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Playstation 3 Sales Increase 5,685% At Amazon

xsynergyx | August 02, 2007 | News | Playstation 3 Company 
Sales for Playstation 3's 80GB console are doing quite well. Since this Thursday morning, sales increased a whopping 5,685% on Amazon. The 80GB package will come with the game, MotorStorm.
Sales for Sony Corp.'s new 80GB Playstation 3 model increased 5,685 percent on Thurs. morning as Amazon.com began pre-sales for the product. The new 80GB model will include a copy of the online racing title MotorStorm and retail for $599.99. The item is listed to be released on Aug. 12 at the retailer.

Sony currently retails a 60GB PS3 SKU for $499. The model will be discontinued following depletion of stock at retail. The 60GB PS3 on Thurs. ranked as the No. 1 best-selling product at Amazon's Computer & Video Games division. Sony price cut the model last month by $100 to spur sales at U.S. retail.

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    Linkin Park Fan | August 02, 2007
    What is this. I posted this article before you and it got excepted. Then got deleted because there are "too many of these types" and know yours gets excepted?!
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      tidus04 | August 03, 2007
      [size=1]Lol, same here. I had it for an amazon.com top ten list and that was rejected for the same reason, tuh ¬¬
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    Zero and X | August 02, 2007
    Lol at the post above, but anyways, 5,600% is an insane increase in sales, good for you Sony!
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    volacide | August 02, 2007
    Holy shit, this is madness!

    Why is the source youtube though?
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      xsynergyx | August 02, 2007
      Whoa, that's weird. I've edited it.

      Anyways, good for Sony. I really see them starting to get pushed off the ground.
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    Cdemon | August 02, 2007
    This is hilarious.

    That just tells you how shitty the console was selling before. What's the actual number of consoles sold?
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    Team Xtreme | August 02, 2007
    What about us poor bastards that only got offered the 60 gig model. I would've picked up an 80 gig model if it was out at the time. Now I own a console which I paid full price for when there is a better model out for the same price that I payed. It's not like a price-drop...
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      Existenz | August 02, 2007
      Just spend like $60 and upgrade the PS3 HDD to like 180Gb.
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    SvR2008 | August 02, 2007
    You dont expect it sell very well in its first 6 months. Give it some time man!


    This is good news for Sony, and i only see things getting better.
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    Evanster 69 | August 02, 2007
    Last time I remember there was an article that said PS3 sale over Amazon rose 1000%. Now it's at 5,685%. And that article wasn't that long ago.
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    huntyr | August 03, 2007
    well, if sales are at 0, then 5,685 units sell thats quite the increase isnt it? In looking at the jpg from the source, it seems Amazon likes overinflated / misrepresented numbers.
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    Supernouva | August 03, 2007
    An increase of 5,685% definatly sounds like something blown way out of proportion.
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    Final Blade | August 03, 2007
    Well well well, i guess the 80GB is more popular than the price cut lol. Well good for you PS3.
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    Chronic Apathy | August 03, 2007
    That has to be a typo or something. 5,685 is a LOT. Even if the PS3 only sold 100 models there, that's still more than 50,000 - and just for the PS3? I don't think so...
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      Final Blade | August 03, 2007
      Not really considering the fact the 60GB after price cut went up 2500%. it goes to show you that while some here hates the new model its selling and pre-ordering like hotcakes.
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        huntyr | August 03, 2007
        well thats my point, its not an actual number but a percentage. If Amazon said the actual number of units that would be more interesting that displaying an over-inflated percentage
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          Final Blade | August 04, 2007
          Well the wii was selling 400% percent and thats like incredible there. I see this as true, they can't show the actually sales cause they can't.
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    Evanster 69 | August 03, 2007
    U confuse me with all of teh numbers
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    Subzer0 | August 03, 2007
    Wow. That's very good for Sony.
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    Seeker X | August 03, 2007
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    That just tells you how shitty the console was selling before. What's the actual number of consoles sold?
    Yeah, that was totally necessary, keep it up, you'll be a hell of an asshole/hypocrite above all others soon.

    Personally, I just wish I can get myself a 60 GB before they run out, I'll be wasting a lot of unnecessary HDD space anyways.
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    Silver Mirror | August 03, 2007
    How many exactly were they selling in the first place?

    Still no matter what the number though thats still a lot of sales

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