October 9th, 2008
Despite my constant belittling of Sony’s Playstation 3, I’m about to buy one because Sony has found a killer ap–The Dark Knight on Blu-ray, coming to a store near you on December 9. Believe me, no one else is more horrified than I am.
Yet my impending purchase of a PS3 does little to convince me that they system represents an enormous failure for Sony. I had stopped following console sales for a while, but looking at the numbers now is pretty shocking: The PS2 sold over 50 million units in its first 36 months of release. In its first 24 months, the PS3 is on track to sell 15.7 million units.
And it’s not like there’s an army of losers (like me) rushing to reverse the trend. For September, the PS3 is predicted to see sales declining by 7 percent, to a paltry 160,000 units per month. This while the Xbox 360 is seeing a 31 percent increase in sales, to 320,000 per month. And all of this is just jockeying for second place, as the Wii is crushing them both.
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