PS3 up 999%

[EeveeElectro]

Win for Sony? Even though they are money grabbing, if you ask me.
I'm sure a few of my Xbox friends will still find something to complain about

 

[tthor]

its not surprising, i mean, only game obsessed ppl would pay 400$ for the ps3, but then at 300$, its more affordible to the less-enthusiastic gamers

 

[Axle_Bullitt_19]

I'd be surprised if it lasts. I'd be even more surpirsed that Sony fans are so shallow that they think:

OH MY GOD IT'S THIN! IT ROCKS I'M GOING TO BUY ONE! NO FAT CHICKS LOLOLOL!!!!1!

although that's the feeling I get from these sales figures

(no offence to Sony fans by the way)

And then on the other hand; yeah I doubt anyone has bought it due to this. It's the price cut, pure and simple. No one wants the friggin' thing just because it's slim, the original system wasn't MASSIVE in the first place.

Well it was bigger that the 1st XBox and weighed 15 pounds so it wasn't light or small.

 

[Nmil-ek]

Good and nice to see x-bawks sales are going up to (see no need for fanboyism) hopefully this means things are picking up for the industry its been damned slow these last two years, now just light a fire under your respective developers and stop shoveling out dime a dozen generic fps please.

 

[Schlorgan]

I think the Wii's decline in sales has been on of the major contributors to the overall sales figures compared to last year, but it looks like Sony's making it up

 

[farmerboy219]

Sony cuts price = they loose even more money on each ps3 sold.

Bill gates knows this, and went to buy as many PS3s as possible, not only to make sony loose money, cause sony makes money from games and stuff, not the console so if Bill buys them, and burns them, there ain't gonna be made money off of them, he bought everythiing the stores had so normal people couldn't get them.

I'm pretty sure this is what happened, i read it in the intestines of the rat i found in my happy meal.

you are aware bill gates hasnt beein head of microsoft since June 27, 2008...owned, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Gates

 

[Nmil-ek]

Sony cuts price = they loose even more money on each ps3 sold.

Bill gates knows this, and went to buy as many PS3s as possible, not only to make sony loose money, cause sony makes money from games and stuff, not the console so if Bill buys them, and burns them, there ain't gonna be made money off of them, he bought everythiing the stores had so normal people couldn't get them.

I'm pretty sure this is what happened, i read it in the intestines of the rat i found in my happy meal.

The cost or production goes down over time, negating your argument. Sony is still selling at a loss, but not at a greater loss then before. Microsoft is selling at a loss as well.

Everyones buying and selling at a loss on everything we do if you consider the economic situation, I consider most of these arguments moot off the bat.

 

[Frank_Sinatra_]

Last I read, the PS3 costs $840 to produce. I haven't been able to find a solid cost per unit figure for the slim. I saw ranges from a slight profit to a $100 loss.

No longer true. Sony was able to hack costs by 70% [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/93576-Sony-Has-Cut-PS3-Production-Costs-By-70-Percent] so now the PS3 only costs $242.10. By my (and this news stories figures) the PS3 actually sells for a slight profit now.

[small]Note: That does not include labor and all that other good stuff.[/small]

 

[plastic_window]

I realise PS3 sales must have gone up, but really? 999%? They must be kidding. That can't be realistic figure...

If it is, then well done Sony. This'll pull them up to level-pegging with 360 sales - if not put them in front of Microsoft's console.

For me, the Slim is definetly the model (by which I mean price) that I was waiting for. I suppose I was anything but alone in that way of thinking.

But, really? 999%? That just seems ridiculous.

 

[Souplex]

Increasing your sales tenfold isn't that impressive when you were only selling a couple of hundred.(I don't know the specifics I pulled the hundred out of my ass I just know the sales were low.

 

[ratix2]

I'm glad, because this will show Sony just how foolish it was to stick at that price. I'm willing to bet they'd be doing a lot better if this happened a year ago.

