U.K. PS3 sales up 65 percent

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legend92(3) on 22 August 2011

MCV is reporting (via an anonymous retail source) that sales of Sony’s PlayStation 3 console have spiked by a whopping 65 percent in the U.K. on the back of last week’s price cut.

Not a bad effort.

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Galaki on 22 August 2011

So, they sold 165 units last week? That's awesome.

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Legend11 on 22 August 2011

It's strange that game sales haven't seen much of a boost, in fact it looks like they may actually be doing worse...

TOP 40 ENTERTAINMENT SOFTWARE - INDIVIDUAL FORMATS (UNITS), WEEK ENDING 20 August 2011
14 Xbox 360
11 Wii
4 PS3

And two of those PS3 titles were outsold by Kinect Joy Ride, I wonder what's up with that?

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Troll_Whisperer on 22 August 2011

If we extrapolate that to WW sales it would be about 211.000 units sold for the week.

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Moren on 22 August 2011

It's about... 11k. On par with the 360
But I think that the full effect wasn't shown in this week due to the hurry nature of the pricecut.

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Galaki on 22 August 2011

kowenicki said:

Galaki said:
So, they sold 165 units last week? That's awesome.

You do know that despite the common misconception here..... the PS3 sells more in th UK than any other market in Europe by some margin right?

right?

LOL. I know. I was just pointing out how these sales article fail to provide the numbers other than throwing percentages around.

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postofficebuddy on 22 August 2011

Considering the UK is PS3's weakest territory (marketshare-wise) the boost is probably even bigger in other countries. And sales are expected to increase next week.

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=30306565&postcount=118