PLAYSTATION 3 Sales reach 70 million units worldwide

[QUOTE="Tessellation"]lol now shipped = sold? cows are not only morons..but they lack of skills to read properly.Desmonic

Doesn't mean they sold them though. Look how many copies of UC3 are sitting in bargain bins now. It got a huge price drop less than a year after release cause they shipped too many copies. Sony brags about shipped numbers but they never sell that much.

So wait, Xbox 360 and PS3 are now tied? :lol: Poor lemmings Congrats to Sony and the PS3! You started out rough, but you course corrected wonderfully a few years in, and now you're a great console. I seriously hope, though, that Sony will have learned from their mistakes this generation.charizard1605

I whis I could go back in time and show this post to the Cows in 2007 , talk about lowered standards !

So wait, Xbox 360 and PS3 are now tied? :lol: Poor lemmings Congrats to Sony and the PS3! You started out rough, but you course corrected wonderfully a few years in, and now you're a great console.charizard1605

To give some context on cumulative generational sales so far:

FIRST GENERATION: 4.5 million

3 million for Nintendo Color TV Game
1 million for Coleco Telstar
150,000 for Atari Pong
350,000 for Magnavox Odyseey

SECOND GENERATION: 35.5 million

30 million for Atari 2600
3 million for Intellivision
2 million for ColecoVision
500,000 for Fairchild Channel F

THIRD GENERATION: 76.48 million

62 million for Nintendo Entertainment System
12 million for Master System
4 million for Atari 7800

FOURTH GENERATION: 105.85 million

49.1 million for Super Nintendo Entertainment System
46.25 million for Genesis/Mega Drive (w/ all add ons)
10 million for TurboGrafx-16
500,000 for CD-i

FIFTH GENERATION: 147 million

102 million for Playstation
33 million for Nintendo 64
9.5 million for Saturn
3 million for 3DO
250,000 for Atari Jaguar
250,000 for Amiga CD32

SIXTH GENERATION: 209 million

152 million for Playstation 2
25 million for Xbox
22 million for Nintendo Gamecube
10 million for Dreamcast

SEVENTH GENERATION: 237 million

97 million for Wii
70 million for Xbox 360
70 million for Playstation 3

As you can see, gaming has clearly been growing on a generation by generation basis. An industry with three supremely healthy consoles (which this generation is the first time ever to have happened in gaming history) is clearly more desirable than a monopoly, even when the monopoly is as heavy handed as the NES or the Playstation 2. We shouldn't be hoping for Microsoft, Sony, or Nintendo to leave the industry, we should be hoping for all three of them to fight it out like dogs and deliver an even healthier industry.

^ Nice

But it's gonna decline next gen :P

^ Nice

But it's gonna decline next gen :P

SuperFlakeman

[QUOTE="SuperFlakeman"]

^ Nice

But it's gonna decline next gen :P

charizard1605

and yet with all of that its still not in last place....jsmoke03

That just shows how mighty PS2 was.

Even though PS3 was a catastrophy relative to PS2, it still managed to keep up in sales with 360.

It's a feat of PS2, not PS3.

PS3 is only seen as a disaster when compared to PS2.

Lol, only 3 years later than I originally thought. I'm more surprised Move sold so much.Floppy_Jim

Some folk will laugh at me, but with the right marketing, Wonderbook might push ALOT of systems...

[QUOTE="jsmoke03"]and yet with all of that its still not in last place....SuperFlakeman

That just shows how mighty PS2 was.

Even though PS3 was a catastrophy relative to PS2, it still managed to keep up in sales with 360.

It's a feat of PS2, not PS3.

[QUOTE="Floppy_Jim"]Lol, only 3 years later than I originally thought. I'm more surprised Move sold so much.Zaibach

Some folk will laugh at me, but with the right marketing, Wonderbook might push ALOT of systems...

Eh I wouldn't call this ownage really on either of the two systems.

They are so close to each other that it doesn't even matter. Never mind that Xbox had a one year headstart, they still got creamed by the Wii+DS combo for the most part.

[QUOTE="Zaibach"]

[QUOTE="Floppy_Jim"]Lol, only 3 years later than I originally thought. I'm more surprised Move sold so much.blue_hazy_basic

Some folk will laugh at me, but with the right marketing, Wonderbook might push ALOT of systems...

MS put up half a billion to move Kinects, I'm not saying spend that much but for millions of kids Worldwide looking for their Harry Potter fix.... its a no Brainer (atleast put in some effort, as opposed to the usual Sony half-a$$ job)

[QUOTE="blue_hazy_basic"][QUOTE="Zaibach"]

Some folk will laugh at me, but with the right marketing, Wonderbook might push ALOT of systems...

Zaibach

MS put up half a billion to move Kinects, I'm not saying spend that much but for millions of kids Worldwide looking for their Harry Potter fix.... its a no Brainer (atleast put in some effort, as opposed to the usual Sony half-a$$ job)

MS has certainly won that battle with mediocre junk selling well.blue_hazy_basic

ps3 came out in 2006 360 had a year head start.

