PS3 sells like hotcakes in UK
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<div class="IPBDescription">...but how?</div>Hiiii... not been posting much because I've been busy in RL moving house and stuff.
Anyhoo... Don't know how many have been keeping tabs on it all but the PS3 managed to shift 165,000 units in it's first two days of sales. On one hand I'm impressed because this dwarfs the 360's launch and is higher than the wii's as well. Of course, on the other I'm saddened by the fact that considering the way Sony have mocked europe in their various press releases before hand, given us a unit that isn't as good as the US and JP ones and still somehow costs more that they succeeded in a rip-roaring opening.
However, I have no idea where these 165,000 sales actually came from.
I've been checking some sites about this as something didn't hit me as being right about this and it didn't take much searching before my suspicions were reinforced... I hadn't seen anyone walking about with a PS3 box in their grubby mitts. When Wii launched I saw at least a few people over the days it came out with a wii box stashed in a big, big bag or hugged in their arms, I even recall seeing people with 360s on the streets but I've not seen a single soul with a PS3. Not one.
This mystery is further made baffling by the photos of the launches across the country and even the french one. Most of the midnight opening photos show <b>absolutely no-one</b> (yes, even the french photos were actually devoid of people). There are some that have one or two people, with the biggest crowd being the london opening which showed roughly 40 people.
Even here in Scotland's capital I find photos outside of gamestation showing not a single soul despite a rather nice lil queue bit set up and even a lil red carpet.
The 165,000 sales is a real figure and it's from a reliable source but I'm puzzled beyond measure why nothing in Real-life seems to actually support it. Were they bought online or something? Is it based off pre-orders? Were the majority of buyers trained Ninjas?
Can anyone shed some light on this as it's been bugging me for a while. If I saw people running about with PS3s or even saw some semblance of a crowded opening night it'd be fine but I see no evidence anywhere of them being bought and yet it's launch is almost bigger than the uk wii and 360's 2 day numbers combined.
What the flibble is going on? o.O
Anyhoo... Don't know how many have been keeping tabs on it all but the PS3 managed to shift 165,000 units in it's first two days of sales. On one hand I'm impressed because this dwarfs the 360's launch and is higher than the wii's as well. Of course, on the other I'm saddened by the fact that considering the way Sony have mocked europe in their various press releases before hand, given us a unit that isn't as good as the US and JP ones and still somehow costs more that they succeeded in a rip-roaring opening.
However, I have no idea where these 165,000 sales actually came from.
I've been checking some sites about this as something didn't hit me as being right about this and it didn't take much searching before my suspicions were reinforced... I hadn't seen anyone walking about with a PS3 box in their grubby mitts. When Wii launched I saw at least a few people over the days it came out with a wii box stashed in a big, big bag or hugged in their arms, I even recall seeing people with 360s on the streets but I've not seen a single soul with a PS3. Not one.
This mystery is further made baffling by the photos of the launches across the country and even the french one. Most of the midnight opening photos show <b>absolutely no-one</b> (yes, even the french photos were actually devoid of people). There are some that have one or two people, with the biggest crowd being the london opening which showed roughly 40 people.
Even here in Scotland's capital I find photos outside of gamestation showing not a single soul despite a rather nice lil queue bit set up and even a lil red carpet.
The 165,000 sales is a real figure and it's from a reliable source but I'm puzzled beyond measure why nothing in Real-life seems to actually support it. Were they bought online or something? Is it based off pre-orders? Were the majority of buyers trained Ninjas?
Can anyone shed some light on this as it's been bugging me for a while. If I saw people running about with PS3s or even saw some semblance of a crowded opening night it'd be fine but I see no evidence anywhere of them being bought and yet it's launch is almost bigger than the uk wii and 360's 2 day numbers combined.
What the flibble is going on? o.O
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sony is always inflating their sales numbers. no one at the launch + even more expensive in UK than it is elsewhere + it's already going for cheaper than retail on eBay = probably not really record sales. maybe they SHIPPED that many to stores?
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That is what they were doing with the NA numbers, always reporting shipped instead of sold. Remember, even shortly after release there were stores that had nto actualy sold all theri units, generaly due to horrible bundles). And soon after the new year we started to see them rather regularly (obligatory PA <a href="http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2007/02/10" target="_blank">Here</a>)
Big question is how will they hold up in the long run. Aside of Japan, Europe seems the most likely place for Sony to win out in market share. PS3s are already being outsold again by the 360 and Wii in North America last I saw, which means that gap is only getting bigger here, and with no GTA exclusive in particular (plus the 360 actually retaining exclusives) I don't think they'll make that up anytime soon.
Chavscum #1: <i>"You bought this yo?"
Chavscum #2: "Narrrr man, I taxed* it from that bizschit shop"</i> *Que nasal laughing*
*Chavscum #2 hides receipt under Burberry sofa.*
* - taxed: Manchester slang (probably out of date by the time I write this) for stolen, or pilfered.
