Groucho

http://www.pcworld.com/article/17335...september.html

It'll be interesting to see if the NPD numbers match up.

RichC2

Considering it had an actual price drop (not just shifting units like the 360) and now looks like a Panini press instead of a full sized Foreman Grill this comes as no surprise.

Deftones

I find it amusing that all the people who predicted there would be droves of people out to buy the new machine b/c of the price drop and redesign were pretty much wrong. Sure, it got a bump, but nothing to write home about. In fact, I think those sales numbers are pretty pathetic considering the price dropped so much.

chess

A 76% increase over a 25% price drop isn't "pathetic"...especially going into the holiday season.

Groucho

With Uncharted 2 coming out this month, I suspect the good times will continue to roll into October.

maxfisher

Just looked him up. Looks like he's right a fair amount, but also misses quite a bit and tends to overestimate Sony products. For instance, for March 2008 he announced that the PS3 had outsold the 360 for the month, approximately 365,000 units to 310,000. Released the following week, actual sales numbers were PS3: 257,000; Xbox 360: 262,000.

maxfisher

This spin cracks me up. Unless, of course, their intention all along was to create a product so terrible that it would scare potential customers into buying the older model out of fears of it being discontinued.

Gizmo

You nailed it. 60k is hardly a leader for something that dropped $100.

Noonan

It seems to be working. I hadn't turned on my PSP for probably close to a year (whenever Crisis Core came out) and just did to update the software and check out the new store. I almost downloaded Persona but decided that I'd rather give Target or BB my money than Sony direct.

fujishig

I think they include the Go as a "Playstation Portable" and they intentionally did not separate the sales of the old PSP and the new one.

200% increase in downloaded PSP games is also joke considering they released 90% of the available PSP games for download last week. I mean, how many people here bought a PSP downloadable game before this week? And the only reason I bought this week was due to the NIS sale.

mr.snowmizer

Huh?!?







And you're assuming Michael Pachter's predicted numbers are accurate?!?

fumanstan

It depends on what your expectations were for the price drop. It seemed to me that a lot of Sony fans were predicting a far larger amount of consoles sold compared to the Wii and 360, and in this case it isn't really that much more. It's a big increase for the PS3 versus itself, but if this is just a singular spike for those waiting and doesn't carry over to later months, i'm sure it would be considered below expectations. I don't think we can really judge the benefit of the price drop for another few months and through the holiday season; these numbers would pretty much be as expected as far as i'm concerned.

I'm not so sure; I could swear software releases rarely resulted in large increases in actual system sales for the PS3.

Gizmo

Nope, never really does. There is a gif out there that shows all the games that were supposed to 'save' the PS3. It keeps getting more titles added to it.

Michael Corvin

Yeah, this whole thread is pretty pointless until actual NPD numbers hit.

hail2dking

I gotta do it...

chess

Sony haters are out in full force today. You'd have to be looking through very green lenses to see this as "bad" news...but amazing that some folks can.

Sony has a bit of momentum, and that is ultimately good for everybody.

Raul3

Remember that this is the Video(Xbox360)Game Talk forum.

Gizmo

It's very bad news. $100 price drop on something many people said would be "flying off the shelves" to only sell 60k more than a year older Xbox 360? Bad news.

The Bus

So $123MM in sales this month.
And $140MM in sales the month previous.

Year-over-year, $123MM sales this month, compared to $70MM sales this month last year.

Supermallet

Didn't the Wii and one of the configurations of the 360 also get a price drop?

chess

Nevermind that. It's bad news. Very bad news!!!

fumanstan

Not this shit again. Just because someone doesn't think that these estimated sales figures are a huge success, they're Sony haters? Ugh. I think I gave perfectly good reasons how this could easily be interpreted as just average.

Wasn't the Wii price drop the last Sunday of September? Probably not really enough days to make an impact. And the 360 Elite just dropped to the price of a Pro, which probably isn't a big enough change to affect most consumers.

Deftones

so, it barely outsells the Wii and that's impressive? I guess we come from two different lands: me in reality land and you in fantasy land.

i really need to go back and find that ps3 thread with the slim. find some of the posts. here we go.

pretty good call here: http://forum.dvdtalk.com/9645192-post23.html

I.Flores, shockingly, disagrees: http://forum.dvdtalk.com/9645896-post26.html


Probably the best post in the entire thread: http://forum.dvdtalk.com/9646180-post33.html

Apparently there won't be a drastic change in sales numbers as some had predicted.

glassdragon

Nope all your imagination


The Wii was always 200 dollars and never got a price drop

the 360 pro was always 250 and was never 300, and the elite was always 300, it was never 400...

Seriously though, look at the 360 dropping 100 bucks.... According to some in this thread a 100 dollar price drop is why the ps3 sold such "meager" numbers. Seems the 360 elite had a 100 dollar price drop too with less numbers.

Logic is a good thing if people use it.

I understand that the numbers aren't official yet, but come on. With the way the ps3 has been going, this is huge for them. Can't people just say "Wow, I'm glad we have another system competing now, hopefully this means that the games will just get better" instead of "Those number are not good.. 360 this, wii that. Why take sides take sides in little console wars like this, why can't people see that all the consoles are good in their own way, if they weren't then they would just die. 3do, jaguar, 32x, sega cd, etc.

I love my ps3, I also love my wii, and I loved my 360 (before it red ringed >.

fumanstan

[QUOTE=glassdragon;9761456]Nope all your imagination


The Wii was always 200 dollars and never got a price drop

the 360 pro was always 250 and was never 300, and the elite was always 300, it was never 400...

Seriously though, look at the 360 dropping 100 bucks.... According to some in this thread a 100 dollar price drop is why the ps3 sold such "meager" numbers. Seems the 360 elite had a 100 dollar price drop too with less numbers.

Logic is a good thing if people use it.

I understand that the numbers aren't official yet, but come on. With the way the ps3 has been going, this is huge for them. Can't people just say "Wow, I'm glad we have another system competing now, hopefully this means that the games will just get better" instead of "Those number are not good.. 360 this, wii that. Why take sides take sides in little console wars like this, why can't people see that all the consoles are good in their own way, if they weren't then they would just die. 3do, jaguar, 32x, sega cd, etc.

I love my ps3, I also love my wii, and I loved my 360 (before it red ringed >.