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Posted by GMAN on 02/20/07 06:29
In article <CDBBh.342442$MO2.31182@fe3.news.blueyonder.co.uk>, blue <balls@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
>asjbiotek@gmail.com wrote:
>
>> Whoaaa!!!! Since the PS3 is a blu-ray player and has been criticized
>> as having forgotten its gaming roots, i was surprised to see this
>> graph, which shows it actually is outselling the PS2 when that was
>> first launched...
>>
>> http://www.vgcharts.org/aconscomps.php?name1=PS2&name2=PS3&type=0&align=0
>>
>> PS2 is STILL the top-selling console (it beat all other consoles
>> during the last holidays for example), so I guess PS3 ain't doing too
>> badly ;-)
>>
>> Plus, you get these news:
>>
>> PS3 game is top-selling game:
>> http://ps3center.net/story-259.html
>>
>> PS3 is most pre-ordered console:
>> http://www.gamesindustry.biz/content_page.php?aid=22810
>>
>> HOORAY for Blu-ray!
>>
>>
>This is all true but seeing as there are no games out for the PS3 the
>sales aren't that great. Considering the time of year and that a lot of
>those games on the list have been out for a long time this isn't great news.
Maybe not alot of actual PS3 games but there are over 6000 PS2 and PS1 games
that work fine.
Backwards compatibility DOES matter to alot of people.
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>As for Play, there have already been online articles saying that it
>sounds fishy that an online distributer has been hyping up a product
>before launch. If Sony can meet the demand then good on them, but
>preorders for both Xbox360 and Wii were cut drastically months ahead of
>time by an email sent out to customers because of supply problems. So
>therefore if Sony don't have supply problems they are of course going to
>have more preorders than either of the other two. The guy at Play is
>just putting spin on the figures to hype the product up at a time when
>it is more difficult to sell machines.
>
>Ps2 had a very soft launch from what I remember - you have to put
>everything in context. Sorry for bringing it down to earth.
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