October NPD hardware data – Wii sales soar, 360 flattens PS3

Yup. PS3 is f*cked.

eight hundred and three thousand!! This country.

@morriss,

I don’t know why, but I always assumed you lived in Blighty.

I was just mucking around. “This country” is an Alan Partridge quote.

I live in Denmark, actually.

Crazy Nintendo numbers always screwing with my predictions… grumble mumble.

I can’t even imagine how much they’ll do over xmas if the supply is there (and it’s looking like it might be).

@morriss,

Back of the net!

No, SONY is fucked.

Specially since they can’t afford a pricedrop.

To be honest, a price cut early next year for the PS3 is what will save it.

Well, no one is actually fucked.

It’s an extremely expensive piece of kit, and Microsoft markets software VERY well, which in turn with a wondeful price point, is a great deal.

Damage is already done really… but they’re not fucked, they just need to keep doing what they’re doing. Accept that they’re not going to beat the Wii, sure up the finances and limp to the PS4.

If MS can survive the xbox, Sony can survive the PS3 (financially speaking).

NUMBERS!!!!

FAP FAP FAP FAP

Wait I mean /shakes head, well its all over is’nt. Its very sad this, video games about shooting guns and that. My word, I think I might light a candle in my window for Sony.

To be fair, a game about shooting and guns and stuff could save the PS3

BTW, I mean Killzone 2.

No game will save the PS3, unless Sony get their act togther and actually market it.

No offence to the games becuase they are good, and I ahve tried them, but Microsoft doesn’t have rights or contracts to some of the best selling games ever becuase they are the best games ever.

It’s becuase they can hire expert marketing teams.

And more to the point, they hire marketing teams that don’t then leave the advert film along with the car keys locked in the car, spending it’s 5 week airing schedule trying to lockpick the car door with sausages.

No, THAT is what Sony apparently do.

EDIT:

*Wipes off residues of GAF-Hype* KZ2 will be good fun, but NeoGAF hypes shit up.

You noticed that about GAF then Pud?

Everything is “game of the forever” over there. It just depends which thread you’re in.

Ofcourse. It’s happened with so many games.

GTAIV is my favourite example this year. If I wasn’t browsing every second watching GIFs of Euphoriated individuals, I might have seen through the hype.

KillZone 2 looks stunning and fun, and certain individuals at GAF posting as positively as they did, make me confident. But I shan’t board viral hype train just yet, I am happy here on the normal hype train, where I can speak normally without dribbling on other people, and yet be conservatively excited.

EDIT: It’s fun when it actually is as fun as you expected it to be, and leaves you jonesing though.

LOL!

Man 360 raped ps3 this month.

Fuck yeah! And when the pricedrop hits the US we will see even bigger numbers.
BOOOSH!

Overall Sony sold 513k unit of stock. Microsoft sold 371k.

So uhhhh yeah.

Yeah, but Microsoft have better hats! Booyah!

Yeah, Sony must be so pleased about their dead-end console and also-ran handheld sales!

What’s a ‘flagship product’ anyway??

MS got teh Windowz

“Sony must be so pleased about their dead-end console”

Yeah 120m sales and still selling well really does tend to piss you off. Why oh why can’t we just drop it? They must be asking themselves.

Oh wait so its changed from Sony getting battered to the PS3 getting battered because its the lead console?

Ok.

Still Sony sold more than Microsoft.

Sony beat Microsoft.

The PS2 is a dead-end, budget console.

It’s probably the only thing keeping Sony from collapsing spectacularly out of the console hardware business.

However, it will probably be dead within 18 months, and Sony will be forced to shut down PS3 production just like SEGA with the Dreamcast.

haha!

PSP?

Please say its dead aswell. Please. For me.

Also wat happens if Sony does pack it in? Will all gaming sites and comments sections change to trying to kill of the Wii, and if that dies then what then you’ll just stick to playing the same games over and over again? MS conquer the World with no competition and a Windows utopia is created?

“Still Sony sold more than Microsoft.

Sony beat Microsoft.”

You sick fanboy, you!

LOL

PSP?

Also-ran.

DS rules handheld.

tee-hee!

“Sony batters MS” I want to see that next NPD release.

The numbers don’t lie, ask Psycho.

“Also wat happens if Sony does pack it in? Will all gaming sites and comments sections change to trying to kill of the Wii, and if that dies then what then you’ll just stick to playing the same games over and over again? MS conquer the World with no competition and a Windows utopia is created?”

Nah, Apple buys the Playstation brand in its bid to build up its new artificial intelligence development company, ‘Skynet’.

“iNet”

The machines came, they had shiny exoskeletons and white trimmings. They were so painfully hip that no one could survive the attacks.

LOL!!

360?

Also-ran.

Wii rules consoles.

tee-hee!

No man!

360 is the HD king!

AbsoluteZero: Numbers don’t kill people, spindoctors do.

So what we’re saying is: even when Sony wins it loses. I dig that.

Exactly. Sony will never ever win anything ever again. Not even if it does win, it won’t.

Must suck to be them

Sony will win when they give me my PS3 with two HDMI ports, Wifi router and a bunch of AAA games that all run in 1080p @ 60fps that they promised me back at E3 2005.

I also want one of those silver controllers that look like a horse-riders legs in spandex.

Until this happens, Sony wins the FAILwars.

It’s a boomerang, not horse-riders legs in spandex.

Two HDMI ports? Why?

So I play on 2 TVs simultaneously. I’ve always wanted to do that.

“It’s a boomerang, not horse-riders legs in spandex.”

Whatever it is, I want one! They promised me one and I want it even though it looks crap.

“Two HDMI ports? Why?”

I have no idea, but they told me that they were going to put two HDMI ports in every PS3, so I want a PS3 with 2 HDMI ports.

Maybe so that I can play 2 player on 2 screens with only one console, or maybe so I can play Gran Turismo and watch spiderman 3 on Blu-ray at the same time…

I don’t care.

They promised it, so they should release it.

I would have paid big money for that console, but they released some half baked effort instead.

They FAIL!

“No, SONY is fucked.”

Yeah, perhaps they should diversify their business into other sectors as well as gaming, such as consumer electronics, music, film production, publishing, department stores, insurance, and so on.

On no, wait a minu

I literally meant that none of their areas of busines are doing excellently at the moment.