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llewdebkram on 15 November 2007

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7095976.stm

 
Sony makes most of Wii shortages
The PlayStation 3 was launched last year in Japan
Sony is taking advantage of Nintendo Wii shortages and a recent price cut of the PlayStation 3 to double weekly sales of the console in the US.

Sony boss Howard Stringer told the Associated Press news agency: "It's a little fortuitous that the Wii is running out of hardware."

Two weeks after the price cut Sony sold 100,000 PS3s in seven days.

Mr Stringer said the increase in sales of the console was "the breakthrough we have been anticipating."

He added: "Obviously, we've taken so much heat over the year on PS3. Finally, the turning point has been passed."

Nintendo has become a victim of its own success, with many shops in the US and UK struggling to meet demand.

A spokesman for Nintendo UK denied that the company was witholding supply to boost interest.

"The video games market is a fiercely competitive one and it is not in our interest to withhold stock from anyone," he said.

Microsoft and Nintendo have not released weekly sales figures for their consoles.



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leo-j on 15 November 2007

So ps3 is at 100k not 64k.. this means it outsold the 360 world wide and is at 5.8 m



 

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Just_Ben on 15 November 2007
leo-j said:
So ps3 is at 100k not 64k.. this means it outsold the 360 world wide and is at 5.8 m

Well NPD comes today, so we will see if IOI over/undertracked this month. He said hes aiming for NPD +5 to+15%.

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kirby007 on 15 November 2007

retail.... jc



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grandmaster192 on 15 November 2007

Bullshit. Vgchartz says 60k.



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Just_Ben on 15 November 2007
grandmaster192 said:
Bullshit. Vgchartz says 60k.

He said sony sold, means sony sold to reatailers. 100k in seven days in not unbelievable second shipment, I would guess.

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Avinash_Tyagi on 15 November 2007

In seven days doesn't mean it was all in one week Leo, as it could have been partly in one week and partly in a another, Sony doesn't say whcih days they are getting the data from



 

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NJ5 on 15 November 2007
Avinash_Tyagi said:
In seven days doesn't mean it was all in one week Leo, as it could have been partly in one week and partly in a another, Sony doesn't say whcih days they are getting the data from

Just_Ben said:
grandmaster192 said:
Bullshit. Vgchartz says 60k.

He said sony sold, means sony sold to reatailers. 100k in seven days in not unbelievable second shipment, I would guess.

 

Just two of the many things that people forget when doing their OMGUNDERTRACKED claims.

 



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Just_Ben on 15 November 2007
NJ5 said:
Avinash_Tyagi said:
In seven days doesn't mean it was all in one week Leo, as it could have been partly in one week and partly in a another, Sony doesn't say whcih days they are getting the data from

Just_Ben said:
grandmaster192 said:
Bullshit. Vgchartz says 60k.

He said sony sold, means sony sold to reatailers. 100k in seven days in not unbelievable second shipment, I would guess.

 

Just two of the many things that people forget when doing their OMGUNDERTRACKED claims.

 

I too believe that the PS3 was undertracked by ioi (or the 360 was overtracked). We will see what NPD has to say today. But everything should be in the acceptable error margin for this site. (+-15%)

 



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shams on 15 November 2007

llewdebkram said:


 

Sony boss Howard Stringer told the Associated Press news agency: "It's a little fortuitous that the Wii is running out of hardware."

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This is such a ridiculous comment. Ninty is pumping the hardware out, harder than ever before. They are on track to sell something like 6m units in the next 7 weeks worldwide!

Is it a good thing for Sony that the demand for Wii is so high - it doesn't matter how many units Ninty produces - they will all sell? 

No - its a sucky, sucky thing.

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As someone said - Sony will simply be left to pick up the scraps. MS won't be that much better off either.



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