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A few days old, but hey, even old news is post-worthy when it points out how badly the PS3 is doing in the market. Over in Japan, the sales figures for January have rolled in and boy was it a surprise. Nintendo sold through around 405,000 units of their Wii console in comparison to the Sony PS3’s paltry 148,000 units. These are sold, in the homes, not ’shipped’ which Sony (and to a degree Microsoft) are so often touting as their sales figures. The key for Nintendo’s success is to stretch their current lead throughout the rest of the year, with solid first and third party new releases and some real expansions in their online service, which is a bit weak to say the least. Online Wii Sports anyone? Yes please!
For the PS3? Sony can probably just hope their marketing team and execs don’t completely alienate the Europeans, who are their last hope of reclaiming market dominance. Though it’s starting to seem quite clear that mainstream games and consumers are replacing their PS2s as this generation’s console of choice with the Nintendo Wii, leaving the PS3 battling it out with the Xbox 360 for the fickle hardcore gamers market.
Read more: Wii outselling PS3 by 3 to 1 in Japan
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3:14 pm CET on February 28th, 2007
Dear Team
I have salivated and dreamt about getting a playstation 3 for such a long time and finally it is here!. The only thing is Sony’s ridiculous price of £450.00 has left a very sour taste in my mouth yet across the pond the PS3 60gb version is retailing at just £204 pounds including four games
http://gadgetwholesalestore.com/default.php?location=products&product_id=103
Rip off Britain is back and stronger than ever. Why are we paying more than double everyone else!. Surely it doesn’t cost an extra £246.00 to import these machines into the U.K?. Of course not! but lets face it, the playstation 3 is in trouble!. The whole project has been riddled with component failures and manufacturing delays from the start that’s why we had no ps3’s in the U.K for Christmas. Secondly it is being outsold by the the Wii and the Xbox 360 in the rest of the world.
http://www.playthrough.net/2007/02/games/wii-outselling-ps3-at-a-rate-of-3-to-1-in-japan/
http://www.vgcharts.org/ngwars.php?topic=1
and so I can only believe that Sony is recouping its losses in the U.K by making us not only pay our share but also the next mans share too!.
with games retailing at £50 each, Sony have created a millionaires play console that will leave poor parents and young bachelors like myself frustrated and financially challenged. (Try telling a young child he cant have one!). Thirdly the U.K version of Sony’s PlayStation 3 will play fewer PlayStation 2 games than models launched earlier in Japan and America. So we are paying extra for an inferior machine
http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/105931/sony-cuts-down-on-euro-ps3-compatibility.html
Fourth, Sony will find that many British people bought the fantastic Wii in the playsations absence so we are not ready to buy another console just yet and with virtually no preorders at all the big u.k retailers for the PS3, (I keep getting bombarded with emails to buy one hurry! Hurry!) my prediction is the price will have to drop very quickly for the PS3 to Float.
So for now I am boycotting the PS3 and Windows Rip off vista which is so expensive you can by a new P.C and pay a few extra pounds for Vista to come pre loaded on it. I’ve also signed the Vista petition being submitted to parliament
http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/VistaOvercharge/
http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/106025/thousands-sign-epetition-on-ripoff-vista.html
Threes Strength In Numbers. If we all work together, we can make rip off Britain change.
Frustratedly yours
Tony Nuxy