37 000 PS3 slim sold in France in the first week

Google traslator 'The PS3 Slim, as it should be called even if Sony refuses to use that name, passed its oral big last week, arriving on 1 September, officially and simultaneously in Japan, the United States and Europe. And the success has been the appointment. Sales of the console have indeed been increased by nearly ten days spent in France, with 37,000 copies sold of which 12,000 in the last weekend, according to information collected by this Monday latribune.fr. It ranks as "far ahead of other consoles," says one Sony France'

[corywebb93]

thats almost as much ps3s sony sells in 2 months

[lokiroo420]

Much like your 360, your jokes need to be sent in for repair.

[NegativeCreep427]

You can't even begin to comprehend the Playstation 3's rise in the gaming console market.

Fanboys never apply, so you can just go f*ck your mattress and leave everyone else alone with their logical assumptions!!!

[Milky]

So 1 week of sales from UK + France alone = 77,000

Dayum.

[Time Lord]

Success

[leila01]

Damn you Time Lord, I wanted to post that pick. LMAO

Yeah Sony owns France.

I'll post this one instead ;)

[-x.Red.x-]

It begins

http://i26.tinypic.com/2dl5...

[chaosatom]

here is what will happen.

[Jamaicangmr]

This gif is the one of the funiest ones i've seen. Sh!t i wish i could give you 2 bubbles. Got my teared up laughing.

[Hercules]

ROFL!!! sony is a smooth crimnal

[ultimolu]

Holy crap, Sony's taking names and kicking bootie. :0

[QSPR]

damn you sony, now I need to talk with greenturd.... we need to dump the xbox 360 and make a new console with: blu-ray,bluetooth,wireless,and a hard drive.................. oh wait that's the PS3.. dammmmmm we lost this... sniff sniff..j/k guys..

this is grate,that's mean in 4 weeks sony can sell 2 millions units.. so the gap.. you know the rest ;)

[Marceles]

http://i29.tinypic.com/vzyc...

[Nelson M]

Le Poo Poo

[Sunny_D]

Bonjouir, OMG LOL . OWNED! That's a real joke Cory.

[TheTruth89]

bubble!

[thedisagreefairy]

but are these numbers good?

i dont think ive ever seen the monthly charts for france or britain for that matter to know what the average is for these countries.

[leila01]

Well it went from 3k/week to 37k in 6 days, so I'd say yes, the numbers are "Gud".

[SuperM]

Well there is a significant difference between monthly charts and weekly charts. With these kinds of numbers each week they would sell more PS3s in france then they did in the entire US the last couple of months. So its safe to say that when a single european country outsells the entire US then the sales are good.

[The Wood]

remember sarcasm

Time Lord

lol @ pic

[cmrbe]

vg pulled out of their ass is not correct. Its hard for me to believe that there are only 350k PS3 sold first week outside of Japans official 150k sales. Thats like only 175k for pal regions and 175k for NA.

I think it closer to 700k first week. Hope there will be more official figures soon.

[FlatulentGhost]

The fake vgchartz number is nothing more than the lowest number they could come up with and still try to be believable.

Standard operating procedure for that garbage site.

[raztad]

@cmrb

Agree. I already made a comment in the lines in the article about the 500K Ps3 slim sold from VGchartz. Japan alone is contributing with more than 150K, in fact probably Japan is closer to 200K than famitsu numbers show. We need to wait for Media Create to know for certain.

USA numbers seem way to low and no to mention the Slim was already selling before 09/01 in several retailers.

[badz149]

who's taking that site seriously anyway? you really believe you can track sold products to the very single units? even respected sources like NPD, Chart Track and Media create are rounding their numbers to the hundreds and that is with proper tracking! don't even try to trust vgchartz!

[DEADEND]

Normally the PS3 doesn't even sell that much in Japan, so Sony is doing really good with the slim.

