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PlayStation 4 Becomes Fastest Console To Sell 100 Million (geek.com) 76

Posted by BeauHD from the sales-record dept.
According to a recent financial report from Sony, the PlayStation 4 has become the fastest home console to reach 100 million sales. Geek.com reports: The 100 million mark is an impressive milestone for any console no matter how long it takes to reach it. Sony previous hit it with the original PlayStation and set the total sales record with the PlayStation 2's 155 million sales. Meanwhile, Nintendo also achieved this with the original Wii, the Game Boy line of handhelds, and the 154 million sales of the Nintendo DS. But after failing to hit the target with the beleaguered (albeit still successful) PlayStation 3, Sony has bounced back with the PlayStation 4. And since the PS4 has only been on the market for five years and seven months, it beat the record two months earlier than the previous fastest seller the PS2.
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  • Playstation 4 is a good console, I enjoyed it for a good long while.

    I also had the original Playstation at launch, it was revolutionary. Games on discs. Discworld was freakin awesome. Even had the mouse (controller)

    I eventually sold all of my PS4 gear and games to Gamestop when they were running a trade-in promotion.

    I got $724 dollars in store credit that i used to get the Nintendo Switch at launch, some extra joy cons, a pro controller, and some games.

    I enjoy the Switch now, as does the family.

    I hope th

    • What PC would cost over $10k??? A PS4 is manufactured at around $350.

      • When I say dream PC i mean it.

        Meaning the most expensive bleeding edge technology. I don't have the contents of my shopping cart anymore because my wife saw it , laughed, and deleted it.

        In all honesty i just wanted to see how much it would cost.

        • Like a Cyrix 686?

          • Like a Cyrix 686?

            YES! exactly ! the other $9975 was for a power supply and some really high end LEDS.

        • Actually I'm kind of interested what that would look like. This is my dream machine right now [nvidia.com], but it's a little different (and doesn't come with a monitor so I guess I'd need that separate).

          • Actually I'm kind of interested what that would look like. This is my dream machine right now [nvidia.com], but it's a little different (and doesn't come with a monitor so I guess I'd need that separate).

            It'd look like this :

            Case : GENESIS Chassis
            Side Panels : Tempered Glass-Tempered Glass
            Exterior Color : ORIGIN PC Black
            Interior Color : ORIGIN PC Black
            Interior Lighting : ORIGIN PC Black
            Current Special Offer : Free shipping & Double The Ram on Select Corsair Memory Kits
            Variable Mounting : 90 Standard Orientation
            Lower Unit : Cryogenic Cooling Support
            Processors : Intel Core i9 9980XE 18-Core 3.0GHz (4.5GHz TurboBoost)
            Motherboard : MSI X299 Raider
            Memory : 128GB CORSAIR VENGEANCE 3000MHz (8x16GB)
            System Cooli

            • Re: (Score:2)

              by murdocj ( 543661 )

              YOU were the one who talked about all the consoles you had. Then you said

              I hope the console market doesn't die as some have predicted. I want the next console i buy to be extraordinarily powerful.
              If no power options presents themselves i might consider a gaming PC

              So YOU are the one talking about building a PC to beat the consoles.

              • was talking about building a DREAM PC and i was talking about building a system that can beat consoles. They do not have to be the same machine.

                But my bad brah, i didn't mean to be ambiguous.

            • Case : GENESIS Chassis

              Now I'm curious as to how you're going to fit a dream PC that does what Nintendon't in the chassis of a game console from 1989 [segaretro.org].

        • Re: (Score:2)

          by muridae ( 966931 )

          You don't need Threadripper to game on. You don't need the top-end Intel i9 series chip, either.

          My i7-7600K does amazingly well at 1080p paired with a GTX1080. I spent extra getting an AIO water-cooled graphics card: EVGA GTX1080 Hydro. I think I spent well under $2000 when everything was done. Just a decent microATX board, 32GB RAM at not-quite top-end clocks for the time.

          Sure, if money were no object, if I wanted something really bleeding edge I would probably go for dual GTX2080 Supers in a Zen 2 Thr

    • Spending thousands of dollars on a gaming PC is ridiculously stupid if your are not rich. Game makers target mid range PCs and you are waaayyy better off upgrading every 18 months with midrange parts where your old parts still get a good second hand price that subsidize your upgrade. This way you can always run the latest AAA games better than consoles. People think gaming PCs are expensive but doing it this way is actually cheaper than consoles once you factor in the online subscription costs with the much

      • Spending thousands of dollars on a gaming PC is ridiculously stupid if your are not rich. Game makers target mid range PCs and you are waaayyy better off upgrading every 18 months with midrange parts where your old parts still get a good second hand price that subsidize your upgrade. This way you can always run the latest AAA games better than consoles. People think gaming PCs are expensive but doing it this way is actually cheaper than consoles once you factor in the online subscription costs with the much higher game costs.

