Wednesday, April 11, 2007

PlayStation breaks sales records




Not all of the countries have had their sales figures reported on yet, here's the ones I could find.

Australia: 27,083

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Sony Computer Entertainment Australia (SCE Aust.) today confirmed GfK results, affirming the successful launch of the PLAYSTATION®3 (PS3™) which officially went on sale in Australia on Friday 23 March. Since launch, the PS3 has generated over $33 million in hardware and software retail sales, according to analyst group GfK.Commenting on the results, Daniel Morse from GfK stated, “Our data revealed that in a matter of just ten days the PLAYSTATION 3 created a ***** in retail spending not previously witnessed at the launch of any other console in Australia. This spending continued into the second week of trading, resulting in sales of 27,083

PLAYSTATION 3 consoles in just ten days.” Link
Austria: 8,000

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8000 Sony PlayStation 3 in two daysThat is the sales impact in the first hours, where the PS3 was sold in Austria. In completely Europe could be distributed in the time 600,000 pieces to the waiting buyers.The trade was sufficiently supplied - for Europe a contingent was intended of one million play consoles. After Microsoft sold 4000 XBox 360 and Nintendo in the first two days “only” with the Wii “only” 6000 pieces, one was surprised with Sony of success.The numbers surprise whether the high price of the large variant of the PS3. The small 20GB-Version comes only later, the competitor consoles is substantially more favorable in the trade.

Link Belgium: 21,600

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With the Benelux countries for example, Sony announces to have delivered 54.000 specimens of its console of living room. Tandis, that on their side the Belgian retailers, who diposaient of approximately 27.000 consoles affirm to have run out 80% of their stock.

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These sales are even more remarkable because it took three months for the PS2 and a year in PSOne to reach these same quantities.”

Link France: 78,000

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78.000 PS3 in FranceFinally, the bide resounding of Parisien launching will have had only little impact on the success of Playstation 3 on our premises, the proof, Sony has just announced that they ran out since the 23 nearly 78.000 consoles in the 5.000 retailers of the animal which is worth half of a SMIC. If this figure proves to be true, the PS3 would then have beaten the score of Wii and the 360 over the same period.

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Germany: 60,000
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“France did very well,” he told MCV. “Sales were around half of the UK, with Spain and Portugal slightly behind that. Germany, too, saw strong sales of around the 50-60,000 mark."

Link New Zealnad: 4835
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Sony Computer Entertainment New Zealand today confirmed results affirming the successful launch of the PlayStation 3 which officially went on sale in New Zealand on 23 March.Since launch, the PS3 has generated over NZ$6.8 million in hardware and software retail sales, according to analyst group GfK.Commenting on the results, Daniel Morse from GfK stated, "Our data revealed that in a matter of just ten days the PlayStation 3 created a ***** in retail spending not previously witnessed at the launch of any other console in New Zealand. This spending continued in to the second week of trading resulting in sales of 4,835 PlayStation 3 consoles in just ten days."

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Norway: 10,000

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South Africa: 10,000

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A source from Ster Kinekor said about 10 000 units were shipped in for the launch last Friday."There are about one or two retailers still with 40 to 50 left, which are expected to sell by end of this week, as each store is selling over 40 consoles a day," the source said.

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Spain: 100,000

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PlayStation 3 surpasses 100,000 consoles sold in SpainThe sold game more of PS3 is Resistance Fall of ManUntil now official numbers did not exist to value the welcome of PlayStation 3 in our country. We knew already that after France, Spain was the past between the countries with greater sales of PS3 after its launching 23, but can ofreceros a real and cuantificable value provided by same the Sony: today the 100,000 units have been surpassed.The three sold games more for PlayStation 3 also have been confirmed by Sony, with Resistance Fall of Man at the top, followed of It formulates 1 Championship Edition and Motorstorm.

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Sweden: 13,000

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Sweden sold more than 13,000 units according to Jens Alex, vd for Nordisk Film Interactive, as distribution manager of Sony's new console.

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Switzerland: 14,000
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In Switzerland moved after data from Sony during the first two sales days 14´000 Playstation3

United Kingdom: 212,000
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PlayStation 3 went on sale in the UK last weekThe PlayStation 3 console has broken UK sales records with more than 165,000 machines sold in the first two days of release, say analysts Chart Track

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