PlayStation 4 sales target is 5 million by March

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Sony wants to sell 5 million PlayStation 4 units by March 2014, the company has announced at Tokyo Games Show.

Sony group CEO Andrew House made the announcement during Sony's keynote address, which also featured a presentation by Worldwide Studios head Shuhei Yoshida and engineering boss Masayasu Ito.

March 2014 marks the last month of Sony's 2013 financial year, Yoshida commented later on Twitter.

The keynote reiterated many previously announced aspects of Sony's PS4 strategy, including smartphone and tablet integration, the console's social networking and sharing capabilities, and Sony's dedication to indie games.

The PS Vita TV's features were revisited, with Ito demonstrating how the mini-console's Remote Play functionality will work in practice.

During his presentation, Ito also explained why PSN accounts will allow users to use their real name, pointing to casual gamers and their reluctance to befriend strangers on social networks.

"Hardcore users didn't mind using an anonymous name, but when casual users get a request from an anonymous name, do you think they'd accept it quickly? I think not," he said.

Sony announced last week that the PS4 will not release in Japan until February 22, three months after the console's launch in Europe, North America, Australia and several Asian regions.

PS4 will release November 29 in Europe and Australia, and November 15 in the US.

Tokyo Games Show runs from today, Thursday September 19, until Sunday September 22.

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MentalistPosted:

-Lamborgini They should reach it, it shouldn't be hard. I know for a fact that a the Xbox One is going to sell a lot more consoles the first month or two.


I think they'll reach it without a problem, they are selling lots of consoles.

VPNPosted:

They should reach it, it shouldn't be hard. I know for a fact that a the Xbox One is going to sell a lot more consoles the first month or two.

MultitaskPosted:

Dr-J
Lightyear
Dr-J That's cool, to bad they may not get sales in Argentina lol


Haha, I think people might buy it since we don't know how much an average Argentinian earns.


That article said the average person there earns 10k while the ps4 is over 1k. lol


yea i have no idea why they would

MultitaskPosted:

i Hope they reach their goal can't wait for Ps4 :D

Dr-JPosted:

Lightyear
Dr-J That's cool, to bad they may not get sales in Argentina lol


Haha, I think people might buy it since we don't know how much an average Argentinian earns.


That article said the average person there earns 10k while the ps4 is over 1k. lol

MaggardoPosted:

Ursa I think they will get alot more then 5 million.Sony is really stepin their game up this gen.


Yeah, they are stepping up there game!

ErisPosted:

I think they will get alot more then 5 million.Sony is really stepin their game up this gen.

Dr-PonyfilePosted:

Cost I could see that happening, but to bad Japan gets it last :/


Although they get it last I think Sony want to see how well it sells and functions when it becomes available to the general public in November and iron out all the glitches on the console before they release it onto the Japanese market.

-CPPosted:

Holy s**t, that is a lot to sell in that amount of time :O

_MarkPosted:

I could see that happening, but to bad Japan gets it last :/


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