As of now, PS4 - 23 millions consoles sold, Xbox One 13 million, Wii U 9.7 million

http://www.tweaktown.com/news/46315/ps4-sales-hit-23-million-xbox-one-trails-behind-12/index.html

Y'know, I agree with the article, Wii U sales don't look nearly as bad when considering Xbox One. I'm honestly surprised the difference is so big between PS4/Xbox One.

Still wish Nintendo would have manned up and stuck with the Wii U a bit longer.

 

Incredibly accurate numbers, no sources.

As far as i've seen only sony provide actual numbers sold, the other two are just numbers shipped, and microsoft play very loose with the stock levels whereas nintendo keep it quite tight.

 

Sony won this round? who gona win next round? llool

 

I know in Japan the Xbox one is selling horribly with in 1 week they managed to sell only 100 units.

It is only rumors that the NX is coming out some time in 2016. It could be at least late 2017.

 

PS2 holds record I believe for best selling console ever.

 

The PS2 is the best selling home games console of all time, by a pretty huge margin. Even beats out hand held devices.

 

200 million I believe? For PS2?

I had two points to this post. 1.) Sony is kicking some tail and 2.) Wii U isn't as horribly off as people are making it out to be - yes it had a head start, yes the user base should be larger, but by no means is it at a point to abandon ship imo.

 

155 million for ps2

154 million for DS

 

I can't see either of those being topped

 

The PS4 has sold 3-4 million more than the PS2 for the first 19 months, but still a long way to go.

 

Yes didn't PS2 hit 100 million in first 5 years?

 

I honestly think the main reason the 360/ps3 sold slower when they were "new" was the lack of hdtv user migration in 2005/2006. Even when I bought a 360 in 06' I bought the vga hook up and played it on my CRT at the time. The only reason I chose the 360 over the ps3 was because MS offered this solution if you didn't have an hdtv.

I really don't think the current consoles, ps4 especially are selling so fast because of what they offer, lets be honest, both systems have been pretty lackluster in the exclusives department and even worse in the exclusives worth playing department.

The difference this generation? Hdtv's are in way more homes so people aren't clinging to the older systems like they were in 2005.

For a good portion of customers, back in 2005, buying a Xbox 360 or PS3 meant also buying a $500 to $1,000 HDTV.

I barely watch television, the PC gamer in me only cared about how good my monitor was. I didn't buy an HDTV until 2009.

 

The PS3 had one distinct advantage that won a lot of people over, mind you -- that being the Blu-Ray player. The actual console itself was cheaper than many dedicated Blu-ray players of the time, which made it an absolute bargain for those who actually had HDTV's. I think that probably helped sales of the console as HDTV's became more popular.

 

The other one being the hard drive as standard, I think that made a big difference in the long run.

Just imagine how different it would have been had the ps3 had a joint memory pool of 512mb like xbox, likely would have been the favoured console in most games.

 

Definitely.

Microsoft didn't make it easy or cheap for people to upgrade their hard drives, or add them for that matter. It was a cakewalk for PS3 owners, and as you said the drives came as standard anyway.

Also, speaking as someone that owned both consoles, the PS3 was a much higher quality product. The early 360's felt cheap as hell, I've never thought that about any of the PS3 releases.

 

Exactly it was a slow migration form SD to HD and I see this with 4K TVs since they are kind of pricey even though they have come down in price. Also when I first got my PS3 Slim I had to play it on a CRT TV with the standard composite cables.

 

I will maintain they released the current generation too soon. This is purely down to lack of 1080p 60fps, no DDR4, no 4k hdcp output, no SATA 3, no blu-rayUHD and so on and so forth.

They were out of date before when they shipped, and reek of cheapness and lack of commitment to the console market, and fear in the face of tablets and smartphones - both of which outsell the entire last console generation every year. Think about it.





And to further the point, let's look at how M$ is doing with its smart-phone acquisition and handling of Nokia:



and now let's have a look at iPhone and just the iPhone.



So, just Apple which do not have the entire market sold last year more iPhones than Sony sold PS2's in total, which furthers my point: This generation is a low-risk movement by each vendor due to fear of mobile and everything that it brings.

 

Do we have a console hate post? Yes!

Does PS4 sell like hot cakes? Yes!

Does cheaper easy to use stuff sell better than high price niche stuff? Yes!

 

yet, smartphones are more expensive than consoles - but sell more. Not kicking your point, but I'd like to ask why people here think this is?