Does NPD have access to every retail store database? No. How do they get these numbers? Estimation via statistics.

bladestar is in EVERY positive ps3 newsthread trying miserably to place his OWN bot twist into the story.

I sure hope his parents get him a ps3 now that its cheaper, maybe hell stop being such a lil b1tch.

What do you expect from Mr. Bubbles

:)

it mean 60gb 80gb 40gb. They're talking about PS3 sales, how PS2 is included in there too.

All types of PS3s.

Was completely sold out of PS3's. It had full stock of both 80gb and 40gb when I went on Sunday.

I think sony's advertising of Assassins Creed makes people think its SOny exclusive, and people are buying the two together.

Microsoft has been advertising multi-platform games for a while. It is a good move, and Sony should have done it sooner. Not everyone is up-to-date on the industry, and placing your logo on a multi-plat product is always a good move.

Sony has been dropping some serious money for prime tv spots lately...and for ad rights to some big games...I saw a CoD 4 ad on Sunday for just the PS3, as well as AC...both have that "tion" PS logo and sound at the beginning, which they have been doing forever...then it just shows the game like the normal mulitplatform ad...but has only the PS3 box at the end, as well as that Playstation 3 black screen thing they have been doing since launch...

Has anyone every played Nightfire(i think thats the one) on the gamecube?
Honest to god that was one of the best multiplayer games ive ever played. It had bots (smart ass bots at that), and 4 player multiplayer.

It was weird to be because it was kinda random. You could set the bot level of intelligence, and they had these guided missles that you could shoot from across the map and guide it inside buildings.

Also they had this remote control cars with guns on it that you could drive around and detonate....wow

Damn that game was good, lol

Looks like they have no problem and EVERY other store has piles as big as these so please keep your Sony FANBOY wet dreams to yourself

thanks for showing us all what you truly look like lawman (with all its ugliness). Now go out and enjoy your parade of stupidity and not to mention ugliness

Oh noes! PS3s are in stock! You're such a tool.

It's sold to retail. They cannot report consumer sales since they do not sell directly to consumers.
Anyway after all the struggling to sell PS3s do you think retailers are stock pilling on them? It is most unlikely. I know for a fact if I was in charge of purchases for a retailer I would order just a few at a time at least until I see how they sell.

did u even read the article

It said " 30-40k ps3s were sold before "

That increased to 100+k after the price cut . SONY has access to all ps3s since barcode is ticked everytime a single ps3 is sold to a customer

Hey man, there's always 2008. That's when the REAL heavy hitters hit.

PS3 GET BAD MEDIA BECAUSE SONY IS JAPAN AND MICROSOFT IS USA. THEY WANT IT TO FAIL HERE. LETS SEE WHEN DEVELOPERS GET TIRED OF TRY TO SQUEEZE EVERY THING ON THAT TINY DVD FORMAT. AND THATS ALL I GOT TO SAY ABOUT THAT. (STONE COLD)

I agree with what rofld above me said . The true heavy hitters will be here next year in PS3 2nd year.Some of us tend to forget the we are comparing first gen PS3 games lineup which are mostly new IP to arguably the best gamelineup of the competition in its second year. You have to put things into perspective. New franchise such as HS,lair might not have been a great success but i can see their potential and i have every confidence that their sequels will be really amazing judging form what i have seen. Next year and onwards when the PS3 dev really start using the full potential of the PS3. Expect even greater things from Insomniac, ND, Factor5, Ninja Theory, Evolution on top of the returning heavy hitters and other new and interesting project from quantic dreams and digi guys with their wardevil project just to name a few.

Really? The PS1 and PS2 did fine for quite some time, and continue to. What was it, a combined 230 Million consoles sold between the two?

Where is the original XBox? Look it up, it was released before the 360. Yeah, it did exist.

pwnt lol

SERIOUSLY TAKE GAMES BLOWS BUBBLES HE's a fvcking idot. I guess he really belives he's an "insider" and knows Sony's buisness better than they do. You a little ant buddy. You don't know whats going on and can't predict whats going to happen. This whole thing is alot bigger than us, ur way to caught up in trying to compete with how good u think the 360 is. Make usrself happy and get a 360. I have it and I'm getting a PS3. 360 really doesn't have much to offer besides those 3-4 exclusives. And they aren'y god's gift to gaming by any means. Take this loser's bubbles.

