Just as a taster to how well the Sony PlayStation 3 has done since its European launch last weekend, a company called Chart Track, has issued a statement about sales during the first weekend, where it set records.
Chart Track said this week that Sony’s PS3 became the fastest selling home console in the UK, selling 165,000 units in its first two days of release, bettered only by its older handheld sibling the PSP which sold around 185,000, despite being the most expensive console ever released in the UK at £425 ($834). In total 600,000 of the first million consoles shipped in
Europe were sold during the first two days on the market.
By comparison the Xbox 360 sold 71,000 consoles during its UK launch weekend, while Nintendo sold 105,000 Wii machines. The PS3 big game sellers were ‘Resistance: Fall of Man,’ and ‘MotorStorm’ and a total of 6 of the PS3 games are this week in the Top 10.
Meanwhile Namco Bandai Holdings said this week it would developed arcade gaming machines built around the PlayStation 3 chip, the Cell processor, co-developed with IBM and Toshiba. It is understood to be the first agreement to use the Cell commercially outside of workstations from IBM and the PS3 itself.