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fabinou on 31 March 2007

There is something wrong. Sony has announced that Spain was ranked at 3 beaten by France (with 78000 PS3 sells) and UK (170 000)...



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Hus on 31 March 2007

75k was for the first 3 days.



Yulegoat on 31 March 2007

This would be crazy sales if it's to consumers. However, if it's to retailers, it just shows how good name PS has and how many consoles Sony has been able to ship. Maybe the software sales would give us a clue? The weird thing here is that the software isn't included despite the info is from Sony. There have been several people pissed of at least here in Finland because almost none of the PSX/PS2 games don't work on the European PS3 unless you get the 1.6 update from the net. Then it's about 60%, but the best games won't ever work. Sony has gotten a lot of other negative press too and some of it's self-inflicted. Let's see if this is. This news is worth seeing, even if you don't understand finnish: http://pelaajalehti.com/2007/03/28/playstation-3-vanhat-pelit-playstation-2-iltalehti



GF on 31 March 2007

PS360N64PSXBOX said: GF said: 100,000 distributed... Not sold... But anyways, it's Sony. For them distributed=sold. They said the same with the PSP in Spain claiming they had beaten the DS and then several independent sales trackers revealed that in actual sales through customers the DS had around 66% market share (1,6 million DSs compared to 0,8 million PSPs). I saw a mountain of over 100 PS3s in a MediaMarkt in Madrid today. Literally. A mountain. = Unproven. I find it funny nintendo fans always claim DISTRIBUTED NOT SOLD NOT SOLD NOT SOLD!!! IS SAW TONS AT MY LOCAL GAMETHING!!!!! SONY TEH SUXORZ!! At all good news for sony!
As unproven as what I wrote is what Sony stated about their sales. Have they proven their sales? No. Then why do you believe them? I've been following the game industry for long enough in Spain to know that Sony always releases distributed figures. It was funny when they claimed they had beaten the DS a year or so after releasing the PSP. The Sony fanboys were so happy! Then a couple of independent chart trackers demonstrated that wasn't the case at all. The fact that there were more PSPs distributed in Spain than DSs (and thus the mountains of unsold stock) didn't mean they had all been sold through customers. The Sony fanboys were pwned! I'd rather wait until aDeSe, the most known Spanish chart tracker, release their figures... But oh well, I don't think you didn't even know aDeSe existed. I'm a Nintendo fan, yeah. However I have nothing against the XBOX360. I recognize Microsoft is working hard to please their fanbase, and I respect that. However, I can't say the same about Sony. Can you?... That's the reason why they need to spin numbers. To make you believe that there are many people with their console too. And I know that the mountain of PS3s I saw the other day isn't an important sample. What is important is the fact that it was on the richest region of Spain. If you extrapolate the numbers unsold there to the rest of MediaMarkts in Spain, with most of them in regions with less population and money... You get the point. Furthermore, in most of the spanish forums I visit every member who works at retail, even Sony fanboys, say they can't believe that sales number. They've still got most of the launch units in stock.



PS360N64PSXBOX on 31 March 2007

GF said: PS360N64PSXBOX said: GF said: 100,000 distributed... Not sold... But anyways, it's Sony. For them distributed=sold. They said the same with the PSP in Spain claiming they had beaten the DS and then several independent sales trackers revealed that in actual sales through customers the DS had around 66% market share (1,6 million DSs compared to 0,8 million PSPs). I saw a mountain of over 100 PS3s in a MediaMarkt in Madrid today. Literally. A mountain. = Unproven. I find it funny nintendo fans always claim DISTRIBUTED NOT SOLD NOT SOLD NOT SOLD!!! IS SAW TONS AT MY LOCAL GAMETHING!!!!! SONY TEH SUXORZ!! At all good news for sony! As unproven as what I wrote is what Sony stated about their sales. Have they proven their sales? No. Then why do you believe them? I've been following the game industry for long enough in Spain to know that Sony always releases distributed figures. It was funny when they claimed they had beaten the DS a year or so after releasing the PSP. The Sony fanboys were so happy! Then a couple of independent chart trackers demonstrated that wasn't the case at all. The fact that there were more PSPs distributed in Spain than DSs (and thus the mountains of unsold stock) didn't mean they had all been sold through customers. The Sony fanboys were pwned! I'd rather wait until aDeSe, the most known Spanish chart tracker, release their figures... But oh well, I don't think you didn't even know aDeSe existed. I'm a Nintendo fan, yeah. However I have nothing against the XBOX360. I recognize Microsoft is working hard to please their fanbase, and I respect that. However, I can't say the same about Sony. Can you?... That's the reason why they need to spin numbers. To make you believe that there are many people with their console too. And I know that the mountain of PS3s I saw the other day isn't an important sample. What is important is the fact that it was on the richest region of Spain. If you extrapolate the numbers unsold there to the rest of MediaMarkts in Spain, with most of them in regions with less population and money... You get the point. Furthermore, in most of the spanish forums I visit every member who works at retail, even Sony fanboys, say they can't believe that sales number. They've still got most of the launch units in stock.
Sorry, but you need to do better than that. Right now you have just claims to go on with little backup. I need more to go off than I know people in retail and they don't believe it. I could say the same, like I know a guy who works at Toys R Us and he says all his PS3's are SOLD OUT!! How would you know I was telling the truth? I need more than your "word", right now the numbers tell a different story.



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lenardo on 31 March 2007

it's release week - which ended yesterday. of COURSE they are going to sell more consoles during the week. after all the console has only been available for.....a week in japan, the console sells about 20-30k a week averaging towards the 20k lowend and around 90 thousand a month in spain apparently the console is going to sell about....20k a week... in the usa the ps3 is selling about 35 thousand a week (using feb number for average-was a touch higher in january) in britain and france want to bet the figures come out to about 20k a week each? overall i expect the ps3 to average Around 90k a month-AFTER the release month(ie from may on) in europe in japan the wii sells ~70 thousand a week in usa the wii sells ~90 thousand a week anyone have the wii numbers for europe for a week? individual countries? bets on it being an overall average around 60k a week?



elprincipe on 31 March 2007

lenardo said:in spain apparently the console is going to sell about....20k a week... in britain and france want to bet the figures come out to about 20k a week each?
That's too high for all of those. Japan (125 million people) is a bigger market than any one European country. Even if they do manage those kind of sales, certainly we can't tell that from the short time it's been out in Europe.



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