Sony sells 1m PS3s in UK
But Wii record remains intact
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How many weeks does it take to sell a million PS3s in the UK? According to the latest industry figures, just 46 weeks.
UK market watcher Chart Track revealed that by selling 1m PS3s since the console went on sale across the UK, on 23 March 2007, Sony has surpassed its previous personal best: selling 1m PS2s in 50 weeks.
Chart Track said that the console has been outselling the Xbox 360 for the past four weeks. The Microsoft console took 60 weeks to sell 1m units in the UK. However, both consoles are believed to have been running neck and neck during the crucial Christmas weeks 49 to 52 of calendar 2007.
Sony Computer Entertainment Europe's President, David Reeves, will be pleased with Chart Track’s numbers, becuase he bravely said last month that the PS3 would overtake the Xbox 360's installed base across all PAL territories by late summer.
Still, Sony can't afford to get cocky: Nintendo sold 1m Wiis in the UK in just 38 weeks.
Chart Track’s UK consoles sales numbers correlate with Electronic Arts' recent prediction that, by the end of 2008, the PS3 will have outsold the Xbox 360 by several million units.
COMMENTS
But the point is...
Sony have sold 1m consoles....
It doesn't matter what they shove into it, or that people are buying it as a cut price BR player. Whether anyone likes it or not it comes down to...
It has sold 1m units in the UK and that is money in the bank profit or not. Period.
People need to grow up and stop romanticising things. ALL the games companies are out to get as big an installed user base in as short a time as possible for as little outlay as possible with calculated hopes that content following later (look at the Wii until recently people). That is business, and on a big scale in this case.
And no, I'm neither defending or slagging ANY console either! Just stating a few facts people are failing to see.
Re: hmmmm
"yes, the wii is good for women, children and the old"
And that is exactly what is so good about the Wii and why it sells vast amounts.
All other consoles appeal to a small teen to 20-something male market.
There's room for them all though. Serious gaming and fun gaming.
What is daft though is Sony using the PS3 to push Blu-Ray. If they'd got Nintendo to shove in a Blu-Ray drive, Blu-Ray would have killed HD DVD dead instantly and taken a heafty 10% or more share of the DVD market. Instead it's held back HD by years and only achieved a 1 to 2% market share from DVD.
Alternatively, Sony could have dropped Blu-Ray and cut the cost of the PS3 massively, encouraging a lot more serious gaming.
@ Lame
"any serious gamer will discount the wii within a few weeks."
Wrong. Serious gamers are able to see beyond the eye-candy and can appreciate innovative gameplay.
Vacuous knuckle dragging 'gamerz', on the other hand, like any old generic shooty/drivey/fightey/sporty shit - as long as it has 'teh amazin HD graficks'.
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