SCEA: PS3 Production 'Running Smoothly'

By Ed Oswald | Published November 22, 2006, 12:06 PM

Despite analyst claims that it would fall short of its shipment goals for the year, Sony said Wednesday that it still plans to ship 1 million PlayStation 3 consoles to the US before the end of the year. The buzz around the console is also creating a halo effect for other products.

In a statement to gaming news Web site gamesindustry.biz, Sony said manufacturing was "now running smoothly" and the company was airlifting consoles in regularly. Sales data indicates that the $599 USD 60GB unit is currently the best selling console.

Resistance: Fall of Man leads the pack as the best-selling PS3 game, followed by Madden NFL '07. The PS3 launch also helped to boost sales of both the PSP and PS2, Sony says, by 30 and 24 percent respectively.

"This truly demonstrates the power of the PlayStation brand and further validates our belief that consumers see real value in an entertainment system that will define the next decade of digital entertainment," Sony Computer Entertainment America corporate communications head David Karraker said.

New consoles arrive in the country weekly, although Sony will not provide data surrounding the number of PS3s available.

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PS3 will own you...neva forget that

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Wow,

Your hip hop style comment is too cool, coming from someone who can't afford a PS3. You must be the CEO of a huge company with those superior language skills.

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Sad...all of u sit here in front of your computers and bash the PS3, Why? If you had any intelligence at all u'd realize all Sony did was create a system years ahead of their time, and what do they get from all of you, Scorn. Anyway in the end all you 360 owners will have to buy an HD-DVD player for your systems because DVD is simply inadequate. Funny how you'll be left with a system that tricked you into believing it was cheaper...and 3 years down the road your system will be obsolete

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I don't bash the PS3, it's a game system. Nothing more. It's not a Blu_Ray movie player like Sony hopes it will be used.

Plus I own one, and only cost Sony $307.00

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Still... Nintendo owns... Nintendo is my life lol

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All of the people who know that HD-DVD is beating the crap out of Blu-Ray in sales will love this:

I was just over at the official Blu-Ray forum looking up some posts by fanboy DaveBG. This guy has made over 364 posts this year, all of them are some link to some story about some idiot making BD predictions six months before you could actually buy a player.

He often refers to the Blu-Ray forum as "our forum". Dave is the true definition of fanboy.

When I started making fun of him and Gillespie in here, I had no idea what a sad, BD fanatic DaveBG actually was. If you have some time to go over there and look up all of the posts made by the user name "Dave".

heres a link to his profile: http://forum.blu-ray.com/member.php?u=1691

This guy lives, eats and breathes Blu_Ray. The same exact posts he makes in here but the BD fanboys are usually agreeing with him because they are also in HD-DVD denial.

I instantly registered over there just to give him a hard time.

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Why do you even bother posting this? You can't be older than 11? Grow up and get a life.

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Why do you care?

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I don't quite understand, how can they claim that the 60gb model is bestselling? Aren't they selling out every console at the moment? In my maybe somewhat small brain that means that they actually can't know for sure which model is the most favourable in the consumer market yet? On the other hand, I do not understand how they even bothered making the 20gb model. If you're paying 500$ for a ps3 (we pay ~850$ for the 60gb in Norway btw), you could just as well add the extra 100$ to get a complete box. Can't see where the market for the 20gb model should be.

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If you want to hear something funny, the display PS3 at my local Best Buy is broken. The unit overheated or something, one of the blue s***s was laughing about it.

Perhaps I should submerge mine in liquid nitrogen when it's on. I heard the 360 is a toaster oven too.

The losers at Sony made sure they put a crap load of BD players in the new Bond Flick, they even showed a tray open and a guy slipped in a Blu_ray disc to look at some security footage.

I guess The needed to look at a couple megs of footage on a 50GB disk.Even the fanboys over at the Blu_Ray forums were calling it an 2 hour Sony commercial with explosions and girls.

The Blu-Ray display has had the same ten players for weeks. There are a few "open box" BD players as well, I guess people saw what they got for their $1000.00+ tax and returned them.

Even sadder, they hide the HD-DVD players on a shelf in a corner and put out only one actual player in a box for purchase. They tell their customers "no one is buying HD-DVD players", I know this because they do it to me all the time.

Sony got a hold of Best Buy right around the launch of the first BD player and they called a sales meeting to discuss how to steer customers away from HD-DVD. Not one store I've been to had as actual HD-DVD player hooked up to a monitor.

