Who bought PS3 with no games?

[wraggster]

According to Japanese gaming bible Famitsu, the top three selling games at the PlayStation 3 launch in Japan over the weekend were Ridge Racer 7 (30,300 units), Mobile Suit Gundam: Crossfire (30,000 units) and Resistance: Fall of Man (20,889). Our calculator skills tell us that the grand total of software sales was 84,189 units.

Over on the hardware side of things, PS3 sales over the weekend were 54,600 for the meaty 60Gb version and 33,800 units of the lite 20Gb model. Thanks to the calculator we can say with complete confidence that a total of 88,400 units of PS3 hardware were sold.

So that means there were more PS3s sold than games. Either Japanese gamers went mad for Blue-ray or a lot of people went and bought one for the sole purpose of selling it on and making a tidy profit. And that's cheating if you ask us...

[briyan]

the ps3 plays old ps2 games too you know although some games don't play right just yet. it can also browse the internet and grill your steak without the fat. it's the swiss knife of the future..now go slash somebody's 360!

[quzar]

It's funny how they say the top three selling games when they're the only PS3 games. So 1/20th of the people did not buy games. I'd assume it's split between those who want a game that's coming but knew they wouldn't be able to get hardware later, those who are gonna use it for blu-ray (regardless of wether or not people love blu-ray, this is considerably cheaper than any other blu-ray player so any videophile would want it), or those who have ps2 and ps games and plan to maybe get ps3 games eventually, but want to play on their HDTV.

Also, source?

[S34MU5]

Im gona get resistance fall of man, when ps3 comes out here in the uk.

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March