While taking a break from performing an interpretive dance of 'Flight of
the Bumble Bee', Oliver Wong wrote:
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> "Roy Schestowitz" <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:4056334.XzNENRzFgA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Sony PS3 sales pass 2m mark... two weeks late
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>> | Last week, Sony said it had shipped 1m PS3s in the US by the end of
>> | December. However, it only passed the 2m global shipments mark
>> | yesterday. It forecast 2m PS3 shipments by the end of 2006 in
>> | September, when it also delayed the console's European introduction.
>> |
>> | Still, Sony can boast that the PS3 has reached the 2m in less time
>> | than it took the PS2, reaching that point in a day under two months.
>> | The PS3 debuted worldwide in the US on 17 November.
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>> http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2007/01/16/sony_passes_2m_mark/
>>
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> Headline is misleading. Sony has *shipped* 1 million PS3s, but they did
> not *sell* 1 million PS3s. A quick google search for "xbox wii ps3 sold"
> gives page titles like "Xbox 360 bests Wii, PlayStation 3 in US holiday
> sales", "Gizmo Cafe Blog : Wii, PS3 Outsold by Xbox 360 in USA", "Xbox 360
> outsells Wii, PS3 | TG Daily", "iTWire - Xbox 360 outsells Wii, PS3 in the
> US" and so on.
>
> Fox News offers actual numbers:
> http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,243300,00.html
> <quote>
> Nintendo Co. Ltd. sold 604,200 of its new Wii video game consoles in the
> United States in December, beating Sony Corp. (SNE), which sold 490,700
> units of its new PlayStation 3, according to retail market research firm
> NPD.
>
> Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) sold 1.1 million Xbox 360 video game consoles to
> consumers in December.
> </quote>
Here Oliver, before you puff your chest up too much, check this out:
http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3156365
According to NDP Group numbers quoted in the article Microsoft sold 1.1
Million Xbox 360s but Sony still sold 1.6 Million PS2's. Ha fucking Ha
fucking ha. The PS2 out sold the X-Box 360. Puts things in perspective.
Sony moved about 490 thousand PS3s and about 953 thousand PSPs. So in
December alone Sony pushed a combined total of 3.043 million video games
compared to Microsoft's 1.1 Million X-Boxes.
>
> Apparently, Sony has been fudging the numbers a lot recently, to try to
> paint their PS3 in a more favorable light. See:
>
The same could be said about Microsoft and their over rosey sales
projections for the Zune. Or how about "PlaysforSure"? Does it still play
for sure? And I'm sure that all the Vista press releases to date clearly
state in very large bold type that Vista Aero will not be able to run on
most existing home computers. And I'm sure that Microsoft has been
advertising that Vista and the much ballyhooed Aero interface will only be
available on the premium edition.
> - Oliver
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