How about some French hardware sales instead?

by Nick Doerr { Apr 30th 2007 at 10:45AM }

Week after week (give or take a week in between) we give you our Japanese hardware sales, thinking that's probably a fair estimate of the world's sales. Seems that's still true. The same trends hold true in France, also. What trends? We'll enlighten you after the numbers. Oh, by the way, these are the numbers for the entire first quarter of 2007 -- which kind of puts it in perspective. Kind of.

DS - 260,000
Wii - 144,000
PS2 - 92,000
PSP - 90,000
PS3 - 81,000
360 - 43,000

The trends are as follows: Nintendo tops the charts and the PS2 beats out PS3. For the entire first quarter, might we say that these sales aren't that great for any system? If this were for the week or even month, we'd be surprised, but for the quarter? Not so much. About 12 weeks in three months -- so that's like 6,750 PS3's a week. Take it as you will, guys! But there you have it -- France.

Tags: japanese hardware sales, JapaneseHardwareSales, PlayStation 3, Playstation3, PS3, Sony

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

scott @ Apr 30th 2007 10:57AM

Ps3 not being last on a sales chart for once? (aside from japan, hardly counts). This is sure to start some gloating from the ps3 boys!

Fetcher @ Apr 30th 2007 10:59AM

Not to nag, but your breakdown by week doesn't make sense, seeing as PS3 released in March, at the end of the quarter. Not claiming that PS3 pwns or anything, but you can't break down a weekly average when the PS3 didn't inhabit 80% of those weeks.

Colin @ Apr 30th 2007 11:23AM

@Fetcher...Good point by you sir!

Scott...don't you have pre school class to go to or something?

ndoerr @ Apr 30th 2007 11:33AM

@ Fetcher -- Fair enough =) Then if the sales for next quarter even remotely mirror these numbers, we've got something to at least lightly fist-pump about.

scott @ Apr 30th 2007 11:57AM

Nope, I'm a happy college student!

kingofwale @ Apr 30th 2007 12:05PM

Nintendo is doing fine. I have no complain about that. but we all know PS3's real competition is 360.. and I like the 2:1 ratio.

PSP is not doing too bad, I like that too.

Sport @ Apr 30th 2007 12:31PM

Next quarter will be more telling.

Sony sold twice the number of PS3s, in just one week, that MS sold 360s in 12 weeks from these numbers.

But the launch week isn't a good week to see the demand since it's alway higher then average with early adopters.

billykurtz @ Apr 30th 2007 12:34PM

As Fetcher said, the ps3 has only been out since late march, meaning the ps3 sold around 80,000 units in a week or two...not three months like the 40,000 360's sold. So actually this is stupendous and means the ps3 is kicking some buttocks in France. Whoever wrote this is a bit slow in the head for not realizing that.