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PSP, PS2 Sales Skyrocket
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Zonk
on Thu Nov 30, 2006 11:19 AM
from the can't-imagine-why dept.
from the can't-imagine-why dept.
Spurred by the scarcity of the PlayStation 3, hungry consumers are buying all the PSP and PS2 units they can get their hands on. The PSP's sales have shot up by 280 percent over last year, while the PS2 was up a respectable 115 percent. From the Eurogamer article: "Additionally, sales of first-party software are also up, according to SCEA. PS2 game sales rose by 120.6 per cent, with PSP software sales increasing by almost 168 per cent. Sony has yet to publish figures for exactly how many PlayStation 3 units have been sold in North America since the console launched there on 17th November."
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Poor kids not getting what they want... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Poor kids not getting what they want... (Score:5, Insightful)
If you aren't rich, it sounds like a good plan to me.
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My point is, you have no way of knowing how he got the money for that, and to condemn an entire system because some kid got something you wanted is absurd.
I grew up in a single parent home, and my mother worked 2 jobs and refused to apply for welfare, and yet I don't remember ever feeling any kind of contempt for a
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Is this from the PS3 (Score:5, Insightful)
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I have to say that this was at least in part spurred by my realization that I never, never wanted to get a PS3. Too damn expensive, too much focus on flashy graphics rather than gameplay. I'm a big believer in the idea tha
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To continue the thought above: I hope that developers look at the PS3 and see it for the giant money sink that it is, then take their teams and put them back on developing great games for the PS2. Think about it: the machine's powerful enough to get some great graphics out of it; instead of an install base of 300k, you have 100 million (plus all of the 300k as well); known tech means lower cost means more money to spend on art, story, gameplay testing, etc. Look at Shadow of The
Waiting for price drops (Score:2)
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Anyway concerning the PS2, it is interesting to note that there are new games coming out for it and it is still selling by the shitload. Contrast with the XBox which Microsoft have virtually killed stone dead barely
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No one wakes up one mo
Also driven by Walmart (Score:3, Interesting)
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I could be wrong, but I get the feeling you won't be seeing some of those obscure PS1 titles available for the PSP.
It's that time of the year (Score:4, Insightful)
Spurred by the scarcity of the PlayStation 3...
You mean, "Spurred by the impending holiday." It's highly unlikely that the upswing in PS2 sales has any meaningful correlation with PS3 scarcity; after all, I still don't know a single person who actually plans to get one. The PS2 and PSP, however, are still as viable (and cheap, comparatively!) as they were a month ago.
no the numbers are compared with last year (Score:2, Informative)
PSP game sales (Score:5, Funny)
Hungry consumers? (Score:3, Insightful)
I was in EBGames to pick up a Wii yesterday and saw brand new PS2s for $129. The PS2 already has a huge established base of games and it's much cheaper than the PS3. Think about it! You can get a Wii, PS2, and base XBox 360 for the same price as a PS3! I'm still considering getting a PS2 if only to play the Guitar hero series.
I don't think it has anything to do with "hungry consumers" as much as it does people who lost their appetite over the whole PS3 debacle. Instead of buying some $600-$700 gourmet dinner (to keep up the "hungry consumers" metaphor) at an elite restaurant that few people can get into, they came to their senses and decided that not only would a family meal at a quality restaurant be cheaper, it has a better variety of dinners, can hold more customers at a time, and is a much, much better value overall.
If news about a surge in PS2 sales comes as a surprise to anyone, the human gene pool is in need of a bit more chlorine.
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The xbox 360 core (no hard drive) is far more gimped than the PS3 base model.
The rebate [mentioned elsewhere in the thread] is only useful to a pretty limited number of people - Microcenter doesn't sell the 360 online and there are only 19 retail locations in the country, at least according to their website.
The PS3 costs $500-$600, not $600-$700. Presumably you use these numbers to mak
If people are choking on price, then why eBay? (Score:3, Informative)
So if people are "choking on the price" why are they still selling for so much on eBay?
I went into a Target yesterday and asked if they had any PS3. He said they had a shipment a few days ago, but they were gone within a few minutes. If the price is a problem, why does it take minutes to unload them at retail?
There probably is a point at w
No shit. (Score:2)
Oh, and with MicroCenter's $100 rebate on the XBox360, that total comes down to $578. (Supposedly there's also a $200 rebate with the purchase of an Xbox 360 at MicroCenter if you switch to Vonage as well, but I have no interest in Vonage.) So, yes, the three can be purchased for the cost of a PS3 or less. And at least the Wii gives you Wii Sports, unlike the others
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Wii - 250.00
PS2 - 129.00
Xbox 360 - core system - 199.00
= 578.00
Less than the $599 PS3.
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$599 PS3
$60 x 5 = $300 F.E.A.R, Resistance: FOM, Sonic, CoD3, Untold Legends
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See the replies above. You can get all three game systems for $578, possibly $378 if what I heard about Vonage is correct.
Then again, if you're such a moron that you feel the need to reply under AC, your little rant has no credibility anyway.
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Just because Blu-Ray players are $900 and the PS3 is a $600 Blu-Ray player doesn't mean that Blu-Ray is worth either price. Nor does it make it a no
The question is... (Score:2, Interesting)
I was walking through the local Fry's last night and was wondering why they were stacking the PS2s in the main walkway. Seemed to me there might be a more popular item to stick in the high traffic areas, but maybe they were sold out of everything else.
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The sad thing about this is Little Billy(tm) will obstinately shun the PS2 in front of the Grandparents. Billy is such an ingrateful bastard.
Re:The question is... (Score:4, Informative)
I was walking through the local Fry's last night and was wondering why they were stacking the PS2s in the main walkway. Seemed to me there might be a more popular item to stick in the high traffic areas, but maybe they were sold out of everything else.
