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Sony Claims One Million PS3s Sold in EU / AU

Posted by Zonk on from the that's-a-lot-of-folding-at-home dept.

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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  1. wow by nomadic · · Score: 5, Funny

    No snide comments thrown in the slashdot story denigrating Sony? What is this, a neutral, legitimate news site now or something??

    1. Re:wow by Lisandro · · Score: 3, Informative

      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

    2. Re:wow by rherbert · · Score: 3, Insightful

      This is actually pretty surprising... 1.3 million Wiis have been sold in Europe, while 1 million PS3s have been sold in the EU/AU? That seems pretty impressive for a machine that costs more than twice as much.

    3. Re:wow by harlows_monkeys · · Score: 2, Insightful

      This is actually pretty surprising... 1.3 million Wiis have been sold in Europe, while 1 million PS3s have been sold in the EU/AU? That seems pretty impressive for a machine that costs more than twice as much

      It's not impressive at all when you consider that the PS3 is widely available...so widely available that stores are cutting prices to make it move. The Wii, on the other hand, generally still requires giving up your firstborn and your soul to find.

    4. Re:wow by Deag · · Score: 3, Interesting

      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.)

  2. Err.. that "RTFA" link is wrong by McNihil · · Score: 2, Informative

    its about Final Fantasy

  3. Uh, the story's about Final Fantasy? by Blakey+Rat · · Score: 2, Informative

    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?!

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    1. Re:Uh, the story's about Final Fantasy? by eln · · Score: 4, Funny

      You've stumbled upon the fabled Secret of Slashdot: The editors know no one actually clicks the links, so they have an automated script that just make stories up in the summary, and links to random pages on the Internet for the "articles".

      They came up with this idea when, back in early 1999, CmdrTaco posted a story about a new company offering to sell gravel over the Internet with free shipping. However, instead of posting to the Wired article about the new company, he accidentally posted a link to goatse. Strangely, the only emails he got about the story were people raving about how cool it would be to finally be able to buy gravel over the Internet. NOT A SINGLE PERSON commented on the goatse link! No one was reading the articles!

      Ever since then, the editors have been spending most of their time blitzed on rum on a Caribbean beach while the script runs Slashdot.

      For years, trolls have been commemorating this event by posting goatse links in the comments. However, most people don't realize the significance of these tributes, and quickly mod them down.

  4. Here's the correct story link by AKAImBatman · · Score: 4, Informative

    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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  5. Re:Availability by Cryect · · Score: 4, Informative

    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.

  6. Re:Am I the only one.... by DesertBlade · · Score: 2, Informative

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

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  7. Re:As impressive as that sounds.... by El_Muerte_TDS · · Score: 2, Interesting

    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).

  8. Re:As impressive as that sounds.... by Doctor_Jest · · Score: 2, Interesting

    "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. ;)

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