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Thanks to a strong holiday season, Sony revealed that they are nearing 36 million PlayStation 4 units sold to date.To be specific, Sony announced that the current installed user base is sitting at 35.9 million. This is a jump of 5.7 million units sold just this holiday season. In 2014 Sony sold 4.1 million units in the same period. In 2013, Sony sold 4.2 million units after its release.
On the software side of things, there were an estimated 35 million games sold in the same span of time. For the 2014 holiday season, there were an estimated 17.8 million games sold. PlayStation Plus subscriptions are also reportedly up 60%.
My question is what is Sony going to do in other markets aside from PlayStation and Blu-Ray? Their VR headset is a gambit using the PlayStation brand, instead of the Sony brand as to me that implies that it's meant for PlayStation consoles, when VR could've been used for so much more (including commercial markets, not just consumer). Furthermore, as a stock, Sony plumetted and their stores did so poorly that many shut down nationwide in US and Canada. So the real question is, aside from the successes of PlayStation and Blu-Ray, what else is Sony up to to revive their company's performance overall? Keyword being overall. LG is beating the crap out of them in terms of electronics in general. Even Konka is chewing up too much of the TV market's pie, because they are such a cheap brand (as they're from China) for people who are broke, but still want a passable Smart TV. Makes me wonder who will die first in the TV market, Sharp or Sony? Panasonic's already F'd, and suddenly stock analysts are questioning Sony already.
I'm just glad Sony is doing awesome in PlayStation and Blu-Ray. I DON'T want them to fall like Panasonic did. And I hope stock analysts are more aware that games are a big enough industry to keep Sony afloat, especially since the market overlaps with on-demand entertainment, such as Netflix and Twitch streaming. That and the potential of VR, though the risk on that is brutally high given there are no previous outcomes from the public to learn from.
Also I wonder how their film subsidiary is doing? I've actually heard it bombed a bit, which is odd, given their license to do some Marvel movies.
Not quite as bad as when i bought a PS3 5 years after it came out so i could play Tokyo Jungle.
There are exclusives coming this year i'll be playing, but my primary platform is still PC.
Quite frankly, despite being an innocent looking herbivore, I am far more freaking dangerous to the ecosystem than any carnivore there is, because I ALWAYS go on genocide runs... Because I can... SCHNOOZING TIGER! SCHMACK!