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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Re:wow

[Deag]

The hype about the Wii that has been in the States is not the same as in Europe. There has been a certain extent of hype but none of the old ladies and dead people buying them rush that has been in North America (well that is the impression I get on slashdot.)

Re:As impressive as that sounds....

[El_Muerte_TDS]

The bigger picture is nice. But as long as Europeans, don't know about Australia, is treated like a different species, the bigger picture doesn't say much.
Europeans are not treated like North Americans and not as Asians... resulting is retarded late releases of games, gaming hardware, movies, etc. Or resulting in fucked up releases because "we don't understand it" (-- reference to the Grindhouse bullshit).

So for all it's worth, the PS3 might be successful in the EU and not in the rest of the world. (but probably not because Sony screwed us over even more and told use to like it).

Re:As impressive as that sounds....

[Doctor_Jest]

"creamed" isn't likely a word I would use (unless I relished the insinuation that Sony wasn't doing so "hot")... It's a $600 (or so) console v. a $250 console. Apples to Oranges (no pun intended)... and I for one am happy it's selling faster than previous generations, in spite of the price. That alone is impressive to me, a platform agnostic... This sort of news (8:1 ratio) isn't going to make my toast suddenly not come out right, or my milk to spoil... so in reality, if someone needs this information to make themselves feel better about Excite Truck, have at it. (I'm not saying you are... I am using the "royal you" ... so to speak.) There's simply far too many people being nutjobs about the franchise wars that it's becoming tiresome....

It's sold to customers, actually (from what I've read at other sites about this... since Slashdot has the case of oops! right now.) Now whether or not _that_ is true is yet another story. ;)