Archive for November, 2006
PlayStation 3 sells 88,400 units
Saturday, November 11th, 2006Enterbrain reported PlayStation 3 launch sales figures today. 88,400 units were sold, with the 60GB model comprising a majority of sales. 54,600 units were of the 60GB model and 33,800 units of the 20GB model were sold. This compares favorably against the Xbox360 last year, which launched to lackluster sales of 62,135 units.
Wii pre-order craziness
Thursday, November 9th, 2006Shibuya Tsutaya started their Wii pre-orders today, opening the store at the regular time of 10am, and selling out of pre-orders by lunchtime. The time taken to process the orders was ridiculous, but it looks like they’ve taken somewhere between 250-300 pre-orders today.
PS3 launch in four days
Tuesday, November 7th, 2006Since Ridge Racer 7 is the main launch game I’m interested in, I’d like to take a look at the correlation between Ridge Racer and PlayStation brand today. Every PlayStation launch has seen a Ridge Racer title - it’s tradition. For each launch, Ridge Racer has always been the highest selling game of the launch [...]
PS3 launch in five days
Monday, November 6th, 2006It doesn’t really feel like the PS3 is coming out this Saturday. There hasn’t been a bombardment of TV ads until today; there wasn’t a demo unit in Akihabara when I went on Saturday (it turns out they all got installed on Sunday instead); and there’s still no price info about the games that we [...]