NPD: Sony sold 798K PS3 in December 2007

[Petra]

....in North America. No amount of Toshiba players firesales can overcome this

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=229157

[jorg]

sony said like 1.2 mil were sold(not as good as i hoped) id like to see world wide

[ussrelativity]

Originally Posted by jorg

sony said like 1.2 mil were sold(not as good as i hoped) id like to see world wide

If you count the November figures as well, it comes out to roughly 1.2 million. I think by "Holiday Sales", they were counting both November and December.

[Jazar]

Originally Posted by ussrelativity

If you count the November figures as well, it comes out to roughly 1.2 million. I think by "Holiday Sales", they were counting both November and December.

Actually they were counting the weekend after Thanksgiving (Black Friday) until the end of December.

[Ascended_Saiyan]

I believe the 1.2 million PS3s came from around Nov. 23 'til year's end.

[Terjyn]

1.2 million was Black Friday through December 31st.

You have no one to blame but yourselves if you thought the number was December only, because they said it in the press release. :P

[kowhite]

Yeah they were pretty clear that the 1.2 million was for November 23rd through the end of the year.

[OokieSpookie]

I wouldn't be too proud of those numbers, it was about half the number of 360s and Wiis.
Do not get me wrong, the PS3 is doing great as a BD player but it seriously needs help in the gaming department gaming saless are abysmal.
Sony needs to wrap up this format war crap so it can stop fighting two wars at once and build up the gaming side as it has the blu side.

[blu2]

Originally Posted by ussrelativity

If you count the November figures as well, it comes out to roughly 1.2 million. I think by "Holiday Sales", they were counting both November and December.

They defined as "Nov. 23 to Dec. 31 holiday shopping period" which started on Black Friday.

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5j...FLGbgD8U17GRO1

(edit: which I now see several other people have typed in the last five minutes)

[blu2]

Originally Posted by OokieSpookie

I wouldn't be too proud of those numbers, it was about half the number of 360s and Wiis.
Do not get me wrong, the PS3 is doing great as a BD player but it seriously needs help in the gaming department gaming saless are abysmal.
Sony needs to wrap up this format war crap so it can stop fighting two wars at once and build up the gaming side as it has the blu side.

You win some and you lose some. 2008 has some "promise" however on the gaming front, but they may never catch up this generation. Bring on MGS4, Killzone 2, etc and who knows what will happen though.

[PS3ds]

Originally Posted by jorg

sony said like 1.2 mil were sold(not as good as i hoped) id like to see world wide

world wide was 4 million. total is around 11 million now.

[Forgot_Username]

Originally Posted by OokieSpookie

I wouldn't be too proud of those numbers, it was about half the number of 360s and Wiis.
Do not get me wrong, the PS3 is doing great as a BD player but it seriously needs help in the gaming department gaming saless are abysmal.
Sony needs to wrap up this format war crap so it can stop fighting two wars at once and build up the gaming side as it has the blu side.

It's North America, Sony's weakest ground.

PS3 beat 360 in Europe and Japan.

[mystiksuicide]

Originally Posted by Petra

....in North America. No amount of Toshiba players firesales can overcome this

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=229157

That's simply AMAZING!!!!!

[Petra]

Originally Posted by OokieSpookie

I wouldn't be too proud of those numbers, it was about half the number of 360s and Wiis.
Do not get me wrong, the PS3 is doing great as a BD player but it seriously needs help in the gaming department gaming saless are abysmal.
Sony needs to wrap up this format war crap so it can stop fighting two wars at once and build up the gaming side as it has the blu side.

well it all depends on what you compare it with. if you compare with game consoles, of course, but we're talking hi-def media here, and that number is amazing. That number is what made Warner chose blu

[Malosch78]

Originally Posted by PS3ds

world wide was 4 million. total is around 11 million now.

If these numbers are right, that means, that there are over 11 million blu-ray players out now ... Nice

I think the games for my PS3 are awesome. New games are coming all the time now. I'm very pleased

[Clark Kent]

It's good for Blu-ray and bad for the PS3 as a videogame console. Even a third place this console generation is going to sell 50-70 million units worldwide though.

[lch]

Originally Posted by PS3ds

world wide was 4 million. total is around 11 million now.

so sony really hit their target numbers which they announce earlier to sell 11m by year end ?

[OmegaEqual]

It is NOT half the number of 360's. The 360 did not out sell the PS3 by double. If you want to argue it, post the NPD link saying that it is. Otherwise, drop it. Here's another fact stat you can look up:

The PS3 sold more consoles in it's first year than the 360 did in it's first year (slightly). Safe money is that the PS3's 2nd year will be better than the 360's 2nd year as well. Will it catch the 360 from behind like Blu-Ray did to HD-DVD near the beginning of 2007? Doubt it, but gone are the days of "The PS3 is dead/stillborn" posts around the internet. Funny, they used to say the same about Blu-Ray.

[shido]

Originally Posted by OmegaEqual

It is NOT half the number of 360's. The 360 did not out sell the PS3 by double. If you want to argue it, post the NPD link saying that it is. Otherwise, drop it. Here's another fact stat you can look up:

The PS3 sold more consoles in it's first year than the 360 did in it's first year (slightly). Safe money is that the PS3's 2nd year will be better than the 360's 2nd year as well. Will it catch the 360 from behind like Blu-Ray did to HD-DVD near the beginning of 2007? Doubt it, but gone are the days of "The PS3 is dead/stillborn" posts around the internet. Funny, they used to say the same about Blu-Ray.

You know what people also forget to mention? PS2 sales. The PS2 is still doing ridiculously well for a system in it's twilight years, and that tells me that Sony still has a lot of Playstation fans out there who haven't made the jump to the next generation. When they finally do, I think we'll see a nice jump in PS3 sales as well, but that probably won't happen until Sony reduces the PS3 price some more.

[andyparhelia]

The ps3 will come through, I have no doubt.

Sales are similar to the PS2's first year on the market and remember the PS2 also launched with a hefty price tag - it just didn't really have any serious competition at the time.

Now that the PS3 is $399, just wait for the likes of GTA IV & Resident Evil - the PS3 will be the must have console next xmas. Guaranteed*


*Not A Guarantee