[Mr Bean Laden]

well you look at that, PS3 Trumping the flopbox yet again

[Tee7soo]

i don't know of this a good news
is it ?

[Sunny_D]

From 3,000 a week to 37,000 a week. Good?

[FlipMode]

Hell yes.

[table]

to put things into perspective, the ps3 has been averaging around 120,000 per month in US(and canada?) most of this year. So if France is doing 40,000 in a week then it would proportionatly sell 160,000 in a month with a population 1/5 the size of the US. I know this is hypothetical but it gives you an idea of the scale the slim is selling at.

[Godmars290]

(Yeah, you know you all wanted to say it... :p )

[mrv321]

That's unfair, that makes out that France thought back against the Wii and 360, well in effect they just surrended the most to the PS3.

[Godmars290]

Don't they teach you people history anymore?

[Gambit07]

On aime çà, la playstation trois.

[K-man00]

the money Sony lost on their sku they are going to make up for it in sw sales. everywhere there are a huge software sales that accompanies the PS3 slim sales.

[JonnyBigBoss]

C'est tres bonne. A votre sante.

[Sir Ken_Kutaragi]

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[MGOelite]

not bad for the worse country ive ever been to (i hate france lol the traffic wouldnt even pull over for an ambulance with its siren on... arrogant arsewholes)

[dkgshiz]

France sucks. Every time Ive encountered a French person in an airport. They always act like there the almighty of the airport. I think Michael Moore should move to France. If you seen his documentary Sicko. You will know hes a French fanboy. I suppose he would never move to France or any other country. He loves his burgers and pizza too much.

[Wereturd]

gj France.

[Veneno]

Where has that dork been anyway?

[table]

hopefully he didn't take my suggestion of suicide to seriously... seems like all the 360 trolls have been away slitting their wrists as of late. The sales card was their final throw of the dice.

[dkgshiz]

Actually it dominates everywhere in Europe except the UK.

[Danja]

This comes as no surprise to me the PS brand has always done well in France...

Good figures hears to hoping sales remain consistent.

[hakis86]

Still, I can't wait until October till we see the official NPD data for the whole of September

[hakis86]

@feral below: I understand. didn't take your bubble actually :)

[Feral Gamer]

Funny, because I've heard that France doesn't have official numbers. I could be wrong though, in which case I apologize.

[hakis86]

Why the hell are you reporting this story??

- bubble man

[Feral Gamer]

Sorry if I feel the story should be in English. I've seen translated stories on here, but I don't read French. BTW I removed my report so you can give me back my bubble.

[kaz-hirai]

From the sales figures its clear that not just the EU but all of Europe recognizes the Sony & PlayStation brand with its superior form of entertainment and soon to be dwelling more into 3D gaming. The world has come to realize again that Sony and PlayStation brand is the only company that can offer true entertainment to the masses ;-D !!!!!

[-MoOkS-]

I find it sad that sony had to re-launch the ps3 just because the original was doing so terrible.

[Sibs]

Fixing the public image by improvement is better than lying to the public and bribery. Just sayin'.

[ultimolu]

I find it sad that you're a douchebag.

[patterson]

So true.

bubble +1

[starcb26]

I find it sad you think the xbox 360 is better than the ps3

[Pizzagaki]

Congrats, but lets see how long it lasts.
Its gonna be quit a fight this xmas.

Are there any reports in yet about the 360?

[Half-Mafia]

the PS3 has always been the console to have in france. when i went over there last year there was about 2/3 of the shops full of PS3 shelf space

[Sangria]

Title: "Playstation 3 sales multiplied by 10 in France"

"The new version of Sony's console just started like a rocket. According to our informations, sales have been multiplied by nearly ten in France. It also has registered its best sale week in Japan. The price drop is certainly not a foreigner to this success."

"And if PS3 signed its comeback? Long time being undisputed leader on the market, with its two first consoles (PSone and PS2), Sony clearly have missed PS3's launch and let the leadership to Nintendo and their Wii. Even worse, it was harder and harder for the japanese company to compete with Microsoft's Xbox 360 on the "next gen" side, especially on the American market.