I think you overestimate the demand for new consoles (not just the PS3), this is the sales numbers for 2006 up to (and including) October
Now, the Nintendo DS was being outsold by the GBA until they released the DS lite
The fact is that most people buy a system really late in its life, and that all those people who bought a Playstation since 2000 may now be starting to upgrade to the PS2. Most of the time we think of how average (or below average) our income is compared to everyone we know, when you actually compare your household income to the mean you'd probably find out that you were quite wealthy (the mean household income in Canada is $50,000 meaning that 50% of households make less than that; I expect that the US is very similar). Half of consumers aren't questioning whether they should 'upgrade' to a HDTV, they're thinking whether they should replace their 20 year old 20 inch TV with one of those fancy 32 inch CRT TVs.
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Massive Numbers Of Quality PS2 Titles (Score:5, Insightful)
Okami
Final Fantasy XII
Guitar Hero II
Bully
are new major releases. And God of War 2 is on the horizon. And then you have the massive number existing PS2 titles - the single greatest game library for a console ever all at cheap prices now. Huge numbers of major PS2 titles can be bought for 19.99 now.
All that for 130 dollars.
And PSP sales are most likely going to continue to go up now that the PS3 has arrived and has so many PS3/PSP connectivity features - remote viewing of your PS3 over wireless and soon remote play of PS3 games on your PSP.
And yet the DS is ignored. (Score:4, Interesting)
Glad to see them sell a bit faster, considering now they are reasonably priced at $199.00 new..
The PSP is a cool device, it feels nicer than the PSP, It simply does not have the games or the game prices to entice parents to buy them.
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Re:And yet the DS is ignored. (Score:4, Insightful)
Dude, that's hours of work (post-tax) for most people. It's also a sizable phone bill or a medium electrical bill.
$70 is a big deal. Try setting fire to $70 and tell me how you feel about it.
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Actually, I work for a living. I have been a college student, though; and I remember those days. It's a good thing I do, too, because if our economy continues in its present direction, we're all going to be eating a lot more ramen before it's all over.
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Interestign numbers (Score:2)
IT has nothing to do with people wnatign a PS3 and setteling for a PSP/PS2, as that is just faulty logic. It might be people buying PS2/P when little timmy wants a PS3 (but that does not really seem like sound reasoning to me either).
Mabey it has something to do with the 360 already being out for a year now. I am willin
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2 points of contention:
1) The hardware is the WORST of all systems in the game atm. This does not stop it from having the best games obviously (much as to why I argue the Wii will do so well, hardware is not the be all, end all, but it hel
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Get a used XBox, put XBox Media Center [xboxmediacenter.de] on it, and then get back to me if your PS2 is still "the center of all your AV stuff". I haven't turned on my PS2 for months, but I don't really play video games anymore. Both the XBox and PS2 have decent games.
Of course, the average consumer probably won't use XBMC, and the PS2 is a great system. I remember years ago when an acquaintance of mine bought a Dreamcast for his kids instead of a new XBox or PS2. His reasoning was that it was inexpensive and there were
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Possible Explanations (Score:2)
It could also be people replacing the old PS2 systems they sold to get money to get a PS3.
Gamecube (Score:3, Insightful)
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Old dogs don't need to be taught new tricks (Score:2, Informative)
-Large title selection
-CHEAP CHEAP CHEAP prices (example: just got quantum redshift for my xbox for 3 dollars from gamestop. THREE DOLLARS!!!)
-consoles have had their hardware revisions and work better
-gives me more time to finish the games that have been released
I have a 360 (again, a gift) and I am VERY seriously consid
Must be mistaken identity.. (Score:3, Insightful)
280 percent? That's definatly a case of mistaken identity.
Oh, that summary is way way off (Score:3, Insightful)
That is not over the past year; that is a week-to-week increase.
Two reasons:
(1) Almost every entertainment good sees a rise in sales post-Thanksgiving;
(2) As others have pointed out, those who could not get PS3 may have opted to get PSP instead (hence the huge rise in sales, rather than the small bump for the PS2).
Newsflash: Company says its products are selling better in the US during the holiday shopping season.
Nothing to see here, please move along.
Summary Incorrect.... (Score:3, Insightful)
"In a statement, communications boss David Karraker said the top five retailers in North America were reporting a week-by-week rise in PS2 hardware sales of more than 115 per cent over the Thanksgiving period. Sales of PSP units, meanwhile, were up by 280 per cent."
According to NPD (US numbers sold, not shipped):
October 2005 PSP = 131,000
November 2005 PSP = 353,000
which gives us an 269% increase for November 2005.
Did everybody just fall for an announcement of a sales increase that can pretty much be attributed to seasonal variations?
Re:Irony (Score:5, Interesting)
How sweet is that ?
Not to reduce your obvious excitement, but it is highly likely that through the holiday season the system sales will likely go:
(I admit that the order could be shuffled, but the "general placement" is probably nearly correct)
Until the Playstation 3's supply increases it will likely be outsold by nearly every other console on the market, and it would be selling in the range of the Gamecube; even if the undersupply reports are false it is likely that the PS3 will be selling in the range of the GBA. It remains to be seen what the PS3 will sell like when the supply issues are worked out, but being that most system sales happen after the system costs less that $200 I expect the $500/$600 PS3 will not be in the league of the $130 PS2.
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I basically eyeballed the October 2005 chart and watched how sales of systems changed over the months of November/December (with particular note of how the XBox 360 vs. XBox sales went) and then applied that to the October 2006 chart
As a rough guestimate I would say that the Gamecube will be selling between 500,000 and 750,000 over the holiday period with the GBA in the 750,000-1,500,000 range; depending on how well supplied the PS3 is the Gamecube