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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."
No snide comments thrown in the slashdot story denigrating Sony? What is this, a neutral, legitimate news site now or something??
and the people did feast upon the lambs and sloths and carp and anchovies and orangutans and breakfast cereals and fruit bats and large chu...
Or something.
"Please, shut up. Just when I think you can't say anything more stupid, you speak again." -Archie Bunker.
its about Final Fantasy
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?!
Comment of the year
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.
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Any idea how many PS2 consoles were available in stores in Europe in the first 10 weeks of distribution? I'm too lazy to check, but I bet it's less than the million they have available now.
2007 estimates:
Austria 20,982,000
Europe 710,000,000
Japan 127,433,494
European PS3 sales don't seem all that impressive to me for 2.5 months.
He owes me a new keyboard!
Well... looks like Sony's definitely got a Blu-ray stronghold around there. I wouldn't mind seeing what HD-DVD to Blu-ray sales have been doing for the past few months in that area.
:P
And as an added note, I don't know whether to see it as funny or not... but directly under TFA, under "related information", was a link on Wii sales, putting it at 1.6 million
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Who read TFA? Read it three times says nothing about selling 1 million units. Talks about Square Enix clarifies position on Final Fantasy for 360.
Half of writing history is hiding the truth.
Funny but the hype for the Wii was massively greater than the PS3. In fact appears to be the only reason why people are getting so worked up about an ostensibly last generation system with a new controller. Sony certainly came out with some idiotic statements though.
... PS3's getting creamed elsewhere. In Japan alone, as of last week, Wii is outselling PS3 8:1. http://www.next-gen.biz/index.php?option=com_conte nt&task=view&id=5913&Itemid=2
That might say more about the Japanese buying tastes than those of the Euro crowd, but it's still highly indicative of Sony's "hard sell", uphill battle with the PS3. 1mil units in the EU/AU market might sound nice, but we have to really look at the bigger picture.
Since the article link is wrong, is this actually 1mil sold through to customers or to retailers. Totally different scenario.
http://www.gamesindustry.biz/content_page.php?aid= 25649
Hmmm.... Says nothing about selling through to actual customers. Then again, it says "sold" instead of "shipped". Could be actual sell through.
since no one reads TFA, and TFA has nothing to do with T actual FA, is this like the "1 million zunes sold" article where there were 1,000,000 units sold to vendors, or are there actually 1,000,000 units in homes?
oh marmalade.
There was a lot of people excited about the Wii on the internet. And as such, it was hard to tell if all the excitement is from just a dense distribution in that particular niche of the web, or real excitement in the market. I also noticed that there wasn't very much advertising for either the Wii or the PS3. None at all until just a week or two before the consoles launched in stores.
/superb/ performance in his clip, though it seems he was really just advertising for a bar of chocolate.
I do however find myself running into Xbox360 ads everywhere I turn, on TV, in movie theatres, posters, etc. etc.
Wii commercials have grown to be commonplace now, featuring those two polite little japanese guys hauling fun around the country.
PS3 commercials feature a PS3 console. Of the 3-4 that I've seen on TV, 3 of them just feature a box admist some freakish surreal chaos without much explanation for what it has to do with the PS3(Presumably to create enough curiousity to push consumers to inquire for more). A baby doll crying tears of blood with images of armageddon reflecting in its eyes...pan out to...a PS3?
Only one actually attempted to describe why the PS3 is good, and actually using words. I've also seen the European advertising campaign, "This is living". I really have no freaking clue what the hell any of the clips have to do with the PS3. However, I will say that the mercenary "Kovac" gave a
The blonde advertised that copying others is lame and originality should always be pursued(which isn't something you should advertise about motion-sensing and six-axis...). The blonde also had breasts and was sitting on a toilet.
Black guy tapdanced on a desk and sweated.
Soccer/football guy wearing only a jockstrap fapped to a soccer/football game (I am not kidding or exaggerating, go watch for yourself).
I think the PS3 would have done better if Sony had tried to make some of their own hype with a competent advertising campaign. Theirs has been creatively bad, it must have taken a great deal of effort to make something so terrible, I doubt it could have been achieved simply by accident.
Things are improving though. Now getting a Wii only requires giving up your firstborn or your soul.
I'm sure that Kim Basinger and Mickey Rourke are pleased...
Is that a real poncho? I mean, is that a Mexican poncho or is that a Sears poncho?
I think the issue is that Motorstorm and Excite Truck can't really be compared. While they are both Arcade Offroaders, that's where the similarities end. Excite Truck is a lot faster, with huge jumps and boosts. You just try to go through the course as quickly as possible, barely touching the ground at times. There's no simulation or reality involved. It's a kind of Offroad Mario Kart.
Motorstorm, on the other hand, requires you to read the ground. It moves much slower and, despite of clearly being an Arcade game, there is a lot of physics simulation and planning on the part of the driver involved. There's even a kind of tactical component in which car you choose and which course you take. It's also much harder than Excite Truck.
So whether you like the one or the other is probably more a result of your own taste, and less of the games' qualities. I like them both, but I like the mindless adrenaline rush of Excite Truck better.
Both of these games are, however, clearly unfinished and were rushed to meet the console's launch date - Excite Truck has no online component and only two-player split screen. Motorstorm has no split screen at all, and far too few tracks. The Japanese version of Motorstorm doesn't even have an online component!
So while most of the Wii's launch titles seem rushed and unfinished (especially Red Steel, which could have been absolutely awesome with only a few months more), the same is clearly true for the PS3. Even Resistance is not finished. Insomniac has actually kind of apologized for the game's graphics and said that while they had wanted to implement texture streaming, they did not have enough time, but that it would be in their next game - Ratchet and Clank: Tools of Destruction.