PS3's Move Sold 'Well Below Expectations,' says Pachter

Yesterday, Sony Computer Entertainment America told us that the PlayStation Move "is performing extremely well at retail," although the company seemed reluctant to actually provide hard data to back up this statement. After all, if the product is selling so well, why not give us the sales information? In Europe, Sony revealed that Move sold around 1.5 million units.

In North America, however, Wedbush Morgan analyst Michael Pachter believes that Move really did not fare as well as Sony would have liked. Despite the suspected slow start, Pachter still thinks that Move, and Microsoft's Kinect, will have a notable impact on industry sales this holiday season. "Even though we believe Move sold well below expectations in its first month, we expect it, along with the Kinect (launching November 4), to drive hardware sales at holiday," he said. 

The launch of PlayStation Move did not seem to noticeably lift the fortunes of Sony's PS3 either; Pachter revealed that the PS3 sold 312,000 units in September, which represents a 37% decline year-over-year. 

http://www.industrygamers.com/news/ps3s-move-sold-well-below-expectations-says-pachter/

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Thats Pachter's opinion!!!

Hey at least he STILL expects it to DRIVE PS3 sales in the holiday!

Is this estimate based on the YoY decrease?

Last year in September didn't we have PS3 Slim launch as well as the $100 price cut?

Anyways, just like any Move prediction, nothing is known until SONY says something.

Well you guys got what you wanted! Move makes PS3 officially the new Wii HD, because Michael Pachter is not impressed with your sales.

In Italy Sony Italia shipped 100.000 PSMove, and 60.000 are selled to customers in the first month from launch.

The source is the most important businnes newspaper of the country: "Il Sole 24 ore".

Considering that it is overpriced, seems pretty fucking contrived from a hardware perspective, and launched with no compelling software, I'd say it's done amazingly well.

Once again badgenome hits the nail on the head with his analysis 

You hear that, Wedbush Morgan?! Hire me!

move sold 1.5 million in Europe??? What??

Seems the Move underperformed in the US and did really well in Europe.

Seems that Pachter is still underperforming as far as his brain is concerned.