{"id":59765,"date":"2013-10-31T12:42:13","date_gmt":"2013-10-31T10:42:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=59765"},"modified":"2013-10-31T12:55:06","modified_gmt":"2013-10-31T10:55:06","slug":"xbox-one-and-ps4-sales-predicted-by-ea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/59765-xbox-one-and-ps4-sales-predicted-by-ea","title":{"rendered":"Xbox One and PS4 sales predicted by EA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With speculation on how successful the next-gen consoles will be, Electronic Arts have given their guesstimation on how many PS4 and Xbox One consoles will be sold.<\/p>\n<p>By the end of the current financial year (ending 31 March 2014), EA expects around 10 million units sold of Sony and Microsoft\u2019s consoles combined.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I talked to our friends at both Sony and Microsoft, and I&#8217;m trying to get some indications in the numbers that are going to be available for sale by the end of our fiscal year on March 31 and I aggregate them, I think I can squint and see 10 million units combined, very easily,\u201d said EA COO Peter Moore.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBoth Sony and Microsoft are proposing that this could be their best launches ever as regards their production numbers and their ability to globalise this business quickly. So we feel bullish about our ability of having five truly next-gen titles available for that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft\u2019s Xbox One is on track to launch in thirteen countries around the world (22 November in the UK) and will be debuting at a price of $499 in the US and Canada. The South African release date is still up in the air.<\/p>\n<p>After an <a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/playstation-4-news\/58847-ps4-in-sa-new-launch-date-confirmed.html\" target=\"_blank\">initial delay<\/a>, Ster Kinekor Entertainment has confirmed that the PlayStation 4 now carries a launch date of\u00a0<strong>13 December 2013<\/strong>\u00a0in South Africa.<\/p>\n<h6>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/seekingalpha.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Seeking Alpha<\/a><\/h6>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More EA news:<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/videos\/59736-battlefield-4-on-ps4-gameplay-showcased-in-50-minute-video.html&amp;sa=U&amp;ei=RQdxUuSaKMS57Abg7YCwBQ&amp;ved=0CAcQFjAA&amp;client=internal-uds-cse&amp;usg=AFQjCNGOMhs3s98OYCpaddOagWjWJypebg\" target=\"_blank\">Battlefield 4 on PS4: gameplay showcased in 50 minute video<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/59744-tiger-woods-and-ea-cut-ties.html\" target=\"_blank\">Tiger Woods and\u00a0EA\u00a0cut ties<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/59727-command-conquer-cancelled.html\" target=\"_blank\">Command &amp; Conquer cancelled<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/59602-traditional-game-pricing-a-giant-f-u-to-gamers-riccitiello.html\" target=\"_blank\">Traditional game pricing a \u201cgiant F-U\u201d to gamers: Riccitiello<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How many next-gen consoles does EA think will be sold?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":55837,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[31,813,91,6157,3070,11632,5170,1239,1853,71,243,10065],"class_list":["post-59765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-active","tag-electronic-arts","tag-microsoft","tag-next-gen-graphics","tag-next-gen-consoles","tag-next-gen-sales","tag-peter-moore","tag-playstation-4","tag-playstation4","tag-sony","tag-xbox-2","tag-xbox-one"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59765"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59779,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59765\/revisions\/59779"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}