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Playstation 3 Hardware \ At current rate, PS3 may sell less than GameCube - Locked

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komu
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According to the NPD, a firm that tracks North American hardware sales, the PS3 sold 1,742,000 units in its first 10 months of availability compared with 2,120,000 GameCube units.

The GameCube, released by Nintendo in 2001 to compete with Sony's PS2 and Microsoft's original Xbox, is largely seen as a failure. Although commercially successfully (to a degree), the GameCube only managed to sell 22 million systems worldwide compared with 24 million Xbox units and 115 million PS2 machines.

"We're in a position where we're having to play catch-up," PlayStation president Kaz Hirai recently said in an interview with Spong regarding the struggling PS3. Hirai went on to blame "production issues" for his console's slow start before denying widespread belief that the PS3 launch price was too high.

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03/10/2007
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Lil_Fil06
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As if!
03/10/2007
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bldnut01
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yeah sure it will lets see what they say this time next year when GTA4 and Burnout and Haze Gt5 have all come out
03/10/2007
Melbourne, Victoria
Cherrona
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Things will pick up once the price has dropped. And when there are more games to choose from.
Oh and welcome to the site, Komu.
But it's strange that the first thing you do is post this.
You're not one of those lame loser fanboys, are you? lol Don't be offended though.
03/10/2007
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Melad136
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yeh i think the ps3 will get a huge jump in sales when the 40gb version comes out for like 800 and if u think about it sony has made roughly the same amount of money as the wii as the wii has sold a bit over double the ps3 in sales but the ps3 is a bit over double the price and the ps3 is actually beating the wii in sales so its not gonna fail for long
03/10/2007
Sydney
Cherrona
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Good points Melad.
Don't take this the wrong way, but USE FULL STOPS OTHERWISE I WILL HURT YOU!!!!!! Okie dokie? lol
03/10/2007
Silent Hill -The fear of blood tends to create fear for the flesh
Melad136
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yes ma'am.
03/10/2007
Sydney
Cherrona
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Melad136 says:

yes ma'am.




Awww, you make me laugh, Melad. lol

Anyway, things will definitely pick up when RE5 and SH5 are out. lol
03/10/2007
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GTADude
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When are they coming out?
03/10/2007
Victoria
heller
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I'm not a fanboy, I am a realist, and if anything I WAS a Playstation fanboy until I got my PS3.

Right now it just doesn't have titles, the titles that are out aren't much better than their 360 counterparts, hell most the of the 360 ones are better.

I own all three consoles, so I can't stress enough how much of a fanboy I'm not. At this stage I use my Wii more than either console, but the release of some awesome games on the 360 has left my PS3 for dead. I have Resistence and Motorstorm and they are ok, but I was just very dissapointed.

Sony really need that BIG TITLE, the one that blows everything away and then, maybe then PS3 will get the people interested

Let's hope it happens soon, before it's too late
03/10/2007
Melbourne, Vic
GTADude
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I dont think anything could sell as bad as the gamecube
03/10/2007
Victoria
heller
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LOL how about this
en.wikipedia.org/
03/10/2007
Melbourne, Vic
GTADude
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okay. Maybe that could
03/10/2007
Victoria
Lil_Fil06
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Looks Nice but don't think it would sell even 1!
03/10/2007
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K-Man
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heller said: LOL how about this
en.wikipedia.org/



I always knew Apple joined the console war, but turned out to be a failure. What a shame

Anyway what Sony should've done is wait until the PS3 has great titles to finally be released on launch day instead of waiting until the end of 2007 to finally have those great games
03/10/2007
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andymilky
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the playstation 3 is the best console, however the time they are taking to release any decent titles is ridiculous. Every game just keeps getting delayed and when a decent game does come out the availability of it in shops is often so poor it's pretty much impossible to find.

