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Forums - Sales Discussion - PS3 software sales should ERUPT next week

The PS3 lately has been seeing some rather impressive software sales (the most impressive it's had in its entire life cycle) lately, topping out the WII (with the inclusion of 200k+ wii sports sales) and the XBOX 360, despite having 5 million less consoles on the market than the 360, and despite having less than HALF the install base of the wii..

                    

Interestingly enough, SOFTWARE sales should literally explode, well above 3 million potentially hitting 4 million this upcoming week. The ps3 has 2 huge GAME releases, yes 2.

YAKUZA 4 releases in japan, it should break 400k its first week, and GOD OF WAR III launches worldwide, and this game should sell well about a million copies its first week.

In addition to those two games, the PS3 should continue to have very high selling games including BATTLE FIELD BC 2, Heavy Rain, and the recent western release of Final Fantasy XIII.

As for hardware sales, SONY should see s SIGNIFICANT boost in HW sales in japan, I suspect the system may break 40k there, and a slight boost in the americas for GOW III due to shortages. Will it outsell the wii? I doubt it, considering the fact WII has been getting a considerate amount of stock compared to the last couple of weeks, on online retailers, but the PS3 continues to get scarce amounts of stock.

 



 

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leo-j said:

The PS3 lately has been seeing some rather impressive software sales (the most impressive it's had in its entire life cycle) lately, topping out the WII (with the inclusion of 200k+ wii sports sales) and the XBOX 360, despite having 5 million less consoles on the market than the 360, and despite having less than HALF the install base of the wii..

 

Interestingly enough, SOFTWARE sales should literally explode, well above 3 million potentially hitting 4 million this upcoming week. The ps3 has 2 huge GAME releases, yes 2.

YAKUZA 4 releases in japan, it should break 400k its first week, and GOD OF WAR III launches worldwide, and this game should sell well about a million copies its first week.

In addition to those two games, the PS3 should continue to have very high selling games including BATTLE FIELD BC 2, Heavy Rain, and the recent western release of Final Fantasy XIII.

As for hardware sales, SONY should see s SIGNIFICANT boost in HW sales in japan, I suspect the system may break 40k there, and a slight boost in the americas for GOW III due to shortages. Will it outsell the wii? I doubt it, considering the fact WII has been getting a considerate amount of stock compared to the last couple of weeks, on online retailers, but the PS3 continues to get scarce amounts of stock.

 

'Nuff said.  I predict that 360 will sell more SW than PS3 and Wii combined the week that Halo Reach releases, but that doesn't happen every week so in the long run it doesn't mean anything at all.



With both Yakuza 4 and Torne boosting sales in Japan I actually wouldn't be surprised to see it around 50k. And I think the boost in others might be better than people think.



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lets hope GOW III breaks a million in its first week and software continues to go strong



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wow and all of those games are hardware sellers to some extend to.. :O



Currently playing: MAG, Heavy Rain, Infamous

 

Getting Plat trophies for: Heavy Rain, Infamous, RE5,  Burnout and GOW collection once I get it.

 

GOW III was really fun. I hope it does over 1.2 million first week.

With Wii shortages, PS3 outselling it isn't out of the question.



I am the black sheep     "of course I'm crazy, but that doesn't mean I'm wrong."-Robert Anton Wilson

if it breaked a million i will beat the game on the hardest difficulty without any cheater awards or costumes...yeah thats right, if you played the game, you know how crazy that is



oh and nicely written leo-j



OmieeZ said:
lets hope GOW III breaks a million in its first week and software continues to go strong

God of war will break 1 million WW easily

 

now... will it break 1 mil in NA alone??? I think it will be close



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: Too Human I even expect 3-4 mill entire life and 500,000 first day. GoW2 ( expect 7 - 9 million entire life and over 2 mill first day), Fable 2 (expect 5-6 million entire life and 1.5 mill fist day) BK3 (expect 4 - 5 mill sales entire life and 1 mill first day).. Tales/IU/TLR should get to 2 or 3 million! post id: 868878
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Letsdance: FFXIII (PS3+360) first week in NA = 286K
According to pre-order rate in week 13 (post id: 2902544)