| Bodhesatva said: I think we all remember the strength of the PS3's launch in Europe, and since that time Ioi's figures have shown that sales have slowed considerably. Chart track now has a rather amazing statistic that not only supports those figures, but emphasizes them rather starkly: http://www.mcvuk.com/news/28388/UK-sales-of-PS3-and-360-neck-and-neck-in-2007 Relevant quotation: "However, 55 per cent of all PS3 sales came in the first four weeks after the console’s launch date." Keep in mind, the PS3 came out in March. That means it sold more systems in March than it has in April-September, or more systems in its 1st month than it has in its last 6-7. |
That is an amazing statistic.
I'm not surprised considering how bloody expensive the PS3 is in the UK.
We don't provide the 'easy to program for' console that they [developers] want, because 'easy to program for' means that anybody will be able to take advantage of pretty much what the hardware can do, so the question is what do you do for the rest of the nine and half years? It's a learning process. - SCEI president Kaz Hirai
It's a virus where you buy it and you play it with your friends and they're like, "Oh my God that's so cool, I'm gonna go buy it." So you stop playing it after two months, but they buy it and they stop playing it after two months but they've showed it to someone else who then go out and buy it and so on. Everyone I know bought one and nobody turns it on. - Epic Games president Mike Capps
We have a real culture of thrift. The goal that I had in bringing a lot of the packaged goods folks into Activision about 10 years ago was to take all the fun out of making video games. - Activision CEO Bobby Kotick