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It's not as the PS3 itself is broken. The display they are "Enclosing" it in has no ventilation. They are going through the same issue with the XBOX 360.

They either need to re-invent their display, or go to Home Depot, get a De-Walt and drill some holes.

The PS3 and 360's are nothing more then Overclocked PC's that bottom line, NEED TO BREATHE.

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I've noticed the same thing at my local best buys. Only blu-ray is displayed. When I asked them why the picture is grainier that HD-DVD they stayed speachless.

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I was pretty sure it would overheat in that tomb they put it in. You are probably right about the 360. The difference is they always have more 360's to shove in the little coffin.

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My friend.. It is a fact that Blu-Ray is a better format than HD DVD. But that does not mean it will be the winner since HD DVD is cheaper to manufator (at least for those already manufacturing DVDs).

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jp, another fanboy

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It's a fact? The stats at www.thedvdwars.com say the consumer thinks HD-DVD is the superior format.

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The best out there!

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It seems PS3's production is getting better.
Still, it doesn't make the PS3 better :(

I usually like Sony products because of design and everything, but PS3... lol
I hope they come out with a mini-version of PS3 with less graphic capability or something.. That thing is just too huge. Although there are a LOT of Sony PS fanboys here in Japan, ... MS's xbox is actually slowly, but definitely eroding PS's market.

Hope MS would try harder enough to make Sony realize what they're doing..

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"Still, it doesn't make the PS3 better :("

Indeed. Games do that. And the PS3's launch lineup is better than the PS2's.

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MS's lines for Xbox isn't bad at all.
They seem to finally understand the trend of games that Japanese like.

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Check this out guys, pretty funny, and relates to what Jedite is saying

http://uk.gamespot.com/n...161580.html?sid=6161580

http://www.neogaf.com/fo...showthread.php?t=128882

All the problems because of Blu-ray, LOL

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So sony says this, and then we go over to articles from industry analyst which say that only 125k-175k PS3 units were available at launch in the US.
http://biz.gamedaily.com...ustry/feature/?id=14540

So really we are looking at less than 300k consoles world wide right now or lower if u look at the following website.

nexgenwars.com

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Around 400,000 sold right away... And Sony will deliver same amount every week now that production problems have been solved.

Yes, PS3 rules... Feel bad for MS fanboys...

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Keep on believing what sony tells you. It is crystal clear that there are no were close to 400k sold world wide.

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Please provide evidence.

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And you belive sony why? Multiple times scaled back release quantitys up to the last day or two of it. And how many times was the console pushed back. Sure they are building them but nowhere near as fast as you think.

Problem is the wii is shipping and in quantity with great reviews of games like zelda.

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Instead of "best selling", it seems that they should have said, "better selling of the 2 models."

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Yeah, I just caught onto that, thank you.

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"Sales data indicates that the $599 USD 60GB unit is currently the best selling console."

How can this be so when we know for a fact that even the Wii is outselling the PS3? The xbox360 is outselling it too. Seems to me like they're confusing high demand with actual sales numbers.

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In the context of the article it means that it is outselling the basic model. It is not talking about other games consoles; only the PlayStation 3.

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Seeing as to how both models would have sold out regardless of the relative numbers produce, this statement really only says "we made more 60GB consoles" and thus has higher sales numbers.

It DOES NOT say that the 60GB model would have higher sales number had both models been supplied in plenty. This has yet to be seen.

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no, i think plague201 is right on this one ...

what numbers are their statistics based upon, if is well known that the PS3 is sold out ??

if all of them sold out at once, you cant really say nor compare sales or demand

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The Wii is only outselling PS3 because of supply problems, not demand problems..

Things 'aint all good in the Nintendo camp either, with major reliability issues with the Wii. Lots of bricked WIIs out there...

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It must come down to really, when people are interviewed on which console they would have bought IF there were supply left, they chose the 60GB, because they would receive more on their investment via eBay... And thus their statistics give them an indication that the demand and popularity lies well within the 60GB console. Although faulty statistics because of so many thousands of eBayers selling their consols totally show nothing about true demand... If I want something for myself, that is demand. If I want to get it so i can make profit by reselling it, I don't necessarially call that demand. I would call the buyer from that sale the one with the demand and therefore shows true to the statistics. Otherwise you would count both the original buyer as 1 and then the eBay guyer as another.

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No.. the wii is outselling the ps3 because its affordable has original and fun gameplay. Oh yeah and its available which you were correct on. Its more than supply because the nintendo wii is selling out everywhere it is also.

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