New format becomes fastest-selling home console ever over its debut weekend.
ChartTrack has confirmed that 165,000 PS3 units were sold during the console's launch weekend.
The figure is three quarters of the total 220,000 UK launch stock for day one, and makes PS3 second only to PSP in the overall launch weekend sales stakes. The Sony handheld shifted 185,000 in its opening weekend back in September 2005.
PS3’s record-breaking debut for a home console comfortably beats the previous top seller Nintendo Wii, which sold 105,000 after its frantic launch weekend in December last year. Fellow format rival Xbox 360 racked up an estimated 70,000 at launch in December 2005.
The figure also means that Sony has not sold all of its opening weekend stock, something the platform holder claims is part of its overall strategy at retail.
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O.K. guys, I don't know where you get your sources from, but I am british and I can tell you that the PS3 is selling just about as much as the sega dreamcast is on ebay right now. In its opening weekend, all of one hundred people queued up for its launch in London, while nintendo's Wii sold a Wii a second. Next time, check your sources before writing garbage. As a gamer as well, I can tell you that the PS3 plays worse than the Wii and 360, and it's so expensive that even the people who invented the bloody thing can't afford one. So before you go on about how the PS3 is great again, realise that a) it has a blu-ray thingy that doubles the price and none of the games thus far can take advantage of. b) People in the U.K. would be more tempted to buy a **** than a PS3, oh, sorry it's the same thing. and c) It doesn't play too well either. So maybe this is just my opinion, but the FACTS are that the PS3 sold terribly on its launch weekend in the U.K. Oh, and British gamers DO NOT love it, so don't write that either. Other than that, good website.
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