Runaway sales of new PS3 beat all expectations

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Great start for Sony's PS3 in SA. :)

Johannesburg - Consumers should not expect price cuts on the Sony PlayStation 3 (PS3) gaming console soon, especially after the console almost sold out all units at the first weekend of the launch, said Ster Kinekor games chief executive David Hadassin.

A source from Ster Kinekor said about 10 000 units were shipped in for the launch last Friday.

"There are about one or two retailers still with 40 to 50 left, which are expected to sell by end of this week, as each store is selling over 40 consoles a day," the source said.

Hadassin said 2 million units were supplied globally and were selling at a retail price of about R6 300 with a 60 gigabyte hard drive, built-in wireless and a Blu-ray DVD player for high-definition television systems.

"The Blu-ray disc storage capacity was 77 times more than the traditional CD and six times more than a normal DVD," Hadassin said.

The console could compute data 35 times more than Sony PlayStation 2.

Sony said a 20 gigabyte model would follow later in the year. This would depend on demand.

David Hirsch, the merchandise director of Incredible Connection, said the company did not receive enough stock and sold more units than expected.

"We sold at least 80 percent of our received stock since the launch," said Hirsch.

Hadassin said the stock would be shipped in weekly starting from this week in batches of thousands to meet the demand.

However, the source said the shipment normally took six to eight weeks to be delivered in from warehouses around the world.

On Friday, Sony Computer Entertainment Europe president David Reeves announced the sale of 600 000 units sold at the weekend launch of PS3 across Europe.

He said the sale had earned the company R3.8 billion.

Reeves said the machine had sold about 165 000 units in the UK alone, beating the Nintendo Wii and Microsoft Xbox 360 and making it the fastest-selling home console in history.
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http://www.busrep.co.za/index.php?fSectionId=563&fArticleId=3758333
 
And now to wait for the XboX360 fans/owners to crap all over this thread....:D
 
GavinMannion said:
http://www.ukresistance.co.uk/

:D... some people get over excited don't they.
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Indeed. Just read through some articles on that site. The people who's site that is must be really pissed off at Sony. Every bit of bad news about Sony is on there. Now why would anyone go through all that trouble to badmouth another company?

Anyways, seems like stock in CT are mostly gone. Wonder if the 2nd and 3rd batches will go just as quickly.

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Lol, thats probably the most anti-PS3 website I've ever seen...next to yours ofcourse
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lol :)
 
tsk tsk... 10k and they wet their pants... lol!

i wonder how many are actually playing PS3 games? :p
 
stoke said:
425 ponds x 16 = R6800

Nice exchange rate you got going there Ster Kiniripoff.
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Interesting - does 16 ponds = 1 lake? :D

I wish that exchange rate was accurate!
 
Looks like Microsofts paid advertising that the PS3 would fail... has failed :)
 
lcbxx said:
And now to wait for the XboX360 fans/owners to crap all over this thread....:D
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Unnnghh...Not.....Unnnnghhh...Not really a Xbox360 fan, but...Ungh...... *plop* ahhhhhh!!!!...consider this thread crapped on ;)
 
Retro said:
Indeed. Just read through some articles on that site. The people who's site that is must be really pissed off at Sony. Every bit of bad news about Sony is on there. Now why would anyone go through all that trouble to badmouth another company?

Anyways, seems like stock in CT are mostly gone. Wonder if the 2nd and 3rd batches will go just as quickly.
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Uh, probably because well, they're European, and it's the PS3, and they're probably not fond of getting in the rear while the US and Japan look on and laugh.

And if you're looking for a PS3 in Cape Town, I can give you a few places you can still get them. Try Constantia Village, Canal Walk, Cavendish, the Waterfront . . . .

EDIT: and hey, it was the Wii fanboy that puddled your thread first ;)
 
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Frankly I believe they could easily have sold 10k units at launch.

Think about it, by comparison: A decent size school is 1-1.5k pupils. Universities typically have 20k+ students. A large rugby stadium holds 40-65k people. Conservative estimate is that there are at least 600000 active PS2 owners out there.

In Cape Town Southern suburbs alone there are probably more than double that number of affluent families who wouldn't really blink too hard at R6300, and that's not considering the rabid fanboys that have been saving up for a PS3 for over 3 years.

I'm surprised it didn't sell more, or even sell out.
 
Do they make a loss on the ones they sell in Europe? They removed some hardware and charged a higher price.
 
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