PlayStation 3 enjoys record revenues of $550m in first month of year!
It may have started off slowly due to stock issues and a controversial price, but after the PlayStation brand scored its best January performance ever, the company believes the PS3 is finally out of the gates and picking up momentum in the next-gen showdown.
NPD sales data for January puts the total of PlayStation 3 consoles at 243,554 in North America, helping the PlayStation business record revenues US $550 million (EUR 419m) during the five weeks of the month.
"We are pleased with the numbers from January as they demonstrate overall sales improvements for our legacy systems year over year and continued momentum for PS3," said David Karraker, director of corporate communications for SCEA.
Admitting the issues of restricted supply at retail, Sony believes the channel is finally getting regular stock, and coupled with increased marketing and a strong line-up of titles, the PlayStation brand as a whole is set to rocket in 2007.
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Saif from eXputer inquires, "Despite the everlasting popularity of the genre, why hasn't there been a good AAA horror game in a while now?"
@crow
Did I give away your secret? It's okay, if you sit on your hand and numb it, you can pretend it's her playing with your little stick.
Even when they do it's first person trying to copy Outlast, Five Nights, P.T etc
I think the Dead Space / RE2 / RE4 Remake and the Evil Within 2 showed you can have a good story based, third person survival horror game.
I feel like we haven't had much in the way of horror games for years, I think it became rare after the PS2/PS3 gen. Maybe i'll pick up that Crow Country that recently came out, that looks good.
"In a time when companies don't care about preserving games, I have high respect for the creators of projects like N64: Recompiled." - Hanzala from eXputer.
il beat you to the ski-lift,
framerate on snowboard kids was shocking, do you remember./?
talking of shocking framerate and kart racers style games,
Sony had a gem on ps3, with 'Modnation Racers' but again, framerate was so terrible, still fun though, indeed, when is drifting sideways not fun, the answer is never. we have not seen enough of that game, technically some people made race tracks/games in dreams and little big planet etc, but its just not the same,!!! grrrrr
morning rant over.
here, relive some ,memories. https://www.youtube.com/wat...
The load time on ModNation where also excruciatingly long... But man oh man I wish that game took off more, so much fun! Could turn off garbage rubber banding, I had karts with 100's of stickers to design some crazy cool stuff, custom tracks. Fantastic undeappreciated game
Some food for thought:
Would you donate your physical copy of a really rare/expensive cartridge (Conkers's BFD, Bomberman 64 Second Attack, Ogre Battle 64, the two Castlevania titles, etc) to those managing this project for the greater good of getting them preserved online for all to experience at some point?
As long as it meant they never took money from Patreon and invited a DMCA takedown / lawsuit by Nintendo to take it all away. After seeing the whole debacle with Yuzu I now question how long any of these teams can maintain game preservation efforts through emulator development, or otherwise.
Is it realistically needed though I would not personally give anyone my old carts for games that are already persevered and easily available online
The snippet of ray tracing at the end of the og trailer was low-key amazing. I found out thanks to Nerrel who also made a texture pack for MM, and i can't wait to see how much more great this game will be in the near future. With model swaps, ray tracing, retextures, and a more quicker process than decompilation, it's gonna bring new life to N64 games.
There might need to be a bit of clarification recompilation is not the same as decompilation.
This is basically a container to excite the rom within but allows for all sorts of beat additions and tricks like new lighting effects such as ray tracing to be added.
But decompilation would ultimately be king as it allows for a widespread porting capabilities and uses the assets from games to build a native install for PC or whatever the target system is e.g Mario 64 for PC or sonic mania for psvita / wii
I think these numbers have been reproted a few time now, but always in comparison to xbox and nintendo sales. At least this article focust on sony.
550 mill in sales but remember it costs much more to build the system so around 750 million lost from building systems add to that advertising, psn charges, shipping and so on.
Add to that the profits from software and suddenly the numbers get a little hard to keep track of. Hell, we don't even know how much the system costs to produce any more (lack of follow-ups since November) At least the system is finally taking off after the traditional post holiday-season slump.
"NPD sales data for January puts the total of PlayStation 3 consoles at 243,554 in North America...with the Nintendo Wii shifting 436,000 units and the Xbox 360 selling 294,000 units".
Wow I guess all the system really needs is a compelling game. I recently went to a game stop to ask about the ps3 in terms of sales at the Horton Plaza Mall in San Diego, and a gamestop representative said 2 weeks ago their stock of ps3s were sitting on shelves and then people a week later people wre buying them with VF5 preorders...
I think it's a safe bid that sony fans who aren't yet ready to commit 500-600 bucks untill the games are there, after all we are going to see the biggest jump come this march when GDC kicks off as Sony's next big marketing agenda, with new trailers and demos and full detalis with the european and autrailian releases of the system. it will go global finally.
And with 1.5 million being shipped to europe and possible the same amount going to aussie(maybe a little less) and 30 games most of which are hi profile first and second party titles and some triple A 3rd party games and some not so hot ones amoung the mix, this looks to be the best launch of a sony console in over a decade.
I cant imagine what the sales figures will be like for sony in all 3 major regions especially when over a 3rd of those games are being released simultaneously with U.S australia, and the much coveted Europe, most notably motorstorm, Oblivian, Fear, F1 champ edition, Rainbow six, splinter cell, def jam Icons and NBA homecourt.... man Europe is getting it good.
and then in the month to follow games like AC4 will be in the mix so we'll have plenty to hold us over till the summer months, when bigger titles like Heavenly sword and Lair make there appearance, and Mercenaries 2, and Ut3 grace our shelve and exclusives like coded arm, hit the system.
i must say if all that doesn't get the gamers rattled up then christmas 2007 will be the big push.
2007 is sony's year. i need not say any more
i love hearing the spin from both sides... both microsoft and sony both claim to have been extremely successful in january, but really only nintendo can say that they were truly successful. The wii and ds have sold an incredible number of units... the 360 did well for the month of january (seeing as demand is not nearly as high for it as the wii) but it would have been better for microsoft if lost planet had sold some more units. Their best month will come sometime this spring when they finally get around to a price drop (then again when halo 3 beta/gold come out). The ps3, IMHO, had a fairly lousy month, coming in behind both nex-gen systems. However, despite slow ps3 sales, the ps2 is selling extremely well, and will only be bolstered by the release of GOW2, so Sony can definitely pride themselves on that.
It won't be until this upcoming fall however that the ps3 will begin to really show what its made of, because this spring seems to be dominated by 360 ports (oblivion, rainbow six, splinter cell, fear, homecourt...) but if FFXIII and MGS4... or even killzone 2?... can manage to make a christmas launch then the ps3 will continue to begin to become stronger.
It is going to be a tough road for sony (they will probably make it through just fine) because they must combat the 360's impressive spring line up and the intense demand for the wii...
however, people will vote with their wallets... happy gaming :-D