PS3 tops Wii sales October in Germany

What's wrong with defending something you grew up with and has a special place in your heart. I don't know about you, but to me videogames are more than just entertainment. I've been playing games for a long time. I play them pretty much on a daily basis. They're part of my everyday life. Maybe I'm crazy, but if someone starts bashing my favorite console/game/company I'm going to defend them and try to make that person see why I think that console/game/company is so cool. It makes sense to me.

 

You know, it wouldn't be so bad if he wasn't spouting complete and utter BS. Plus, there's a difference between defending and leg humping.

 

Sony got a lucky break in Germany. I've seen maybe two Playstation 3's sell in the past week, whereas the store I work at (among others) has been out of Wii stock for the past few weeks.

Occasionally you'll see a few Wii's "in the wild," but they're in high demand and get snatched up quickly.

 

Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't quite a few DCs die due to failing GD-ROM drives and PSUs? Not as many as the PS2, mind you, but certainly a few. However, due to the relative lack of 'one consumer with a broken console on the internet sparks off fault warning' like we've seen so often.

 

Didn't sega officialy state they are no longer pressing GD-Roms?

I think that pretty much kills a system (anything released aftewards are not via official means).

 

*pokes subbie*

 

The issues with the PS3 are all well-known, but the reason its outselling the Wii, and the X360 for almost double the units; in germany is as simple as the fact that since the PSX times europe is sony's stronghold, and even if japan and america fall to the "enemy" (wii and x360) europe will always be sony's turf.

About the Wii, the problem with the console is that is no longer a console, but a trend. Most people get the wii due to word-of-mouth, not those odd ads. The 2600 was also a trend, until it became nothing but pure hype since the hardware was so outdated that next to nothing could be done on the console. If the Wii ends up like the 2600 thats bad mofo for nintendo, since we all know atari never recovered from the 2600 and 83's crash.

But in this case I see the PS3 more like the Saturn, since no matter where you look at, games, desing, PR, marketing, Sony is making the same dumb mistakes that SEGA did back in 95.

Can we kill people too?:lol:

 

The word is 'battleground', not turf. Turf implies that there is a foothold regarding the market, rather than it being a proving ground.

I agree - whilst I'm perfectly happy with the concept of owning a PS3, I went to the cinema and saw the advert for 'Uncharted: Drakes Fortune' and the voiceover regarding 'a console that thinks for itself, AI that knows what you are thinking before you do, Blu-Ray to give you hi-def quality' (and I'm not paraphrasing here) rather than advertising what the game was about, it irritated the hell out of me.

The truly annoying thing is I wanted to know about the game, and instead got another advert for the console - surely people who are interested already know about the PS3, and thus don't have to be pandered with 'cosmetics science'. Why can't Sony understand that their advertising strategy for the PS3 is dire?

 

So you say, but this is the current news for November on www.the-magibox.com

I'm not debating Wii's popularity, but the price drop has done big things for Sony. They're catching up with Nintendo in all markets.

 

Give a place and a date and I shall be there sir!

 

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Yakumo