PS4 aren't in stock often so makes it hard to jump over
What a strange way to interpret data. The new consoles are selling faster than the old consoles did at launch. One is supply constrained and the other is only available in 13 countries.
The old consoles sales are slowing because they've been out for 8 years and have saturated.
It's not enough to just regurgitate numbers. You've gotta look at context. The industry is fine.
last time i checked the ps4 has sold faster than ps2 and ps3 so how are they not selling like they used to?
From what I am reading the XBO and PS4 is selling incredible good.
Given the limited game catalogue so far for both next gen consoles and that Sony has still problems with meeting demand the sales are very good.
I hate to disappoint people but consoles are not going anywhere and mobile certainly won't get them to disappear.
Also that insider is talking out of his butt. On the pure hardware comparison consoles often had hardware that would not be as good as whatever PC can be bought. Just look at Crysis 1 for PC and compare that to early 360/PS3 games. It is technically and financially not possible to release a console that has top of the line hardware because the cost must be low and the development time for a console takes ages. A console will never be able to perform on the same level as a top end PC.
The hardware on paper doesn't look that strong, but it's not an appel to appel comparison, consoles don't have to put up with a lot of the restrictions and resource problems PCs have to deal with. Taking a same spec PC will not in any way give the same power output.