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Diomedes1976 on 11 June 2007
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Well I should have posted this in the other threads but as I dont find those and this one speaks about the same I will post it here .Later I will cut and paste to the proper one .


First we have two differente sources for the data .The first is the interview with David Reeves in MCV where he said they had passed last week (or two weeks ago now I dont know ) the 1 million consoles in the PAL region .This can be seen here :

http://www.mcvuk.com/opinion/32/The-PS3-powers-on

Interesting things are that apparently the console is selling pretty well in Rusia and Middle East .If we believe in David Reeves words ,thats it .Other interesting thing is the good performance in UK ,France and Iberia (thats Spain and Portugal ) .Reeves confirms this is sold to final customers ,not shipped numbers ,so this should end all discussions about .Except if you someone accuses him of lying .He also says they have sold 2 million games in first party software (most of this is obviously Motorstorm and Resistence ) .
Then we have another source of information that is this one that talks about Sony giving official numbers .

http://www.playfrance.com/news-infos-les-chiffres-du-territoire-pal.html

This is just one of some pages that reported that data .This data puts the PS3 at exactly 1050 000 consoles sold and gives us interesting data about the game sales .Resistence would be at 638 000 and Motorstorm 578 000 units .This source also cites the number of europeans logged to the Playstation network that would be 460 000 right now .The numbers seem to be more or less the sames as the David Reeves interview.I think PS3 numbers are a bit too low in this site for Europe but 100K isnt so big as a difference ,in any case I hope not getting banned (again ! ) just for saying this .


So all in all we could say the console is around 1050 000 and that number is sold and not shipped .As for the games Resistence and Motorstorm are sure doing great .As for the PSN less than half the people that bought the machine are online ,thats something odd but not everybody has internet or the correct setup to run the machine properly .I had to buy a wireless router myself and fight a bit with the setup as an example of this .


And for people doubting sony and its capability to have good numbers .Come one guys do you really think Sony isnt a client of NPD ,GFk and the other agencies ?Its their business for gods sake they need all the data they can get their grips on ,and they have the money to pay it .