28 November 2006
Ferry

PS3 sells out in first week, but Sony forgets to say how many… or few

After Nintendo announced they sold 600,000 Wii’s in one week, Sony couldn’t be far behind making total counts. According to Sony the PS3 sold out fast, which isn’t surprising with such long PS3 waiting lines. Sony said the following about the PS3 sales:

“Sony Computer Entertainment America has been airlifting additional shipments of PlayStation 3 systems into the North American market since the launch on November 17. We were able to get a fresh supply of PS3s in the hands of retailers prior to Black Friday, along with games and peripherals. Feedback from our retail partners is that demand is still incredibly high and that PS3s put on store shelves were quickly snapped up by holiday shoppers. We will continue to utilize airfreight delivery for the PlayStation 3 to assure a steady stream of systems for North American consumers through the end of the year. Our goal remains to have one million units in the pipeline by December 31, 2006.”

Analyst PS3 launch shipping estimates range from as low as 150,000 to Sony’s promised 400,000.

1UP also mentions Sony still plans to ship 2 million units worldwide by the end of 2006, 1 million of those going to the U.S.

All the extra PlayStation press exposure also caused PSP hardware sales up over 280% and PS2 hardware sales up 116% in the week of November 26th versus the week before. First-party PSP software is up 167% and first-party PS2 software is up 120%.

I don’t think I’m the only one who hates these “sold out” and “percentage sales up” claims, it’s too vague and sounds more like Sony shipped very few PS3 and only sold some extra PS2’s & PSP’s because of Thanksgiving.

28 November 2006 12:34
Reeteshinator

According to Nextgenwars.com The Tital Ps3s Shipped is around 324,000 THats still a Good Amount!

Hope More come out soon And Seeing that the PSP and PS2 even Started selling better is a Big surprise.

28 November 2006 16:39
XBOX 360 F*CK PS3

XBOX 360 WILL BE FU*K PS3 SOON

29 November 2006 00:46
CM Punk

PS3 is the best system out there. Everybody knows the PS3 is the best. If they don’t, they’ll realize it soon when they can afford it. If PS3 hasn’t done good so far, just wait beyond the launch, It’ll Own XBOX 360 and Nintendo Wii even worse than it does now. Many more possibilities.

29 November 2006 05:37
virtual alan

PS3 is just another fanboy machine and fan boys with more sense than money…….

Freind of mine in Japan sent me this picture just 2 days after launch

http://img134.imageshack.us/img134/7947/ps3bogx4.jpg

And they are still there a week later!!!!

Also shows that it is one of the lowest proper take up`s as they reckon the games ratio to machines is about 0.9…..so 10% of machines are to be re-sold…if not higher.

600000 Wii`s and climbing and UK launch next week…shame I am in the US when it happens so will have to wait a few days

29 November 2006 08:46
supadupagama

You’re right on the money Alan, and I think another part of the weird sales in Japan is the lack of any A-class titles/RPGs for them at launch, it’s all about the games!

29 November 2006 11:58
Reeteshinator

Japanese People had Only Ridge Racer and Genji that might have Interested them, along with Gundam.. there is Nothing special for those guys in Ps3 launch.. but soon more and more games will come out which they will like…

but Who will but a USED one when the NEW one costs only 400 yen more Thats why that thing is still there

One cannot expect It to compete It with 360s Features and Games (which all have come One by one along the year) just from its beginning! So we have to wait for year atleast to say anything proper about these things.

29 November 2006 13:11
The guy

Don’t you have enough problems with your Windows PCs? Why buy another Microsucks product? Dead to Xbox 360, when Sony gets to a point where they can supply enough PS3s they will certainly out-sell the Xbox MS crap…

29 November 2006 15:47
Some Frood

Sorry, but PS3 just isn’t worth the cost. For anybody who doesn’t have the time to be hardcore anymore, the money is better spent on something else… like new games for my PC which as an added bonus can be used for things other than gaming.

29 November 2006 18:54
Angelbabe531

Lol, Sony won’t release numbers because they know it’ll be admitting they had a sham of a launch…My guess is half of what they originally promised in the US, which would put them at about 200,000, plus Japan’s 90,000. That’s pretty sad for 2 regions down