Wow PS3 sales??

[LastManStanding]

tabsina said:

LastManStanding said:
Some more wood to the fire:

http://www.lesechos.fr/info/innovation/4657834.htm

This is an article from the french newspaper "les echos". The article is from 06 december 2007, and is about the coming to some european country of Video on demand to the Xbox360. But the interesting parte i'll translate for you guys.

« To date, we have sold close to 500,000 Xbox 360 in the hexagon and 8 million players in the world have subscribed to our service Xbox Live, said Francois Ruault, director of recreational products division of Microsoft. »

For you non french guys "the hexagon" is one of the ways they call their country, because of it's shape. Don't know if those "close to 500,000" means retail or consumer.

so if the article was on 06 december, we can assume the best estimate would be what vgchartz had for x360 in france at the end of the last week before that, which is the week ending 02 december

http://vgchartz.com/hwtable.php?cons%5B%5D=X360®%5B%5D=France&start=38557&end=39418

Console	X360
France	542,479

so from launch -> dec 02 (and i'd even say that that was too soon to be the date the guy was actually referring to), Vgchartz said 542,479
+10% = 596,726.9
-10% = 488,231.1

So I think it is pretty safe to say, that even at week ending december 2, vgchartz was still within a reasonable range

and in case you are wondering, 542,479 and 500,000 are different by -7.8% only

 

 Well if the ps3 numbers are adjusted, it's only fair that the same should apen to the 360. And i don't think that "close to" means 499999. And why assume that the numbers are to consumers? But then again could happen that the guy is just misinformed about is own numbers.

And by the way, 50k might not be much to the USA, but for France that is a big difference in termes of market share. And gives a very distorted picture of what is going on.