Monday, January 15th 2007
Sony has shipped 1 million PS3s to United States...but people aren't buying
When the Sony PlayStation 3 was released to the United States, people queued for days, and even shot each other over the next generation console from Sony. Sony has managed to ship 1 million PS3s to the United States, however, people just aren't buying them. Some people blame the high price of the console, others blame a rather lackluster collection of launch titles. Whatever the reason is, the PS3 simply isn't doing well right now. While PS3s are filling space on store shelves, the Nintendo Wii has become very successful, due to having reasonably good supply, a low price, an interesting controller, and a great set of launch titles.
Source:
Nordic Hardware
33 Comments on Sony has shipped 1 million PS3s to United States...but people aren't buying
The shop assistant also told me it overheated about five times a day.
As for the overheating, I believe Sony released something saying they purposely sent out units that would restart after a few hours of use to be used as Demo setups in store to prevent one person from sitting at the demo station all day long. I haven't hear of many users actually having any overheating issues, in fact I haven't heard of any.
on another note, the ps3's main competition is from the ps2. many many more ps2s were sold this xmas then anything else, as they were on sale with bundled games. people also know what to expect and have some familiarity with it.
for the overheating, my buddy hasnt had any problems with it shutting down or crashing, but im sure the closed display cases are shutting down the ps3s alot faster then a "demo reset".
Wipeout, rollcage, destructions derby. just some games that everyone knows and have high potential if developed on the ps3. relighing souly on mgs4,GT,GTA doesnt do them any favours (although im sure to buy when available). and GodOfWar had better get a good ps3 version :D