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A Million PS3s Sold in Japan

Posted by Zonk on from the i've-heard-slow-and-steady-wins-the-race dept.

Reuters is reporting that the PlayStation 3 has reached 1 million units sold in Japan. The article notes that the eight months the console took to reach this mark is roughly four times slower than it took the Wii. Of course, the 360 has only managed to eek out 420,705 units sold in a much longer timespan. To put things in perspective, an aging news report suggests that the PlayStation 2 sold 1 million units the first weekend it was released in Japan. Even the Wii didn't hit that, though that may have been an issue of supply rather than demand. Do you think there is a specific reason the PS3 isn't selling as well as the PlayStation 2 did, or is the market just a different place than it was 7 years ago?

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  1. No idea by eln · · Score: 5, Funny

    Do you think there is a specific reason the PS3 isn't selling as well as the PlayStation 2 did, or is the market just a different place than it was 7 years ago? No, we have no idea why the PS3 is not selling well. There has certainly not been countless posts complaining about the price on any of our thrice-weekly PS3 vs. Wii vs. 360 Slashdot threads. None of us have any idea why this is happening, and it has caught us totally off guard. No one on Slashdot ever predicted that the PS3 would have a hard time selling, and there was certainly never any speculation that the price was too high.

    This is all entirely new and interesting information. I'm sure we will have a lively and enlightening discussion where multiple new and logically sound theories based on solid economic and sociological data will be presented.
  2. Maybe... by rbarreira · · Score: 3, Funny

    Maybe the reason is that people only have one job? Those slackers...

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    The AACS key is NOT 0xF606EEFD628B1CA427BEA93A9CA9773F
  3. Re:Yes by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    What is that Y with the lines through it?

    Is ¥ anime for $?

  4. Re:Slashdot groupthink? by the_tsi · · Score: 3, Funny

    We are at war with Sony. We have always been at war with Sony. 2+2=5.

  5. Re:Yes by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Come on. You think the poster knows what anime is, but doesn't know the symbol for the British pound?

  6. 599 reasons by mapmaker · · Score: 4, Funny
    Do you think there is a specific reason the PS3 isn't selling as well as the PlayStation 2 did?

    No, there isn't a single specific reason. It's a combination of 599 reasons.

  7. Re:The numbers by shoemilk · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yeah, and a lot of people here use some no-name OS, Doors I think it's called? I dunno, anyway I asked once and they said it was made by some American company called macrosoft.