        I am what you call a patient game and it is a very inexpensive way to game. I wait for AAA releases to be a year or so old where you can pick up the complete edition with all DLC really cheap and most of the bugs have been fixed. My back catalog is always overflowing and I never spend stupid amounts of money on a rushed bug filled mess. I also can get away with upgrading my GPU and CPU less often.

        I am the similar to you in my gaming PC ambition, at least in theory, less in practice. By best "gaming PC" right now is a i5 and a 940mx , with 8gb ram and 1.25tb storage. But if I were to actually build a gaming PC it would probably run about $1k. i'll have to save up though.

      • Re: (Score:2)

        by muridae ( 966931 )

        If you are completely replacing most of a midrange PC every 18 months, it is dramatically more expensive than a console. Even with the extra cost of an online membership.

        On the other hand, if you just replace the graphics card when you need to (I'll ditch my 1080 with AIO liquid cooling when the next generation drops) then the cost is a bit close to the cost of a console. But it is still no where close; because by then I'll have probably ditched the intel 7600K for a Zen 2 CPU with better IPC; meaning new m

        • You should get at least 2 CPU and GPU upgrades out of each motherboard generation. I am still running an i5 4690K and not ready to upgrade just yet.

    • You don't need a dream PC to play games very well. All you need is a decent motherboard, a great power supply, the best CPU that you can get for up to 8 threads and an air cooler to match, a great GPU, at least 32GB of RAM (if you want to be able to run heavily modded games, 16GB is no longer enough) and a reasonably sizable NVMe SSD.

      Anything else is just going to potentially cause problems that you don't need.

      I have about half of that and it suits my needs, but the last AAA game I bought while people were

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by Ranbot ( 2648297 )

      ...I got $724 dollars.... i might consider a gaming PC. I put together a dream PC in parts recently and it was over $10k , the wife would NEVER ok something like that....

      Your $724 would have almost covered my last gaming PC upgrade about 3 years (~$800) and all my games still run fine. I don't expect to be upgrading again any time soon. I'm slightly underpowered for VR, but I don't think I'm missing much there (maybe next upgrade). My costs exclude the monitor, case, and power supply components, and peripherals (keyboard, mouse, headset, etc.) because they didn't need upgrading. A high quality monitor, a reliable power supply with some extra wattage, and a case with plenty

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by samdu ( 114873 )

      I've had every PlayStation released, but the original PlayStation wasn't revolutionary for having games on discs. The Amiga CD32 beat it to market by a year. IIRC, the Philips CDi did, as well.

  • The Nintendo DS sold 100 million units in 51 months, compared to 67 months for the PS4. ( Sauce: https://www.gamesindustry.biz/... [gamesindustry.biz] )

    Apparently this dopey analyst doesn't consider the NDS a game console.

    • Apparently this dopey analyst doesn't consider the NDS a game console

      It's not. It's widely categorized as a handheld, which has historically been tracked as its own market.

      The Switch of course throws a spanner in that going forward, but if you're going to compare the PS4 to past console sales, then excluding handhelds makes sense.

    • it's a portable. It hits a different market segment. In 2019 I think that matters more than it did 30-40 years ago when we were kids and the industry was young. For one thing I never really had more than 1 thing that played games at a time (selling one to help finance the other). Nowadays a modern console launches at $250 - $400, which adjusted for inflation is $120-$250 when I was a kid. In otherwords, cheap enough that you can buy both.
    • No, the headline is correct. The PS4 is the fastest console to reach 100 million sales. The NDS is significantly slower than the PS4.

  • While the PS4 is amazing and is obviously poised to achieve 100 million sales soon, this article completely misrepresents Sony statement. Sony said it has SHIPPED 100 million PS4s. The actual number of sales is estimated to be around 92 million.

    • Umm, this is kinda how things work. Target/Walmart/Gamespot/Joe's Game Joint order machines to put on the shelf, then sell them. You seem to think they wait for Average Joe to show up with a credit card, pay, then order the thing from wherever to arrive in 4-6 weeks. The boffins in China get woke up, build a PS4,box it up, and send it to me.

      Had your scenario been in place I'm guessing Sony would have sold 1/3 as many as they have. I know I'd have never got mine under that model (xmas present last yea

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