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#173907 - 23rd Sep 2007 11:56pm
7th Gen Console Sales
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MattLFC
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Just had a though to start a topic listing the main console sales and market share for the 7th generation. Maybe this could be made a sticky??
Current Home Console Sales:
Current Handheld Console Sales:
These images will automatically update as the sales increase. They are taken from Video Game Chartz and are based upon true sales figure's released by retailers, and not reliant on shipment figures, which are usually inaccurate and not a true reflection of actual sales.
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#173911 - 24th Sep 2007 12:03am
Re: 7th Gen Console Sales
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MattLFC
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Lol gutted for ye fella. Im in the same boat, I want to buy one now they are starting to become readily available (thanks to Nintendo outsourcing the manufacturing of the Wii hardware), but just have too many other and more important things to buy atm.
Maybe after Xmas though.
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#177196 - 5th Oct 2007 5:55pm
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MattLFC
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As Sony announce their lame attempt at a cut price PS3 , the Nintendo Wii breaks the 12 million barried lol, with the PS3 still to reach 5 million.
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#177219 - 5th Oct 2007 6:42pm
Re: 7th Gen Console Sales
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MattLFC
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This Christmas will be a massive make or break time for Sony on the PS3 imho, the 7th generation will be into its 3rd year after Xmas, which is usually when the consoles have a foothold.
I dont think the Wii is selling solely on price, as I said and argued with Dazza before its launch, Nintendo have gone "back to basics" and developed a console for people to have fun with.
The PS3 offers nothing particuarly innovative, the cell is amazing, but developers simply cannot code to get the best out of it, much like the Sega Saturn was miles ahead of its time, but coders didnt like having to address two CPU's, so most games only made use of one, which seriosuly crippled them. Nintendo's console has made gaming available to everyone, even pensioners, for the first time, will pick up a Wii and play for hours on it.
Sony need to get the PS3 60GB version slapped down to £250 before they can even consider catching the 360, nevermind making an impact on the Wii.
As it stands, the Wii is aimed at everyone, and everyone likes it and would probably buy it, the 360 is aimed at traditional gamers, and is prices sensibly, and gamers dont mind owning a 360 alongside a Wii, the PS3 is aimed at hardcore gamers, PS fanboys and gadget freaks only, and therefore its market is very niche, and far too small to be a raving success.
I said the Wii was goning to hammer the PS3 at a meet last summer, and at the time people laughed at me hehe, especially as the Wii hadnt had any publicity or advertising in either the UK or US at that point, but I think its starting to prove my point.
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#177736 - 7th Oct 2007 12:02pm
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Regardless of the sales..and what everyone is saying about whats best etc......Im not Buying an Xbox 360 and Im certainly not buyin a Wii.....Theresa a good chance i probably wont buy a 7th gen console....but if I did, it would be the PS3...
The problem is...ive never really been a fan o the xbox to begin with.....and ive never been a fan of Nintendo....the Wii doesnt appeal to me whatsoever....i just dont get excited over wacky controller designs....the Xbox debate is similar to whether you prefer Fifa or PES.....you either used to prefer Xbox..or Playstation.....
My beef is that the games on the Wii suck considerable A**.....Xbox games have always been majorly arcadey in my view...and Im not interested in 1st person Shoot em ups or Halo..Playstation has always had that quality of game...and since playing on one last week..I can see im going to stand by my decision yet again...I prefer Playstation...so shoot me...but im certainly not goin to pay the current price for someone...and also in the meantime, im not going to waste my money on buying the other competition
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#177738 - 7th Oct 2007 12:13pm
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MattLFC
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PlayStation... game quality. Errrr, right. 
So if Tomb Raider 96, Tekken 72, Ridge Racer 43 and Gran Turismo 57 are your thing, maybe they are game quality.
The PS3 offers nothing innovative, the main games for the console are just more remakes of games that were popular 10 years ago and have already been remade/updated 10 times over, the console has come in hoping to sell on hardware might and name alone, and Sony have positioned itself out of the market in doing so. Neither of which make games good, its the developers that do that, and they are finding life really tough to code for the cell.
Thier not even arsed about game quality or being innovative, and they have been gazumped by the Wii big time and they can't do anything to circumvent this trend atm.
For an out and out gaming experience, id choose the 360, simply because it DOES offer innovative games, and doesnt have one cheeky, robbing bastad company behind it (as in Sony expecting the consumer to buy their over-priced console solely because its a PlayStation). In fact scrap that, the last innovative console prior to the Wii was the Dreamcast, id take one of them before id purchase the PS3.
I think the Dreamcast being so good was down to its demise with regards to big game producers. As the likes of EA and that couldnt be arsed with Sega after the Saturn fiasco, we got smaller developers getting some headlines for innovative games like MSR, Crazy Taxi, Soul Caliber etc, and Sega knew they had to come up with the goods for the likes of Sonic Adventure whilst the PlayStation 2 was more concerned about touting the next Tomb Raider, Tekken and Ridge Racer.
