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Forums - Sales Discussion - PS3 shipments reach 70 million, PlayStation Move ships 15 million

sub-zero-TM on 16 November 2012

The title of this thread says shipped numbers but the article itself doesn't say that at all! so what's the deal here shipped or sold???



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D-Joe on 16 November 2012

http://www.jp.playstation.com/info/release/nr_20121116_ps3_70million.html

※1　SCEから販売店等に引き渡された数量。

shipped as usual



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Kynes on 16 November 2012
sub-zero-TM said:
The title of this thread says shipped numbers but the article itself doesn't say that at all! so what's the deal here shipped or sold???


When companies talk of sold, 99.9% of the time they mean sold to their customers, the distribution channel, so it's shipped.



walsufnir on 16 November 2012
Tachikoma said:
walsufnir said:
Tachikoma said:
Fact of the matter is this, despite the following:
1) Starting with a very high price tag
2) Coming to the market a year later than it's competitors
3) Costing more than the Xbox 360 for it's entire time on the market
4) Receiving the lesser quality version of games in almost all cross platform titles
5) Having a lower fault rate (less people forced to purchase new machines)
6) Having very few decent games for it's first two years on the market
7) Being virtually hated by most media, news and gaming news outlets across the US for first year to the market
8) Launching in a less stable economical climate

Despite all of that, it's clear that the PlayStation 3 will fairly soon overtake the Xbox 360 in both shipped and sold units.
Despite all of that, if you shift the launch dates so they match, and compare units sold, side by side over the same time frame, the Xbox 360 has always been behind in worldwide sales, with the gap growing each year.

Sure you can say "buhu, but the ps3 is still behind", and technically you'll be right, but then you have to realize that less than 2 million units ahead in a full year more on sale, isn't anything to be gloating about.

 

you are absolutely right but please give a little respect also to ms:

the first xbox was not very successful, 360 is

sony ruled the console-market with ps1 and ps2 like no other before and have a *great* fanbase

without ms noone knows what the market now would be (read: what games we would play now)

without ms there would most probably no ps+

after all, sony is not dominating as it was before but it is still performing great in the competition.

 


Well of course, in that regard they've done very well, i'm just tired of seeing the same old argument about sales/shipped when neither console is that good anymore, and performance wise we're long overdue for a new platform, until then i'll be making most of my purchases on PC

 

and this situation is what counts, in my opinion: you have a choice! it doesn't matter if you like/hate sony, ms, nintendo or pc. go and buy what you want, decide on titles you like and buy it. there is enough for every niche out there. if you have one company dominating this will most probably not be the case.



zhao3gold on 16 November 2012

People always say XBOX360 had the advantage of one-year lead in the market, but ignore the power of playstation brand and its huge userbase since PS1 and PS2. After 6 years, PS3 surpassed 70m. Is it really a big success for SONY?

Based on the marketshare of last gen, it was predicted by IDC that PS3 would be another dominated console and already surpass 90m or 100m, and 360 only managed to 45~50m and far behind PS3.

If you only think the HD twins, PS3 has 50% or less of the market share. So who is gaining the market share and who is losing the market share?

If I were a PS3 fan (althgou I have 3 PS3), I wouldn't celebrate this "milestone" because it is a shame that PS3 lost the crown from his "father" - PS2.



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Kynes on 16 November 2012
zhao3gold said:
People always say XBOX360 had the advantage of one-year lead in the market, but ignore the power of playstation brand and its huge userbase since PS1 and PS2. After 6 years, PS3 surpassed 70m. Is it really a big success for SONY?

Based on the marketshare of last gen, it was predicted by IDC that PS3 would be another dominated console and already surpass 90m or 100m, and 360 only managed to 45~50m and far behind PS3.

If you only think the HD twins, PS3 has 50% or less of the market share. So who is gaining the market share and who is losing the market share?

If I were a PS3 fan (althgou I have 3 PS3), I wouldn't celebrate this "milestone" because it is a shame that PS3 lost the crown from his "father" - PS2.

Everyone cherrypicks. It's human nature.



ethomaz on 16 November 2012

Fantastic Sony... did 70 million one month after 360... the gap will be less than 2 million for sure.

I would not be surprised if Sony announces PS3 outsold 360 in next shipment figures.

Massive... on track to get Wii in 2016-2017.



zhao3gold on 16 November 2012

In one word, Sony lost the domination they used to have in the last 2 gen and lost nearly 50% of market share (only HD twins) to its main competitor, Microsoft.

People say PS3 had a tough start, but didn't MS have? The original XBOX was a commercial failure sales wise, so to expand the XBOX brand with XBOX360 was also tough for Microsoft especially in Europe and Japan.

Just be fair to both of the most great competitors in the gaming industry.



slowmo on 16 November 2012

The PS3 will be outshipped this quarter so the gap is going to increase again by January...



psrock on 16 November 2012

It took PS3 six years to reach 70 million, not bad.



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