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PS3's French Debut- A Total Disaster: 95% of Consoles Left Unsold

Oh, Sony, Sony where art thou? Europe apparently doesn't want Sony's expensive PlayStation 3, with the French organizers describing the Paris launch of the PS3 a "non-event".

As expected, Sony fans here in Europe turned out to be not so "true-blue" to their favorite brand, some of them starting to bash Sony for its "infatuation" and for the high price established in the PAL areas for the PS3.

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bigmack6251d ago

Its like this website (N4G) hates the PS3. All i see is BASH after BASH.
whats up with this website man. are you all sony haters...geez

BIadestarX6251d ago

This site hates the PS3? Ohh it is no hate, it's fact. They PS3 didn't sell how do you want to spin that? If you are not convinced. Try other sites like joystiq and kotaku... ohh wait.. they are reporting the same thing.

Kyur4ThePain6250d ago

Funny, I read just the opposite on this very same site.

sabbath4206250d ago

These are the facts buddy. Sony keeps screwing there public, the true gamers umongst them are finding it harder and harder to justify the lies and false hopes from sony. france got screwed and they are letting sony know they don't like it. I thought Americans had more spine then the French.

nix6250d ago

but yeah... more people likes to talk bad about it. i was just reporting the news and i like PS3. if i hadn't someone else anyway would have.

one good thing about this site is we have good numbers of PS3 supporters who are level-headed.

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i rule6251d ago

And i want to see the sony fanboys spin this one into a positive

fjtorres6251d ago (Edited 6251d ago )

"Its just the French! What do they know!" ;-)
They like Citroens and Jerry Lewis!

benihya6250d ago

Ubi Soft is french, so that make the french pro gamer like US and UK

VirtualGamer6251d ago (Edited 6251d ago )

The only one guilty of spin is the writer of the article. He headlines PS3 launch a disaster 95% of Consoles Left Unsold. Well its accuarate if you take only the numbers that where sold at the one location 50 out of 1000, if those are to believed. However he did say another location sold under 300 so thats what 20 to 30% depending on the actual number. Not to mention with everyone know how many systems where available and all the preorders why would anyone show up at midnight ravinous to get one when they can simply go in the next day and pick one up? Lets wait till the offical sales numbers come out before resorting to sensational headlines clearly distorting the facst only to drive trafic to your website so you can make money :P

Merovee6251d ago

Unlike every other system release including Sony's stateside / JPN release the was a crapload of them. Most people who were going to get them just preordered and picked them up instore.

Be hard to have 95% left if 60% of the countries allocation was preordered wouldn't it:

http://www.next-gen.biz/ind...

Chalk it up to shoddy journalism.

anthonsh6251d ago (Edited 6251d ago )

I'm sorry to say it, but although this article is a little harsh, at the same time, I dont think its harsh because the writer hates Sony. I think its harsh because he was so disappointed at the poor turnout. I had a feeling the Eurpoean launch wouldnt be the resounding success that everyone was predicting. After all, who could be happy having to wait like that? And with the bad news about the console, I have a feeling a lot of people just didnt wait. Even with "bad sales" though, this will help Sony close the gap, although maybe not as much as they had hoped.

Edit: I'd like to add, it isnt unreasonable to quote the numbers from the launch near the Eiffle tower, right? I mean, that had to be their flagship launch in France.

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Fallout 4 Xbox Series X|S Review | TheXboxHub

Richard writes: "Now was the right time to release the Fallout 4 Xbox Series X|S update. It just could have been more."

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anast22h ago(Edited 22h ago)

They aren't going to give more. We are talking about a company that has rereleased an 13 year old game at least 5 times.

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Senua's Saga: Hellblade II, Homeworld 3, and More Exciting Games Coming Out in May

Things are heating up in May a bit with Senua's Saga: Hellblade II, the Paper Mario TTYD remake, and a ton of promising indies. We pick the most interesting May games, from AAA to indie, so you can make sense of everything coming out.

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shinoff21831d 10h ago (Edited 1d 10h ago )

Doesn't seem to be that bad of a month. Got a bit of something for everyone.

Please do not support braid anniversary edition. Don't support Phil phish, he's a very despicable person, a a cry baby.

One example

https://youtu.be/yKUGwlFJAH...

Tacoboto1d 10h ago

Wrong developer. Phil Phish was the developer behind Fez.

Jonathan Blow was behind Braid. If you're gonna cancel culture, don't take down the wrong indie...

CrimsonWing691d 1h ago

Man, I don’t know why, but it also irks me when people try to tell others what to do. Fez was an awesome game, I couldn’t care less if the dev was a douche.

This is just extra cringe since the person actually doesn’t know what they’re talking about 🤦‍♂️

remixx11617h ago

Welcome to the internet crimson

shinoff218310h ago(Edited 10h ago)

I wasn't cancel culturing shit. Phil phish is a complete douche. Did you bother to watch the video? Probably not.

I was wrong but call me cancel culture is just plain dumb also

Also crimson.

As you I'm human and we make mistakes. That was a mistake I mixed the games up. Shit happens. So go cringe yourself

Honest mistake, if you can watch that video and support the guy. Then I guess your in the same camp

Tacoboto9h ago

You were wrong and that's that. Don't be so angry.

And yeah, that is a case example of cancel culture. It was a dozen years ago, he's apologized since, had Japanese developers rationalize with his remark, barely has done anything in the industry since Fez, and yet here you are, not even remembering the one game he made...

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Keoken Interactive lays off majority of team after failing to find funding at GDC

Deliver Us Mars developer Keoken Interactive has laid off the majority of its staff after struggling to secure funding …

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mastershredder1d 13h ago

The industry model and standards and who's in place to approve/disapprove have changed ^ what Keoken is feeling now is much like the Mobile burst 15 years ago. Expect more to come out of your own finances. Investors are treating games like movies and now (thank$ a lot for involving yourself hollywood) only the big (and money blind) investors get involved, effectively killing a lot of content that would come out with proper non-gate-kept and/or with incentivized funding.

Markdn1d 13h ago

And when you only make a fraction of your games worth on gamepass you suffer

Tacoboto1d 10h ago

Palworld and Manor Lords are so suffering.

RiseNShine1d 2h ago (Edited 1d 2h ago )

Sorry but i couldn't care less, Deliver us Mars was as woke game as they come, climate change disaster, all female cast plus only a comic relief indian guy (it takes only 5 minutes into the game for the main female character to say how smart she is compared to the guy), evil white guys, ugly females, then add generic gameplay and puzzles (how many times do you have to cut things with a laser for gods sake), you can't change anything in how the events develop so 0 agency in the story, sub par graphics even while using UE4. So well, go woke go broke, that's how it works.

Miacosa22h ago(Edited 22h ago)

That stinks but with a 68 average critic rating on their games probably made it difficult for people to invest considering there is a bloat of games getting made these days.

ROCKY2818h ago

You guys will be back with team strength and funding !