Joseph - look around the net; NPD numbers aren't in yet for the holiday shopping period, it's still way too soon for those, but there has already been solid estimates reported on CNBC. Sony looks like they got close to 1M in the US and should have passed that worldwide.
Blu-ray has the hardware out there, but whether the PS3 buyers will swing the disc sales enough will remain a mystery for a few years. Blu-ray is poised to win, but who knows - more support and disc space might not be enough if the price of players remain too high. Here's to hoping for more features on discs, lower prices stand alone players, and quality transfers that are worth the upgrade.
quote - "Sony looks like they got close to 1M in the US and should have passed that worldwide."
REPLY - You know, why is it that people would rather speculate than read verified industry reports. This poster states the above, yet it's well-known that ONLY two countries in the entire world have PS3's for sale: USA and JAPAN.
That's it! Nowhere else! Sony has repeatedly said that they cannot produce enough units for world-wide supply, and that the other major market (Europe) will not get any units until (at least) March, or even longer!
So much for your "worldwide" sales. Again, I trust the Wall Street Journal's numbers. And as of this past week, they have reported a low number for "actual" USA sales (around 200,000+), and Sony already said that Japan only received around 100,000 units at the lauch date.
All of those Sony promises for USA supply - "6 million, 2 million, 1 million, even the 400,000" - all were bogus according to the WSJournal's reporting.
Now, you add the occasional re-supplies over the last 6 weeks [thousands of units at a time, $hipped via air freight from Asia], and it's still impossible for Sony to have produced anywhere close to 1 million PS3's as 1/7/07!!!
Yes, it WILL happen with time, into the future. But put the prior Press Release estimates in the trash, and look at REAL SALES numbers, as reported by industry sources, and reputed news sources... like the Wall Street Journal.
PS3/Blu-ray is nothing but continued RED INK for Sony's finanical future, with analysts predicting that Sony will not see any profit to well into 2009-2010 at the EARLIEST.
Sony has already spent more than 1 BILLION on this technology - again, this was previously reported back in October.
quote - "Sony looks like they got close to 1M in the US and should have passed that worldwide."
REPLY - You know, why is it that people would rather speculate than read verified industry reports. This poster states the above, yet it's well-known that ONLY two countries in the entire world have PS3's for sale: USA and JAPAN.
That's it! Nowhere else! Sony has repeatedly said that they cannot produce enough units for world-wide supply, and that the other major market (Europe) will not get any units until (at least) March, or even longer!
So much for your "worldwide" sales. Again, I trust the Wall Street Journal's numbers. And as of this past week, they have reported a low number for "actual" USA sales (around 200,000+), and Sony already said that Japan only received around 100,000 units at the lauch date.
All of those Sony promises for USA supply - "6 million, 2 million, 1 million, even the 400,000" - all were bogus according to the WSJournal's reporting.
Now, you add the occasional re-supplies over the last 6 weeks [thousands of units at a time, $hipped via air freight from Asia], and it's still impossible for Sony to have produced anywhere close to 1 million PS3's as 1/7/07!!!
Yes, it WILL happen with time, into the future. But put the prior Press Release estimates in the trash, and look at REAL SALES numbers, as reported by industry sources, and reputed news sources... like the Wall Street Journal.
PS3/Blu-ray is nothing but continued RED INK for Sony's finanical future, with analysts predicting that Sony will not see any profit to well into 2009-2010 at the EARLIEST.
Sony has already spent more than 1 BILLION on this technology - again, this was previously reported back in October.
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Joseph - look around the net; NPD numbers aren't in yet for the holiday shopping period, it's still way too soon for those, but there has already been solid estimates reported on CNBC. Sony looks like they got close to 1M in the US and should have passed that worldwide.
http://www.joystiq.com/2007/01/02/preliminary-xbox-360-wins-holiday-sales-battle/
Blu-ray has the hardware out there, but whether the PS3 buyers will swing the disc sales enough will remain a mystery for a few years. Blu-ray is poised to win, but who knows - more support and disc space might not be enough if the price of players remain too high. Here's to hoping for more features on discs, lower prices stand alone players, and quality transfers that are worth the upgrade.
quote - "Sony looks like they got close to 1M in the US and should have passed that worldwide."
REPLY - You know, why is it that people would rather speculate than read verified industry reports. This poster states the above, yet it's well-known that ONLY two countries in the entire world have PS3's for sale: USA and JAPAN.
That's it! Nowhere else! Sony has repeatedly said that they cannot produce enough units for world-wide supply, and that the other major market (Europe) will not get any units until (at least) March, or even longer!
So much for your "worldwide" sales. Again, I trust the Wall Street Journal's numbers. And as of this past week, they have reported a low number for "actual" USA sales (around 200,000+), and Sony already said that Japan only received around 100,000 units at the lauch date.
All of those Sony promises for USA supply - "6 million, 2 million, 1 million, even the 400,000" - all were bogus according to the WSJournal's reporting.
Now, you add the occasional re-supplies over the last 6 weeks [thousands of units at a time, $hipped via air freight from Asia], and it's still impossible for Sony to have produced anywhere close to 1 million PS3's as 1/7/07!!!
Yes, it WILL happen with time, into the future. But put the prior Press Release estimates in the trash, and look at REAL SALES numbers, as reported by industry sources, and reputed news sources... like the Wall Street Journal.
PS3/Blu-ray is nothing but continued RED INK for Sony's finanical future, with analysts predicting that Sony will not see any profit to well into 2009-2010 at the EARLIEST.
Sony has already spent more than 1 BILLION on this technology - again, this was previously reported back in October.
quote - "Sony looks like they got close to 1M in the US and should have passed that worldwide."
REPLY - You know, why is it that people would rather speculate than read verified industry reports. This poster states the above, yet it's well-known that ONLY two countries in the entire world have PS3's for sale: USA and JAPAN.
That's it! Nowhere else! Sony has repeatedly said that they cannot produce enough units for world-wide supply, and that the other major market (Europe) will not get any units until (at least) March, or even longer!
So much for your "worldwide" sales. Again, I trust the Wall Street Journal's numbers. And as of this past week, they have reported a low number for "actual" USA sales (around 200,000+), and Sony already said that Japan only received around 100,000 units at the lauch date.
All of those Sony promises for USA supply - "6 million, 2 million, 1 million, even the 400,000" - all were bogus according to the WSJournal's reporting.
Now, you add the occasional re-supplies over the last 6 weeks [thousands of units at a time, $hipped via air freight from Asia], and it's still impossible for Sony to have produced anywhere close to 1 million PS3's as 1/7/07!!!
Yes, it WILL happen with time, into the future. But put the prior Press Release estimates in the trash, and look at REAL SALES numbers, as reported by industry sources, and reputed news sources... like the Wall Street Journal.
PS3/Blu-ray is nothing but continued RED INK for Sony's finanical future, with analysts predicting that Sony will not see any profit to well into 2009-2010 at the EARLIEST.
Sony has already spent more than 1 BILLION on this technology - again, this was previously reported back in October.