HappySqurriel on 07 March 2007
ChichiriMuyo said:
There is the possibility that, as was mentioned, the system will continue to stay high on sales simply because there weren't enough copies of the game to go around this week. It's not like they'd have any incentive to buy the PS3 this week if the only thing they want for it is sold out until next week.
That said, I think the 45k this week isn't too discouraging, though not too encouraging either, on the whole. Sales will still be higher than the 20-25k mark next week. Granted, it's not exactly catching up to the Wii, but Sony has always started slowly. Heck, for the PS2 in its first year the only game worth owning was, well, a Musou game.
Yeah, it sold faster, but it also cost less. Once Sony gets the costs down on a remodel, it will pick up. And that remodel is bound to come before the first real blockbuster.
Sony has sold (roughly) 750,000 PS3 systems in Japan in 17 weeks ... in 17 weeks the PS2 sold 2,250,000 systems and the PSP sold 1,200,000 systems ...
In other words Sony has not always started slowly ...
Certainly sales will improve as Sony reduces the price of the console, but how long will that take and how much will sales improve? A thing to remember about Japananeese popular culture is that they're less likely to buy into unpopular things than North Americans are ... Part of the reason the XBox/XBox 360 performs so poorly is because it isn't popular no one will buy it
