Record-breaking 165,000 PS3s sold at UK launch (You heard it!)

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Record-breaking 165,000 PS3s sold at UK launch - www.mcvuk.com

ChartTrack has confirmed that 165,000 PS3 units were sold during the console's launch weekend.

The figure is three quarters of the total 220,000 UK launch stock for day one, and makes PS3 second only to PSP in the overall launch weekend sales stakes. The Sony handheld shifted 185,000 in its opening weekend back in September 2005.

PS3’s record-breaking debut for a home console comfortably beats the previous top seller Nintendo Wii, which sold 105,000 after its frantic launch weekend in December last year. Fellow format rival Xbox 360 racked up an estimated 70,000 at launch in December 2005.

The figure also means that Sony has not sold all of its opening weekend stock, something the platform holder claims is part of its overall strategy at retail.
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The most expensive system manages to outsell a system 1/3 of its price?
Gamespot pulled its horses too early by deeming UK launch a failure, The console having maximum pre-orders and then failing to sell did not make sense at all according to me. Well then here it is, UK launch was as successful as it could get.
 
So, it does well in one place, and does poorly in the immediate countries? Europe is certainly a divided Continent. Well, at least the UKer's have good taste. Resistance ended up being the top seller with Motorstorm, Virtua tennis3, F1 and Ridge Racer7 following behind.
 
So they manage to up the price of UK consoles by about 30 percent, delay the launch, give them a console that can't do backwards compatability like its NA and Jap cousins, blackball importers, shut down lik-sang and still manage to sell out?

Man they really really REALLY must love Sony in UK.

Sony would be hoping that the PS3 doesnt follow the PSP exactly. THe PSP is as fu**ed in Europe as its anywhere else.
 
give them a console that can't do backwards compatability like its NA and Jap cousins
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Eh, that European BC will be on its way for NA and Jap version too in a couple of months. Sony tends to go all M$X360 way on BC. NA and Jap version cannot upscale the graphics on BC, that means all pixelated crap on 1080p/720p televisions, on European BC - It can be upscaled.

So even the NA and Jap version are waiting for that emulation. The title library will be upgraded time by time through updates.

That's how X360 does Xbox. Its a good thing the Europeans actually know this, unlike some here clearly....

THe PSP is as fu**ed in Europe as its anywhere else.
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PSP is selling good and is a success in all terms, just that it didn't sell *DS good*, Sony is making profits on all PSP's and Ps2's, PSP's selling average worldwide does not put it anywhere near a "failure" or "****ed up".
 
I would take "pixelated crap" over the list Sony published on its official website about EU backwards compatability. Most games have issues ranging from minor to major ones that make them unplayable. Sony itself advises to skip cutscens in a lot of games because they may cause trouble.

Metal gear solid 3 (probably one of the best on the PS2) has noticable issues. As does Okami, ditto for Viewtifull Joe 1 and 2 (all of my favourate games).

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Guess what? They work pretty well on the NA or Jap PS3.

And when you are struggling to sell less than a fifth of your closest competitior (not just Europe, NA or Jap but worldwide) I would say you are as f**ked as you can be. There was an article reacently about store owners in USA pushing for a price cut on the PSP because of its dismal sales. Pushing is a polite word as the article suggested they threated to remove the PSP from major display positions if Sony doesn't playball.
 
I would take "pixelated crap" over the list Sony published on its official website about EU backwards compatability. Most games have issues ranging from minor to major ones that make them unplayable. Sony itself advises to skip cutscens in a lot of games because they may cause trouble.

Metal gear solid 3 (probably one of the best on the PS2) has noticable issues. As does Okami, ditto for Viewtifull Joe 1 and 2 (all of my favourate games).
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X360 didn't start out better with Xbox emulation either, like I said before, these will improve over time with online updates.

Guess what? They work pretty well on the NA or Jap PS3.
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Yes they do, but only for people who are playing their Ps3's on normal TV's. Those on 720p/1080p LCD screens have a lot of issues playing Ps2 games as the NA and Jap Ps3's cannot upscale the Ps2 graphics (it outputs only 420p signal).

Sony received a lot of complains, and so they pushed back Euro launch, revised the whole BC where they could put an upscaler and reduce costs, and in 2 months will come to NA and Jap markets as well - So I see nothing at all wrong in Euro BC if people saw nothing wrong in X360 BC.

And when you are struggling to sell less than a fifth of your closest competitior (not just Europe, NA or Jap but worldwide) I would say you are as f**ked as you can be. There was an article reacently about store owners in USA pushing for a price cut on the PSP because of its dismal sales. Pushing is a polite word as the article suggested they threated to remove the PSP from major display positions if Sony doesn't playball.
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I'd love that article now.

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1/3 of 40 = 13.

PSP is strong with 20 million sold worldwide. Its bringing in good profits as far as Sony is concerned.

The only place its barely sold 1/3 of DS is in Japan, and even there, a PSP game is outselling a Wii title.

Nope, not a failure in my book.
 
You asked for it -
PSP: Something Happening Soon news from 1UP.com

It does not matter whether "in your book" PSP is a failure or not. Hell I think the Dreamcast was a spectacular success. Still doesn't change the fact that it went extinct. The PSP is in trouble like it or not. Phil Harrison admitted as much. I think he said something on the lines of "we need to rethink our strategy regarding it (the PSP)". A redisgn? A price cut? PSP 2?

Xbox 360's back wards compatibility issues were almost non existent. Either a game worked or it did not. Period. That can be a good or bad thing depending on how you look at it. And I wouldn't expect too many updates to that list. Sony has admitted that it will not be focusing on BC too strongly (want me to link to that story as well?).

