PSP, PS2 Sales Skyrocket 196
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."
Also driven by Walmart (Score:3, Interesting)
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.
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.
Happened to me... (Score:1, Interesting)
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.
Re:Poor kids not getting what they want... (Score:2, Interesting)
Uh yes, I do have every way of knowing exactly how he got the money for that, because he told me. Welfare check came in, mom cashed it, mom took him to the store and bought him a genesis.
My contempt isn't for him. It's for his mother, who I thought was a stupid bitch before this happened. Afterwards, I was sure. My mom would go out and work her ass off and pay taxes so my friend could have a new video game system. If that's okay with you, well, I'm glad you're so tolerant. Maybe you can just bend over and grease yourself and let people line up to fuck you.
Re:Irony (Score:3, Interesting)
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 could outsell the PS3.
My point wasn't necessarily that the "Gamecube would outsell the PS3" as much as the PS3 will likely not be in the top 5 best selling gaming systems in the holiday months of 2006.