PlayStation 4 Sold Over 550K Units Black Friday Week in the US - News

by William D'Angelo , posted on 05 December 2014 / 10,128 Views

This week Sony has been celebrating the 20th anniversary of the PlayStation with releasing a PSOne inspired PlayStation 4 and many games have been on sale for the PlayStation Network.

The PlayStation 4 Black Friday week sales are out now. The PS4 had a strong Black Friday week in the US selling 554,350 units for the week ending November 29, 2014, according to VGChartz.

To compare, this is well above anything the PlayStation 3 managed to sell Black Friday week in the US in its lifetime. The PlayStation 3's strongest Black Friday week in the US was in 2009 where it sold 417,864 units.

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A life-long and avid gamer, William D'Angelo was first introduced to VGChartz in 2007. After years of supporting the site, he was brought on in 2010 as a junior analyst, working his way up to lead analyst in 2012. He has expanded his involvement in the gaming community by producing content on his own YouTube channel and Twitch channel dedicated to gaming Let's Plays and tutorials. Outside, in the real world, he has a passion for the outdoors which includes everything from hiking to having received his B.A. in Environmental Studies. You can contact the author at wdangelo@vgchartz.com or on Twitter @TrunksWD.


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9 Comments

kdognumba1
kdognumba1 (on 05 December 2014)

You know when you put the numbers side by side to the previous generation, it really gives you a perspective of how well the systems really did this week. The numbers are pretty insane. PS4 already did better then PS3's best year, I can't imagine what it will be doing a year or 2 from now when it picks up even more traction do to more games.

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Qwark
Qwark (on 05 December 2014)

The PS4 is a beast, which could sell over 150 million with the right games. 2015 Q1 is already looking to be massive and the PS4 will absolutely destroy the competition during that period. It's undoubtedly going to become the second best selling PlayStation system and it might beat the PS2 if the gen is long enough.

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Ryng
Ryng (on 05 December 2014)

Will pass 170M. :)

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fluky-nintendy
fluky-nintendy (on 05 December 2014)

Impressive numbers. Imagine if they made a pricecut.

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Skratchy
Skratchy (on 05 December 2014)

Without a $170 price cut

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Iveyboi
Iveyboi (on 05 December 2014)

Sold near XB1 without much incentives (just bundles) in a country that used to be ALL about XB. Crazy how one generation can change so much.

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Jared19
Jared19 (on 05 December 2014)

I expected it to get 1 million but this is still rather good.

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Yafea
Yafea (on 05 December 2014)

Great numbers.

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SonicCD
SonicCD (on 06 December 2014)

I wonder why Sony don't try to beat Microsoft with a pricecut? Thy could have tried to keep the sales of Microsoft low to get exclusives by low.

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