____/ Mark Kent on Friday 16 November 2007 22:19 : \____
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> Price cut boosts PlayStation 3 sales
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>>| U.S. sales of the PlayStation 3 more than doubled in the weeks after the
>>| company slashed the video game console's price $100 and launched a low-end
>>| model, Sony Corp. CEO Howard Stringer told The Associated Press Wednesday.
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>> http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071115/ap_on_hi_te/sony_playstation_sales
>>
>
> Interesting - weekly sales up by factor of 2.5 - pretty amazing.
>
> If you can trust the numbers, there were around 9.3 million Wiis in
> circulation last month, compared with 5 million PS3s and 11.6 million
> Xbox360s. The Xboxes have been on sale for twice as long as the Wii and
> PS3 approximately. There are expected to be an amazing 22 million
> Wiis in circulation by March 08. Assuming Sony's sales continue at
> their new 2.5 times rate, then whilst they would've been at about 9
> million, they will be at around 15 million by the same date.
Amazingly, even the MSBBC and MSCNN have reported this news. The sales /more/
than doubled (I only realised this later on).
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