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Lostplanet22 on 30 July 2009
pterodactyl said:

That's pretty impressive, but is that really something to brag about? Beating a console that came in third a generation ago only to come in tenth?


xbox was second.

 

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Graves on 30 July 2009

Good for Sony, it'll surpass the PS1 and PS2 in no time.



perpride on 30 July 2009
Graves said:
Good for Sony, it'll surpass the PS1 and PS2 in no time.

/thread.

It's not exactly a good thing that it took PS3 this long to (almost) hit 24 million. Still, for a console who people thought would not make it to 2008, especially considering it is still at a very high pricepoint, this is not bad news.



Bladeforce on 30 July 2009

Considering it is competing in bothe videogame and HD markets it is criminally bad figures



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tedsteriscool on 30 July 2009

Doing much better than initial expectations. Now...what's the top 10 list?



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ph4nt on 30 July 2009
tedsteriscool said:
Doing much better than initial expectations. Now...what's the top 10 list?


I'm pretty sure Sony expected the PS3 to sell way better than it has when they were about to release it.

Initial expectations showed Sony having a landslide lead selling 100 million+ PS3's with the Wii failing to get past the gamecube.



tedsteriscool on 30 July 2009
ph4nt said:
tedsteriscool said:
Doing much better than initial expectations. Now...what's the top 10 list?


I'm pretty sure Sony expected the PS3 to sell way better than it has when they were about to release it.

Initial expectations showed Sony having a landslide lead selling 100 million+ PS3's with the Wii failing to get past the gamecube.

I don't mean what Sony expected, I mean what the media expected. For 1-2 years there were constant articles about the PS3 being a failure, saying that it should be discontinued.



Killergran on 30 July 2009
tedsteriscool said:
Doing much better than initial expectations. Now...what's the top 10 list?

Just to give a sense of what the initial expectations actually were, this thread is a goldmine:

http://forum.pcvsconsole.com/viewthread.php?tid=16280



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tedsteriscool on 30 July 2009
Killergran said:
tedsteriscool said:
Doing much better than initial expectations. Now...what's the top 10 list?

Just to give a sense of what the initial expectations actually were, this thread is a goldmine:

http://forum.pcvsconsole.com/viewthread.php?tid=16280

That's from 2005. I bet they changed the tune they were singing when Kaz dropped the "599 US dollars" line



Killergran on 30 July 2009
tedsteriscool said:

That's from 2005. I bet they changed the tune they were singing when Kaz dropped the "599 US dollars" line

It goes all the way to may 2007. And analysts really thought the PS3 would be on top or at least very near the top by now, with around twice the current number sold in North America.



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