Sony pops pastries as PS3 sales pass 5m Sony sent us baked goodies today in celebration of selling five million PlayStation 3s here in the UK. PS3 Cake Following last month's PS3 Super Slim launch, the Japanese firm enjoyed a huge jump in sales and this week surpassed the 5m mark in Blighty, a figure confirmed by GfK Chart-Track. A second Super Slim edition with …
Let me guess.. At first almost noxiously sweet, followed by a stale aftertaste and a feeling of general disappointment...?
Still - free cake is free cake. At least you weren't overcharged. I just hope they didn't taste like cakes that have been repeatedly regurgitated since 1982.
4m, Xbox360 over 18 months longer timeframe to 2.5m users (1.5m replacements)...
Seems like Microsoft's silence on everything sales related (unless it's American NPD) pretty much confirms their last-place standing this gen.
Of course now Microsoft are sat in last place, the spin will be now, that sales figures don't matter anymore...
Microsoft had sold 67.2 million Xbox consoles versus 63.9 million for the PS3 and has outsold the PS3 every month for the last year, so it is Sony that are sat firmly in last place. Not to mention 40 million active Xbox Live accounts, and over 20 million Kinects sold.
The Xbox had sold 4 million in the UK back in January 2009, so it is well over 5 million by now - so even this news isnt good for Sony. nb - replacements don't count as sales.
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