600,000 PS3's sold on European launch

mckmas8808 said:
Link is right here

Amazing, because the eye witness reports stated something 100% different.
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Probably mentioned already, but while it indeed sold a lot more than XBox360 or Wii did, Wii & XB sold out, PS3 didn't, so it's not exactly comparable in terms of demand when one consoles supply is more than demand and the other twos ain't
 
Kaotik said:
Probably mentioned already, but while it indeed sold a lot more than XBox360 or Wii did, Wii & XB sold out, PS3 didn't, so it's not exactly comparable in terms of demand when one consoles supply is more than demand and the other twos ain't
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PS3 also didn't come out in the holiday period either. ;)
 
liolio said:
we have 165k (UK) + 78k (france) + 54K ( BENELUX) + ~120k (Spain + Germany rough estimation based on the claim that France did better than Spain and Spain better than Germany).
It adds up to ~417k

We're missing estimation for north(denmark, finland, Sweden, Norway) east ( a lot countries but a lot of poor countries)and south (Italy, Greece mainly) of Europe.
600 000 seems very likely;)
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You also missed Australia which should also show up somewhere in the Europe numbers...

Also, while it didn't sell out in Switzerland, I thought I heard we got around 60'000 units overhere...

Cheers Phil
 
Wasn't it expected that whatever Sony did, people would still find ways to complain?

If they shipped fewer units, they would have been "incompetent in producing enough hardware", but now that they shipped LOADS of units on day 1, they get bitten because supply is so good that they didn't actually "sell out"...

You will never please everyone.
 
Phill has made a satement:

Harrison's statements can be split into three long quotes, which we'll summarize below because we know you've got other stuff to get done. Right?

-- 165,000 units sold, equating to £100 million worth of business over the course of 2 days. He said: "This not only makes it the most successful games hardware launch, we think it is the most successful consumer launch of a product in the UK."
-- Sony is dumbfounded by their own success: "We have been in the office scratching our heads trying to think of a consumer product that has achieved that level of consumer sales in such a short period of time. If anyone can think of a UK product launch that has raised this amount of business in such a short period of time I'd love to know because we can't think of one."
-- Out-of-stock? Paychecks coming in? Says the Phil: "We are already seeing across Europe out of stock situations where retailers re re-ordering. It was always our strategy to have a good supply. There's never been a launch of a console in Europe that's had a million pieces of hardware sold in or available. We've kept some back in order to continue to supply the market."
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Good work Sony. Now, make some games. :)
 
london-boy said:
You will never please everyone.
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That's not true; you please me, lb. :oops:

Seriously, though, there's an equation that goes something like this:

X = Number of hardcore fans that will buy any console, any price on launch day.
Y = Number of said consoles available on launch day
Z = Difference between X and Y, where typically X is greater than Y

Given that X was not greater than Y in this case, you wonder if that's because X is not as large as one would think. In which case, once you have satisfied X, who next buys consoles? That would be group N, the not-casual-but-also-not hard core fan. Slightly cost conscious, slightly brand conscious, but mostly game conscious. After that you are in casual/mass consumer territory (the cost and game concious fan).

So not selling out is an indication of something but I'm not sure what that is yet. In the coming months we'll find out, I think. (My belief being that it is similar to the PSP release here in the US, which is that the hard core market for the PSP was large, but softer than one would expect, but that the N group was much larger than one would expect, given that the PSP has sold very well here but hasn't seen a price cut yet.)
 
How will I know if I will be getting the blu-ray movie?

Does it give you a message after you register or do I just have to wait until the post arrives?
 
DJ12 said:
How will I know if I will be getting the blu-ray movie?

Does it give you a message after you register or do I just have to wait until the post arrives?
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You'll get an email before the end of next week. I agree that it is confusing, but there was some news about this on Eurogamer yesterday.
 
10.000 sold in Norway!
I think the numbers are quite good. The WII has sold 6.000 thus far in comparison, but of course with problems of not delivering enough. A friend of mine who works at what is probably the largest gameshop in Oslo could confirm they sold out the first day, around 60 units.

Sindre
 
-tkf- said:
Play.com has around 50% of their Blu-Ray titles sold out, so someone is watching..
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I agree. If the funtionality is there...

I mean on Amazon, Casino Royale on Blu-ray is only £2 more than it is on DVD. So if you've got a HDTV then its basically a no-brainer.

With the quick sales of PS3 in Europe, alongide the superior sales of Blu-ray movies, it really looks like HD DVD could become a lame-duck format soon. The only thing keeping it together is Universal's support (the other studios it has on its side are relatively minor).
 
Yeah according to the Guardian over here in the UK, Blu-ray is outselling HD DVD 3 to 1 in Europe. HD DVD seems a lot bigger in the US than in the UK. Perhaps because the HD market is more advanced in the US, and Blu-ray is only taking off because of PS3 just being released here.

http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/games/
 
Vic said:
Yeah according to the Guardian over here in the UK, Blu-ray is outselling HD DVD 3 to 1 in Europe. HD DVD seems a lot bigger in the US than in the UK. Perhaps because the HD market is more advanced in the US, and Blu-ray is only taking off because of PS3 just being released here.

http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/games/
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I think some of it being popular here i cause some of us know that there is no region encoding in hd-dvd. So we are more likely to import titles. Why Europeans don't realize there is no region encoding I don't know.
 
Diamond.G said:
I think some of it being popular here i cause some of us know that there is no region encoding in hd-dvd. So we are more likely to import titles. Why Europeans don't realize there is no region encoding I don't know.
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I'm sure that if HD DVD would win the format war in Europe, the first thing that would happen is that it'd get region coding slapped on ...
 
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