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MontanaHatchet on 16 November 2007
Nintendownsmii said:
Wait I thought Sony always releases sold to retailer numbers, have they changed their stratagy for press releases?

I wouldn't say its all sunshine, rainbows, and lolipops for Sony since they are still losing money on each PS3 sold and have already bled how many billions?

Still it does seem to be that they might actually succeed in their 'crazy' sacrafice the playstation brand to push blu-ray and reap the liscensing fees plan.

 I see no personal bias in this post.



 

 

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ChronotriggerJM on 16 November 2007

Meh, it means my system of choice will have great software around the board ^^ wether or not it does well is besides the point :D I get to play some great games, and the system itself has more to offer. Not a thing wrong with that ^^



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Saiyar on 16 November 2007

That 60 million downloads figure seems to be very high for such a short space of time. At E3 MS announced XBL was at 45 million downloads for all content.

It would be nice if they would give a breakdown of what content was being downloaded.



FishyJoe on 16 November 2007

I'm guessing the download number includes the free stuff.



ChronotriggerJM on 16 November 2007
Nintendownsmii said:
Wait I thought Sony always releases sold to retailer numbers, have they changed their strategy for press releases?

I wouldn't say its all sunshine, rainbows, and lolipops for Sony since they are still losing money on each PS3 sold and have already bled how many billions?

Still it does seem to be that they might actually succeed in their 'crazy' sacrafice the playstation brand to push blu-ray and reap the liscensing fees plan.

 Well they haven't lost as much as MS (which is sad considering hardware costs, R&D for Cell tech AND blu-ray, AND dev costs), and their currently in 2 makerts, video games and movies. Should either of these pan out their on solid ground, if BOTH take off. Well then it was an easy sacrifice. In my opinion anyway :P



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outlawauron on 16 November 2007

5.6 mil is an old number fishy. From their Q2 report. Fail



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NJ5 on 16 November 2007

"The company's worldwide sales goal for next March remains 11 million units."

Totally misleading. 11 million units is the forecast number of shipped PS3s during the current fiscal year only! 2 million were shipped in the first half of the year, which means they have 9 million to do between October 2007 and March 2008.

If they achieved that goal, they would have shipped a total of 14.6 million PS3s by the end of March 2008, meaning about 13.5 million sold to customers.

With all the games being delayed my guess is that they'll miserably fail regarding that goal, guaranteeing a new round of doom and gloom for the PS3 in the media and everywhere else.

 



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Avinash_Tyagi on 16 November 2007
outlawauron said:
5.6 mil is an old number fishy. From their Q2 report. Fail

 Which means VGC is pretty close, because that is to the end of sepetember, and its the middle of november meaning VGC is right around where it should be



 

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Saiyar on 16 November 2007
FishyJoe said:
I'm guessing the download number includes the free stuff.

 

XBL 45 million was for all stuff as well. I find it a bit strange that PSN has passed XBL's 18 month number in less than a year.

 



masschamber on 16 November 2007
FishyJoe said:


Although the trend for the last year has been for publisher to create Xbox 360 SKUs and then port to PS3, Sony claims this is now starting to reverse: "Developers are now creating games on PS3 and then porting them to other platforms. This shows the strides developers are making in creating content for PS3 and also provides developers with an advantage as it's harder to port from Xbox 360 to PS3. Ubisoft's Haze is the first title to be created on PS3 and ported to Xbox."

 Hmm apparently sony is also admitting that the ps3 isn't up to handling xbox360 ports, but the porting to the 360 from ps3 should be easy


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