Let the Microshafts have their fun, there's nothing ever going on in the 360 section.

It is SOLD TO CUSTOMERS
did u even read the article

It said " 30-40k ps3s were sold before "

That increased to 100+k after the price cut . SONY has access to all ps3s since barcode is ticked everytime a single ps3 is sold to a customer

and then why does a review matter to you. does the mart influence you that much.

ign says uncharted was tripple AAA, so did eurogamer and a some other big websites, now all of a sudden a couple reviewers say its not and you dont like it anymore.

and then on top of that, do you even know what A AVERAGE RATED GAME IS, a average rated game is 75. 88 and up is great and above.

maybe you should go back to school my friend

PS 3 isn't targeting the average, no company nowadays does, because average is a group of people no bigger than any group of existing customers, they are just somewhere in the middle and that's it.

PS 3 instead is targeting a much larger customer base than X360 (while still smaller than Wii's all casual gamer approach)... think about it you are guranteed to get any genres of AAA game now and in the coming years. and xbox360 have just guranteed to have AAA FPS titles...

Aside from your biased comment, one excellent title that is ignore by most gamers is EOJ, it targets at card gamers and it is a AAA title of its kind, so as more games, coming or existing in other genres.

So yea...they are playing safe but they are not delivering AVERAGE like you've said.

edit: and yea i can't find any gamers happy about it if xbox is releasing new gen of machine next year, o well 2 out of 3 years they are suffering RROD? can you be happy with it? I don't think so....3 years life and it drops all the support again , and you still can be happy with it....good for you

You want to know something funny.

Xbox does NOT have everything covered. they just make decent shooters.... what else????

At least the ps3 has their bases covered in many genre's

Sorry but the xbox is tooo much like a poor mans PC.

Now im not bashing the pc cuz it has ALOT of shooters, but it also has its RTS's and MMORPG's

You say resistance is a typical shooter... what do you call halo? IMO resistance is way too over hyped and the graphics are not that good, but hey I feel the exact same way as halo.

Motorstorm is not average, compare the feel to other racing games.. it actually is the first racer that feels open rather than enclosed it really feels like your in a 3d environment.

Can't comment on lair, but at least they tried something new.

Sorry heavenly sword is an awesome platformer. Bit short, but sweet.

I don't get you. Do you have bipolar disorder? In some threads I see you praising the PS3 and its great games and now I see you called it a "PHONY PS3"

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keeps there ps3 going, sony will have the biggest install base and devs will know how to program for it. what makes you think devs will make games on the next xbox which will have no install base compared to the ps3.

IT WILL BE PS2 VS XBOX ALL OVER AGAIN. xbox had better graphics but sony will have all the games and more to come because there built to last. if fanboys turned you away from the ps3, then thats very sad that your so easily bribed. you should have never brought a ps3 in its first year in the first place. your so pathetic

There is no way the PS3 will look 1 generation ahead of the x360. Any sane logical person will understand this. For me i didn't buy the PS3 because i thought it will blow the x360 out of the water but simply because it will have the games that i like to play. If you actually believe all the BS hype Sony was saying before the launch then i really feel sorry for you.

The Divx support which is freaking cool.

Are you done humping Sony's leg yet. Everytime I read a post of yours your trying to prove that the PS3 is everything Ken Kutaragi hyped it up to be. Your posts are lame. Why would anyone want to pay more for the PS3 when they get the same thing for less with the 360? When will you realize that Sony lied about the PS3's performance and the PS3 is basically a 360 equivalent console that can play Blu-Ray HD movies. Your posts reek of insecurity. Do you own stock in Sony? Did Microsoft piss in your Cheerios? Give it a rest already.

Also when was the last time Sony told the truth about any of it's sales numbers. After all Sony has a reputation for claiming consoles shipped to retailers as consoles sold. Even if this number was anywhere close to the truth. Guess what? The 360 still kicked the sh!t out of the PS3 in US sales last week. Because of that margin the 360 outsold the PS3 worldwide for last week. Oh and people still aren't buying Sony's exclusive first party titles. Ratchet and Clank hasnt even cracked 200,000 in 3 weeks. Thats less than 10% of all PS3 owners in the US. WTF does that say about Sony? But I heard Spiderman on Blu-Ray did pretty well. You and Sony fail.

Why would anyone pay more for the PS3 over the x360?.

