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There's no way that this thing sold that much after such an abysmal midnight launch showing.
Most of em i bet.
And yeah, it didnt sell out. If Nintendo/Micrososft had more in stores on launch tiem they would of easily sold more.
The only thing that kills Truth is Ignorance, and this website smacks of it.
Under terms of strict anonymity, however, SPOnG was told by our contact at one branch of a major retail outlet, that on both Saturday and Sunday it sold more 360s than it did PS3s. Is that a bad sign? Yes. This soon after launch it would be just about acceptable for the masses of expensive, late PS3 stocks to be moving slowly. However, for the 360 to outsell it at launch weekend should come as a shock to Sony.
source
He saw it all coming, whoever he was.
*Sorry!
se figures are coming from Chart-Track, who provide all sales figures for the UK, base their fitures on actual sales to the customer, and are completely independent from Sony.
The only thing that kills Truth is Ignorance, and this website smacks of it.
Blah blah blah, Dan gets a "I've Completely Missed the Point of UK:R" award, blah blah blah.
The most hilarious thing is the massive irony involved when he called UK:R 'ignorant'.
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Plus 165,000/220,000 is exactly 75%...wierd.
Oh and surely if Chart-Track was oh so accurate wouldn't it be 165,113 or something?
PS3 announced for Spring 2006 (let's say it would have launched in March for arguments sake)
<-- Everyone who would buy one, waiting to purchase on release -->
PS3 released in March 2007
Number of months waiting for it: 12
Average monthly sales are therefore 13,750 which is obviously completely useless. Also, this is peak selling period, so future average monthly sales will be even lower. Which should mean the end of the evil.
yippeee!
Some people think big business is a religion to worship. They'll bow-down, believe all that is said, and basically behave as zealots.
I have pages of evidence that I've read over the years- which proves that Sony always lie and cheat.
Believe Sony? You'd have to be Phil Harrison's Mother.
20 000 pre-orders cancelled but still 165 000 sales?!
"a Sony spokesman would not even hazard an opinion with regard to the weekend's sales figures, stating that the company is awaiting figures from Chart-Track."
The sales figures of 165,000 are from some PR, not chart-track official.
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(Red Dwarf shame)
North America has what - five times the population - and yet sold less than 400,000 units on launch week (officially) - though we don't know how much less than that as Sony won't be specific, suffice to say estimates from independent analysts were a fair bit lower.
If anyone actually believes that the PS3 is actually more than twice as popular in the UK as it was in the states when it was actually new (despite the price differential here), which is essentially what these figures say, then they have my sympathy.
Think about the queues in the US. Think about the queues here. The hype isn't even remotely on the same scale. Common sense says that figure is an entirely bogus exercise in wishful thinking by retailers (who don't want the console to flop anymore than Sony does).
Who the hell is supposed to have bought all these consoles? Is it some bloke in Yorkshire who has 85,764 that he's trying to flog on Ebay?
C'mon guys, come up with better conspiracy theories, I mean..Sony sold a shitload of consoles in UK, it must be az lie, right? :)
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Can someone please explain how a console manages to break all existing sales records while, at the same time, not even exciting people to the point where they feel compelled to turn up to the midnight launch?
Something isn't adding up here. You can't have dead launch events and overstocked shelves, immediately followed by nearly two hundred thousand sales. It may sound perfectly plausible to you, but I don't buy it.
JR
...while in comparison...
...*thousands* of people turned up just a few weeks ago at HMV in Oxford Street to get a copy of a mere *expansion* to an existing PC game. Not even a whole new game!
Zing!
Those figures simply do not add up.
You can bet that figure contains every single pre-order recorded, but does not subtract every single order cancelled...
Remember how record companies "Sell" and most of the charts are made up of what the Big companies bought and the stark contrast between the record charts and the download charts?
Chart-track are of course going to claim that it's from the consumer but guess what? The retailer is a consumer and they buy them from sony. Sorry to blow what you're saying out of the water champ.
That's what's happening here, in other words it's what's sold to the retailers. Charttrack will be covering the shifted allotments which is not really surprising considering the console has been lagging behind in all other countries to the Wii, the 360 and well... the DS.
Good to see Karma for all the Ebay Scum who try exploiting launches, but not good because things will probably pick up on the way upto christmas.
but enough sobering thought, back to the point. People queued for the wii (not just in toilets) and the 360 and even the DS at midnight... yet no shows for the PS3. The truth is a three edged sword, and maybe if some people actually learned that instead of going "The only truth here is ignorance" they take a full look around.
Open your eyes, and see through the lies.
Verification - hibhee = bummed knee?
I love the smell of someone who doesn't know what they're talking about in the morning. Smells like victory.
Anyway, quite possibly the reason that no-one turned up for launches is because there were so many consoles, you were guaranteed to get one anyway, so why waste your time queuing. If there had been limited consoles (and I had been buying it in the shops) I would at least have turned up at 7am at HMV, but as they weren't I could have turned up at 6pm (or the next day) and still got one.
People from warehouses sell things to people in shops. therefore they are clients/business partners/Customers. Okay, I picked the wrong word (I have an innate ability for that), but for you to completely miss the point of what I was saying and talk about someone who's been doing the shop floor sales stuff (for years I may add)as if I was some drunk tramp rambling on about how the world is going to end seems to me like as if you missed the whole dote-oh-show.
Sorry to disappoint what smelt like a victory to you.
Hang on a mo. Are you saying that the supermarket's contribution to CD chart figures are done at the wholesale end? That is incorrect. The sales figures supplied by UK supermarkets are from individual sales to the customers - ie: barcode scans through the tills.
Any disparity between the physical and download charts has more to do with the demographics of genre.
I should add that I'm not disagreeing with anything you might have to say about the videogame trade.