PlayStation 4 sold 1 million units in first day of availability

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PlayStation 4 sales passed the one million mark within the console's first 24 hours at retail, Sony announced this morning. The PS4 launched in North America on November 15, so that figure is restricted to the US & Canada; the console comes to Europe on November 29, and Japan on February 22, 2014.

SCEA President and CEO Jack Tretton predicted 3 million sales by the end of the year, and with the European launch to come, that's looking eminently realistic. Sony is targeting that figure to rise to 5 million by the close of the company's fiscal year in March 2014, by which point the console will have reached Japan.

According to data gatherer NPD, Sony only sold 197,000 PS3 units to the US in its first two weeks of availability, with shortages of supply to blame. Around this time last year, the Wii U sold 425,000 units in the US within its first week at retail, with Nintendo going on to ship 3 million units worldwide by the end of 2012.

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Source: http://www.joystiq.com/2013/11/17/playstation-4-sells-1-million-in-first-day/

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FuryanPosted:

That's actually not that good, America is huge and only 1 million?
The Xbox One will sale that.

CokesPosted:

Wow, pretty impressive. Didn't expect it to be that much.

VPNPosted:

-CP I think Xbox ONE will do far better.


Yeah I guess that what everyone is thinking right now.

KickaPosted:

Ugg Nice, but the Xbox One will have more.


yea sure.. considering ps4 had more pre orders..

DollPosted:

Nice, but the Xbox One will have more.

-CPPosted:

I think Xbox ONE will do far better.

SwiftPosted:

This is not surprising considered the amount of people I saw outside my Gamestop and Best Buy.

palmtreesPosted:

Pyzmo That's agreeable palmtrees but get ready for the immature backlash from either side :x


thanks, and I'm ready for all the kids raging :D

PyzmoPosted:

That's agreeable palmtrees but get ready for the immature backlash from either side :x

palmtreesPosted:

honestly don't get why people are arguing over the consoles still calling each other immature, you're both immature if your arguing over a console, its pathetic, just sony at the moment has a terrible console but it can be fixed, and who knows xbox one's launch might be a huge fail, the next gen systems are both amazing all that matters is what console you like better, personally for me its xbox but only because it always has been xbox and its what my friends have and are getting, im sure PS4 will soon be running fine and will be a great gaming console, and hopefully the xbox one will be to :)


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