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PLAYSTATION DAY 08: PS3 cruises past 10m sales
Neil Long in London May 6 2008, 5:01pm
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Sony reveals full global sales data for PlayStation hardware family
Sony’s PS3 hit 10.5 million global sales at the end of 2007, the platform holder has revealed.
Showing off stats at its PlayStation Day ’08 in at the O2 Arena’s Indigo room in South East London, SCEE president David Reeves also revealed the global sales for other PlayStation hardware at the turn of the year.
According to the stats, PSP had sold 34 million and PS2 sold 127 million units as New Year hit.
All three formats have been on sale for a further five months – and Reeves said that the up-to-date sales data would be revealed as part of Sony’s fiscal announcement next week.
Reeves later revealed: "As of today... [PS3] has sold nearly 12 million units."
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“WELL DONE”
Posted by: wasim - May 6, 5:43pm
X360 surpassed in EUROPE
SONY kill that x360 in USA too
finish the fight.
12 m PS3s in PAL +JAPAN ===well done SONY
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Posted: May 6, 6:12pm
Shipped not sold. Enjoy that last place Sony you are going to be there for a long time.
PS3 = New Gamecube
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Posted by: Ritterrav - May 6, 6:21pm
To the guy ABOVE me, you sir are an idiot. Sony is the ONLY company of the three (Nintendo, MS,Sony) that counts units SOLD! And not Units SHIPPED. MS and Nintendo inflate their numbers by counting units shipped and not units SOLD>
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Posted by: ben - May 6, 6:24pm
"PS3 hit 10.5 million global sales"
So they have sold and not shipped. Time of the 360 is over im afraid.
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Posted: May 6, 6:36pm
Wow who was the ..... that saw in the report ship not sold? Oh the same guy who said enjoy the last place.....hum I think Sony is first in Europe by a lot of Months and it is Second in Japan the only place where is third is in America. By the way is a little shame that the Wii in I think it was like 6 months sold what the 360 sold in almost 2 Years so 360 so is not bad what PS3 has acomplished so far.
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Posted: May 6, 7:56pm
ALL hardware companies only report shipped figures and I don't even mean just console companies. Even TV makers report just shipped figures. They don't even know exactly how many of them are actually sold and on the shelves and don't actually care much about that. When console is sold retailer, they have already got their money from that console.
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Posted by: Jared - May 6, 8:17pm
XBOX 360= Old NES LOL
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Posted by: Helder - May 6, 8:32pm
Does it matter whos first, second, third, All I know is that I have all three and enjoy them all. Ppl who dog other systems are usually the ppl who cant afford to have any other system but the one they already own wich is fine but dont hate on the others they all have thier strengths and weaknesses
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Posted by: Waz - May 6, 11:39pm
Hmmmm
PS2 on 127 million...WTF? It is not that i do not believe it but its keeps going and going...i wonder if it will ever stop, with the wii a new casual market has opened and it can just keep going on and on now. The PS3 can just be promoted as luxury item to the PS2 mass market. As for the PSP, it has well gone past 35 million now, because it is on FIRE in Japan alone.....35 million + in three years is not too bad i suppose, i think it can get to the 50 million mark, the PSP has potential...
PS3 has broken the 12 million barrier now, i think this is well known. Lets hope it can ramp up further with some great games and services on the horizon
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Posted by: Leo - May 7, 1:17am
XBox 360 + 3 months = scratched disks + red ringed paper weight
If companies count systems sold to retailers, I wonder if Microsoft's numbers are inflated due to customers returning Microsoft Junk back to retailers to trade for working (at the moment) bricks. Thank goodness for Best Buys Product Replacement Plan, I no longer have to deal with Microsoft's annoying service personnel.
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Posted by: Jimothy - May 7, 9:13am
Wasim, You are really irritating. All you do is post aload of fanboy crap.
Be mature about these things kid.
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Posted by: Johhnny Kins - May 7, 8:38pm
Sony kno how to make game console..microsoft r the best at what they do..n that is computer market..not "gaming computer market"....xbox live is betta dan ps3 network..bcz sony arent exactly known for makin online games...n they're new to that..where microsoft av been makin online pc games for years...., BUT REALLY..what difference does that make..ur not exactly gonna see a difference playin Call of Duty Online 4 on ps3 or xbox...its not like u gonna sign online on ps3 n realise n say this" hey i swear there isn't 4 million players online right now"...another thing...ur better off buyin a ps3 compare to xbox, ps3 has a more powerful processor....while xbox box graphic card is supposedy a lil bit mre powerful...bt for dumb people out there..a graphic card is absolutly useless...if the processor is whack....n dats the difference...ps3 can afford to run games at highest quality bcz the processor can handle it..while xbox cant dats y it overheats...n second thing u dumbfuk need to consider..is blue ray...blue ray not exactly lifechangin technology...but think about it..at the moment....xbox usin standard dvd for their games...but think about this.. if xbox n ps3 are as powerful as they are...what makes you think...game industry wont want to expand the amount of things they can do in a game, and it will much easier for them to do dat if they use blueray..bcz they will be able to put more content... dats wher xbox will suffer
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Posted by: Jimothy - May 8, 9:39am
Johhnny Kins = Another irritating fanboy.
It's Blu-ray you stupid piece of ****. Not "Blue".
You clearly do not have a single clue what your talking about. Get your dick out your PS3, and be mature about these things.
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Posted by: Rob - May 9, 3:12am
Johhnny Kins-learn to speak english. The 360 is good fun to play but I can see Sony winning the sales battle in the long run each has its own merits and faults MS aren't going to go broke and they have lots of fans to support it. The WII is fun but doesn't have many non-family/party titles so I can see it being the next gamecube because they cant exactly upgrade it or offer any graphic improvements.