PS4 is the fastest selling ANYTHING of all time

I did some research, and the PlayStation 4 is the fastest selling anything released, ever. No other consumer electronic has ever sold faster than the PlayStation 4 has*. This includes not only other consoles, such as the Wii and PS2, or handhelds such as the Nintendo DS, but also highly regarded and amazing selling consumer electronic devices such as iPod, iPhone, and iPad. The PlayStation 4 is beating everything.

For comparison's sake, I will be comparing the sales of all these products five months into their release (which is where the PlayStation 4 currently stands). The results are truly amazing:

• iPod: (0.12 million units sold worldwide six months after launch)
• iPhone: 1.46 million units sold worldwide six months after launch)
• iPad: (6.21 million units sold worldwide five months after launch)
• PlayStation 2: (2.51 million units sold worldwide five months after launch)**
• Wii: (6.62 million units sold worldwide after launch)
• Nintendo DS: (4.76 million units sold worldwide after launch)

Before we proceed, here are several caveats:

• Where possible, I tried to use exact comparisons. Since five months is such an odd unit (companies report in units of three) in many cases, it became impossible to gain an accurate picture by using quarterly reports; in that case, total cumulative sales at the end of the nearest quarter since launch were taken, divided by the total number of months since launch, and then multiplied by 5 (such as for Wii, sales at the end of its third quarter {the first finished quarter after its fifth month on the market} were 9.27 million. 9.27/7*5=6.62 million)
• For a lot of these products, the launches were staggered (such as for the PS2). In this case, the date of the earliest launch was treated as the product launch.

Given all of this, it's amazing the rate at which the PS4 is selling- seven million in just five months is a lot! It's more than any other system, any other stand alone consumer electronic product, has ever achieved!

Take a bow, Sony. You deserve your success this time around. You really, truly do.

* Peripherals, accessories, and software bundles may have sold faster, but they don't count- for instance, an argument can be made that the Kinect (w/ Kinect Adventures), Wii Balance Board (w/ Wii Fit), and Wii Wheel (w/ Mario Kart Wii) may have sold faster, but as they are supplements to existing products, and not standalone products, they are not comparable.

** The PlayStation 2 had only launched in Japan at the end of this period.

But sony is teh doomed

Why you mad tho?

Do they have anymore buildings left?

So you did no research because the only thin you looked up not a game console was the I-products. So you took no time at all on any research.

Sony>>>>>Apple. FACT!

I wish I was more into sales, but I'm just waiting on more games.

Intriguing if true though.

Very Impressive.

Yes because not posting anything about the others automatically means that he didn't research them right?

Also important is the fact that outside of gaming consoles, iProducts are the highest selling consumer electronic products, so if something is outselling them, it's also outselling everything else by extension.

Which is incorrect. The freaking RAZR V3 outsold the first Iphone in the same time frames, what are you on?

Sure, stop talking out of your ass and give me the link, and I'll put it in the OP.

That's actually really fucking impressive.

Don't Iphones sell like 10's of millions of phones a quarter now though?

Now, yes. We are however assessing each product from launch.

Regardless it would still be less than the ipad. Another48hours being pathetic as usual.

The fact that its managing numbers like that with such a slim library is astonishing

That's insanely impressive. Bravo Sony.

Oh, come on.

Where is my 2005-2008 Ty and what have you done with him!?

Is anyone surprised?

At the fact that it's outpacing stuff like the iPad? Definitely, yeah.

This is the fourth play station so comparing it to the first I pod is flawed logic. The intellect of cows is at all time low. Keep playing them sales on the indiestation yo

The fourth PlayStation is an entirely different product running entirely different hardware and software than the first PlayStation.

The seventh iPhone or nineteenth iPod (or whatever the **** we are on now) still run the exact same software- there is no song that runs on an iPod Touch that won't run on a classic iPod.

Also, did you call me a cow? Looooooool

Even faster selling than Kinect(lol)?

As I mention in the OP, nope, but Kinect is a supplementary product (and therefore much easier to sell to an existing base) as opposed to a brand new product, so it is not comparable.

Not until all their building and stocks are sold, and all the employees are laid off. They are getting closure. Let's hope they hang in there for the rest of this generation.

Personally i think stuff from Apple is way overpriced. Sure it's great, but just too expensive to what you can get with other operating systems or other companies

Yes because with sales like this they might not make it right? LOL!!!

I completely disagree, but that's a discussion for some other place.

Well damn.. I was waiting for a pricedrop, but that may take a very long time with it selling so well..

Of course not, what do you think they're making playstation 4s out of?

Dayum.... imagine the sales with lower price and a decent library later on. :O

Not sure why you ignored every iphone after the first.. Pretty sure every iphone after probably the 3gs sold faster than this.

iPhone 5s/5c Sales Top Nine Million in 3 Days

They ought to build a new one to commemorate the beatdown.

Because they're refreshes of the same product line.

I was comparing product launches, really. Admittedly, later iPhones and Galaxy S phones probably sold at a higher rate, but they were each a refresh.

(also, your link combines 5S and 5C- two different variants).

@tonitorsi said:

@SolidTy said:

I wish I was more into sales, but I'm just waiting on more games.

Intriguing if true though.

Oh, come on.

Where is my 2005-2008 Ty and what have you done with him!?

Well, uh, I, er...

Salty as ****

How the **** is PS4 not a refresh of the same product line of the 3 previous PlayStations

And obviously, at MINIMUM either the 5s or 5c sold over 4.5 million in only 3 days. You can deduce over the course of 5 months they sold faster than the ps4

Yeah comparing the first iphone to the fourth playstation ... makes sense.

That accursed Floppy_Jim, always posting before reading the OP properly. The man is a damned reprobate and has to be stopped before he does it again.

But yes, this has been an interesting read.

The PS4 is a completely different product, different hardware, different software, different everything. The iPhone 5S runs the same hardware and software as iPhone 5. You are arguing that the PS3, the PS3 Slim, and the PS3 Super Slim were different products. Or that the Gameboy, Gameboy Pocket, and Gameboy Color were different products. They weren't.

@charizard1605: ummm wouldn't a PS "4" be considered a refresh of same line then too?

Must be the greatest thing ever. Sales equal quality.

I keep seeing stuff like this thrown around but..

1. Best selling console on the market.

2. Best console hardware on the market.

3. Easy to develop for.

4. Sony has excellent 3rd party relations.

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Both the PS4 and X1 have shit for libraries right now. Makes sense, they haven't even seen their first year yet.

But if you have any doubts that the PS4 will have a very strong library (if not the best library of the bunch) then you'd best prepare dat ass.