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gamingdevil on 21 March 2007

Sony boss David Reeves says that if you can walk into a shop on Friday and buy a PlayStation 3 without a pre-order, that'll mean the company got the launch right. "We don't want secret shoppers to go in there and say, 'Ah, it's not out of stock, therefore it's not selling,'" he told Reuters. "Indeed, what we're trying to say is we want to make it available to the normal shopper who goes in there and says, 'Do you have PlayStation 3?', and they will say, 'Yes.' And the same for the software." Reeves, who is president of Sony Computer Entertainment Europe, told the news agency that the delay between the console's Japanese and North American launches last November and its arrival in Europe this Friday has been of great benefit in reaching the goal of shipping one million units of hardware for day one. "It's rather like taking a bottle of soda water and we've shaken it so hard over the last six months that when we take the cork off, it's just going to explode," he explained (probably waving his arms around expressively). "I think that's a better way of looking at it than to say the delay is disappointing. It's not - it's really been beneficial for us. We're going to get it right." For Euro PS3 launch details, check out our handy feature on the subject, even more handily labelled Euro PS3 launch details.
Oh my God! Sony is AMAZING at spinning the facts the way the like!




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Yojimbo on 21 March 2007

Its better that PS3 gets sold out the first day, so the people in Europe can buy Wii/360 instead :D Europe is getting 1million consoles, so is people expecting that the ps3 will sell more in europe in 1 day then what it did in USA/Japan for 4months :S



 
Alacrist on 21 March 2007

They are indeed full of it, if you can't sell out, theres a problem.



 

  

 

jman8 on 21 March 2007

are you guys kidding!? selling a million consoles in one day would be the most successful launch ever and this launch isn't even during the holiday season like most others. at the moment, the best launch ever is not above 800,000, so if Sony hits that mark in a slow month like March, they definitely would have had an awesome launch despite not selling out. You guys are so cynical



My Top 5:

Shadow of the Colossus, Metal Gear Solid 3, Shenmue, Skies of Arcadia, Chrono Trigger

My 2 nex-gen systems: PS3 and Wii

Prediction Aug '08: We see the PSP2 released fall '09. Graphically, it's basically the same as the current system. UMD drive ditched and replaced by 4-8gb on board flash memory. Other upgrades: 2nd analog nub, touchscreen, blutooth, motion sensor. Design: Flip-style or slider. Size: Think Iphone. Cost: $199. Will be profitable on day 1.

gamingdevil on 21 March 2007

jman8 said: are you guys kidding!? selling a million consoles in one day would be the most successful launch ever and this launch isn't even during the holiday season like most others. at the moment, the best launch ever is not above 800,000, so if Sony hits that mark in a slow month like March, they definitely would have had an awesome launch despite not selling out. You guys are so cynical
Excuse me but right now the Wii is like having a continual launch! Everyone knows that if there were 1m Wii's available at launch there would be out of stock on day-1




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jman8 on 21 March 2007

fair enough, but again, how would selling 800,000 units out of 1,000,000 in the first day be bad? We all know the Wii is doing phenomenally well, but that doesn't mean anything falling short of the Wii's success automatically sucks. All Reeves is saying in the quotation is that having enough units available for the huge demand is a very good thing, which is a fact. You're the one trying to spin this quotation into something negative.



My Top 5:

Shadow of the Colossus, Metal Gear Solid 3, Shenmue, Skies of Arcadia, Chrono Trigger

My 2 nex-gen systems: PS3 and Wii

Prediction Aug '08: We see the PSP2 released fall '09. Graphically, it's basically the same as the current system. UMD drive ditched and replaced by 4-8gb on board flash memory. Other upgrades: 2nd analog nub, touchscreen, blutooth, motion sensor. Design: Flip-style or slider. Size: Think Iphone. Cost: $199. Will be profitable on day 1.

vanguardian1 on 21 March 2007

Nah, let's be a bit more cautious about the wii's sales. They wouldn't sell out a million 'till the end of the 2nd day, it'd take too long to get that many people through the registers in a single day. :)



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HappySqurriel on 21 March 2007

jman8 said: fair enough, but again, how would selling 800,000 units out of 1,000,000 in the first day be bad? We all know the Wii is doing phenomenally well, but that doesn't mean anything falling short of the Wii's success automatically sucks. All Reeves is saying in the quotation is that having enough units available for the huge demand is a very good thing, which is a fact. You're the one trying to spin this quotation into something negative.
Do we know if they will have sold 800,000 units? The other important question is how many of these systems ended up in the hands of resellers? Imagine what would have happened if Sony launched with 1 Million systems in North America; they probably would have sold every unit but 600,000 units would hit eBay the next day, and 500,000 units would get returned to the store the following week.



windbane on 21 March 2007

so what if they all would have been on ebay. ebay units get sold, you know.



jman8 on 21 March 2007

i was just throwing out a hypothetical 800,000 because it's a ton of systems sold yet not enough to sell out the supply. never claimed it as fact. What's odd to me is that Sony's able to build a million+ systems for a single month, yet Nintendo is hardly building many more systems than that per month. You would think the Wii would be significantly easier to produce in larger quantities.



My Top 5:

Shadow of the Colossus, Metal Gear Solid 3, Shenmue, Skies of Arcadia, Chrono Trigger

My 2 nex-gen systems: PS3 and Wii

Prediction Aug '08: We see the PSP2 released fall '09. Graphically, it's basically the same as the current system. UMD drive ditched and replaced by 4-8gb on board flash memory. Other upgrades: 2nd analog nub, touchscreen, blutooth, motion sensor. Design: Flip-style or slider. Size: Think Iphone. Cost: $199. Will be profitable on day 1.