PSN outage results in 200% PS3 trade-in increase
Our sources indicate a growing trend of PS3 consoles being traded in for cash or Xbox 360s, slumping sales of PSN points cards and a shift in the ratio of multiplatform game sales and pre-orders away from PS3.
“In the first week of downtime we did not really see any major change in sales or trades,” says one source, a store manager at a major UK retailer speaking on condition of anonymity. “However from the second week onwards we have seen an increase of over 200 per cent on PS3 consoles being traded in, split almost 50/50 between those trading for cash and those taking a 360 instead.”
Another source, working for an independent retailer in the South West, said he had seen a “massive increase” in the volume of PS3s traded in in recent weeks, with most exchanging for an Xbox 360. He describes those trading in their PS3s as “the hardcore online shooter crowd” – players who spend most of their gaming time playing the same game online, and who are therefore greatly impacted by the outage.
Tom Mestdagh, of Belgian indie Gameswap – the only retailer we spoke to happy to go on the record - agrees. “At the end of each month people come to sell their consoles,” he tells us. “People that need money [to pay bills]. What’s different this time around is that that they are bringing in PS3s together with all their games and they don’t want money, they want an Xbox 360. In every case it is because of Black Ops and or Modern Warfare 2.
“We’re just ten days into the month and already we have an increase of 200 per cent in PS3s coming into the store compared to all of March. Normally we sell them really fast, but not this time. We’ve only sold 30 to 40 per cent of our inventory right now.”
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-DynastyPosted:
i love how they say hardcore players, will whatever i have an xbox so id really know what to say.
zZTrUeKiNgZzPosted:
this is so stupid, you can still play games just not on line,this is why people that have ps3 should get a fallout game or some other single player oriented game until psn is back up,besides,this is exactly why i have both systems so that if one breaks or the online servers go down, i play the other one. i still play my ps3 more cuz i got brink. besides, this study comes from the U.K. , so that explains why it is so over rated
TTGxWalkerPosted:
hahahaha that suck for people that dont have both consoles like me i play the ps3 for mods and i play the xbox 360 for the gameing
AdsByYahooJrPosted:
XboxSinneriBenjaminAre you really that stupid? Anonymous is anyone there is no official website i could of done it and called my self anonymous and then anonymous would be responsible.InFluenz Oh boy i love anonymous ;D
It wasnt Anoymous :L .. They said said in their blog, It was a 19yr old boy named Ryan.
Anoymous even posted on their website that they had nothing to do with the psn hacking this time.
Apparently, Though, the hacker/hackers placed a file in the Sony servers to frame anoymous.
Lol yeah anon is everyone
itzdajok3r330Posted:
KishinTrix What the outage has showed me is that free isn't always the best quality especially when quality hasn't been assured. Xbox fan for life
Yea i agree i knew this from the get go. You think sony is gonna fork out the cash to make PSN as good as Xbox for free. WRONG! I've been a Xbox fan and will stay an Xbox fan! And sony should have left the hackers alone do what xbox does patch it and move on! What are they gonna really get out of prosecuting one guy nothing, a waste of time and money.
ZerkosPosted:
iBenjaminAre you really that stupid? Anonymous is anyone there is no official website i could of done it and called my self anonymous and then anonymous would be responsible.InFluenz Oh boy i love anonymous ;D
It wasnt Anoymous :L .. They said said in their blog, It was a 19yr old boy named Ryan.
Anoymous even posted on their website that they had nothing to do with the psn hacking this time.
Apparently, Though, the hacker/hackers placed a file in the Sony servers to frame anoymous.
iBenjaminPosted:
InFluenz Oh boy i love anonymous ;D
It wasnt Anoymous :L .. They said said in their blog, It was a 19yr old boy named Ryan.
Anoymous even posted on their website that they had nothing to do with the psn hacking this time.
Apparently, Though, the hacker/hackers placed a file in the Sony servers to frame anoymous.
iBenjaminPosted:
Im a PS3 User myself, But what did they expect?..
Keeping ps3 down for a loooong time, People gonna keep their console and wait, they bought this upon themselves.
Keeping ps3 down for a loooong time, People gonna keep their console and wait, they bought this upon themselves.
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