North Americans have bought 2.7m Blu-ray Disc players, including games consoles, the Blu-ray Disc Association (BDA) has claimed.
The figure encompasses total sales up to and including 24 November, the BDA said. While the exact ratio of PS3s to standalone players isn't clear, the vast majority of them - 2m or more - are Sony …
After all, it shows that Sony has only shifted a maximum of 2.7 million PS3s in the US which is an utterly pathetic showing after more than a year.
Rather amusingly, The Registers' favourite console sales site, VGChartz, claims that Sony has shipped 2.75 million PS3s in the US. This means one of two things, either Sony has sold no Bluray standalone players in the US at all or the PS3 really is doing even more atrociously in the most important console sales region than Sony would have us believe.
In contrast the Wii has shifted 7 million units in North America and the XBox 360 has shifted 9 million units.
"Rather amusingly, The Registers' favourite console sales site, VGChartz, claims that Sony has shipped 2.75 million PS3s in the US. This means one of two things, either Sony has sold no Bluray standalone players in the US at all or the PS3 really is doing even more atrociously in the most important console sales region than Sony."
That's quite an interesting number, but the console sales number is to 1st Dec, not 24th Nov, but VGChartz gives the weekly PS3 sales figure we can estimate.
So in that week they sold 155,515 PS3s add on the 50k (2.75m-2.7m) difference = 200k stand alone BD players in the US.
So by Sunday it should be past the 3 million Blu ray player mark (2 weeks of PS3 sales = 310k plus whatever the stand alone players sell).
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US Blu-ray Disc player sales pass 2.7m
North Americans have bought 2.7m Blu-ray Disc players, including games consoles, the Blu-ray Disc Association (BDA) has claimed. The figure encompasses total sales up to and including 24 November, the BDA said. While the exact ratio of PS3s to standalone players isn't clear, the vast majority of them - 2m or more - are Sony …
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Posted Friday 7th December 2007 14:24 GMT
Alex
Eager #
Eagerly awaiting more flaming and much amusement to follow!
(P.S. Apologies to Tony for having a dig at you last time. Nothing intentional *wink*)
For Xmas? Just give me Paris and a vat of sticy honey.. What a present!!
Posted Friday 7th December 2007 14:24 GMT
Anthony
PS3 #
Well of course PS3 owners are buying films, not like they have a lot of choice when it comes to games..
Posted Friday 7th December 2007 15:27 GMT
Anonymous Coward
Not the best statistic to gloat about #
After all, it shows that Sony has only shifted a maximum of 2.7 million PS3s in the US which is an utterly pathetic showing after more than a year.
Rather amusingly, The Registers' favourite console sales site, VGChartz, claims that Sony has shipped 2.75 million PS3s in the US. This means one of two things, either Sony has sold no Bluray standalone players in the US at all or the PS3 really is doing even more atrociously in the most important console sales region than Sony would have us believe.
In contrast the Wii has shifted 7 million units in North America and the XBox 360 has shifted 9 million units.
Posted Friday 7th December 2007 16:42 GMT
Anonymous Coward
So 3 million+ by Sunday. #
"Rather amusingly, The Registers' favourite console sales site, VGChartz, claims that Sony has shipped 2.75 million PS3s in the US. This means one of two things, either Sony has sold no Bluray standalone players in the US at all or the PS3 really is doing even more atrociously in the most important console sales region than Sony."
That's quite an interesting number, but the console sales number is to 1st Dec, not 24th Nov, but VGChartz gives the weekly PS3 sales figure we can estimate.
So in that week they sold 155,515 PS3s add on the 50k (2.75m-2.7m) difference = 200k stand alone BD players in the US.
So by Sunday it should be past the 3 million Blu ray player mark (2 weeks of PS3 sales = 310k plus whatever the stand alone players sell).
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