reverie on 10 May 2007
larry,
You haven't read it properly. It is not comparing respective launch sales of the 3 systems. It's comparing sales between 23 March and now. During its launch windows the PS3 had a 49 % market share ( 7.3 / (7.3+3.4+4.3) ). That is not very impressive for a launch against two established systems. And it should be noted that these are value figures, not unit figures.
HappySquirrel,
The Google Translation is pretty much correct. "Conversions" should be "revenues", obviously, not "profits". Google got the last sentence wrong though. It says "Last week figures of the 3 competitors were on a similar level". I don't know if they were similar to each other (which would be 33 % for the PS 3) or similar to the PS3 launch week (which would be 49 % for PS3). The sentence is not clear on that.
Hardcore gaming is a bubble economy blown up by Microsoft's $7 $6 billion losses.
