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Speaking to videogaming247 at the SCEE PlayStation Day yesterday, SCEE president David Reeves said that the company decided to make an announcement about passing Xbox 360 sales in Europe in the event’s press conference because of previous ill treatment, both from consumers and Microsoft.
“I think the fact that [Microsoft] launched 18 months before… It is significant for us because we get so many things thrown at us, because we were too expensive, we came too late, we didn’t launch early enough in Europe, and Xbox have been saying, ‘Well, we’re doing well and we’re the best the console,’ so we thought, for once we will say, actually, very quietly, ‘We’ve passed them,’” he said.
Reeves announced in the press conference that PS3 sales in Europe are now higher than Xbox 360’s will 5 million units sold.
Read our full coverage of the SCEE PlayStation Day, including all the announcements, media and impressions so far from around the web, here.
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Blerk said:
You think you’ve been mistreated by consumers? When you’re practically taking Europe roughly from behind on price AND kit? To be honest I don’t think you’ve been roasted nearly as much as you should have been, Mr SCEE.
Spiral said:
Indeed. What goes around comes around. And clearly not enough people are mistreating them if they think they can still get away with the gimped hardware they’ve been pushing over here.
Zumi said:
YOU’VE been mistreated?
Will someone please talk to someone at Sony and tell them straight out, to their face, that their treatment of Europe is a shambles? Don’t mince words, or suck up to them. Let them know flat out that they are a fucking joke.
Blerk said:
There’s some lovely anti-SCEE bile around here today. And proper stuff, too – not that weird powdered “360 fanboy troll” stuff.
/bathes
Chinster said:
I passed a big poo and it had whole sweetcorn in it!
pjmaybe said:
Oh the delicious irony. Sony cries because Sony has been mistreated. boo f*****g hoo
Shatner said:
I bought my PS3 last November. It cost me less than the 360 I bought last May.
I don’t have to pay extra to get a charging pack for my controller.
I don’t have to pay extra to go online.
I shopped around. I knew what I was buying. I don’t feel cheated.
Chinster said:
Mine was free so I don’t feel cheated at all