PS3 sells 165,000 in 2 Days

[Pulse]

just a few things that i come across

Piccy

http://digg.com/gaming_news/EB_Games...s_Unsold_PS3_s

http://digg.com/gaming_news/Scalpers...S3_s_to_stores

http://forum.pcvsconsole.com/viewthread.php?tid=21613

Geuss the french hate it too...
http://forum.teamxbox.com/showthread.php?t=515211

doesn’t seem to have the effect Sony wanted it to me thinks, I’m not saying this because I’m a fan boy; I’m not, I only have a pc but am aware games consoles are bloody good at what they are intended to do, especially against some pc’s, but all of these links lead me to believe otherwise

[Tom Scott]

Sale figures for last week seem to have dissappeared on the face of the earth.

[whitebloodcell]

I'm interested to see if it can sustain these sales tho, once the novelty of owning a PS3 wears off - then what>

[Tom Scott]

Take this with a pinch of salt as its from ukresistance.co.uk

PlayStation3 registered an 82 percent drop in hardware sales for the week ending April 1, it's second week on sale in the UK, according to official Chart Track hardware sales figures we're not supposed to have.

Nice....

I make that about 29k sold in the second week.

Edit: figures now confirmed on most gaming new websites.

[mcmiller]

I'm interested to see if it can sustain these sales tho, once the novelty of owning a PS3 wears off - then what>

they make money out of the games

[Spitfire01]

Blah.. didn't read waht Tom said at all there. lol pointless post..

http://gamesindustry.biz/content_page.php?aid=23977 link to the 82% drop though

[Veles]

they make money out of the games

Very true, but if they only have a handful of people with a console capable of playing the games, they won't be able to make their money back any time soon.

[dangel]

I reckon they'd better get some good games out then cos the current lineup ain't too shiny!

[MadduckUK]

oh noes!

[j.o.s.h.1408]

and people say the ps3 had a good start? i can bet you some serious money that most people who bought the ps3 was because its a cheap blu ray player.

the average teenager would not buy this has its tooo expensive. i would like to see some statistics that indicate the age range of people who usethe ps3, i wont be surprised if around 70-80% who use the ps3 where over 25

[kalniel]

It's not the average teenager who buys consoles though, it's their parents.

[GeorgeTuk]

It's not the average teenager who buys consoles though, it's their parents.

Who will say that its too expensive.

[Veles]

It's not the average teenager who buys consoles though, it's their parents.

Who will say that its too expensive.

And it's also the kids who want the console, very rarely will a kid not shout and scream that they want a PS3. The average teenagers do buy their own consoles, I bought all of mine when I became a teenager, but then obviously my income came from pocket money/birthday money, so it was effectively them buying it for me. Obviously this time the console is just too expensive for parents and teenagers right now, and with no christmas, theres not much in the way of, ooh get me a PS3 for christmas! like there should have been.

[j.o.s.h.1408]

exactly.. which justifies my estimate that most people who bought and use a ps3 are over 25..

Which leads me to believe they might have bought it because its a cheap blu ray player

[Bunjiweb]

interesting, I was told that the whole figure for europe was sub 300,000 does that mean that there were only around 135,000 sold in europe?

Ben

[Veles]

Well I think the UK apparently got 200k of those 300k, I'm pretty certain more than half of the original stock is still on the shelves.