PS3 - 4 million?

[Just_Ben]

Kasz216 said:

Just_Ben said:
Sorry guys, but the "Starter Pack" was not available in all European country's. In Germany today its the first day on amazon. (The price was lowered last week to 574 €, but didn't help in sales much (Rank #144 in games).

Starter Pack seems to help a little (#11 in games on Amazon.de WII is #15). Amazon.de is not the best but a alright indicator in Germany. (The top 100 list is surprisingly near the sell overall sale charts).

Expect to drop back down under #25 by tomorrow.

 

Eh, I wouldn't trust Amazon rankings as far as how well a system is selling. There are very big differences in the people who shop online and people who don't. Trust me i've helped on a research study on that sort of thing.

I say they make it.

 Well, i read a lot of heise.de (Best IT site in germany) stating in Germany thats a bit different that the states (more older people shop online %wise here that the us for example). And also i said "indicator". Amazon changes the top list every hour and i truly can't look every hour, but the eyeball averaged ranking seems ok. In matter of "What games are sold more" and "What hardware is sold more" it's a good indicator. If you take out preorderd games and look at the overall ranking it matches quite well the official charts.

The hardware part seems to fit also. So amazon.de is a good indicator (WII is above PS3 is above XBox 360), amazon.com however is, at least after my experience, NOT. After looking at the charts of amazon.de i say the Starter Pack helps the PS3 sellswise in Germany. So there will be more PS3 (and ps3 games) moved this week. But it will definitly not help to crack the WII (its the first day in Germany, and i expect the ps3 to fall behind by tomorrow) .  All i say is: there is a boost but not a really big one. 25% tops this week averaged.