At the Sony Electronics press conference at CES today, Kaz Hirai announced that this past holiday season was the most successful holiday for the PlayStation 3.
What that means is that following the last week of November, over 3.8 million units were sold worldwide. Sony is saying that's a 76% increase over the previous year, no doubt partly in fact due to the introduction of the slim PS3 model, along with the console's price drop.
According to Hirai, 1.7 million of the 3.8 million were sold in North America alone. Were you among one of those new adopters? If so, what took you so long? Was it the price drop, the size drop, or the games?
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7:14 PM on 01.06.2010
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Buy a PS2 slim, I got one for 29.99 factory refurbished from the Sony store, and for an extra 4 dollars they gave me a year warranty on it.
I had already established 4 years of friendships, relationships and reputation on XBox 360 and I felt that anything near $600 was just a greedy way to pass off the cost of the movie-format war onto gamers. That and the number of exclusives I was interested in I could count on one hand.
and i still dont care about any xbox game to justify the buying of it.
Plus many xbox "exclusives" end up on PC eventually.
They killed BC what... 2 years ago? Give over it. You've had more than enough time to buy an older BC unit for yourself if it really means that much to you.
At least come up with something creative. We've been hearing this same rhetoric for ages now. The only reason to have BC in the first place is to convince people to buy the new system when there aren't a lot of games for it. Buying a PS3 for PS2 BC at this point is like buying a Blu-Ray player to watch DVDs.
Mine plays PS2 games. So I guess this means that some PS3's really do everything, eh?
Finally I was able to play Uncharted and...well...everything else that I was missing...
I scoured the Earth to find a good-condition 60GB launch model. It does EVERYTHING...that I wanted a PlayStation 3 to do.
Those BC PS3s are wicked easy to find. They are all fucking over Craigslist. I can't find a decently priced Slim to save my life. It's all 60GB PS3s.
Plus, I bought my PS2 a very short while before ITS first price drop, so after having waited so much time for the PS3, I could wait a little longer to not be made the sap again :)
And the millions, possibly billions of dollars on games sold easily makes up for that.
If the PS2 BC actually does less than my original PS2, then I just couldn't even consider spending an extra $100 on something that I can already do.
I know Japanese PS2 games don't factor into any else's decisions, but the point still stands - Why pay more for something you can already do? Unless you don't already have a PS2, in which case... wow.
Eh, I play PS2 games on a big-ass TV, and it looks fine. Better than fine for some games. Sengoku Basara X on the PS2 almost puts BlazBlue on the PS3 to shame.
Oh, and the PS3 does not do everything. I tried xbox discs, wii discs, saturn discs, and even a dreamcast disc. nothing worked. (the dreamcast disc actually made the PS3 turn off completly)
I did buy a PS3 Slim, actually. I only bought it because I found somebody willing to buy my old PS3 for $200, and I thought I may as well buy the newer, more reliable Slim with all the Best Buy gift cards I accumulated.
This was mainly because I wanted a fresh two-year warranty from Best Buy - the form factor had nothing to do with it, unless we count that the new build has better air flow (thus, more likely to last longer) based on Ben Heck's dissection of it.
A jar of meatballs, people.
That is the most awesome house ever.
Hehe, I'm surprised so many people are still going after it. My console is in almost perfect condition, never really had any problems with it. I've also added 250GBs to it, just to make it THAT much better. The only real issue is that my controllers are starting to 'age' and it shows.
As far as the BC goes, I've had it since launch and I have yet to use it once. Quite honestly, with all the amazing new PS3 games out now, I just can't sit around and re-play the same outdated games I've played and beaten several times before. Nor do I really have the need to rent or repurchase last-gen titles.
While I do agree it'd be nice if new buyers could have BC and memory sticks, you can still swap out hard drives on the slim.
now id do anything for a slim. i find it...sexy. gahh what to do what to do
And oh, my PS2 memory card is even STRONGAAAAR.
Perhpas I should buy a PS3 and just pretend that the internet doesn't exist.
*I'm aware that Xbox fanboys are a bunch of cuntmuppets too, but I got my Xbox before I started frequenting game forums and was therefore unaware. I still don't think Xbox fanboys are as bad as PS3 fanboys, anyway. They are more antagonistic pisstakers, whilst the PS3ers are precious little princesses with foul mouths.
Price drop
Motion Control
PS1,PS2 and Dreamcast emulation
CoD MM2
Resonace of Fate
Resident Evil5 Gold Edition
Final Fantasy 14
GT5
WiFi
1080p BluRay
Uncharted 2 was a definite surprise for me!
Happy Now
...because we all had really strong collections of dvd's and ps2 games that arent immediately irrelevant because a new piece of technology is released?