Well that's because they were already selling at a loss so dropping the price for the console will result in the them losing even more money that would be harder to cover with by selling games.

Now that they have streamlined the PS3 they can make it for a lower cost to themselves and thus sell it for cheaper.

thats actually not entirely true. when it first came out the cost was over $800 to produce each unit. but as far back as a year ago sony was actually breaking even on each ps3 (back then it cost about $400 to make, and selling at $400-500 would be breaking even to making $100 on each console sold. with the slim though the cost is estimated to be $240 or $280 (pretty sure its $240 though) to produce, so right now at $300 a pop sony is actually MAKING money on each system sold.

999% ?

Right, because no number fiddling has gone on there...

Even if the new slim dropped in price to £150 I doubt the sales would go up that high.
Most comments from the public I have seen about the price drop have said it still isn't enough and they still won't be buying one.

as people have said, this is week to week sales, not month to month, year to year, or lifetime sales. if you actually look at the 2 weeks prior to the slims launch ps3 sales tanked big time. this 999% increase is over the previous week. so for example, lets say sony sold 100 units the previous week (this is to keep the numbers and explanation simple), well a 999% increase would mean that sony then sold 999 units the next week (a 100% increase=2x, a 200% increase=3x, a 0% increase is the same as 1x just to clairify since some people seem to think that a 200% increase is equal to 2x). if sony sold 1000 units then the next week they would sell 9999, if 10,000 then 99,999. since sony doesent release sales numbers we dont know how many were sold that week and the previous week, but its just a week to week thing, so it is plausiable.

 

[Chameliondude]

well im not that surprised, if you look at the sony lineup for the next months, its crazy, uncharted 2 (which is apparently not possible on any other console), heavy rain, GOW3, MAG, the slim, price drop, new features like iplayer, tonns of psn exclusives, plus all the third party shit like arkam asylum, cod mod etc. and the tv adverts and home hype, really no wonder

This is marketing at its best, literally offering everything by saving all the big announcements until one point.

Definatly going to be a christmas for sony, finally

 

[YuheJi]

Apparently, it's not actually 999%. The company's system simply cannot show anything higher than that.
http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=25163
It's actually 11x increased sales.

 

[Woodsey]

999% ?

Right, because no number fiddling has gone on there...

Even if the new slim dropped in price to £150 I doubt the sales would go up that high.
Most comments from the public I have seen about the price drop have said it still isn't enough and they still won't be buying one.

as people have said, this is week to week sales, not month to month, year to year, or lifetime sales. if you actually look at the 2 weeks prior to the slims launch ps3 sales tanked big time. this 999% increase is over the previous week. so for example, lets say sony sold 100 units the previous week (this is to keep the numbers and explanation simple), well a 999% increase would mean that sony then sold 999 units the next week (a 100% increase=2x, a 200% increase=3x, a 0% increase is the same as 1x just to clairify since some people seem to think that a 200% increase is equal to 2x). if sony sold 1000 units then the next week they would sell 9999, if 10,000 then 99,999. since sony doesent release sales numbers we dont know how many were sold that week and the previous week, but its just a week to week thing, so it is plausiable.

Yeah I understand the maths, but it does sound suspicious, I mean 999% ? I know it's just as likely as getting any other number, but still... something just sounds wrong in my mind. And the number of units sold (I don't know how many) would be (I assume) in the 10's of thousands? So a 999% increase on that, is a big bloody increase.

And like I said, in my encounters I've seen/heard next to no one say this would make them buy one. Then again, I've hardly experienced all console owners so I'm obviously not going to have a definite say.

It just doesn't ring true to me I'm afraid. I'm glad for them that sales are up, but I really don't believe it's that much.

 

[ModReap]

Well that really isn't a big surprise.

360: threw systems out as fast as they could.

Wii: slow IV fluid drip technique, basically kept the system desirable by making it some what exclusive.

