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PS3 Slim outsells Xbox 360 and Wii 3 to 1

September 8, 2009

GamingNot one week into its UK sales debut, Sony's re-imagined, slim-sized PlayStation 3 is already enjoying massive sales, up nearly 1,000 percent on standard PS3 sales the week before. The PS3 Slim outsold the Xbox 360 as well as both the Wii and DS Lite by a striking three-to-one ratio.

The UK and Denmark market-researcher Chart-Track, which reported that figure, told market watcher MCV: "The sales increase is very impressive."

Points of order, however: Sony's PS3 was only behind by a million units in Europe prior to the new model's debut, so the sales jump has the benefit of a presumably less standoffish customer base (compared to the US, where the unit sales gap is roughly nine times wider). There's also the question of who's buying the new units. Are they predominantly new customers, or substantial numbers of existing ones? The answer to the latter will be decisive in effecting the sustainability of the UK-based sales uplift.

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Then there's the "calm before the storm" factor. In Japan, sales of the PS3 were down dramatically in anticipation of the new model's launch on September 3. The "three-to-one" week-on-week unit sales leap in the UK probably owes something to a similar effect.

How do things look in the US? We'll need NPD Group's numbers to say for sure. Preliminary reports from controversial sales tracker VG Chartz suggest sales doubled last week, but VG Chartz's figures are notoriously dodgy and frequently "adjusted" without attribution after accredited trackers release their own.

See also:

Sony PlayStation 3 Slim review

Slim, cut-price PS3 won't save Sony

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Posted by: Matt Peckham

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Posted by Nocash350 on September 8, 2009 :

People just don't realise, PS3 slim is EXACTLY the same as the ps3 original, Plus the fact they have to re-release slimmer versions of consoles only means that popularity for them is running low, look at the Xbox not a single slim in sight the 360 has remained popular for ages!!!

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