Why, you idiots, why? We might as well put up a giant sign that's visible across the Atlantic:
<b>Please s**t on us more. We'll take anything you pass us, and we'll still pay!</b>
- Shockwave
Geek2: No... I'm still bored with mine... <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/sad-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":(" border="0" alt="sad-fix.gif" />
It's delightful to know the local moron quota has been kept up while I've been away.
Chavscum #1: <i>"You bought this yo?"
Chavscum #2: "Narrrr man, I taxed* it from that bizschit shop"</i> *Que nasal laughing*
*Chavscum #2 hides receipt under Burberry sofa.*
* - taxed: Manchester slang (probably out of date by the time I write this) for stolen, or pilfered.
Why, you idiots, why? We might as well put up a giant sign that's visible across the Atlantic:
<b>Please s**t on us more. We'll take anything you pass us, and we'll still pay!</b>
- Shockwave
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Its because Europe isn't a real continent. As far as Sony, and a lot of Japanese game developers are concerned, the market for computer games worldwide consists of Japan and America. Everything else is just small change. Forgetting for a second that Europe is rapidly gaining on the U.S in terms of video game consumption...
Hey ho, it could be worse. We could be in Australia or New Zealand...
Well, concering the MMO market, europe is bigger than the US anyway. Can't beat asia though... they just have to many people over there.
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And also they have Korea, where people are issued Starcraft at birth.
If I was in the market for a next gen console, it'd be the Wii no doubt.
I really don't even see how the Ps3 is considered competitive. I'm actually a sony fanboy (bought ps2 at launch like a billion others), yet I'd never touch a ps3 even with a long stick. It's decent at everything, yet good at nothing, is how I feel about it.
If I was in the market for a next gen console, it'd be the Wii no doubt.
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I already have a wii, but will be buying the ps3 for a couple of games (including assassin's creed, armored core 4, heavenly sword, heavy rain, devil may cry 4, littlebigplanet, god of war 3, etc). I'm waiting until the 20gb version has been released around here. Anyway, it's overpriced as **** here. 60gb version = 600$ in the US and 600€ here. 600€ = 800$, gfg.
I dunno... I'm still not convinced there's any games I care about on it. I try to be at least a lil unbiased but I still struggle to understand what's going on here.
I overheard a Game Staff member saying to a customer "Yeah, we still have some left. It's only because of the price really".
Even at a reasonable price I doubt I'd currently buy it personally. I need games, not games platforms :p
For me, the ultimate playstation game has always been and probably always will be wipeout. I've played every version of it on every console sony have produced and I'll probably be tempted to buy it for the ps3 when it comes out. No other racing game has ever come close to matching wipeout.
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Also why I bought a PSP Harry, it just suits the PSP platform so damn well. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":)" border="0" alt="smile-fix.gif" />
I work in the local LAN cafe and so far 1 person knows someone with 1 and 1 of our customers has one, the rest dont seem to want one.
Iv seen signs in loads of shops saying they still have PS3 in stock, I doubt the next shipment will have nearly as many to the shops if they still have units remaining fast approaching 2 weeks after launch.
yet.. only about a week after the ps3 release and.. they still have them in stock...
What gives?
Sony were unavailable for comment :p
That is what they were doing with the NA numbers, always reporting shipped instead of sold. Remember, even shortly after release there were stores that had nto actualy sold all theri units, generaly due to horrible bundles). And soon after the new year we started to see them rather regularly (obligatory PA <a href="http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2007/02/10" target="_blank">Here</a>)
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Thats because sony is payed per unit shipped to retailors, ie: as far as they are concerned shipped = sold. Ie: the stores should be well stocked from the information.
Thats because sony is payed per unit shipped to retailors, ie: as far as they are concerned shipped = sold. Ie: the stores should be well stocked from the information.
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Hardly. To Microsoft and Sony, shipped is trash. Sold is what they need. Sold means at least one game bought, which begins recouping their costs. Considering that MS loses something like $100 to $200 a console(or at least, at launch thats how it was- they may break even, or even be making a profit, now, especially considering the extra factories getting opened soon), that means they need to sell somewhere between 2 and 4 games just to get the strength of the console out- and thats considering sales as 100% royalty, not the 20 or 30% royalty in actuality. The PS3 still to this day "officially" costs over $1k to make- thats a vast, vast amount of money, and they are <i>praying</i> they can make that money back in 6 years time- Major Nelson said something about MS breaking their losses sometime in october/november of last year(unofficially), but Sony's big out is gonna take months upon years to recoup.
The Wii though, is profit-per-box. They really do care about shipped, though lucky for them, with most of the great titles for the Wii being first party, they really don't care how the customer decides to spend their money.
This makes me pretty happy.
hmmm... seems the following week after launch, Sales have dropped by 82%.
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The same pattern is true of Australasia as well.