I think that we are going quite off topic though. Good news for Sony about the UK sles any way you look at it.
 
Whatever you think, I'm just gonna stick with what I've said about the PSP not being a failure, the units sold aren't bad at all, just not brilliant, and I see a solid 2007 for it ahead with or without a redesign.

About the Ps2's BC on PS3, we'll just wait and see if Sony keeps up with its updates.
 
Hacker said:
I saw an ad for ps3, it said the ps3 is the cheapest blue ray player and it also plays games :D
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Correction. PS3 was the cheapest blue player, but not anymore as there are blue ray players below 500$ now... Expect prices to drop with time..:)
 
Record breaking cancellations as well :P

According to BrandRepublic, "as many as 20,000 pre-orders of the £425 console [were] canceled in the run-up to its delayed launch last Friday," totaling over £10m in lost sales! The same article quotes Nick Parker, an analyst at Screen Digest, who said, "This time next week we could be saying that the PlayStation 3 has been the most successful console launch ever." Uh, already true in the UK, Nick. So, widespread cancellations and the console still broke sales records? Then why are there still units on the shelves?
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UK PS3 launch saw £10mn in cancellations, still #1 - Joystiq
 
20,000 pre-orders canceled? I wonder who'd go the trouble of making that many orders only to have them canceled at the last moment. Surely, it can't be a multi-million dollar company that would do that. We all know companies have way too much dignity to do such a thing like that.
 
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20,000 pre-orders canceled? I wonder who'd go the trouble of making that many orders only to have them canceled at the last moment. Surely, it can't be a multi-million dollar company that would do that. We all know companies have way too much dignity to do such a thing like that.
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So who are you insinuating? MS making pre order and cancelling them to make Sony look bad. Or Sony making up phony pre orders to create a hype.

Its probably neither. People change their mind all the time.
 
Ps3 sold a 100,000 more units in 2 Days, than what X360 sold in a month.

Sony’s PlayStation 3 console has enjoyed a record-breaking launch in Europe, with about 600,000 sold in the first two days, despite its being the last and most expensive of the new games machines to come on the market.

Sony said it estimated that about €400m worth of PS3 consoles, games and peripherals were sold across Europe on launch weekend.

The sales figure compares with about 500,000 Xbox 360 consoles sold by Microsoft in Europe in the first month after its release in December 2005. Nintendo sold about 700,000 Wii consoles in Europe in the month after its launch last December.

Retailers such as the UK’s Game Group and FNAC of France said they had seen huge demand for Sony’s machine.

In the UK, Sony’s biggest market in Europe, 173,000 PS3 units were sold in the first 48 hours of launch, compared with 70,000 Xbox 360s and 105,000 Wiis on their launch weekends.

The PS3 launch eclipses that of its predecessor, PlayStation 2, in 2000. PS2 took several weeks to reach similar sales. Sales of the Xbox 360, Wii and PS2 were hampered by lack of stock, however. Sony, which had delayed the European debut by several months, ensured a stock of 1m PS3s in stores.

The PS3 also launched with a larger library of games than its rivals. The PlayStation platform has the largest European installed base, with more than 42m PS2s sold in the region.

“I would expect the PlayStation 3 to do well initially because a lot of PS2 users had been waiting for the PS3 to come along ,” said Paul O’Donovan, an analyst at the research company, Gartner. US figures suggest that the PS3 is performing marginally (lol) better than the Xbox 360 at the same stage of its sales cycle.

NPD, the research group, estimates that about 1.1m PS3 consoles have been sold in the US in the first four months since launch, compared with 1m sales for Xbox in its first quarter. A strong launch does not guarantee market dominance, however.

Many analysts say that while Sony will have no trouble selling the first 1m PS3s in Europe, it could struggle to find buyers for the £425 console once its loyal fan base is saturated.

Microsoft, which has had a year’s head start over its rivals, had sold more than 10m Xbox 360s globally by the end of last year. Gartner expects that by 2009 the PlayStation will have outsold both the Xbox 360 and Wii as more games are created for the machine.
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FT.com / Companies / IT - Sony’s PS3 has record launch in Europe

Its definitely the Ps2 hype that's selling the Ps3 there.
 
PlayStation 3 hardware sales plummet 82 per cent

Sales down dramatically on second week of release

Sales of the PlayStation 3 have dropped dramatically on the second week of release in the UK, with official Chart Track figures revealing a fall of 82 per cent.

Chart Track data is gathered from 7000 UK retail outlets representing 90 per cent of the software market, including GAME, Gamestation, Play.com, Asda and HMV.

A spokesperson for Chart Track confirmed the figure to GamesIndustry.biz this afternoon, stating: "Yes, sales of PS3 hardware have dropped by 82 per cent."

Last week, Chart Track revealed that the PlayStation 3 had sold 165,000 units in the first two days following the launch, making it the fastest-selling home console in the UK.

"We publish the first week figures because there's such a clamour for them that we can't keep it a secret," said the spokesperson.

This week's software charts revealed that sales of the top two PlayStation 3 titles, Resistance: Fall of Man and MotorStorm, had dropped by over 60 per cent.
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PlayStation 3 hardware sales plummet 82 per cent // GamesIndustry.biz
 
^^There you go... that sounds more reasonable. Its anyone's guess now who created those numbers :rofl:.
 
Woah! 82% is massive. I was (with everyone else) expecting a drop in sales but that is a lot bigger than I had imagined.

I guess the hardcore Sony fans bought it and that didn't leave a lot of other people who wanted one.
 
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