Sony PlayStation 3 Sells Worse than Nintendo GameCube in the U.S. – NPD

[JKKDARK]

via X-bit labs

Plagued by initial production issues, extremely high manufacturing costs and excessive retail price, PlayStation 3 from Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. is even less successful than heavily-criticized Nintendo GameCube. At least, in the first ten months of sales Nintendo GameCube was sold in larger quantities than Sony PS3.

According to data from NPD, based on the first ten months of availability, the troubled PlayStation 3 sold 22% less than the Nintendo GameCube for the same period, reports GamePro web-site. In the first ten months of availability about 2.12 million Nintendo GameCube were bought by end-users, whereas only 1.742 million Sony PlayStation 3 gaming machines were sold in from November ’06 to September ’07.

Nintendo GameCube was released in November 2001 and sold in 21.6 million quantity worldwide, below sales of Microsoft Xbox, which reached 24 million, and five times less compared to Sony PlayStation 2.



Sony PlayStation 3 is currently available at $599 in the U.S., the price-point that is widely considered to be too high. Despite of the fact that Sony’s PS3 comes with built-in Blu-ray drive and features high-quality graphics games, the price is believed to be one of the major factors that keep gamers away from PlayStation 3. By contrast, Nintendo’s GameCube could offer neither DVD playback, nor high-quality graphics, nor unique motion-sensitive game controller, like that of Nintendo Wii.

Sony PlayStation 3 console is based on the Cell processor developed by IBM, Sony and Toshiba, the RSX graphics chip by Nvidia Corp., wireless network and Bluetooth connectivity and is equipped with Blu-ray optical disk drive. There are several versions of the consoles available around the world with 60GB or 80GB hard disk drives and variable compatibility with PlayStation 1/2 games. In the U.S. PlayStation 3 80GB is sold for $599, whereas the hard-to-find 60GB model retails for $499.

[DPyro]

Hmm....Notice how they only mention the US. Last time I checked, its worldwide sales that matter.

US World

[Accordion]

cost?
value?

[mcdougall57]

yeah but the worldwide sales arent that good either to be honest

[Basil Zero]

yeah but the worldwide sales arent that good either to be honest

Better than xbox360 in japan:rofl:

[Christuserloeser]

Sony PlayStation 3 Sells Worse than Nintendo GameCube in the U.S.

I was like: What's the news ? We all know it sells better than... - wait a second! It actually says 'GameCube' !? OMG! ^ ^

[briyan]

i didn't realize the PS3 sold this bad..then again to have a console with ABSOLUTELY no killer app released on it so far, it won't stand a chance against the likes of the 360's offerings which lately has pumped out games almost every week with 90+ scores on the metacritic's and rotten tomatoes' reviews. not that this means a rapid increase in 360 sales but a big edge when u have Trips against an Ace High.

[Sonicboy 101]

If the PS3 wasn't overpriced the sales wouldn't be low.