Chart Track: PS3 sales up 999% percent in UK

Might be entertaining to go bcak to some of the articles written about the PSD3 in its first year

First off - all your idiots not getting what Archon wrote - it was a comment to the title if this article! The sign "%" means percent - so when they write 999% percent, its percent percent - or 0.999%
So guess what - it you and not him who are stupid, and the comment has a lot more relevance for the article than your flame has!
Also, if NOBODY bought a PS3 - it should be infinite percent - at least one should have bought one :)

The best country in the world btw. That is Denmark - we are the most happy people in the world anyway - more than one study says that =)

When all this is said - im happy I have my old original PS3 60GB 4xUSB and PS2 compatible - it is just so much prettier - you just have to dust it off sometimes =)

Unsurprising jump in sales thanks to the price cut. I'm actually thinking about being one of the proud owners of a PS3 - there are a few games I want to try...but I'm divided on whether or not I should get a used 60GB w/ hardware based PS2 emulation, or get a slim PS3. Has anyone got any advice on the quality of the upscaling properties of the PS3, hardware or software based? I'm struggling to find any conclusive commentary about the quality of upscaling...

Wow that's pretty amazing. If only Sony did the price cut from the beginning and dropped the propaganda bullshit they would have a billion sales.

Well I've been a Sony critic of late, but even I'm tempted by the PS3 now. That is a BIG leap in sales tho. Is someone massaging the numbers?

It's at 999% because that's as high as Chart Track measures an increase by a percentage. It was actually around 1100%, or so I hear on the infomation superhighway....

I'm 999% sure that the Joystiq writers are clueless cretins. They seem to think that during the last 2.5 years the PS3 has not been selling very well, yet the reality is it's been selling great guns, and is doing an very good job of closing the gap on X360 sales, even though it used to be at a much higher price point.

Where can I go to get gaming news, where it's not written by clueless cretins that call themselves gaming journalists, yet clearly can't see the obvious and get so heavily sucked in by the Microsoft anti-PS3 propaganda...

I would get my gaming news from Kotaku, but they are equally as clueless...

Joystiq writers, have a read of this, before you embarrass yourselves even more.

http://www.smgamers.com/?p=948

Those are the cool hard facts, with real numbers... Don't you feel silly? You should do...

This isn't really news. PS3 sales fell 990% after the slim announcement and then rose 999% when it was released. It's still good, but common sense, not news

Does this include people that bought a PS3 the month before and then returned it in exchange for a slim once it was released?

I'm still a little surprise the ps3 sold as much. It doesn't seem to get that much support from GameStop. Has anyone walked in I GameStop lately, the front wall was decorated with everthing 360 (360 price drop, bundles, the Arcade and ODST) and then there was one little sign that said ps3 $299.

Don't you mean, "Condescending LIAF."?

Heck yah..all ma friends who doesnt have PS3s are talking about getting one..Aww im proud to be a PS3 fanboy. :D

k we know sales are lower than before.
but these numbers are impressive.

great timing sony, your holiday ps3 sales may double now.....

hell i thought about getting another ps3 for the bedroom, before i would think of getting a 2nd 360 at home.
i might just wait a year or 2 longer for the $ 200 ps3..... which will come eventually. its not like i need a 2nd ps3, especially when there's a ps2 in that room...

Yea, posting the actual sales numbers would be nice but, hey, this is what I expected. Numbers in Japan are up, mucho, and we'll soon hear how the numbers in the US jumped immensely. I said it a looonnng time ago - If the PS3 gets down to around $299, WATCHOUT!! But all I got was a bunch of hate from 360 trolls since I also said that the pricepoint was THE main reason why the 360 was ahead of the PS3 NOT the games, like idiots all seemed to think.

Most people tend to go for the lowest common denominator - Cheap prices. However, the PS3 out of the box value was and is even more so, now that the price has dropped, unmatched.

The real thing that makes me happy about this is that maybe now that the install base has increased by such a large fashion, devs will go harder at devving games that actually utilize the PS3 capabilities and disc/storage space. Tired of getting shortended when it comes to multiplatform games. Just like devs are devving games specifically for the Wii, they should do the same for the PS3. All consoles are definitely not created equal and Sony's first party games (except that damn NBA crap they mercifully decided not to release this year) and exclusives should definitely prove that point.

"2.5 years the PS3 has not been selling very well, yet the reality is it's been selling great guns"

What a shame for you that Sony, the WSJ, GameStop, EA and pretty much everyone who has held off buying a PS3, disagrees with you.

PS3 sales have been poor, with a downward trend.

The Slim will hopefully reverse that.

Fanboys, however, are always operating in reverse.