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Post by ade on Mar 25, 2007 11:27:53 GMT -1
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Post by Giar on Mar 25, 2007 11:45:06 GMT -1
got to say i think who ever writes that thing is a bit of a loser, granted its quite amusing that it is flopping hard, but if you ask me its got fuck all to do with what was going on at the lauch party the sad specky geek...............bit too wrapped up in his little gamer world to realise its mearly down to playstation pricing themselves out of the market unless its animported model  |
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Post by ade on Mar 25, 2007 11:47:38 GMT -1
Aye agree with yaa but i still found it funny
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Post by Giar on Mar 25, 2007 11:51:11 GMT -1
same here ill admit.  |
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Post by Neko Bazu on Mar 26, 2007 9:44:59 GMT -1
Someone's a bit desperate for ways to fill their time, I think Did amuse me though ;D Had a look on a link from a link from a link; apparently the Wii sold 330k+ units in the US alone in February!  They physically can't keep up with demand either; imagine if they could! Kinda makes me wish I'd invested in Nintendo shares like I'd considered when I first heard about what the Wii could do  |
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Post by Dr LuKas on Mar 26, 2007 9:50:21 GMT -1
Anybody have sales figures, I admit I will take some tiny bit of pleasure in seeing Sony fail.
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Post by Giar on Mar 26, 2007 9:52:56 GMT -1
Anybody have sales figures, I admit I will take some tiny bit of pleasure in seeing Sony fail. ummmm why lucas? isnt the idea of having a choice of good games consols apealing to you? you should have invested neko |
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Post by Dr LuKas on Mar 26, 2007 10:04:59 GMT -1
Only need one G. Why? Because it shows if you treat Europe and more specifically the UK as second class citizens, not as important as Japan and USA then we wont take that shit, also if you overprice stuff you can't expect everyone to shell out just because it's a new Playstation.
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Post by Giar on Mar 26, 2007 10:06:42 GMT -1
the price bit i get.....but as far as i know i always thought we were down in 3rd on the pecking order behind those 2 when i came to games and the like........didnt the xbox do it to a degree as well?
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Post by HURLOCK on Mar 26, 2007 10:10:37 GMT -1
I don't get why everyone has to have the thing from day 1, the majority of people buying the thing have got a console at home to amuse themselves with.
My point is, 3 months after the hype the thing comes down in price - so why not wait.
I enjoy playing these things but get bored quickly - hence why I can wait and also all the glitches are sorted!
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Post by Giar on Mar 26, 2007 10:17:30 GMT -1
ditto most of the time with me too hurlock
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Post by Neko Bazu on Mar 26, 2007 10:20:01 GMT -1
the price bit i get.....but as far as i know i always thought we were down in 3rd on the pecking order behind those 2 when i came to games and the like........didnt the xbox do it to a degree as well? I think the X360 got it out globally though, and while the Wii was later here, it was only by a few days. Sony realised they weren't gonna have enough to sell to everyone, so rather than leaving everywhere somewhat understocked, they just told us to fuck off and wait while they pander to the US and Japan. Given that there's very little between the three markets (Japan sells fewer but faster, we sell the same as the US), it seems a touch unfair that we got told to wait our turn again when we've had to do that with every single other Sony product too - PSP, anyone? Sony actually have very little regard for the European market - I think I recall an interview with the last head who accidentally said as much, albeit not in as many words (Something to the effect of "We consider the US and Japan to be our more important markets. Well, that is not to say that other markets aren't important to us, everyone's important, but we want to focus on those two.") |
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Post by Dr LuKas on Mar 26, 2007 10:22:47 GMT -1
the price bit i get.....but as far as i know i always thought we were down in 3rd on the pecking order behind those 2 when i came to games and the like........didnt the xbox do it to a degree as well? They only released it slightly later here than they did in the US and Japan, everyone does that. But Sony screwed us on 3 things, they released if over here several months after it was released in Japan and the US and it constantly delayed further and further. They've made it so you can only buy it with the largest hard drive instead of having options making it out of reach for the shallow pocketed. Also they've hiked up the price anyway so it's much more expensive in the UK than anywhere else in the world and significantly more expensive in most of Europe than the US and Japan anyway. |
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Post by HURLOCK on Mar 26, 2007 10:27:18 GMT -1
I'm sure they go by market demands, and productivity. And Europe are not as geeky as Asia and America. I'm sure it's that simply.
Makes sense to me - you release something where your going to get the most sales and exposure, thus increasing interest here and then from those sales you go to the second wave and the sales pay for it to
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Post by Neko Bazu on Mar 26, 2007 10:28:18 GMT -1
Anybody have sales figures, I admit I will take some tiny bit of pleasure in seeing Sony fail. I can't give you exact numbers, but I know the Wii outsold the PS3 in the US by 6:1 in their respective launch weeks, and is currently outselling it approximately 2.5:1 on a monthly measure now. The XBox 360 outsold the PS3 in the US almost 2:1 in February. In fact, here's the US February sales figures: Nintendo DS: 485,000 units Nintendo Wii: 335,000 Sony PlayStation 2: 295,000 Microsoft Xbox 360: 228,000 Sony PSP: 176,000 Nintendo Game Boy Advance: 136,000 Sony PlayStation 3: 127,000 Says a lot that the PS2 is outselling the 360, actually |
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Post by Giar on Mar 26, 2007 10:28:36 GMT -1
but on the plus side doesnt that mean that all the weird little gooks have to put up with all the glitches until their sorted and by the time we get it its all green lights from there...... as i said before though im like hurlock so in truth im not fussed in the slightest if they delay it for us, like neko has said before to me there are always import ones if your that desperate |
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Post by Neko Bazu on Mar 26, 2007 10:29:29 GMT -1
I'm sure they go by market demands, and productivity. And Europe are not as geeky as Asia and America. I'm sure it's that simply. Makes sense to me - you release something where your going to get the most sales and exposure, thus increasing interest here and then from those sales you go to the second wave and the sales pay for it to As I said in my post, the US and Europe both sell basically identical quantites - Japan sells fewer but faster. |
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Post by HURLOCK on Mar 26, 2007 10:32:09 GMT -1
I'm sure they go by market demands, and productivity. And Europe are not as geeky as Asia and America. I'm sure it's that simply. Makes sense to me - you release something where your going to get the most sales and exposure, thus increasing interest here and then from those sales you go to the second wave and the sales pay for it to As I said in my post, the US and Europe both sell basically identical quantites - Japan sells fewer but faster. Well volume sales and they're looking after their own I suppose. Why are people concerned with this minor issue! |
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Post by Giar on Mar 26, 2007 10:33:25 GMT -1
because they spend too much time indoors on their consols instead of getting their arses out of the house...... |
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Post by Neko Bazu on Mar 26, 2007 10:33:30 GMT -1
As I said in my post, the US and Europe both sell basically identical quantites - Japan sells fewer but faster. Well volume sales and they're looking after their own I suppose. Why are people concerned with this minor issue! It makes for amusing banter at times  Just look at that original site that was linked to; the guy's got real issues! |
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They physically can't keep up with demand either; imagine if they could! 
Just look at that original site that was linked to; the guy's got real issues!