Sony Claims One Million PS3s Sold in EU / AU

GamesIndustry.biz reports that one million PlayStation 3s have been sold in the European and Australian markets. This breaks the record for Sony console sales in those sectors, as they've reached that number in only nine and half weeks. "Although released in Japan in November last year, the console has so far sold just under a million in the region, with 910,737 units sold, according to data from Media Create. The last hardware sales figures released by NPD in April showed that PS3 sales had reached over 1.3 million units in North America. According to Sony, Resistance: Fall of Man has sold 600,000 units in Europe, with MotorStorm reaching just over 500,000 sales."

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Err.. that "RTFA" link is wrong

[McNihil]

its about Final Fantasy

Uh, the story's about Final Fantasy?

[Blakey Rat]

It's great when the summary is about EU sales figures for the PS3, but the story link goes to a discussion of the next Final Fantasy game.

WTF?!

Re:wow

[Lisandro]

Well, i feel almost obliged now (source)...

Nintendo DS:

Global: 40 million
Europe: 11 million
Britain: 3.1 million

Nintendo Wii:

Global: 5.84 million
Europe: 1.3 million
Britain: 438,000

Here's the correct story link

[AKAImBatman]

http://www.gamesindustry.biz/content_page.php?aid= 25649

^^ In case you're more interested in TFA rather than Square Enix "clarifying" their position on Final Fantasy.

Re:Availability

[Cryect]

Was way more than a million they had available. PS3 has been in common supply in Europe and in fact in several places the stores had to try to discount the consoles a fair bit underneath MSRP to move overstock.

Few articles for you on that
UK Retailers dropping the price below MSRP http://www.joystiq.com/2007/04/05/uk-retailer-drop s-playstation-3-price-25/
82% sales drop http://www.joystiq.com/2007/04/03/playstation-3-sa les-plunge-82-in-uk/

Also considered they sold 800k on the first day so that means took them 10 weeks more to sell 200k more so about 20k a week which while a little over twice as good as its selling in Japan is not very good (Japan for reference sold less than 9k PS3's last week according to MediaCreate http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=16168 3> and they are way past the launch period). The issue comes down to the PS3 just is selling pretty awful and worst than the GameCube sold in the previous console generation.

Re:Am I the only one....

[DesertBlade]

Found the real article here: http://www.gamesindustry.biz/content_page.php?aid= 25649 Still don't buy it, but ok.