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"Console sales rocket. Is Christmas on the way...?"

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.

They need to buy one for GTA 3, and another for Vice City!
Simple (Just like their minds)!

But no, I do not have one! :P

My sister's getting one for Christmas though, and I reckon I'll be having a go on GTA 3 whenever I get the chance.

the only reason i can think of for buying a PS2 is to use as a novelty place mat.

Different strokes and all that.

And some used as litter trays...

And some to be used as Picture frames.

And of course you have people buying one to replace a broken one.

Insane Bartender wrote:
> Since I know of dozens of household without a PS2, I can only assume
> that people are buying more than one.


Some people probably have them but don't use them.

By the end of christmas, there will be what? 10 million PS2s sold in the UK?

Take away all the old folk who won't have one, and all the infants too young to use one, and you're averaging more than one per household.

Since I know of dozens of household without a PS2, I can only assume that people are buying more than one.

You'd think Playstation 2 sales would lower due to the fact everyone is getting one. But still it sells bucket loads and beats off the competition.

Your Honour wrote:
> 90,000 units!??! Bloody hell! Is there anyone out there that doesn't
> actually have one?


Me.
Have a Dreamcast though. PS2 just doesn't do it for me!

Your Honour wrote:
> PlayStation 2 sold a whopping 92,440 consoles in the week ending
> November 30


Not wishing to start a flame war, but this is indisputable evidence of the stupidity of the British consumer.