{"id":100278,"date":"2019-09-16T14:53:00","date_gmt":"2019-09-16T14:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/350778"},"modified":"2019-09-16T14:53:00","modified_gmt":"2019-09-16T14:53:00","slug":"report-the-ps4-has-sold-through-30-million-units-in-the-united-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/09\/16\/report-the-ps4-has-sold-through-30-million-units-in-the-united-states\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: The PS4 has sold-through 30 million units in the United States"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The PlayStation 4 has now sold-through 30 million units in the United States alone, according to the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ZhugeEX\/status\/1173114792078389248\">latest figures from analyst&nbsp;Niko Partners<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a figure that means the U.S. market accounts for roughly 30 percent of total worldwide PS4 sales, which is a pretty hefty chunk (though it&#8217;d be fair to say the United States&nbsp;is a pretty hefty country).&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Other top markets include Japan, Germany, and the UK, where the PS4 has sold-through 8.3 million, 7.2 million, and 6.8 million units respectively.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Sony recently revealed the PS4&nbsp;has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/347618\/The_PlayStation_4_has_shipped_100_million_units_faster_than_any_other_console.php\">shipped over 100 million units worldwide<\/a> since it launched in 2013, although shipments to retailers don&#8217;t necessarily translate to consumer sell-through.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>That said, we&nbsp;know the console had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/333920\/PlayStation_4_sales_have_exceeded_916_million_units_worldwide.php\">sold-through over 90 million units worldwide as of January 2019<\/a>, so&nbsp;the new numbers&nbsp;from Niko Partners seem to at least roughly line up with Sony&#8217;s own.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The PlayStation 4 has now sold-through 30 million units in the United States alone, according to the&nbsp;latest figures from analyst&nbsp;Niko Partners. It&#8217;s a figure that means the U.S. market accounts for roughly 30 percent of total worldwide PS4 sales, which is a pretty hefty chunk (though it&#8217;d be fair to say the United States&nbsp;is a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":100279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100278\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}