165,000 PS3s sold in UK

[wraggster]

The votes have been counted, the phone lines are closed - and top shop watchers Chart-Track can now reveal that UK consumers bought no less than 165,000 PlayStation 3 units in the first two days after the console went on sale.

That makes PS3 the fastest-selling home console in history, beating the Wii - which shifted 105,000 units during its launch weekend - and Xbox 360, with 70,000 sold. Microsoft and Nintendo struggled to meet demand for their consoles, leading to bare shelves, empty hands and wet cheeks across the land.

via eurogamer

[Shrygue]

Amazing...the PS3 sells 165,000 and still is in stock at quite some stores. I never figured that would happen.

[lmtlmt]

take that all the people that said the ps3 wasnt selling as good, it sold more.

[JKKDARK]

But it's only 2 days..

[briyan]

it will sell because they had all the time to prepare for this launch. if this was a worldwide simultaneous launch akin to the 360 and the Wii it wouldn't have the capacity to meet demand. this is normal because it's a launch. the real treat is to figure out how much it'll move post-launch or how much consoles are going to collect dust in-stores.