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libellule on 30 October 2007

except if the 60gb is sold out everywhere ... that I dont know !



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Griffin on 30 October 2007

I don't understand why you guys think the PS3 will fail.  Only one of its big series from the PS2 era has come out and thats R&C, this site does not have the full sales data from the series so we have no way to track how its done.  From what i heard it sold 13mil on the PS2. Sony's biggest game is not even out and that is GT5.  Europe loves this series and once this hits expect sales to sky rocket from then on.



Just_Ben on 30 October 2007
HappySqurriel said:
Right now is going to be a very poor time to look at the sales of the PS3 as being representative of anything in Europe; the price drop and removal of backwards compatibility boosted sales of the 60GB quite dramatically but we will have difficultly seeing the "Real" demand for the 40GB PS3 until early 2008 because we will soon be in the Christmas shopping season.
Is it about absolute sales or relatives? I think the relative sales a quite more intresting than the absolute. So it will be intresting by how much the PS3 will outsell the 360 this fall in Others.

 



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Danny355 on 30 October 2007
ArtofAngels said:

Just have a look at the recent Hardware sales for the 'Other' region.

 

Even though 360 will likely crush it in World Wide sales for that week (no need to mention Wii, everyone knows it's king) it's nice to see Europe embrasing the PS3 as much as it is.

Japan will only add another pathetic 10k-15k, and USA will add not to much more than that, looking at last weeks sales.

360 beat PS3 in USA by over 100k in last weeks chart, so it's not even nearly enough for PS3 to keep it's head above water even with the Japanese and Europe numbers.

But!!!.. Is it enough to keep PS3 a success?
For example if the European numbers showed PS3 in dead last, it'd basically spell doom for PS3.


The PS3 HAS been dead last for months up until the recent couple of weeks. To put it in perspective, the PS3 has just outsold the 360 by 30k in europe. It would have to keep this up untill 2009 to overtake it. Is that going to happen? Possibly, who knows but I would hardly call the current sale a turnaround or a success. The PS3 really has to destroy the 360 AND the Wii consisitently for a couple of months to stage anything like a comeback at this point.

 If the PS3 doesnt hit 10 million this holiday its over, or to put it more bluntly, it has no chance of hitting 10 million & its basically over for this generation. The PS3 might start to come into its own in time for the next generation, ie around 4 or 5 years from now.

  So yes Sony were right, the PS3 WILL have a shelf life of 10 years, what they failed to predict though is for the first 5 years its going to be having its mail forwarded straight to the abyss.



libellule on 30 October 2007

hey, in fact, the last numbers from VGchartz are :

14th : PS3 : +108k
21th : PS3 : +104k
28th : PS3 : +73k DROP !

do you see it like me ?
is it the 60gb that is sold out ? or is solding out ?
answer next week !



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