Hirai: 1.2 million PS3's sold in Europe over Xmas
- Posted January 22nd, 2008 at 05:48 EDT by Mike Harradence
- 27 Comments
Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. President and CEO Kazuo Hirai announced today that the company has sold 1.2 million PlayStation 3 consoles throughout European during the 2007 Christmas period.
Speaking to Bloomberg, Hirai, who replaced former SCEI President Ken Kutaragi in November 2006, hinted that it is still possible for the firm to sell its predicted 11 million units worldwide by March 31, 2008.
"We haven't made any conclusion whether we have to give it up. It depends on how aggressively dealers buy our PS3 inventory”, said Hirai.
"We want to promote games only available for PlayStation 3 - the introduction of the 40 gigabyte model is in line with that strategy", he continued.
According to the Bloomberg report, however, Analysts expect Sony to sell approximately 8 million PS3 consoles for the year ending March 31, with Microsoft forecast to sell 9.1 million Xbox 360’s, and Nintendo 19 million Wii’s.
Source: MCV UK
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The Cleaner
- 5:51am GMT - January 22nd, 2008
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On top of 11 million console sales, in 30 days true to his "word" Hirai gets to pull the 370 games he promissed out of his arss
- Awesome. Can't wait!
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BD_BLACKAZZ |
BD_BLACKK- 6:18am GMT - January 22nd, 2008
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If Hira would pull off the 11million console then all critics would have too bite there tongues... an a great accomplishment for SONY .....
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Bedsidelee
- 6:27am GMT - January 22nd, 2008
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The wii and ds and even the xbox 360 sold twice has many all over the world.
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Staticneuron |
Staticneuron- 6:58am GMT - January 22nd, 2008
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Analyst expect sony to sell approximately 8 million for the year ending.... wait. All the numbers I gathered showed that they have only sold 5.09 million. I find it a long shot for 11 million but then again i have no idea how to tally the rest of the world in this picture.
Edit: I take that back, 1.2 million over the christmas break? Wouldn't that put europs total over 3 million? The PS3 has probably already hit 8 million sold.
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IONIXX |
IONIXX- 9:53am GMT - January 22nd, 2008
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oh ohhhhhhh i think cleaner is gonna blow up i canjust imagine him (or her LOL) "i hate kaz harai! sony should sack him now blah blah blah blah blah" AHAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAHAHA, but on a seriouse note ahem, this is good , i hope they pull it off and (starts crying) come bak ken! come bak! we need u!
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x_ToRo_x |
x_ToRo_x- 10:19am GMT - January 22nd, 2008
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according to vgchartz.com the PS3 has sold 9.29M thus far. which means we need 1.71M by March 31st. on average we would need about 170,000 a week. right now we get about 130,000 so I don't think we are going to quite hit that goal but we will be pretty close. A lot of it depends on how much software they release before that date.
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Bedsidelee
- 10:30am GMT - January 22nd, 2008
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genie no its not xbox360 has sold 16.51 million worldwide, 360’s sold in japan 0.56, america 10.52million, and europe and others 5.43 million. PS3 has sold 9.29million japan worldwid, 1.79million in america 3.59 million in europe and others , 3.90million consoles sold. Proving that europes market is tiny compaired to america, who ever wins america will win the console war, stats from ( VG CHARTS).
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Punisher99
- 10:50am GMT - January 22nd, 2008
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@bedsidelee Stats from vgcharts.org are very un accurate. Many mods from psu has already said so.
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ohshutyourmouth |
ohshutyourmouth- 11:23am GMT - January 22nd, 2008
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the PS3 is selling more worldwide right now than 360, but in america 360 is beating it by almost half which blows.....
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Dmanishigh
- 12:42pm GMT - January 22nd, 2008
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nintendo wii is a pile of junk i'd rather have a ps2.
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Hyourinmaru |
DAT1AZNPAN- 3:30pm GMT - January 22nd, 2008
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european ppl are rich >.> I dont it's possible for 11 mil on march with 3 months to boose 4 millions console at the high price doesnt seem possibkle but hey I hope it does
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Cursed Ninja22 |
Monsta22- 6:10pm GMT - January 22nd, 2008
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Sony iz slowly takin back wha iz theirz.....well tha PS2 already held down tha market anyway fo almost 8 yearz(8 bein Oct)....PS2 juz holdin tha throne for tha PS3 warming it up fo it!!!! other numberz dont matter....itz how long u can last n tha game....fo example Xbox and Gamecube couldnt out last PS2 and now PS2 battling tha 360 and Wii along wit hiz big brother PS3 fighting for Sony 2 pull in tha current from all over tha world!!!!
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DeadOnArrival06 |
DeadOnArrival06- 8:05pm GMT - January 22nd, 2008
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I think I'll join in.
-Awesome. Can't wait!
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Naucious23 |
Naucious- 9:33pm GMT - January 22nd, 2008
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All we can say is wait and see, were making speculation but none of it is fact really their just numbers and that doesn't necessarily mean their accurate but it does give us an idea.
awesome can't wait lol
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PS3-The Ultimate Machine
- 5:41am GMT - January 23rd, 2008
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Hey,i saw this last evening,he said they are also hoping GT5:Prologue,would be the killer app,Sony has been DYING for.
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princevegeta1980
- 12:47pm GMT - January 23rd, 2008
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11 million seems quite alot to me, but with the dmc bundle, gta4, ut3 and haze (hopefully) coming out before end march sony won't be far from thier mark. ever since i've brought my ps3 all my friend's, seeing how good the games run, are slowly drooping thier ps2 to get a ps3 especially since the last price drop and i will continue to corrupt my friends to the darkside of the force, hahaha!!!! (sorry)
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