deadhorse on 19 July 2007
| Scruff7 said: Did you think it would triple sales in North America? That would outstrip Sony's wildest dreams! If Sony sold 3 in NA, 1 in Japan and 2 in others (6 overall) and this price drop doubled sales in North America (as Sony predicted), then they would sell 6 in North America, 1 in Japan and 2 in europe (9 overall). thats increased sales by 50% worldwide (which is what happened) tripling sales in NA would be a bit of an overestimate... |
PS2 sales more than tripled after the price drop, it's not impossible. Anyway, I didn't look at the numbers for where the PS3 was selling the best, if I had my prediction would have been different. I assumed the sales order was America > Europe > Japan when this chart http://vgchartz.com/hwcomps.php?cons1=PS3®1=Total+Other&cons2=PS3®2=Japan&cons3=PS3®3=America&weekly=1 says that last week it was Europe > America > Japan. The big problem with my guess was my memory was incorrect, I could have sworn that America had been selling a lot more more PS3s than others. Had the sales in countries been what I thought they were, had the PS3 increased by a higher percentage, and had the Wii sales not gone up by 40,000 units in one week then it could have come close to a 2 to 1 ratio. If the PS2 sales doubled overall then PS3 ones could. I wasn't thinking this through that carefully, however, it was just a guess. Anyway, it was a bad one and I'm deleting my post as a result of it. Still, the fact that my guess was wrong is worse for the PS3 supporters. 4 to 1 sales ratio to 3 to 1. I don't call that a comeback for the PS3. The PS3 was only being outsold by the Wii 2.5 to 1 at one point.