Okay the PlayStation 2 won the battle, but only because of its name and the fact that Sega had been bleeding millions a week since the Saturn, and the Dreamcast couldnt recover them losses. It spent its life handicapped by the fact that gamers are (certainly used to be) fickle and unless they see the big name games they dont wanna know, also they kept buying into the PS2 "emotion engine" shite, which never came to offer anything over the Dreamcast.
Maybe your a hardware gamer, which explains why you want a PS3. But for casual gamers, and people who crave fun from games, theres no denying the Wii beats both competing consoles right now.
Down with the Sony wants all your money PS3 lol.
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#177742 - 7th Oct 2007 12:26pm
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Nah...im not a hardware gamer...what i base a console on basically is racing games....the xbox can have its Forza motorsport 7 or whatever their on....Project Gotham etc...but after playing these..i find myself wishing i had a ps3 to play th new Gran Turismo..theyre just way too arcadey for my liking..and not paticulalry difficult..they almost compliment people on the games...even if ur crap at them, you can still appear to be good at them..the entire WRC eries on th PS2 are better than the current racing games avaialable on the xbox....as for the Wii....its just not a consle designed for racing games...its a multiplayer console..to play mario party 173 or whatever...its also another excuse to drag out th mario franchise for a few more years...something i wish would just be dropped. As im not really a multiplayer person....thats y i couldnt care less about the wii ....even the likes of mario kart etc...I like racing simulators...or games ith a decent hint of real life..like Grant Turismo and the WRC series....as for Colin Mcrae rally....I can honestly say i believe its better on te PS3 than xbox....for that is where the game began
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#177743 - 7th Oct 2007 12:35pm
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Actually, right now, you will find there have been shortcomings found on the PS3 version's of cross-platform games when compared to the Xbox360, due to coders not being able to code well for Sony's cell.
Whether all this will change in the future remains to be seen, but it largely depends upon sales figures of the PS3. For instance, if the PS3 still hasnt sold 10 million units by this time next year, developers arnt going to want to spend the time getting to grips with the coding aspect, and certainly arnt going to spend time refining games afterwards, so they will always remain inferior to their 360 counterparts.
But should Sony suddenly get a massive sales figures boost, maybe it will start competing with the 360. Having said that, the 360 sales have been pretty stagnent for the last few months now, the only console that seems to be selling anything noteable is the Wii.
Im still after a Wii eventually, for the simple reason, I have moved away from games and consoles, since all they try and do is get more money out of you for fundamentally the same games, year after year and console after console. I never bought into the Dreamcast for this reason, until it was too late, so I have been proven wrong. But as far as I can see, the only console that is innovating is the Wii, Mario franchise or not, the game itself is re-invented by the controller.
Crazy Taxi was sooooooo much fun, a game like that would never have appeared on the PS2 if it hadnt been so damn huge on the Dreamcast. Sony only eventually got it on the PS2 to cash in on a successful enterprise, as money is all that concerns them. A title like this would have even less chance of appearing on the PS3, Sony quite simply wouldnt give a damn about backing it.
I think at the core, Sony are an Electronics company, Microsoft are a computer software company with experience gained from their PC games development, and Nintendo/Sega are out and out games companies.
This explains the 3 different ways they are going/aiming to go right now.
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#187325 - 5th Dec 2007 10:18pm
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MattLFC
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Wii is about to hit the 15million mark within the next few days!!
And the DS aint gonna do to bad this Xmas either, thanks to their massive TV advertising campaign, everyone in me family is getting one, even me mum!!!! 
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#187359 - 5th Dec 2007 11:04pm
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SoundLad
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lol mark you know the only thing id get a PS3 for and thats GTA IV
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#190786 - 29th Dec 2007 6:47pm
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MattLFC
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So after christmas, the Wii is fast approaching 20 million and Nintendo still can't keep up supply for demand levels...
The PS3 is still struggling to hit the 10 million barrier although sales over Christmas look to have been very good, and the 360 sales look rather crap tbh, they dont seem to have improved with Christmas by any degree.
I notice the DS is still more then double the PSP, I wonder if the PSP will ever catch it, its surely not helping the fact that Nintendo have been advertising the DS heavily on TV over the last 6 months and yet Sony seem reluctant to advertise either the PSP or the PS3 at all on TV.
Mind you the thing thats probably pissing off Microsoft and Sony, is they are still selling all their consoles at a loss on each unit, whereas both the DS and the Wii are making nice profits for Nintendo, even moreso with their prices remaining stable and production costs lowering.
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#190788 - 29th Dec 2007 6:58pm
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Mi_Craig
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God...damn these people for buying the Nintendo thingy majigs...theyre just giving the damn japanese another stupid reason to drag out mario...tomorrow...Ill be going out to buy something fun...for £275...and Ill give you all a clue....its not a console...doesnt involve wacky controllers or pointless characters...runs on petrol...has slick tyres.....is ahella fast...and for the money....worth its weight in gold compared to Wii...360....or ps3
Yup....Im buyin a Race Kart !!!!!
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#190845 - 31st Dec 2007 5:49am
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MattLFC
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The 40GB doesnt have PS2 compatibility, meaning current PS2 owners arnt as interested as they might be.
Lack of USB ports is also a potential issue given the future expadability of consoles.
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#194441 - 13th Jan 2008 8:56pm
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(for the boy he says, lol)
