PS3 Sale Percentages Surge During Holiday Rush

I had a coupon i printed up online for 20% any ONE item at K-mart and used it and got a 40 gig ps3 for $320. Great deal. Very happy w/ the system. Unlike the xRROD360, ps3 comes with stuff out of the box that Microsoft makes you pay extra to get for the 360, like wireless controller , wifi connection , HDD , ability to play a high def movie format , built in high def connection and free online play. Dislike Sony and their ways all you like , but the Ps3 is a solid gaming console and will do very well once people actually play one and see exactly what they've been missing.

My brother in law just got a PS3 and Heavenly Sword. I can't say I was that impressed. The graphics aren't that wonderful. The shadows were pretty bad in it. Very blocky and had a grainy-ness to them as well. I was expecting to be blown away but seriously, Crysis on Medium at 1024x768 on my PC looks waaaaay better, or Witcher, or CoD4, etc all look much better. The gameplay was awful. I played for about 15 minutes until the bow and arrow part and got extremely frustrated almost instantly. I had to put the controller down before it ended up flying through a closed window at 70mph.

Then my BIL picked up. I watched him try to throw a shield at a stone statue to bounce it off to hit a button or something for like half a fucking hour. We knew exactly what needed to happen, it was just about fucking impossible to time and aim it right with the shitty controls. Every time you miss you have to go raise the stupid fucking statue again which is the completely mindless task of pressing X repeatedly for 10-15 seconds. Sometimes I wonder if some game designers realize that the people they torture with stupid gameplay elements like that are the ones who ultimately pay their wages. No, seriously. Also, seemed like he got gayed a lot from 18 different angles during the fights.

Motorstorm demo was also very boring. Very lame and simplistic gameplay. I was slightly more impressed by the graphics, which were a lot cleaner than Heavenly Sword, but still not mind blowing.

What's 298% of zero?

Sounds impressive - except that it uses percentages instead of actual numbers. 298% of their previous PS3 numbers might still not be as many units as 360's or Wii's (speculating here). I'd bet that the 136% increase for the PSP is still not as many units as the DS moved, for example.

Still, it does look like they price cut had the intended effect - people did go out and get one at that price point.

Sir Howard Stringer: So... is it printing money? :/

Kaz: I don't know? It's still eating the money we're already making. :(

Isn't this kind of irrelevant at this time of year? Its the holidays and each console will sell a lot. To say that your console sales are increasing during the holidays is extremely idiotic. The last time the PS3 sold this well was at launch during the holidays. Notice a trend Sony?

AAHHHH, WATCH OUT FOR THE TROLLS! They be in full stride over this article.

Fake PS3 Hype Surge During Holiday Rush

Interesting numbers.

Were the PS3s still sold out last year for Black Friday, or had people caught on that everyone was just buying them to eBay at that point?

I think this proves that their original philosophy behind the $599 system was a tad flawed. Anyone know what the PS3's sales figures were? If we apply that percentage increase, we should get an approximate number right?

good for Sony, about their increases I mean. The better their sales the more efforts developers will put into expanding the PS3's library, and the more gamers will get to enjoy.

as for what's better then what; they all have issues and they all have benefits, none of the 4 architectures is perfect in terms of gaming (pc/360/ps3/wii). all have good games, all have crappy games. it all depends on the developer and whether they know what they're doing.

Don't console sales always increase by 2-3x from October to November, because of the Christmas shopping season?