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Louie on 17 October 2007
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Hey all,

here is the press release, post it to the forums of your choice.

 

 Playstation 3 sales pass 5 million

 

Vgchartz.com, the most comprehensive Videogame charts in the world has announced that lifetime sales of Sony’s Playstation 3 have passed the 5 million mark on a worldwide basis as of October 13th. (*)

 

As VGchartz.com data shows, (**)the console, first released on November 11th 2006 in the US, six days later in Japan and on march 23rd 2007 in Europe, sold on a weekly average of 105,208 units, mainly competing with Microsoft’s Xbox 360 which currently stands at 11.83 million units sold.

 

Live to date (LTD) sales in the 3 biggest markets are 2.13 million in the Americas, 1.21 million in Japan and 1.70 million in other regions (including Europe, Australia and a few niche markets) making for a total of 5.05 million units sold.

 

After having a hard time outselling its competitors in the first half of 2007 the Playstation 3´s sales (while still far below Nintendo Wii´s weekly sales) began to raise in the last weeks mainly due to a recent price drop and the launch of the 40GB Playstation 3 in Europe. The price drops impact was even strong enough to catapult PS3´s “Other/Europe” sales to a total of 77,000 units the weeks ending 13th October 2007, helping it to outsell the Wii (which sold 75,000 units during the same week) and the Xbox 360 (trailing behind at 42,000 units)  in this region.

 

Although it is unlikely for the PS3 in Europe to keep its momentum at the same level (sales will probably settle below the 70,000 mark) the price drop is a big step for Sony to hit mass market appeal.

 

Feel free to visit our weekly Europe/Others sales page for more information.

 

 

 

 

Notes:

(*)Vgchartz.com tracks consoles sold to consumers and not to retailers and other outlets. This explains why numbers on the front page of VGchartz.com are always a bit lower than the numbers given by the manufacturers themselves: To Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo every console that made it to retailers is “sold”. In reality these consoles may be lying in retailer warehouses and outlets for weeks until they are sold to consumers.

(**)Vgchartz.com projections are based on sampled retailer data from all over the world. Vgchartz.com collects data from a carefully selected group of retailers and determines projected sales figures for entire regions with knowledge of market size, retailer market shares, retailer bias and so forth - the same methods used by larger and more established sales tracking firms. To learn more about VGchartz´ methodology of tracking sales data, contact us (admin@vgchartz.com) or visit our website to find out more.