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With all of that being noted the PlayStation 3 has went on to see growth in regions such as North America and the UK. However, in other markets, such as Germany and Japan, the PS3 has taken the dominating role in recent weeks. In Germany, the PS3 currently sits at the third spot; however, in the month of October, the PS3 sold well above the other machines with 37,000 units sold while the Wii came in second with 28,000 sold and Xbox 360 in third with 12,000 units sold in the month of October.
As for the Japanese market, for the second straight week, the PS3 outsold the Wii by pushing 39,178 units while the Wii pushed 36,230 units. This is all in direct correlation to the newly introduced 40GB model that the world has been raving over since its release, despite it featuring fewer options than the standard 80GB model like the ability to play PS2 games.
Hopefully this surge can continue on through the holidays and into 2008.
Sources: Satund Kabel and Joystiq
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Way to go PS3!
ps3 seems to be on the rise in every region lately.
Yay for the Ps3!!!
Wow. theres been hardly any important news this week.
Yeah man that's not even news. The same thing has been posted about 5 times this week in just different ways. I think they even got the numbers wrong. The PS3 sold like 50 thousand something I believe.
well actually this is the third srtaight week not the second but still good to hear that sales keep pushing on up there lol let just hope it last for a while.
We have plenty of reasons why the PS3 will continue to sell past the holidays straight through 2009.
just thought about it PS3 hasn't even put out it's best sellers yet and there doing great without them as of right now. I wonder what will happen when MGS4, FFXIII and VERSUS, GT5, GOW3, KZ2, Socom: confrontation, damn the list keeps going lol.
Good Sh!t sounds good
it's really good to see it selling well. i just witnessed a guy buy a 40gb on the weekend, i told him to buy resistance and he did.
Hopefully we can see the PS3 top th charts next year because it will be a good thing for both companies to showcase their best games.
PS3-
growing daily!
If u look at the charts xbox 360 didnt sell as many units as ps3 has sold in their first year, and with the 360s year adavantage on the market and wii's low price, i personaly belive that sony is doing realy well.and most of sony's games are coming out faster then 360's. Im a lil upset about the 40gbs not having backwards becuase sony is famous for the backwards but still. it was finacialy a smart move and sony is doing just fine.
=D
I'm hoping more than anything that sony takes from this the lesson that an early adoptor might buy a 600 doallr system but the real consumer base dosent kick in untill you reach half that price. the PS4 if they're smart wont be more than 400 bucks next gen if they're listening.
I'm upset about the backwards compatability too but I guess in the long run it means that the fact that there are more than 100million PS2s out there today says people are willing to hang on to them and buy the cheaper PS3 rather than be anally assualted by Gamestop's trade in credit. It's a better deal to save the extra hundred bucks on a PS3 than to have them give you 25 bucks for your PS2. I still think the 40gb is horribly gimped in comparison though the loss of 2 USB slots will cause problems eventually without a good hub to replace them.
thats awsome
psn id J08hawks
its the new commercials, they are rad :D
wooooooooo ps3 rulz xbox will be finished again as in ps2 era
can t wait for xmas numbers, i think wii and ps3 gonna do well but not the 360, one reason wii seems cool and kids might love it ps3 looks like piece of alien technology and it has brd that some movie enthusiasts might want, that included ps3 is kinda new for many while 360 has been "old" and usually people like new stuff, ehm what more could play role the fact that ps3 looks like its totaly new b/c of noone got the old adds but the news ones rock
i say it once and i'll say it again, the king is back.
psn id: gingo... most people were holding out for a lower price point and this is showing worldwide now
Interesting that in the US the 80GB model is the most popular... in PAL terratories the 60GB has been the highest seller due it it's phasing out. ALL they need to do to really boost PS3 sales further in PAL terretories, is offer a cheap model (like the 40GB) but with the internal card readers of other SKUs.