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So the aussies really like their PS3 nowadays.

 

Australia, July 29, 2008 - Nintendo Australia announced a few days ago that the Wii has sold through 500,000 units in Australia, and now we have the latest figures from Sony Australia to put that number in perspective. According to GfK, PlayStation 3 has sold through 305,000 units in Australia, which, considering the machine went on sale three months after the Wii, and is significantly more expensive, shows that Nintendo has plenty of competition in the Aussie videogame market.

According to Sony, the PS3 has sold faster than the PS2 and the PSP did by a similar stage in their life cycles. We should also mention the fact that the GfK figures don't include the PS3s given away as part of the Sony Bravia promotion. Throw those in and the number is over 375,000.

In other Aussie news, we have the local take on the video download service partnership announcements made at E3. Sadly, the news is not good. Video downloads aren't coming to Australian PS3s any time soon. While Sony Australia is committed to bringing the service out here, for the moment its focus is on other aspects of PSN.



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Oh yea VGchartz has PS3 at around 280k for AU and these figures show it at 300k plus the bundles which put it over 375k.....hmmmmmmmmm



So is this shipped or sold to customers?

And is the PS3 undertracked here in Austrilia?



Gamer4eva said:
So is this shipped or sold to customers?

And is the PS3 undertracked here in Austrilia?

 

I assume sold since they cited GfK numbers which track sold to customer and the given away PS3s with the Bravia TV were just that, given away to customers.



So do we need adjustments?



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PS3 winning over X360 in Australia. Confirmed. Great news Auron.



still i think the bravia bundles shouldn't be counted as sales..but that's maybe just me



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good momentum



Gamer4eva said:
So do we need adjustments?

 

Depends who you ask just try not to critisize the numbers on the site too much or you will get banned.



Neos said:

still i think the bravia bundles shouldn't be counted as sales..but that's maybe just me

 

Like the article says 300k+ of standalones and another 70k for the bundles.....stil higher then vgchartz.