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Topic: Sony's PlayStation2 outsells newcomers (Read 3572 times)
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naum
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PS2 still topseller http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/01/12/business/game.phpThe Xbox 360 outsold the Wii, which outsold the PlayStation 3.
That, in a nutshell, is how the crucial holiday shopping season went for the video game industry's latest consoles. But that battle does not tell the whole story of a curious December.
Over all, the industry sold $3.7 billion of hardware, software and accessories in the United States last month, up from $2.9 billion a year earlier. For the full year, sales were $12.5 billion, the industry's highest returns ever, according to widely watched figures released Thursday by NPD Group, a market research firm.
During December, Sony in particular turned in surprisingly strong sales — but not for its new PlayStation 3.
In a development that industry analysts said spoke to the strength of the video game market and the lure of low prices, the best-selling console during the holiday season in America was Sony's six-year-old PlayStation 2.
Americans bought 1.4 million PlayStation 2s during the period. That was more than the Xbox 360, which sold 1.1 million units; the Nintendo Wii, which sold 604,000; and the PlayStation 3, which sold 491,000.
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WindupAtheist
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The public at large has caught on to the strategy of buying a console at the end of it's lifecycle and rolling around in piles of cheap high-quality games.
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Velorath
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It's $129, and that's if you buy it new. Plus there's a huge fucking library of games, many of them dirt cheap now. Is it really a surprise the PS2 is still selling well? Hell, they've still got potentially good games like Rogue Galaxy and God of War 2 coming out soon.
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After playing Guitar Hero for the first time on New Year's Eve, I was sorely tempted to buy a PS2. I decided to wait until April when GHII is due for the 360 and buy one of those instead.
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Furiously
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I couldn't get your brother out of my house yesterday. The good news is, you might be more musically inclined then him.
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WayAbvPar
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LOL! I was telling how fun it was and he didn't believe me. Now he knows!
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When speaking of the MMOG industry, the glass may be half full, but it's full of urine. HaemishM
Always wear clean underwear because you never know when a Tory Government is going to fuck you.- Ironwood
Libertarians make fun of everyone because they can't see beyond the event horizons of their own assholes Surlyboi
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Merusk
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My sister bought my nephew a PS2 for X-mas. Why?
1) The 360 was 'too damn expensive.'
2) The Wii - 'looks insteresting but there's not a lot of games.'
3) The PS3 "HOW much?"
4) Guitar Hero and Madden.
I really can't argue with her on it, either.
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Nebu
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I am among them. I contemplated buying an X360 for a month and opted to buy a PS 2 instead. I'm glad I did. The games are pretty enough for my tastes, they're reasonably priced, and I bore of them in 2 days.
Less money spent on titles that hold my attention a couple days = win!
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Murgos
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After playing Guitar Hero for the first time on New Year's Eve, I was sorely tempted to buy a PS2. I decided to wait until April when GHII is due for the 360 and buy one of those instead.
I was actually about to post in this thread that I was going to go out and buy a PS-2 this weekend so I could play Guitar Hero but since I have been now informed that it will be avail on the 360 in a couple of months I think I will wait on it. |
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Calantus
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I'd say if you don't have a PS2, like gaming, and specifically like the kind of games the PS2 has available, you should definately buy one. The library is positively huge now, I'm still finding old games I enjoy even though I've had one for ages (hell I've had 2 since the small one was brought out). Right now I'm staying away from the current generation because I don't feel they are worth the money. You're paying inflated prices for early adoption and only to have access to a few games. If you're only buying 4-5 games on a PS3/X360 you're looking at ~$170 per game, and that's just crazy. Eventually one or all of those consoles will make sense, but that time hasn't arrived yet IMO.
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Yegolev
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Shit, I considered buying a PS2, and I already have one, and a PS3. I mean, it's $129. Who the fuck doesn't have one already?
I remember one of the holiday-rush stories about people rushing like assholes to get a GBA SP this past Black Friday. These are the same people, I think.
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naum
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Shit, I considered buying a PS2, and I already have one, and a PS3. I mean, it's $129. Who the fuck doesn't have one already?
I don't anymore. We donated ours away and then had to buy DVD player for bedroom (as it was serving that role in that room)... |
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Yegolev
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OK, but do you have any other consoles? Killjoy traded in his PS2 for a Cube. So now he's got a Cube, Xbox, PSP and a 360 but no PS2. I cannot figure out why, even after many interrogations.
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Why am I homeless? Why do all you motherfuckers need homes is the real question.
They called it The Prayer, its answer was law
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Roac
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OK, but do you have any other consoles? Killjoy traded in his PS2 for a Cube. So now he's got a Cube, Xbox, PSP and a 360 but no PS2. I cannot figure out why, even after many interrogations. Only thing I can see a GC over a PS2 for is if you had kids or a SERIOUS itch for Mario/Zelda/Metroid, but you'd do better to hold out for a Wii at this point in either case. I guess the main reason to trade in the PS2 is because it's retained its value relative to the XBox? Otherwise I'd have sacked the XBox instead, especially if I already had a 360. |
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naum
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OK, but do you have any other consoles? Killjoy traded in his PS2 for a Cube. So now he's got a Cube, Xbox, PSP and a 360 but no PS2. I cannot figure out why, even after many interrogations.
XBOX in the living room and a Dreamcast in the spare bedroom... ...the Dreamcast probably gets as much use as the XBOX (though FIFA 07 is still on my playlist...)... |
"Should the batman kill Joker because it would save more lives?" is a fundamentally different question from "should the batman have a bunch of machineguns that go BATBATBATBATBAT because its totally cool?". ~Goumindong
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I've gone through a few PS2's over the years, and the last one I had just konked out. Instead of buying another one, that's what kind of pushed me to buy a PS3 first (out of this batch of new releases).
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Jimbo
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Rasix
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OLD. Didn't mind watching again though. |
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stray
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Yes, if that was a Wii, it'd be in my room right now.
But yeah, old.
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