1. It has the exclusive that alot of the 120 million PS2 owners want to play like FF,MGS,GT,GOW, to name a few.
2. PS3 has a built in Blu-ray player and wifi which the x360 don't have inbulit.
3. PS3 has a 0.5% failure rate compare to the 33% for x360.
4. For those that like on-line gaming PSN is free compare to xboxlive

So excuse me for agreeing with him.BTW the figures that you are referring to are for VGchats which we all know are not reliable.

Hmmmmmmmmmm. Lets see. Dual HDMI: Lie. All games running at 1080P 120fps: Lie. 4d: Lie. Spring 2006 launch: Lie. 2 million consoles available at launch: Lie. Worldwide Launch: Lie. 6 million units sold by March 2007: Lie. Home in Fall of 2007: Lie. In game XMB: Lie.

Not to mention all the other things thier PR have said. Futureproof: Lie. Nothing is ever futureproof. Nothing. The next generation of gaming doesnt start till we say so: Lie. The 360 was out a year before the PS3. We dont care about the competiton: Lie. Wii-mote -> 6-Axis. Media button on 360 controller -> Media button on PS3 controller. Xbox Live -> PSN. Achievements -> Trophys. Rumble is not needed, last generaton, cant work with motion controls: Lie. Try settling a lawsuit with Immersion. I could go on and on.

We wont even touch on some on Sony's other products it overhypes and markets that fail to deliver. Ahem PS2: CGI-quality graphics, supercomputer, etc...

All this and you want me to believe Sony's announcement. Sure. I can believe retailers got 100,000 PS3's shipped from Sony. But 100,000 sold in a wekk. Get theF*CK out of here with that nonsense.

"Lets see. Dual HDMI: Lie." as far as the world and sony was concerned they never said the PROTOTYPE AV PS3 would lauch on NOV 11th and 17th 2006. Find me those exact words from any one from Sony that said it would lauch with such a model. or did you believe that the model they showed in 2005 was the full console with finalized specs?

"All games running at 1080P..." LMAO... some how the word "Supports" up to 1080p as the console does and actually running them was skewered in your mind. Again please find me a quote from any of the main sony peops from E3 2005 or after that said the all PS3 games will run at 1080p. i'll say you'd be hard pressed, i'll tell you though that you'd probably find PHil harrison saying That the PS3 is a console that can support resolutions of up to 1080p, which is achievable by means of HDMI.

120fps all games running at that... no it was said by crasy Ken, (gotta love that Father of PS) that the PS3 is capable of and can DO games at 120fps.... but we all know that that was laughable, why because TVs at the current and the ones coming now can only support 60fps. and again Can do equates to capable of, just like the console can DO native 1080p at 60fps, and not all, Support covers all and leave room for DEV to go for it if they want. So again even though KEN said a bag of rubbish he never once said all PS3 games will runn at 1080p or at 120fps for that matter. but if you can find a quote saying just that from him or any of the SONY head honcho's provide the link and prove me wrong.

4d: Lie yes 4d from crasy ken... need i say more.

Spring 2006 launch: Lie. We all new the reason for it, secondly it was estimated, Not promised as in everything manufacturing a bleedegde new tech, comes with manufacturing issues and kinks thus delays and shortages So it's not a lie since they never promised it.

2 million consoles available at launch: like i said before Manufacturing issues plague a new release of a console so it was in evitable. and again they never promised which was was they changed there forecast for that launch.

Worldwide Launch: Lie. ok we know why again, but that was a promise and they for went it So yeah thats a LIE

6 million units sold by March 2007: Lie..... LMAO.... i swore theyu said and read that all plans after launch was to ship 6 million consoles, just like Good old MS who only shipped 3 million in that same time frame a year earlier. and sold around 5.5 million around june 06.
find me a link saying that the promised that they'd sell 6 million PS3 by march 07. because they'll tell you and it's from Phil's Mouth when he said they plan on "shipping" not Sold!!!! read before being a fankid.

