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Bodhesatva said:
MikeB said:

... following Black Friday: 

"Stringer today said the company sells about 200,000 PlayStation 3 consoles in Europe each week, and 40,000 to 50,000 in Japan. It also sold more than 200,000 in the U.S. following ``Black Friday,'' the day after Thanksgiving."

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601080&sid=aw752an8t4RE&refer=asia

Anyway promising figures, even if just newly sold units to retail.


I always look for vague meaning or possible double speak in Sony PR, and I do seem some possible misinterpretations here. 

See how it says they sell 200k systems a WEEK in Europe? I do, and that's precise and not ambiguous in the slightest. Then, see how it sells they sold 200k systems in the US, but gives no precise time frame? I doubt that's an oversight, but we'll see. Given Sony's history with these remarks, it's quite possible that they wanted to imply they were selling 200k a week in the US, and give that impression, without it actually being the case and without actually lying. In any case, it means Ioi is right on the money with European PS3 figures.  


Well ,I think that as Stringer was explicitly speaking about weekly sales in both Europe and Japan he also refered to weekly sales in US "after the BF week  " .

And about European figures Stringer says 200K weekly that more or less means they have at least managed some of these in a row .At the very least 2 consecutive weeks .The site is only showing 1 week at 195K and the prior one at 150+K .And Stringer is saying clearly Europe and the site is adding to Europe the data of Australia ,New Zealand and Others .So the data doesnt coincide so much ,theres at the very least a 80-90K discrepancy .