PS3 Slim's first-week UK sales around 40,000
Chart-Track reported that PlayStation 3 rose 999 percent (exclamation point!) in the week of the PS3 Slim launch, but without some actual context, that's just a crazy-sounding percentage. MCV provides us some (partial) context, estimating that 40,000 PS3 Slims were sold in that period. This also means that a paltry 4,000 (ish) were sold the previous week.
MCV arrived at that number after Sony said that the Slim's launch sales were 20 percent behind those of the PS2 Slim, which sold 50,000 units in its first week in the UK. The estimated percentage of an estimated amount means that the 40,000 number isn't officially official (don't use it as the basis for a chapter in your History of Console Sales book), but it shouldn't be that far off. And that number doesn't include however many PS3 Hefties were purchased.
Compare this "drastic" sales boost to the 7,350 percent bump the Slim caused in Japan. The PS3 went from selling fewer units in Japan than in the UK, to almost four times as many. Now that's a new hardware launch.
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darkrider366Posted:
Look naastey =P, PS3 sux to me =) xbox owns, But ps3 has SOME good features. Excluding Blew-Ray
TTG_Taco_xPosted:
wow tats a lot of PS3 in one week
@Sean if Microsoft would make a slim xbox it would overheat so fast u wouldnt be able to even get into multiplayer on CoD WaW
@Sean if Microsoft would make a slim xbox it would overheat so fast u wouldnt be able to even get into multiplayer on CoD WaW
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