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Forums - Sales Discussion - 600k PS3s sold in Europe

Lynn on 27 March 2007

We need to wait and see how the PS3 sells in Europe over several months not just the first week. If launch numbers could predict the outcome of the console wars then the Xbox would have beaten the PS2. The PS2 sold 667,500 in the first 2 months of release. The original Xbox sold 1,648,500 in the first 2 months of it`s release. As you can see that meant nothing. It is very likely that the PS3 sales will now drop and the it will take it many months to break 1 Million sold in Europe.



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Hus on 27 March 2007

Lynn said: We need to wait and see how the PS3 sells in Europe over several months not just the first week. If launch numbers could predict the outcome of the console wars then the Xbox would have beaten the PS2. The PS2 sold 667,500 in the first 2 months of release. The original Xbox sold 1,648,500 in the first 2 months of it`s release. As you can see that meant nothing. It is very likely that the PS3 sales will now drop and the it will take it many months to break 1 Million sold in Europe.
this thread is about Europe not USA. big differance.



mrstickball on 27 March 2007

Hus said: this thread is about Europe not USA. big differance.
Mind telling me how its a different enough market? He has a very valid point. Launches don't make systems. The PS1, PS2, N64 and Dreamcast all proved that a good or bad launch means nothing if you can't back it up. That goes for any system in any market.



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Hus on 27 March 2007

mrstickball said: Hus said: this thread is about Europe not USA. big differance. Mind telling me how its a different enough market? He has a very valid point. Launches don't make systems. The PS1, PS2, N64 and Dreamcast all proved that a good or bad launch means nothing if you can't back it up. That goes for any system in any market.
good point or not why use us numbers from the US ? other then try to dumbdown PS3s Euro success. use numbers from Europe since this is about the Euro launch.



Stromprophet on 27 March 2007

mrstickball said: Mind telling me how its a different enough market? He has a very valid point. Launches don't make systems. The PS1, PS2, N64 and Dreamcast all proved that a good or bad launch means nothing if you can't back it up. That goes for any system in any market.
It is a different market. For one Playstation sold more in Europe than they did to North America. The PS2 launch was widely known to have limited supplies. But if you actually go back and check the Japan launch in respective terms the PS2 launched with almost 800k in the first week and sold thru 2.2 million in the first 16 weeks (more than Wii BTW 1.9 million thru 16 weeks). Also, how is it impossible that perhaps Wii will fall off the face of the map too? Just like GC. I'd also wait for data. But I think it's obvious that until the games come, blu-ray stamps out HD-DVD, and the price comes down Sony is going to be playing from behind.