True_Chaos_UK

Actually it came out in 2007 in EU regions, ya know, their biggest market, and it still surpassed x360 in EU. Now imagine if Sony had released it earlier in EU

THANK YOU SONY !

Pretty impressive

[QUOTE="Zaibach"]

[QUOTE="blue_hazy_basic"] Its ALOT of money to invest for just that product though ...blue_hazy_basic

MS put up half a billion to move Kinects, I'm not saying spend that much but for millions of kids Worldwide looking for their Harry Potter fix.... its a no Brainer (atleast put in some effort, as opposed to the usual Sony half-a$$ job)

The Move actually sold pretty well all things considering, but you are absolutely spot on, you can always count on SOny to Botch a straightforward job.

god damn charlie sheen's are actually treating this as a triump....2 days before the start of next gen the ps3 possibly ties for second place? thats if we forge that 70 million for 360 was announced what? 2 months ago....unless the 360 sold 0 units in that time the tie isn't realistic.

360 in last place where it belongs

plus ps3 is still not at the sweet spot $199

expect damage control from microsoft

360 in last place where it belongs

plus ps3 is still not at the sweet spot $199

expect damage control from microsoft

sdbobplissken

PS3 ties numbers released by Microsoft 1 - 2 months ago.

360 in last place.

Well, math is definitely not your strong suit. :lol:

[QUOTE="sdbobplissken"]

360 in last place where it belongs

plus ps3 is still not at the sweet spot $199

expect damage control from microsoft

The_Game21x

PS3 ties numbers released by Microsoft 1 - 2 months ago.

360 in last place.

Well, math is definitely not your strong suit. :lol:

well, if one has to be objective then the PS3 already surpassed the 360 for the time it has been on the market. 360 fans always forget the one year (and a half in the EU) headstart

[QUOTE="The_Game21x"]

[QUOTE="sdbobplissken"]

360 in last place where it belongs

plus ps3 is still not at the sweet spot $199

expect damage control from microsoft

Vatusus

PS3 ties numbers released by Microsoft 1 - 2 months ago.

360 in last place.

Well, math is definitely not your strong suit. :lol:

well, if one has to be objective then the PS3 already surpassed the 360 for the time it has been on the market. 360 fans always forget the one year (and a half in the EU) headstart

No.

If we're being objective, the PS3 has "tied" the 360. And even then, logically, the 360 is still ahead considering Microsoft announced the 360 sales numbers last month or so.

[QUOTE="The_Game21x"]

[QUOTE="sdbobplissken"]

360 in last place where it belongs

plus ps3 is still not at the sweet spot $199

expect damage control from microsoft

Vatusus

PS3 ties numbers released by Microsoft 1 - 2 months ago.

360 in last place.

Well, math is definitely not your strong suit. :lol:

well, if one has to be objective then the PS3 already surpassed the 360 for the time it has been on the market. 360 fans always forget the one year (and a half in the EU) headstart

No one talks about how the PS2 sold more than the Xbox, or the Gamecube because it was on the market longer. Implying that the 360 would not have sold as well as it did if it had released day and date with the PS3 is dubious at best (because there's no way to know) and it looks like a flat out desperate move by Cows to cover up the fact that they lost this generation.

Sony released at the end of March 2012 that it had sold 63.9 million PS3s. In two quarters they sold 6 million units? So during the slowest gaming months of the year (June - August) and before the holiday season, they managed to sell over 6 million units? Come on. What bullsh#t. Just as their stock is plummeting this news is released.

Now in their last quartley report here is the following:

- Game segment down 14.5% year-on-year
- Loss of 3.5 million yen
- Last year, that number was a positive 4.1 billion yen
- Sony says falling PS3 and PSP sales led to the downturn
- This was only partially offset by PS Vita sales
- Sony did not share specific Vita sales
- Sales were lumped together with PSP
- PSP and Vita sales were less (1.4 million) than what PSP managed alone during April-June of last year (1.8 million)
- PS3 and PS2 sales lumped together for the first time as well
- These two systems are at 2.8 million units sold
- Was at 3.2 million units the year prior
- Software sales are down
- Combined sales of PSP and Vita games: 5.8 million
- This is less than PSPs sole total of 6.6 million for the same period last year
- 20.1 million PS3 and PS2 games were sold
- This is down on the year before (27.6 million games sold)
- Sony lowered Game expectations for the year ahead ending March 2013
- Division will see essentially flat year-on-year figures, Sony predicted, and operating income will decrease significantly
- PSP and Vita forecast changed from 16 million combined sales to 12 million
- Sony Corporation recorded a total loss of £200 million for the quarter
- That figure mostly caused by its mobile and TV divisions

Now you mean to tell me, from their reports mind you, that a decline in hardware sales and a decline in gaming as a whole by 14.5%, they miraculously, just as they are trying to get investment money, managed to sell over 6 million PS3s in a time where historically game consoles sales are down and by their own report, a decline in hardware sales and in the gaming industry. That has to include PS2 sales, again according to their own report. Otherwise, it would mean the PS3 was selling around a million units a month. This has to be the biggest crock of sh#t ever released.

