PS3 sales surge 400% on back of price cut in Australia

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jugon21 said:

http://www.itwire.com/your-it-news/entertainment/49514-ps3-sales-surge-400-on-back-of-price-cut

The new recommended retail price of the cutting-edge entertainment device, PlayStation 3, at just RRP $349.95 for 160GB and RRP $449.95 for 320GB model, represents a significant saving of approximately $150 on the former recommend retail price. It was effective in-stores on 22 August, 2011.

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-Week Ending 13th Aug 2011

PS3

2,145

(-9%)

1,214,754

-Week Ending 20th Aug 2011

PS3

3,563

(+66%)

1,218,317

WTF!!!

Maybe some reatilers cut the price early.

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Alby_da_Wolf on 02 September 2011

ethomaz said:

jugon21 said:

ethomaz said:

MARCUSDJACKSON said:

ethomaz said:

AMAZING NEWS!!!

Last week PS3 did 3,563 in Australia by VGC... it's at least 18,000.

looks like an adjustment is in order.

this is great news and i hope it coontinues.

I saw yesterday but the gone down to me.

Now it's 4,047 for Australia... at least 20,000 this week.

Week Ending 27th Aug 2011

PS3

5,958

(+47%)

1,223,402

I can't understand VGC some time

Already adjusted again, right now it's

Week Ending 27th Aug 2011

PS3

9,814

(+143%)

1,227,258

from

Week Ending 20th Aug 2011

PS3

4,047

(+180%)

1,217,444

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Alby_da_Wolf said:

ethomaz said:

jugon21 said:

ethomaz said:

MARCUSDJACKSON said:

ethomaz said:

AMAZING NEWS!!!

Last week PS3 did 3,563 in Australia by VGC... it's at least 18,000.

looks like an adjustment is in order.

this is great news and i hope it coontinues.

I saw yesterday but the gone down to me.

Now it's 4,047 for Australia... at least 20,000 this week.

Week Ending 27th Aug 2011

PS3

5,958

(+47%)

1,223,402

I can't understand VGC some time

Already adjusted again, right now it's

Week Ending 27th Aug 2011

PS3

9,814

(+143%)

1,227,258

from

Week Ending 20th Aug 2011

PS3

4,047

(+180%)

1,217,444

ok

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MARCUSDJACKSON on 02 September 2011

ethomaz said:

MARCUSDJACKSON said:

ethomaz said:

AMAZING NEWS!!!

Last week PS3 did 3,563 in Australia by VGC... it's at least 18,000.

looks like an adjustment is in order.

this is great news and i hope it coontinues.

I saw yesterday but the gone down to me.

Now it's 4,047 for Australia... at least 20,000 this week.

i hope sells conyinue to go up.

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That has to be one of the biggest boosts due to a pricecut I have ever heard of!

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yo_john117 said:

That has to be one of the biggest boosts due to a pricecut I have ever heard of!

yh ur right. in australia it probably is.

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Alby_da_Wolf on 05 September 2011

Record boost in NZ too.

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scottie said:

Troll_Whisperer said:
So PS3 above 200,000 this week.

Although I'm not too sure that VGC really has first hand information for those sales, I heard someone say that they apply some algorith to UK sales to extrapolste to EMEAA, and that's why imprecisions happen the most here.

The list of retailers that VGChartz tracks is a closely guarded secret - anyone who claims they know for sure what the list is is lying. However, if you look at data for individual games when they are launched in Australia in a different week to when they are launched in Europe. you can see that Australian data is taken into account.

Germany software is not tracked at all. We had clear proof with Two Worlds II which started selling in Germany weeks before in UK and EMEA sales weren't tracked till it got released in UK.

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