http://xbitlabs.com/news/multimedia/display/20071004112437.html
Plagued by initial production issues, extremely high manufacturing costs and excessive retail price, PlayStation 3 from Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. is even less successful than heavily-criticized Nintendo GameCube. At least, in the first ten months of sales Nintendo GameCube was sold in larger quantities than Sony PS3.
According to data from NPD, based on the first ten months of availability, the troubled PlayStation 3 sold 22% less than the Nintendo GameCube for the same period, reports GamePro web-site. In the first ten months of availability about 2.12 million Nintendo GameCube were bought by end-users, whereas only 1.742 millionSony PlayStation 3 gaming machines were sold in from November '06 to September '07.
Nintendo GameCube was released in November 2001 and sold in 21.6million quantity worldwide,below sales of Microsoft Xbox, which reached 24 million,andfive times less compared to Sony PlayStation 2.
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