In an interview with the Financial Times, Sony president Kaz Hirai revealed that he has set a target of 150 million PS3 units sold worldwide. Selling that many units is certainly a lofty goal, but Hirai isn’t referring to shipping that many PS3 in this generation of consoles. He’s going on the assumption that the PS3 will experience the same kind of long-term success that the PS2 is still having.
It’s not fun for me replicating the PS2 numbers. I’ve seen that movie already. I want to try to see if we can exceed the PS2 numbers after nine years, otherwise why are we in this business?
It has taken the PS2 nine years to pull over the 100 million mark, and as we were reminded several times during the Sony press conference at E3 this year, it will only get better whenever Lego Batman hits. Sony is projecting that the PS3 will have a total amount of 22 million consoles sold by the end of the fiscal year, which means that there is definitely room for the console to expand to meet Hirai's target.
At the end of the interview, Hirai also mentioned that he expects 467 billion units of Ridge Racer 7 sold by the end of the week. According the my numbers, the title is only shy a mere 2 billion. If only there was a way to cater to the intergalactic "core" market.
[Thanks, Brian!]
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5:40 PM on 07.20.2008
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Maybe that will happen, but I do doubt it.
This right here though is why Xboxers own and Xbox and PS3 owners own a PS3. From the new stats leaking out PS3 owners tend to be a whole lot older than the Xbox generation. Meaning their dazzled by media, we're dazzled by functionality.
Now that the wii has filled the Kid friendly hole for this generation, and the fact that the ps3 game liabrary mostly consists of games that are aimed at people 15 years of age and older, makes it that much harder for the PS3 to reach that lofty goal. There is simply too narrow a demographic it aims at.
These are the jokes, people, laugh.
That staement is untrue my fellow gamer, if anything the demand for the ps3 is rising considerably, the showing at this years E3 of solid titles will probably perpetuate that demand. Not only that, the monthly sales worldwide are rising gradually. The PS3 will sell well in the future, no doubt about that.
But like Turbo said, 150 mill sold? No, not that much
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ps3 sux
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puppet sux
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i like bacon
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Also, you really should've included a /sarcasm for that ridge racer part...I'm a little worried by some of these comments.
I bought my PS3 for bluray and TBH that is all it gets used for.
I am still waiting for this 'killer' game to come out and blow our minds.
there are still plenty of quality ps2 games i haven't even played yet, so kaz needs to just sit back and chill.
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RIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIDGE RACER
the ps2 had multiple advantages the ps3 will never have and i don't have the strength or the time to elaborate.
If they keep the rate they're selling PS3s high, they could possibly reach that goal. Based on the VGChartz.com numbers for PS2 and PS3 sales, the PS3 is only lagging slightly behind the PS2 right now.
Hell, a price drop down to $299 for the 40GB (if they keep it around or just sell the ones on the market for that price) could bump numbers up ridiculously.
If they scale price down over time instead of dropping in new SKUs at the same prices, they can pull it off.
Also when Bluray player become cheaper than PS3's sales will dip.
Also, once DVD player prices dipped the PS2 wasn't hindered in sales, and after CD player prices dipped and the PS1 wasn't hindered in sales. I think you get the picture.
A little off-topic. With all those games to be released for the PS2 this year, how many of them do you think are actually WORTH playing?
In Sony's case, not only were console sales quite profitable in the past, they were Sony's saving grace for a while. Sony always took a hit in consoles before making it up; this generation the hit's a bit more substantial is all. How much they gain back depends on how long the console stays viable.