Ambition? Sony's got it. The company just announced during its Tokyo Game Show keynote that it plans to sell a solid five million PlayStation 4 consoles by the end of the calendar year. It's a bold enough goal on its own, but doubly so when one considers the bomb the company dropped last week: the PS4 won't even launch in Japan until February. To put that number into perspective, the most recent game console release, Nintendo's floundering Wii U, only sold slightly more than half of that much during its own launch window, and performed little better in the following months. Perhaps a better comparison would be the sales of its own predecessor, the PlayStation3, which didn't reach the five million mark until almost a year after its initial launch.
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