For those of you who are saying that the 40GB PS3 had no effect on sales, look toward the fact that the sales chart was for the week ending on November 3, 2007, and the 40 gig released on November 2, 2007.  You're judging one day of sales when generally, new releases happen on tuesdays.  So wait until next week before we confirm or deny that the 40 GB PS3 has bombed...

Okay.

u are kinda asking for it, so here it goes : 40 GB PS3 has bombed...

2-3 of November is 2 days of sales, not 1.

@Kirby007

I never said that it had or hadn't bombed. It may bomb, it may not, but I'd like to see what the sales are next week to see what effect the forty gig has had... Don't troll please. Thx.

@ NJ5

Sorry, I didn't know that they counted saturday, I thought they ended friday and they started putting it together on saturday... My mistake. Still, games come out on tuesdays so they have five days while this only have 3, I could be wrong but I'd like to reserve judgement on whether or not it had an effect until next week.

This is the same rationalization that was used to explain first week sales of Ratchet and Clank, right?

 ... or SMG  

The videogame market (generally speaking) is a market with front loaded sales ...

After the release of most major games, when a system is released, or when a system has a price reduction there is (typically) a decent number of people who rush out to get the product as early as possible. Now some games, usually first party (in particular Nintendo games), can stay on the charts for years and rack up huge sales over time but this isn't common.

With the PS3's sales only being up slightly after 2 days with the $400 40GB model on the market is not a good sign. This (essentially) means that people do not see it as being a noticeably better deal than the existing PS3 systems and are thus not rushing out to buy it.

You're right... about software. This doesn't really apply to hardware at all. Just look at the sales of the PSP after the initial price drop in March or April. They didn't shoot up drastically and fall down just as quickly. Instead you saw a sustained increase of weekly sales compared to the sales before the price drop. Even now with the redesigned system, sales didn't shoot through the roof, but have been consistently higher than previously weekly numbers. If anything PSP sales continue to grow long after the initial release of the redesign.

The 40gb was out for only 2 days, the ad blitz is barely a week old, and the Christmas season hasn't even ramped up yet. Sony still has one more major game release, Uncharted. Wait it out before you call the 40gb a failure.