Home in Fall of 2007.LIE. estimations and not being able to meet an estimation doesn't equate to a lie, after all i remember PHIL saying in Feb that if all goes well they should have it ready by fall 07, the fact that 3rd party devs and first party devs didn't get the HOME kits should have dawned that it wouldn't be ready, show me where they promised a fall release with an accurate link..

you sir reek with fankid stench, but it's ok.

i wont even bother listing MS's blatant lies they did and said to everyone about sony during that time. i think though before you call sony a liar maybe you should look at your 360 and see who lied. after all they launched a console that they promised would function and and work, and not interrupt game play time. not a machine with a 33% failure rate, and cant even support true HD resolutions... *coughHALO640p&PGR3-520pco ugh*

or how HDMI wasn't needed and that 1080p graphics cant be done in ps3's first year or at launch. hello new 360's with HDMI 1.2, and RR7,ninja gaiden sigma, Lair, GT5 prologue, wipeout HD, tekken DR, Virtua tennis 3, VF5, FNR3 and the myriad of PSN titles that do it (1080p) with ease natively.

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what do you mean by "Sevir I'm pity your comprehension skill"? um bro i dont know if you read my post, but i was actually defending sony. I dont call lies, maybe you didn't see that i quote the Fanboy dude above me and then went on to disprove. but oh well on this site things are bound to be misconstried by both party. i'm done with this post ... instead of me waiting a 4th bubble on you i'll just leave. done with this...

and BTW good job SONY, this christmas should have you very stable when it hits, with HAZE time crisis 4 and UT3 all wrapping up your holiday season. and uncharted making a killing, i just hope Sony markets the PS3 very very strong around christmas time or even introduce a limited time bundle that will help propell it foward this christmas.

premise? details? nothing? hmmm, guess you fail at supporting a conclusion...a rather meaningless conclusion might I add.

You act like Gollum from Lord Of The Rings, And the PS3 is you "Precious". Heaven forbid anybody say anything negative about the PS3. Whatcha gonna do. Get the rest of your Ken Kutaragi worshipping PS3 NuttHugger buddies to take my bubbles?

Relax. We dont want you going postal or trying to take your own life. I understand your upset that the PS3 gets beat worldwide in sales by the 360 and Wii on a daily/weekly/month/yearly basis. And thats just hardware. What probably hurts even more is that The 360 outsells the Wii and PS3 in software sales combined. Or that the Wii in 1 years time has more than doubled PS3 sales, and that the 360 continues to widen the gap with the PS3. But you got Blu-Ray, and 7.1 sound, and Remote Play, Linux, Folding at Home, Internet Browser, motion controls, swapable HDD. Media ports, oh whoops sorry Sony removed that. Full backwards compatability, oh whoops sorry Sony removed PS2 backwards compatability. Oh yeah it's got 1080P and Blu-Ray. Too bad you need a new 1080P HDTV and 7.1 surround sound system system to take advantage of Blu-Ray. Whats even worse is that Blu-Ray may lose to HD-DVD.

You tout all these features of the PS3 yet not a damn one of them has made the PS3 sell worth a damn, or made any PS3 games sell worth a damn. You sound just like Sony's PR. Ever wonder why the DS is whooping the PSP??? We all know the PSP is alot more powerful than the DS and has alot more "features". But the DS is more affordable, and has better/unique games. Not PS2 ports. Why do you think the underpowered Wii kicks the crap out of the PS3? Price and uniques control scheme. Why does the 360 blow the PS3 out of the water in the US. The 360's games and Xbox Live appeal to US customers. Look at the sales figures for all of Sony's exclusives like Warhawk, Lair, Heavenly Sword, Ratchet and Clank, Ninja Gaiden Sigma, Folklore that have come out in the past 6 months. They all have been busts when it comes to sales so far. Meanwhile the 360 already has 26 games that have sold over a million. PS3 has 2 games. So average that out and the 360 has a 13:1 ratio in million sellers per year.

Last but no least before I go to bed. I have seen countless time how you compare the PS3 to the 360, and rag on the 360 for this or that. So STFU, gather your buddies and take my bubbles. Truth hurts. Thank you and Good Night.

This needed to be said... Well done +bubbles Mag...

xbots vote for bush

that was rude, merciless and most importantly TRUE.

bubble spreading here. ps3= 100 million sold(well it would if someone modded the dang thing).

er wrong, the sales do not include the ps2 or psp, read the first paragraph then look at the 'it' at the next one. This 'it' obviously applies only to the ps3. It also clearly states that this is about the ps3 by looking at paragraphs 5-7.

