PS3 hits the 1 million mark.

[BadAss]

Not bad for 5 weeks work.

http://www.vgcharts.org/

[StooMonster]

Broshnat & Tadj say it ... so it must be true!

StooMonster

[mattym]

Originally Posted by StooMonster

Broshnat & Tadj say it ... so it must be true!

StooMonster

its catching.

Amir says it and it miust be true
Un-named mythical beings whisper in forum members ears so it must be true
Sony say it so it must be false

where will it ever end?

[StooMonster]

It's all about credibility, why are Broshnat & Tadj so credible to some? Their website looks like a ten year old knocked it up.

Originally Posted by StooMonster

A credible source to me would be a professional independent sales measurement company who earn fees for their analyses; not some crappy website run by goodness knows who with whatever agenda.

Two examples would be...

Firstly, NPD for measuring US point-of-sale data, although they do not have data sharing agreements with a couple of large retailers and have to extrapolate their figures; but most people in games industry trust their numbers.

Secondly, Famitsu for Japanese equivalent.

Both these sources data are credible and quoted over many a website and magazine once they are published every month.

StooMonster

Maybe Sony did sell 1,000,000 PS3 this year -- only 1,000,000 more to go in last week of year to hit their 2006 target -- but I would prefer to see credible data before simply quoting links from amateur sites. (Speaks he who got slammed for posting link from another amateur nex-gen sales figure site.)

StooMonster

[Rasczak]

Originally Posted by mattym

its catching.

Amir says it and it miust be true
Un-named mythical beings whisper in forum members ears so it must be true
Sony say it so it must be false

where will it ever end?

Just out of interest Mattym - do you run a Sony store?

[Nic Rhodes]

I hope they are upto 1m by now. Seems entirely possible.

[StooMonster]

Originally Posted by BadAss

Not bad for 5 weeks work.

Although overshadowed by Nintendo's 4 weeks work?

StooMonster

[gixxerman]

My bet is these kinds of figures are as credible as car sales these days.

Shop allocations counted as sales etc etc.

[mattym]

Originally Posted by Rasczak

Just out of interest Mattym - do you run a Sony store?

nope

dont own any sony gear except a ps2, thinking of buying a ps3 but am unsure of what to do for hddvd.

Im getting rather tired of people leaping on everything thats posted about bluray, 'facts' about yields, random posts about the 'dreadful' samsung player, everything negative, its really quite difficult to find any proper facts in amongst the rumours and mistruths, yet digging around finds that hddvd isnt that clever all the time, disks damage, players lock up, but no-one shouts and screams about that. Badass gets abused all the time, and its all a little sad! We are all grown-ups, yet its like a creche!!!!!

Hows the Toshiba dealership coming?

nothing is discussed sensibly anymore, it all descends into fanboi stuff.

[mattym]

Originally Posted by StooMonster

Although overshadowed by Nintendo's 4 weeks work?

StooMonster

nintendo got everything right except the amount of units they could make!

[StooMonster]

Originally Posted by gixxerman

My bet is these kinds of figures are as credible as car sales these days.

Shop allocations counted as sales etc etc.

That's why NPD and Famitsu are useful, they count items sold by (not shipped to) retailers. Their numbers are as near to 'fact' as public will ever get hold of.

StooMonster

[Rasczak]

Originally Posted by mattym

Hows the Toshiba dealership coming?

I was sacked when I got a Samsung BD player!

nothing is discussed sensibly anymore, it all descends into fanboi stuff.

Yeah I agree with that...but what can be done?

[mattym]

Originally Posted by Rasczak

I was sacked when I got a Samsung BD player!


Yeah I agree with that...but what can be done?

i suppose the only thing to is to add the people that antagonise to the ignore list. some people will have very short threads to read!

[FOXCLOSE]

1 million PS3s = 75,000 BD players! And that's a conservative estimate!

So that's how BD is catching up!

[Rasczak]

Originally Posted by FOXCLOSE

So that's how BD is catching up!

I'll look forward to the sales figures showing the same trend then...