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From C&VG.com:
Christmas came early last week for British game retailers as the buying public voted with their cash. Sales for all platforms rocketed as the holiday season truly reared its money-covered head.
PlayStation 2 sold a whopping 92,440 consoles in the week ending November 30, a 39 percent increase on the previous week. Xbox was also sitting pretty, having moved 21,318 machines, up 42 percent on the week before.
GameCube may be licking its wounds in third place in the console race, but there are sure to smiles at Nintendo today. Miyamoto's purple marvel sold 10,065 units, up 27 percent week over week, and GBA cleared up with 27,495 machines settling neatly into British gamers' hands. The figure marks a 21 percent increase over the previous week.
Just look at that PS2 figure. Look at it. Ask any retailer and they'd tell you that it's the stuff of dreams. Here's looking to next week. We can barely contain ourselves.
Patrick Garratt
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90,000 units!??! Bloody hell! Is there anyone out there that doesn't actually have one?
Xbox is still doing quite nicely as well - good stuff. Nintendo are still raking the money in with two machines on the market.
Christmas came early last week for British game retailers as the buying public voted with their cash. Sales for all platforms rocketed as the holiday season truly reared its money-covered head.
PlayStation 2 sold a whopping 92,440 consoles in the week ending November 30, a 39 percent increase on the previous week. Xbox was also sitting pretty, having moved 21,318 machines, up 42 percent on the week before.
GameCube may be licking its wounds in third place in the console race, but there are sure to smiles at Nintendo today. Miyamoto's purple marvel sold 10,065 units, up 27 percent week over week, and GBA cleared up with 27,495 machines settling neatly into British gamers' hands. The figure marks a 21 percent increase over the previous week.
Just look at that PS2 figure. Look at it. Ask any retailer and they'd tell you that it's the stuff of dreams. Here's looking to next week. We can barely contain ourselves.
Patrick Garratt
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90,000 units!??! Bloody hell! Is there anyone out there that doesn't actually have one?
Xbox is still doing quite nicely as well - good stuff. Nintendo are still raking the money in with two machines on the market.
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yeah, but only a Gamecube in my room (thats ALL I need)
you need fixing.
there are 2 PS2's in my household less than 3 metres away from each other....
Microchips wrote:
> Yes, but i'm talking about buying them in the first place. Some
> people buy, say, 10 PS2's brand new from the shops (therfore adding to
> the total number sold) and then sell them on Ebay for a marginally
> higher price, obtaining a profit. Then, times this by how many times
> they actualy reapeat the process (And how many they buy each time) and
> then times that finally by the number of people who carry out this
> procedure.
Yeah, but then those people buying it on the internet are just buying it off of the store really, and the seller is essentially a middle man.
> Yes, but i'm talking about buying them in the first place. Some
> people buy, say, 10 PS2's brand new from the shops (therfore adding to
> the total number sold) and then sell them on Ebay for a marginally
> higher price, obtaining a profit. Then, times this by how many times
> they actualy reapeat the process (And how many they buy each time) and
> then times that finally by the number of people who carry out this
> procedure.
Yeah, but then those people buying it on the internet are just buying it off of the store really, and the seller is essentially a middle man.
Insane Bartender wrote:
> erm, 60 million is the population, not the number of houses. I would
> be incredibly surprised if the number of full-time populated
> households exceeded 30million. In fact it's quite possibly lower.
10 to 20 million houses.
> erm, 60 million is the population, not the number of houses. I would
> be incredibly surprised if the number of full-time populated
> households exceeded 30million. In fact it's quite possibly lower.
10 to 20 million houses.
Microchips wrote:
> Some
> people buy, say, 10 PS2's brand new from the shops (therfore adding to
> the total number sold) and then sell them on Ebay for a marginally
> higher price, obtaining a profit. Then, times this by how many times
> they actualy reapeat the process (And how many they buy each time) and
> then times that finally by the number of people who carry out this
> procedure.
I doubt this even comes close to making any significant impact on PS2 sales.
Weekly PS2 sales are in the thousands. Weekly PS2 sales on eBay are in the tens...
> Some
> people buy, say, 10 PS2's brand new from the shops (therfore adding to
> the total number sold) and then sell them on Ebay for a marginally
> higher price, obtaining a profit. Then, times this by how many times
> they actualy reapeat the process (And how many they buy each time) and
> then times that finally by the number of people who carry out this
> procedure.
I doubt this even comes close to making any significant impact on PS2 sales.
Weekly PS2 sales are in the thousands. Weekly PS2 sales on eBay are in the tens...
Insane Bartender wrote:
> erm, 60 million is the population, not the number of houses.
True - my mistake.
However, I would still gauge the sales by population rather than households. It's quite feasible and logical for two people in the same household to have their own machine.
So more than one per household is certainly possible, granted - but that's not strictly the same as "people buying more than one".
> erm, 60 million is the population, not the number of houses.
True - my mistake.
However, I would still gauge the sales by population rather than households. It's quite feasible and logical for two people in the same household to have their own machine.
So more than one per household is certainly possible, granted - but that's not strictly the same as "people buying more than one".
regardless, they aren't included in the UK headcount.
Insane Bartender wrote:
> Why don't you count in the Falklands while you're at it?
You see the 'such as'. These are simply examples.
> Why don't you count in the Falklands while you're at it?
You see the 'such as'. These are simply examples.
gerrid wrote:
> And these figures don't account for the amount of people who return or
> sell on their PS2s by other means either.
Yes, but i'm talking about buying them in the first place. Some people buy, say, 10 PS2's brand new from the shops (therfore adding to the total number sold) and then sell them on Ebay for a marginally higher price, obtaining a profit. Then, times this by how many times they actualy reapeat the process (And how many they buy each time) and then times that finally by the number of people who carry out this procedure.
> And these figures don't account for the amount of people who return or
> sell on their PS2s by other means either.
Yes, but i'm talking about buying them in the first place. Some people buy, say, 10 PS2's brand new from the shops (therfore adding to the total number sold) and then sell them on Ebay for a marginally higher price, obtaining a profit. Then, times this by how many times they actualy reapeat the process (And how many they buy each time) and then times that finally by the number of people who carry out this procedure.
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