Chart Track: PS3 sales up 999% percent in UK

by Justin McElroy on Sep 8th 2009 11:30AM

Yes, the 999% week-to-week sales increase that the PS3 reportedly enjoyed in the UK, after the release of the PS3 Slim, may seem a little ... astonishing, but we'd like to help you make sense of the sequence of events.

1. First, NOBODY bought a PS3.
2. Then, EVERYONE did.

It's great news for Sony, but terrible for the PS3 executive who promised to come up with a way to increase PS3 sales by 1000 percent. Better luck next time, Mr. Former Director of Cross-Budgetary Marketing Promotional Strategy.

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Tags: price-cut, ps3, ps3-slim, sales, sony

Reader Comments (123)

That 1% could've meant something.. Now we'll never know!

998% ?

Just 999%? Maaaaaaaan, if it were 1000% Sony would have imediatly won the console war!

there there, Bender. there's no such thing as 2.

I think sales would have to increase to >9000% for Sony to instantly win the console war. We can always dream though.

If the U.S. really is the best country in the world, we need to step up our game!

I'll take 1500% increase, Bob!

By the way:
"PS3 sales up 999% percent"

How many percent is 999 percent percent? Are they only up 0.999%?

So you made a completely unrelated reply to the first post in the thread, and prefaced it with "By the way"?

That's a spammer technique:

"Interesting news. By the way, check out my kool site sluttyteenpalinlookalikes.com!"

I think we gave up "the best country in the world" title 8 years ago.

999%:

100% = 1.0

999% = 9.99

Sales increased nearly ten times as much as before.

Wait I'm dumb.

If we gave up the "best country in the world" title, who has it now?

This PS3 Slimness craze is amazing. My mom went out and bought herself one this weekend.

"If we gave up the "best country in the world" title, who has it now?"

Not sure, maybe Sweden or New Zealand or something.

@ cope

Indeed. And the funny thing is that I had already commented about it.

@ Archon

1. It's a typo.
2. Read other comments next time and don't hijack the first post for visibility.

@copa
Somebody woke up on the wrong side of their bed today.

My comment was as related as your comment.
While I was relating to "I'll take 1500% increase, Bob!", you were relating to my "By the way" which is as related to the original comment as yours.

What you basically said was:
"I'm going to ignore the original comment, like, I assume, you did to point to you that you ignored the original comment".

Should have just downvoted if you didn't like it. Jeez.

Archon, welcome to the internet. Where if you do something stupid, people are going to tell you you're stupid.

Actually, I think Canada is considered the best country to live in. Mostly because nothing really bad happens there, or anything at all.

Cody's mom knows best!

(waits for predictable comments)

I don't even have a clue why that was downvoted so harshly... I said IF, IFFFFF I TELL YOU!!!

"...Not sure, maybe Sweden or New Zealand or something."

I'm pretty sure the country that has the title exists in the past. Y'know, the location you tend to see with rose colo(u)red glasses?

Yea that's 10x the sales, makes sense $299 makes it the best deal in gaming for everything you get. I have several friends buying a Slim soon, I already gots me one it's great.

i thought the best country was Costa Rica, since they done away with military or any kind of war. They have stated they don't wanna be involved with world conflicts and such.... it may sound very ignorant, but a wise man once said that was bliss.

by the way, I'm high

And no one has tried to invade them yet? damn.

Holy Turltle Soup how the heck did that happen?

OUR exclusive rights to 'best country in the world' ends this year....
we paid a hefty fine to have these rights !!!

if nobody buys it next it will divided up between the 10 or so largest countries of the world, for them to fight over.

and what is the definition of best anyway?

"I think we gave up "the best country in the world" title 8 years ago."

Well, some of you did, anyway.

If you judge your quality of life by your political affiliation, you're always going to be disappointed in your country at some stage of your life.

Best not get caught up in hyperbole in the first place, eh?

Depends on your definition of 'is'

I expect that to be broken now the FF13 release date has been announced.

I doubt that.

I doubt you.

Oh SNAP!!!

Heh, sorry I should probably explain stuff like that. I think the majority of people buying this don't know or care what Final Fantasy is, so they wouldn't know about a release date. Also, FFXIII is also coming to 360. Don't get me wrong I plan on getting a PS3 and playing the hell out of FFXIII when it comes out.

Leroy...People buying a PS3 dont KNOW WHAT FINAL FANTASY IS!?!?! Hold up now...we are talking about the UK...NOT the US....hell in the US most tend to stay away from RPGs as they can take a lot of time to master.....since Americans tend to want what they want when they want it they go for instant gratification games...i.e. shooters & Sports...

FF13 is multi-console now, so I doubt it's launch will have quite as much impact on sony consoles as an FF game launch did back in the PS2 days. I'll be getting it for my PS3.

Wait, Chris, I'm confused. Are you agreeing or disagreeing with me?

lol....both....In Japan & EU (moreso Japan) the PS3 will skyrocket in sales again) but in the US I'd be willing to bet that since JRPGs get treated like a redheaded stepchild here then I think it WILL sale better on PS3 than on the 360(especially if its some exclusive PS3 DLC) but I dont think it will sale as good the first day here as it will in Japan

If they keep this up they just might reach the 13 mil for the fiscal year.

Also I only seen the commercial for the Slim once in two weeks...

Yeah I've seen it a lot on ESPN and Comedy Central, only the rumor confirmation one..not the one with the angry wife.

OH, I have seen tons of the Slim commercial (the rumor monger one). I guess they only run on Cartoon Network, Spike, G4TV, and I think I saw it on Syfy.

mhmm maybe Im not tuning in to the right channels or Sony doesn't want to advertise here

I've only seen it once too. Of course I don't have cable. I also haven't been watching as much TV lately so.

Wouldn't it be awesome if there were a Slim ad on Live?

I have seen it EVERYWHERE!!! Seen it on the HISTORY CHANNEL ALL DAY YESTERDAY!! During Adult Swim the last few days...Seen it on the Discovery Channel a few times...Sony is REALLY trying to get on the ball with this advertising.....I have only seen the first commercial tho and not the second with the woman in it

I haven't seen the commercials either. I guess it's because all I've been watching is the endless Beatles stuff on VH1 Classic.

Only once? I could be so lucky. ESPN, SyFy, Comedy Central...it's almost once per break. To the point where it's no longer cute OR charming.

I've never seen a Slim ad. It's probably because I don't watch cable tv.

Oooh, so close!

That's amazing! I hope Sony continues to dominate the charts for the rest of the year. The PS3 really does deserve this success : )

Yeah, Sony have really done well - especially with the PS3 games. They seem to be willing to take quite a few risks in a push for unique and excellent games, so it was sad to see that their strategy seemed to be backfiring. Plus hopefully they'll be even stronger competition now, which is good for all of us.

Would still like a Party system on the PSN though...

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Chart Track: PS3 sales up 999% percent in UK

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