UK PS3 sales to top 1m over Xmas

Ray Maguire, MD of Sony Computer Entertainment, believes that the launch of a new, cheaper edition PlayStation 3 will help push sales of the console in the UK "well through the million mark".

In an interview published in the latest Edge magazine, Maguire states: "by the time [Edge] goes to press we'll be at around about 500,000 PS3 sales in the UK, and through Christmas we'll take that well through the million mark".

[P4KY B]

what a cheeky ba$tard.

People in glass houses.

[HarryEtTubMan]

PS3 is going to do really god it just needs time and games... I'm getting mine so soon now I can't wait!

[shmee]

EUROPE is the stronghold of SONY. After the price cut sales have increased 2/3 fold.

I predict ps3 to reach 3m SOLD by the end of this year in EUROPE

[malingenie]

Here's to hoping, I believe Sony has had a rough year and a lot of haters. I'll never understand why.

[AdolfBinBush]

yes, lots of ps3 haters to be precise..

[PimpHandHappy]

what else would a Sony rep say

I do think it will do well over the holidays thou

[kss]

my feelings exactly bro

[DiLeCtioN]

loads of PS3 flying off shelves everytime i walk in a game shop somebody purchases a PS3, sometimes the 360 but mostly PS3 now.

[Proxy]

When I bought R&C there were 5 people waiting for the same game. I've never seen such a thing. Especially in our little gamestop that is nothing more than a small room in the local mall. (This wasn't a before opening line up, this was during the middle of the day.)

[sak500]

Yep saw couple of flying pigs carrying ps3 out of our local vigrin store.

[solidt12]

One million in UK, one in Japan/ Asia Pacific areas, and One in the US should put the PS3 at about 8 to 9 million consoles by the end of the year. That would be great and get the third party developers attention. And when MGS4, Killzone 2, and FFXIII comes out the numbers will fly up again.

[fredy]

what i posted earlier..

" 12.1 - Anyone has the numbers
how much has HS, LAIR, Warhawk sold all together?

soon we'll add Racket and uncharted to the list...

See the more great tiles that come out for Ps3 it seems like the less people buy the older hits.

which comes to my conclusion why are ps3 fans only waiting for kZ2, ff, and metal gear to change things around?

there will have been more games before these games hit but no one is really buying games..."

[Irving]

Dude, why do you continue to call it Racket?

[season007]

and i have to agree on this

It might possibly be xbox360 dominating NA while PS3 donminating Europe in the near coming future......but for the long run? I say PS3 all over the world =)

[MikeGdaGod]

i know i posted this in the other thread but it needs to be said + i'm feeling lazy today ;)

my logic (true story):

i bought a 360 a few weeks after launch. i also bought the Best Buy extended warranty with it. it had serious disk read errors and scratched some disk. a few months later, i returned it to Best Buy and got a new one. two months later, it gets RRoD. i took it to Best Buy and got a new one.

my point is, Best Buy and MS count the new consoles i recieved as sales when really they're not. i didn't buy multiple 360's, but to MS i count as 3 when really all i have is one.

now just think about how many other people this has happened to. there are people on 5th/6th 360 because they were smart enough to get a warranty. they may only have one 360 but MS counts the new consoles as sales.

360 sales are very misleading and it isn't that far in the lead as many people think.

[genericname]

360 sales could possibly be only 7MM.

[bourner]

a bit optimistic i think . i know one person whos going to get one , the rest of my friend still think its too expensive

[DZNetworks]

A WHOLE MILLION Consoles!! WTG Sony You FAILED this generation.

[SmokeyMcBear]

a million consoles in LESS than a year in the UK.. im sorry how many 360's were sole in one year in the UK.. you know, from launch to November 2006? Im just curious

[genericname]

So I guess using your logic you were saying the same thing about the 360 8 months into their Euro launch. So which is it, MS failed or are you a hypocrite?

[gamehendge]

I think the DZnetworks will be off the air for awhile due to severe pwning.

[SmokeyMcBear]

ok..i did some research on my own, since nobody wanted to answer me. So basically reporting in September of 2006, about 11 months after the launch of the 360.. the ENTIRE PAL Region, 2.19 million units were sold. so I say at the end of the year. 9 months after launch, if 1 million units are sold in the UK.. as borat would say.. "Great Success"

[Meus Renaissance]

He said they've already sold 500,000 in the UK and that they'll sell another half a million in the next few months. He didn't mean they'll sell an additional 1million this Christmas

[N4GayFanturds]

not FINANCIAL INVESTORS.

WhoDaPhuk CARES? Nintendo & MS will still outsell it. Y'all crack me up on how you think somehow Sony will be the industry leader of Next-Gen consoles OVERNITE.

Go play your BR movies & be content.

@12.1 - You mean like the Sony Defense Force & others?? ROFL

EDIT: How about you make a site called Gamer Posers? And recruit all those sites you listed? lol

[XxZxX]

Yeah if you want a site that totally tailormade for you, go create your own site.

Edit: Yeah Sony Defense Force - to poke fun of Sony(own by 360 fanboy)
Sony Protection Group - to protect Sony(own by Sony fanboy)
and lastly XBOXKings - to preserve the supremacy of XBOX(own by TheMart)

if themart can do it, why can't you

[YoMeViet]

"WhoDaPhuk CARES?" apparently you do!
If you didn't care then why would you waste your time and go in and post?
It seems you CARE enough to post and bash Sony in the process.
So Thank You for caring!

P.S. you spelt dragon wrong, but I'm sure ballZ is right ^o^

[N4GayFanturds]

I spelled DraGUN this way on purpose. But why should you challenge my spelling when obviously you don't have a good grip on GRAMMER...Yo me Viet.

[mikeslemonade]

It would be interesting too see how long the 360 took to reach 1 million and the PS3 to reach 1 million.

[sak500]

Same B$ PR from idiots in Sony.

[Sevir04]

quite interesting when the year end sales come in for last year on january 17th 2009. we'll see totally what Sony sold for december right around christmas. Sony should start sending out giant flyers and posters with the 40gig PS3 to gaming and electronic stores nationwide with the spider man 3 bundle..

Saying
PLaystion 3 40gig $399.99
with exclusive Blu-ray Spider 3
availible Nov 2, Pre-orders are now being taken.

but hey they dont... i cant stess how much Sony's marketing sucks... and i think it's partly due to the PS3 launching, since it costs so much to make and they are doing everything possible to make sure it got to a mass market price at $400...

but we'll see the advent of this seems to be a positive one. i'm pretty sure the PS3 will be taking off in slaes all over, novemeber 11th in japan, November 2nd in NA and it's already increased well in UK and EU, and AUS, so we shall see in january when the numbers for christmas 07 season comes into play, the market will be a different place after this christmas and January 17th 08 will tell all...

Sit back abd enjoy the show. because this will be Good. ^^