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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. reasons? by Thanatos69 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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?

    If this isn't a setup for a flame war, I don't know what is.
  2. Re:shipped != sold by rlp · · Score: 4, Insightful

    As long as Wii manufacturing is not meeting demand, for Nintendo: shipped == sold.

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  3. Re:The numbers by poot_rootbeer · · Score: 4, Insightful

    the simple fact that the 360's hardware is better suited for games

    I don't know that this is justifiable as an opinion, much less a "simple fact".

    It may be true that the 360's Xenon CPU may be more familiar to developers than the PS3's Cell, but I'm not sure that translates into being "better suited for games". There's no reason that a game written to take advantage of the Cell architecture could not be better than one written to take advantage of the Xenon.

  4. Re:People aren't making enough to spend enough.... by VGPowerlord · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I don't know about in Japan, but in the US, it's not just more expensive, it's twice as (or 100% more) expensive as the PS and PS2 were at launch (PS: $299; PS2: $299; PS3: $599).

    By comparison, the Wii launched for 25% more than the Game Cube, which itself launched at the same exact price as all of Nintendo's previous console systems (NES, SNES, N64, GC: $199; Wii: $249). The XBox 360 launched for 33% more than the XBox (XBox: $299; XBox 360: $399).

    Seriously, though, the PS3 launched for $200 more than the already overpriced console that had been out for a year. That's seriously dumb.

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