There's no doubting within a year or so the playstation 3 will have dominated the competition severely, however I do wish they'd speed up the process.
03/10/2007
Sydney
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Melad136 said:if u think about it sony has made roughly the same amount of money as the wii as the wii has sold a bit over double the ps3 in sales but the ps3 is a bit over double the price and the ps3 is actually beating the wii in sales so its not gonna fail for long



Your kidding me right.....

Hardware isn't where companies make profit, it's the software, most companies make a loss on consoles, but I'm certain that the GameCube or the Wii are not, it's on of those.
03/10/2007
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heller
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andymilky said: the playstation 3 is the best console, however the time they are taking to release any decent titles is ridiculous. Every game just keeps getting delayed and when a decent game does come out the availability of it in shops is often so poor it's pretty much impossible to find.

There's no doubting within a year or so the playstation 3 will have dominated the competition severely, however I do wish they'd speed up the process.



Don't be ignorant. I don't care how much you love your PS3 it certainly isn't the best console on the market. Have you used the other two current gen consoles? PS3 COULD be the best of the three, but right now it's nowhere near ready to be called the BEST CONSOLE ON THE MARKET
03/10/2007
Melbourne, Vic
Lil_Fil06
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Well said!
03/10/2007
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Actually, this makes sense. The Gamecube cost like under a hundred dollars and the games are dirt cheap. The PS3 is quite expensive and all the games are at the same "nearing triple digits" price. So yeah, That's pretty much common sense.
03/10/2007
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calvin260 said: Actually, this makes sense. The Gamecube cost like under a hundred dollars and the games are dirt cheap. The PS3 is quite expensive and all the games are at the same "nearing triple digits" price. So yeah, That's pretty much common sense.



I AGREE IT DOES MAKE SENSE BUT I DONT THINK PS3 WILL FOLLOW IN THE FOOT STEPS OF THE CUBE THERE TOO MUCH OF A FOLLOWING FOR PLAYSTATION FOR IT TO FAIL SORRY FOR THE CAPS lock
03/10/2007
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Natty_P said:
I agree it does make sense, but I don’t think ps3 will follow in the footsteps of the cube, there’s too much of a following for Playstation for it to fail.
Sorry for the caps lock



Yes, Sony has quite a large amount of followers. But you need to remember, so does Nintendo.
03/10/2007
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Melad136
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Reynaldo7 said:

Melad136 said:if u think about it sony has made roughly the same amount of money as the wii as the wii has sold a bit over double the ps3 in sales but the ps3 is a bit over double the price and the ps3 is actually beating the wii in sales so its not gonna fail for long



Your kidding me right.....

Hardware isn't where companies make profit, it's the software, most companies make a loss on consoles, but I'm certain that the GameCube or the Wii are not, it's on of those.



was that your kidding me as in im right or wrong? lol

because the PS3 DOES have better games than the wii can u name more Wii great games than on the PS3? i dont think so
03/10/2007
Sydney
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Rofl! This is pretty funny " at current rate" do you honestly think the PS3 is going to be in this situation when MGS4, Tekken 6, GT5, KIllzone 2 and FFXIII, just to name a few are released? I dont think so, plus there is the price drop coming as well. I agree with calvin, you should take the time to look at the price of the PS3 and its games compared to the cubes price and its games. There is quite a price difference there. Like calvin said, its common sense. Oh and welcome to the site komu man
03/10/2007
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heller said: I'm not a fanboy, I am a realist, and if anything I WAS a Playstation fanboy until I got my PS3.

Right now it just doesn't have titles, the titles that are out aren't much better than their 360 counterparts, hell most the of the 360 ones are better.

I own all three consoles, so I can't stress enough how much of a fanboy I'm not. At this stage I use my Wii more than either console, but the release of some awesome games on the 360 has left my PS3 for dead. I have Resistence and Motorstorm and they are ok, but I was just very dissapointed.

Sony really need that BIG TITLE, the one that blows everything away and then, maybe then PS3 will get the people interested

Let's hope it happens soon, before it's too late


That big title could be HAZE
03/10/2007
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