PS3: Didn't have much to begin with, now they do and people want that.

Btw AXLE_BULLITT_19, liken the avatar

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OT:That is suprising, however it could be like Killerbunny said. This could be a case of misinterpreting statistics, you can alter a graph to make it look like someone has far more popularity than someone else by skewing the distance. Numbers would be better than percents to accuratley gauge the data.

 

[Calobi]

Damn! so close to quadruple figures!

And you know that somewhere there's a boss yelling at a marketing team for not quite getting to that goal.

 

[Axle_Bullitt_19]

*Drools* *Is a golden sun fan*

OT:That is suprising, however it could be like Killerbunny said. This could be a case of misinterpreting statistics, you can alter a graph to make it look like someone has far more popularity than someone else by skewing the distance. Numbers would be better than percents to accuratley gauge the data.

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[PureChaos]

I thought it was the game sales that were up so high. Seems a huge jump for a console.

i had the same thought

 

[blood77]

Well that really isn't a big surprise.

360: threw systems out as fast as they could.

Wii: slow IV fluid drip technique, basically kept the system desirable by making it some what exclusive.

PS3: Didn't have much to begin with, now they do and people want that.

Btw AXLE_BULLITT_19, liken the avatar

That is way off key though. The 360 produced their proper amount of consoles and priced them in ways that people could afford; not to mention showcasing what people wanted to buy. The Wii was amazingly popular and sold quickly, although yes.. Nintendo's marketing strategy has been to make the damn thing elusive. Anyone who WANTED to buy a PS3 but didn't want to spend a fortune on it.. they've been waiting for a price drop dammit. The software is the same as it was a few weeks ago, it's just more viable now financially.

Well yes and no. The price was a definite negative when it came to buying a PS3, but the bigger issue was what games it had. Which, at the time, where few and far between and while most of the games, while still being exclusive, where not all that appealing or different from what was coming out for the 360.

But because there are games people actually want to play on the PS3 more people want them, thus there has been an increase in their sales. The price drop is more of a way for people to make buying one easier.

Also, the 360 had a much lager quota for production then the Wii or PS3, and they rushed to be first in releasing their system. If that isn't throwing something at the public then I don't know what is.

 

[YuheJi]

999% ?

Right, because no number fiddling has gone on there...

Even if the new slim dropped in price to £150 I doubt the sales would go up that high.
Most comments from the public I have seen about the price drop have said it still isn't enough and they still won't be buying one.

as people have said, this is week to week sales, not month to month, year to year, or lifetime sales. if you actually look at the 2 weeks prior to the slims launch ps3 sales tanked big time. this 999% increase is over the previous week. so for example, lets say sony sold 100 units the previous week (this is to keep the numbers and explanation simple), well a 999% increase would mean that sony then sold 999 units the next week (a 100% increase=2x, a 200% increase=3x, a 0% increase is the same as 1x just to clairify since some people seem to think that a 200% increase is equal to 2x). if sony sold 1000 units then the next week they would sell 9999, if 10,000 then 99,999. since sony doesent release sales numbers we dont know how many were sold that week and the previous week, but its just a week to week thing, so it is plausiable.

Yeah I understand the maths, but it does sound suspicious, I mean 999% ? I know it's just as likely as getting any other number, but still... something just sounds wrong in my mind. And the number of units sold (I don't know how many) would be (I assume) in the 10's of thousands? So a 999% increase on that, is a big bloody increase.

And like I said, in my encounters I've seen/heard next to no one say this would make them buy one. Then again, I've hardly experienced all console owners so I'm obviously not going to have a definite say.

It just doesn't ring true to me I'm afraid. I'm glad for them that sales are up, but I really don't believe it's that much.

It is over 999%. Sony's system cannot go above that. According to Gamasutra, sales actually increased 11x. I guess it's believable if you consider how poorly the PS3 had been performing up until now.
http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=25163