Sony: under 300,000 PS3s available at launch.

[A Black Falcon]

Both of them combined, US and Japan.

http://today.reuters.com/summit/summitar...MIT-EA.xml

Japan: 88,000
US: 200,000

By the end of the year: EA expects Sony will have shipped 500-800,000.

... does Sony WANT to lose or something? Well they seem to be trying... :)

[Great Rumbler]

What a disasterton.

[Dark Jaguar]

Well, the systems still sold out, so apparently at least that many people wanted them.

[A Black Falcon]

Well that is true at least... but yeah, disaster.

[Dark Jaguar]

Well I mean it happened so quickly that it does at least say a lot of people want the system simply because it's a Playstation (couldn't be the games, I've seen nothing on it as of right now that's really all that great).

[Smoke]

At this point I don't care who wins I just want Sony to lose.

[A Black Falcon]

With a $250 loss on every unit sold and a miniscule launch, Sony seems to want to lose too!

(their only saving grace: in Europe, they lose less than $10 a system... between the huge European Markup and favorable exchange rates ($750 US and up for a PS3 there, fun fun!), that will make Sony happy...)

[DMiller]

Haha, but they haven't even started selling the console in Europe yet so they won't get the benefit of the exchange rate until next year.

[Great Rumbler]

Well I mean it happened so quickly that it does at least say a lot of people want the system simply because it's a Playstation

Or because it's simply the "next big thing".

[Dark Jaguar]

Horrible frightening demon child head is in Japan too?!

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