Sony Japan has announced that worldwide shipments of the PlayStation 3 now stand at 2 million units.
These two million units have been distributed equally between North America and Japan, with each territory receiving a million units. According to Sony this is the fastest any of its consoles have achieved this figure.
A Kyodo News report notes that Sony remains confident that it will ship six million PlayStation 3 units by the end of March. This figure should include the PlayStation 3 consoles allocated to the European launch.
Sony has also announced that PlayStation 3 software sales exceeded five million units by the end of 2006, and also revealed that the number of registered users for the console's online service stand at 500,000 worldwide. Of these 500,000, some 300,000 people downloaded Gran Turismo HD Concept in the 20-day period following its release on December 24.
lackalacka wrote at 16:46 on 16 January 2007
wow
Now who is going to buy them now that they're readily available? :)
Anonymous wrote at 17:30 on 16 January 2007
All of those who will come to realize the Wii is a Gamecube with a controller based on an idea they released almost 20 years ago?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Glove
Or all the 360 users who realize that all those addons really do add up?
http://img81.imageshack.us/img81/6661/comparingid9.jpg
Tafiedward wrote at 18:44 on 16 January 2007
Question
when is ps3 coming to southafrica or zimbabwe
how much?