Very few, since MS repairs them free. I hooke up that Intercooler to mine, it blew, and I had to send it in for repair. They charged me $129, I think. Then 3 or 4 months later, they sent me a check refunding my repair costs. Like a dummy, I hooked that Piece of s..t "Intercooler" to that system a few months later (long story, but I have learned my lesson), and it went up again. Sent it in, they repaired it at no charge, including shipping. SONY NEVER repaired those millions of PS2s for free.

Anyone who claims to have purchased multiple 360s are 1) stupid, 2) lying, or 3)keeping multiple units (why, I do not know). I have had a tradition of giving all my old systems to my nephews.

so i see!! finally u americans admitting the reason u buying 360 is because its (ameeeerican)!!

well let me tell u this!! about the format war the u all buying HD-DVD its is a japanese company that make them (toshiba) so either side the winner is japanese!!

and another thing if u buy something that is garbage and faulty system and provide only 1 type of gaming(shooting) solely for being american product knowing there is a better product with better price value!! then u r Stupid!!

if the world think like u then no one will buy american product and the american economy will go down by 80%!!

just imagine all the cars u sell to the world and the weapons and air-plains!! who do u think buy them?? even xp is being used world wide!!y do u think that?? obviously not for being american although for some countries america forces weak countries to buy their weapons etc!!!

and dont bullsh!t me by saying u have been play since atari time!! its obviously u r a kid not much older then 10 years old!!

fair enough :-)

Being a game store owner, I hear more often than not that People are saving up for an Xbox 360. Most often, $279 is just out of these customers price range. As for the Playstation 3 most people are waiting for something that interests them. Sorry but Metal Gear and Final Fantasy aren't on everyones list. So you are incorrect and have no basis.

I too have both the 360 and the ps3.

Amongst MANY of my family, friends, and coworkers, they are indeed waiting for a price edge on the ps3. I think the reason the ps3 is always on top of charts like amazon is because in a sense of society, the playstation brand has sunk in.

Like, when a parent nags their kids, they say stuff like "you and your damn playstation". I don't here stuff like "you kids and that dang xbox"

See what I mean?

So yeah d3l33t, it's like that because sony the playstation brand entered into the general conciousness of society.

Frequently, I hear parents mistaking Playstations and PSP's, Nintendo and Gameboy. Playstation branding is strong amoung teens but Nintendo's brand is stronger with parents. You've just been exposed to a different environment. Among different circles, one brand will be stronger than the other. Children 8 - 13 will likely know Nintendo brands better than Playstation. Advertising is targeted to different demographs. And I do have people come in all the time and refer to video games as Xbox or Nintendo or Playstation; all about the same amount. In my opinion, Nintendo is more Synonymous with video games than Playstation. Then again, I get a hell of a lot of Nintendo fanboys here at the shop.

first i dont believe 50 years old man is posting in gaming sites!!
second about 360 is bringing different taste in gaming and that taste is favored by western people is wrong again! i see hundreds of post from 360 fanboys dying to get metal gear solid 4 and final fantasy 13!! and they were very happy to get devil may cry 4!! so please explain to me this behavior? i once played an atari with my cousin 15 or 18 years ago and i liked it!! its all about gaming and like u said (what we prefare) and the best value from what u pay! i cant understand why should i pay for online when i can get it for free? and why should i tolerate hardware failure rates when there is other console more reliable?!

plus ps3 have enough of great shooting games

resistance
killzone 2
orange box
haze
unreal tournament 3

so u cant say ps3 have only japanese style of gaming!! and for u to know most of sony games developed by american and europian developers!

uncharted is devoloped by american studio (Noughty's Dog)

and that part that u said (There's a new sheriff in town) made u look like a 360 10 years old fanboy!!

i still dont believe that u r 50 years old!! it will be a semi merricle if u r!

and my advise try out a ps3 cool game!! u dont have to buy it at least try with ur son(if u r a father) or ur friend(if u r a lier and u r young)!! u will have the best experience! and guess what?? u wont have to pay for online to play with ur friends!!

wait!! maybe u r 50 years old who works at MicroSoft company and love MS so u try to promote it?? dont worry MS will never get bankrupt! i use xp!

and u dont have to make a new post to reply to me! u can just edit ur post or any post u posted and reply to me!! and it will be more clear if u add (EDIT) so i know that its ur new entry!

i am a ps3 supporter and sony fan!!!! but truth must be said!! if there is no xbox 360 out there the gaming industry will much less exciting(a bit boring)!! so competition is healthy for the industry and for gamers!!