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UK sales of Sony's PlayStation 3 rise 999% following the release of the console's Slim SKU...
According to Chart-Track figures, sales of Sony's PlayStation 3 have increased by 999% in the last week following the release of the PS3 Slim console last Tuesday.
"The uplift on week 36 on week 35 is plus 999 per cent," revealed Chart-Track's Director, Dorian Bloch. "We don't give out the hardware numbers, but never-the-less it's a very large increase."
This increase has had a knock-on effect on the UK's all formats game chart, where titles bundled by retailers with the PS3 Slim have experienced chart resurgences over the last week.
CoD4: Modern Warfare jumped from number 10 to number 3 thanks to a 128% increase in sales, which was mostly down to its inclusion in a PS3 Slim bundle, while EA Sports titles Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10 and Fight Night Round 4 experienced sales increases of 38% and 68% respectively, which were primarily the result of similar PS3 Slim bundles.
Conversely, Xbox 360 sales in the UK increased by 43% last week following the price drop of Microsoft's Elite SKU, while this week's sales remained on the up with a 29% increase. Despite this ongoing rise, Sony's PS3 still outsold the Xbox 360 by three units to one over the last week.
Source: GamesIndustry.biz, Edge.
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Added:Sat 24th Oct 2009 22:58, Post No: 757
By: Anonymous
Added:Sat 24th Oct 2009 22:56, Post No: 756
This post need to die so why don't you all shut the fack up and move on with life. the person who made this post has no life. He could be playing his game getting trophies or achivments. or you can get laid for once in a life time instead of posting stupied as sheet
Added:Sat 24th Oct 2009 22:56, Post No: 756
This post need to die so why don't you all shut the [#@!?] up and move on with life. the person who made this post has no life. He could be playing his game getting trophies or achivments. or you can get laid for once in a life time instead of posting stupied[#@!?][#@!?].
Added:Sun 27th Sep 2009 11:09, Post No: 755
but people have come to accept the rrod its been happening for years now unlike the yellow light of death thats not because of unreliable parts but due to a firmware update, is this an indication that sony had tried to overclock the ps3 and may have had a stable overclock but releasing a firmware update with the overclock included may have caused the trapped gas in the circuit boards.
Added:Sun 27th Sep 2009 03:42, Post No: 754
Actually we can still complain about the RROD because the xbox has a 54 percent failure rate compared to the PS3's 14.7
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Added:Mon 21st Sep 2009 18:54, Post No: 753
good point, but who's to say the complaints wont keep coming in? could easily be a majour fault in the system.
but i aint gettin called a fanboy again so ill stick with ur comment =) lets just hope sony can address the problem like microsoft did with the enw motherboards they were using
Added:Mon 21st Sep 2009 01:40, Post No: 752
It's really a low failure rate when compared to Xbox's 45% failure rate in the earlier generations of systems.
A .5% deficiant rate is quite low and seems an acceptable rate for any product. It seems that if Sony can compensate these very few failures with replacement systems ect. then this would be a very small problem.
Added:Sun 20th Sep 2009 20:26, Post No: 751
NFS SHIFT rulezz
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Added:Sun 20th Sep 2009 20:22, Post No: 750
NFS on PS3!Heaven on Earth
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Need For Speed SHIFT - illegal racing in Prague
Added:Sat 19th Sep 2009 15:24, Post No: 749
hahaha PS3 has the "YROD" XD hehehe now none of yas can complain about the "RROD" =P
Added:Sat 19th Sep 2009 11:21, Post No: 748
736 i mean, sorry my bad