Determined to go back on track, Sony came back to the offensive. Firstly at E3, the big annual video game event which took place in early June at Los Angeles. As a result: plenty of games and exclusivities for PS3. Second step: GamesCom at Cologne in mid-August where the japanese electronics giant hit even harder (despite most of those announcements were already leaked) announcing a new PS3 model, slimmer and smaller. And especially a price cut, from 399 euros to 299 euros in Europe and from 399 dollars to 299 dollars in USA.

The PS3 Slim, like everyone call it even if Sony refuse to use that name, began its first steps last week, officially releasing in Japan, Europe and USA the 1st September. And the success was here. PS3 sales have indeed been multiplied by nearly 10 last week in France, with 37.000 sold units including 12.000 for last week-end, according to informations gathered by LaTribune.fr . PS3 take place "far beyond the other consoles", indicate Sony France.

In Japan, PS3 recorded the best sales week of its history, with 150.832 sold untis according the the study center Enterbrain. Only 14.862 was sold during the whole August month, including 1.040 for the last week of August (potential buyers were probably holding there purchase).

Number one in sales in Japan, PS3 made the same performance in United Kingdom, a market traditionnally favorable to Sony's consoles. Here again, numbers speak by themselves: a progression of 999% from a week to another, according to the center ChartTrack. For the very first time since its launch on the UK ground, PS3 take the first place of the most sold consoles. Behind, the Xbox 360, which benefited of a price cut too, displays a 29% progression on the same period but sold 3 times less than its rival.

Finally, in USA, last week numbers are not available yet. But a first glimpse let think that the PS3 Slim start is great as well. During the week from 23rd to 29th August, PS3 saw its sales doubling, from 37.167 to 75.931 units, according to the numbers published by VGChartz, while the Slim model wasn't officially released. Thus, it took the place right from of Xbox 360 and Wii, usually above the PS3.

Even if we still should wait some weeks, and especially Christmas holidays, to confirm that trend, Sony seems to forge ahead, taking the fruits of a speech and a politic clearly oriented to the offensive. The group doesn't hesitate to invest much money up to their ambitions: a massive ad campaign, for a record amount of 94 millions of euros, according to the Guardian, will follow the PS3 Sim release until the end of the year.

The ball is now on the opposing side. Microsoft already riposted with a Xbox 360 price cut. Nintendo may need to react anytime soon as Wii sales are currently panting all over the world."

Because usually Google translations are not totally clear.

[starcb26]

wooooo I just saw my first ps3 slim ad

[SnukaTheMan]

anything under 100k is a flop..cmon now....france is suppose to be a ps3 stronghold...now all of a sudden 77k for one week is great...man the wii alone does those numbers in others week after week.

[Ravage27]

Why don't you get a PS3 like what everyone is doing??

[SnukaTheMan]

Im patiently waiting for ps4 or ps3 5.0...then at least I know sony fixes their mistakes they made with the ps3.

[Ravage27]

fyi both M$ & Nintendo screwed up majorly too, Sony definitely isn't alone. But the difference is that Sony actually takes active steps to rectify/reverse their mistakes, and as you can see, it's starting to pay off :)

[SnukaTheMan]

Problem is I purchased the first out of the gate xbox 360 and have experienced rrod 3 times out of 2 machines...the problem is I have one headache and why get another one...Nintendo screwed up by forgetting their past and bring such loved games as punch out and kid icarus out late to the party.

"But the difference is that Sony actually takes active steps to rectify/reverse their mistakes"

you dont think microsoft losing a billion dollars on giving that 3 year warranty on RROD's is trying to rectify their mistakes...I have to put up with rrod and play the best of the multiplatform games or buy into the ps3 with all their problems and mistakes and inherit another console with problems. Ill stick with the wii and xbox for now.