Gratz to Sony. You've officially sold half of what you did last gen. :lol: Lol at cows calling this ownage. All you have to do is look at Son't past and you can see the stupidity of the argument.

Fact is, PS3 & 360 are tied. But, looking at where the brands came from last gen......

360 has sold more than triple it's predecessor.
PS3 has sold half it's predecessor.

Keep the party going cows :P :roll:

Wow. :lol:

So that means the Xbox 360 is in the last place now.

god damn charlie sheen's are actually treating this as a triump....2 days before the start of next gen the ps3 possibly ties for second place? thats if we forge that 70 million for 360 was announced what? 2 months ago....unless the 360 sold 0 units in that time the tie isn't realistic.

WilliamRLBaker

Halo 4 caused a lot of pain in them

Wow. :lol:

So that means the Xbox 360 is in the last place now.

GamerwillzPS

[QUOTE="Vatusus"]

[QUOTE="The_Game21x"]

PS3 ties numbers released by Microsoft 1 - 2 months ago.

360 in last place.

Well, math is definitely not your strong suit. :lol:

DarkLink77

well, if one has to be objective then the PS3 already surpassed the 360 for the time it has been on the market. 360 fans always forget the one year (and a half in the EU) headstart

No one talks about how the PS2 sold more than the Xbox, or the Gamecube because it was on the market longer. Implying that the 360 would not have sold as well as it did if it had released day and date with the PS3 is dubious at best (because there's no way to know) and it looks like a flat out desperate move by Cows to cover up the fact that they lost this generation.

The difference is that the ps2 finished about 80 million units ahead....not less than 1 million.

[QUOTE="DarkLink77"]

[QUOTE="Vatusus"]

well, if one has to be objective then the PS3 already surpassed the 360 for the time it has been on the market. 360 fans always forget the one year (and a half in the EU) headstart

DanteSuikoden

No one talks about how the PS2 sold more than the Xbox, or the Gamecube because it was on the market longer. Implying that the 360 would not have sold as well as it did if it had released day and date with the PS3 is dubious at best (because there's no way to know) and it looks like a flat out desperate move by Cows to cover up the fact that they lost this generation.

The difference is that the ps2 finished about 80 million units ahead....not less than 1 million.

haha wow. after being the subject of mockery for the past 7 years, sony fanboys can finally find solace in the fact that they went from being "the" last place to "tied" last place. let's let them have a minute to celebrate.:)

[QUOTE="DarkLink77"][QUOTE="DanteSuikoden"]

The difference is that the ps2 finished about 80 million units ahead....not less than 1 million.

Desmonic

Not wanting to meddle in your argument, I'm pretty sure it says 70 million :P

Tokyo, November 16, 2012Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. (SCE) today announced that the cumulative sales of the PlayStation®3 (PS3®) computer entertainment system reached a milestone of 70 million units*1 worldwide as of November 4, 2012 less than six years after the platform launched in 2006. SCE also announced that sales of the PlayStation®Move motion controller surpassed 15 million units*1 worldwide as of November 11, demonstrating continued growth and momentum of the PS3® platform.Sony

From TC's link. (tbh I did not read it all the way through though... got way to bored with sales numbers as soon as I reached the PS+ part).

Read this on Neogaf this morning and knew it would turn into a 20+ page thread by the end of the day.

Too little too late.. Next gen is starting in 2 days.

[QUOTE="Meeeper282"]

[QUOTE="KBFloYd"]

wii 97million

ps3 70 million.

360 70million

when has a console war ever had this many sales?

a true gamming revolution this gen..

KBFloYd

Last Gen

PS2 - 150m

Xbox - 23m

Gamecube - 20m

Quite a huge improvement considering console gaming is dying ;) "quoted from every pc gamer"

23million each for xbox and gamecube. it was completetly lobsided gen.... nintendo almost went out of business and xbox abondoned their console...

even if you just want to count sales 240M>195M

Its not about total hardware sales, attache ratio for software and overall profitability with peripherals and accessories along with the hardware itself is what counts.

I'm talking to myself, right?

[QUOTE="mariokart64fan"]

[QUOTE="KBFloYd"]

23million each for xbox and gamecube. it was completetly lobsided gen.... nintendo almost went out of business and xbox abondoned their console...

even if you just want to count sales 240M>195M

Desmonic

That's what I was thinking too. He has to be including the handhelds.

Idiots arguing (still) over corporate use of shipped versus sold says what?

Idiots arguing (still) over corporate use of shipped versus sold says what?

Gxgear

Well it is SYSTEM WARS.

You gotta claim ownage on every little detail no matter how frivolous and/or wrong! Thats how it works son! ;)

[QUOTE="mariokart64fan"]

[QUOTE="KBFloYd"]

23million each for xbox and gamecube. it was completetly lobsided gen.... nintendo almost went out of business and xbox abondoned their console...

even if you just want to count sales 240M>195M

Desmonic