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DonXHill on 02 October 2007

Based on the first 10 months of availability, the troubled PlayStation 3 sold 22 percent less than the Nintendo GameCube for the same period.

According to the NPD, a firm that tracks North American hardware sales, the PS3 sold 1,742,000 units in its first 10 months of availability compared with 2,120,000 GameCube units.

The GameCube, released by Nintendo in 2001 to compete with Sony's PS2 and Microsoft's original Xbox, is largely seen as a failure. Although commercially successfully (to a degree), the GameCube only managed to sell 22 million systems worldwide compared with 24 million Xbox units and 115 million PS2 machines.

"We're in a position where we're having to play catch-up," PlayStation president Kaz Hirai recently said in an interview with Spong regarding the struggling PS3. Hirai went on to blame "production issues" for his console's slow start before denying widespread belief that the PS3 launch price was too high.

 

http://gamepro.com/news.cfm?article_id=137448&lid=VideoGameNews&pos=4



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leo-j on 02 October 2007

your funny.



 

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Rath on 02 October 2007
leo-j said:
your funny.

 Are you going to come up with a decent rebuttal, I can think of plenty of reasons why the PS3 will outsell the GC but 'Your funny' isnt one of them.



DonXHill on 02 October 2007

:) just passing the article around to see what peoples opinions are, I personaly think the PS3 will come atop with more sales then the cube.



Hill Till We Die    -Don 2001

I Own a WII, 64 and SNES, Most Sega systems

I Own A Xbox and Xbox 360

I am Still MAD at Sony for 3 dead PS2's with Disk Read Error's, And proud Owner of a PSX that Plays Games While Upside Down and a PS3 Slim.

  FANBOY That Haiters

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MontanaHatchet on 02 October 2007

Except the Gamecube started out at $200 compared to $600.

Interesting nonetheless.



 

 

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SnesTea on 02 October 2007

Not true. I am a HUGE Nintendo fanboy (but I couldn't live without Xbox 1) but seriously, PS3 do as badly as GameCube?

No way.

By the end of GameCube's second year, it had sold 12 million units WW.

PlayStation 3 is currently at just under 5 million, so if the current trend continues then PS3 will have sold 11 million by this time next year.



leo-j on 02 October 2007

11 million? funny really.



 

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DonXHill on 02 October 2007

that would have made 11 mill in 1.7 years so thers another 3 months they can sell one million units, ????? humm may be close if your pridection is right.



Hill Till We Die    -Don 2001

I Own a WII, 64 and SNES, Most Sega systems

I Own A Xbox and Xbox 360

I am Still MAD at Sony for 3 dead PS2's with Disk Read Error's, And proud Owner of a PSX that Plays Games While Upside Down and a PS3 Slim.

  FANBOY That Haiters

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your mother on 02 October 2007
leo-j said:
11 million? funny really.

I don't know how funny it is for you, especially when comparing your post with the PS3 prediction in your sig...



SnesTea on 02 October 2007
leo-j said:
11 million? funny really.

If you went back in time to September 2002, I would have said the same damn thing. I just have this one burning question for you leo-j:

 

Why are you such a PlayStation 3 fanboy?

 

The rest of can at least sort of respect systems we hate (though I don't hate PS3, it just has had a run of bad luck.....since launch.....) Seriously, are you like 14 years old and super immature? Grow up.

 

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