Sony moved 2.5 million PlayStation 3 Move controllers in first 30 days


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With the console game market

scoring depressingly low sales in recent months, Sony's announcement that it has shipped 2.5 million of its PlayStation 3 Move wireless controllers may be a welcomed reprieve from the relentless drumbeat of bad news.

The company said Thursday that it had shipped 1 million Move controllers in the U.S. and Canada, plus

1.5 million units in Europe, since launching the device Sept. 19. (Move has not yet launched in Asia.) The wireless device, which sells for $50 and up, lets players control their actions within video games by moving their arms, much like the Nintendo Wii remote.

The combined sales exceeded some analysts' expectations.

"It's ahead of what I thought previously," said Michael Pachter, an analyst with Wedbush Securities. "I think that they are a lock to sell 3 to 4 million by Dec. 31, and a lock to hit more than 5 million by fiscal year end" on March 31.

Although Sony's numbers are for controllers it had shipped to stores, there's a good chance that many of them, if not all, have sold. Many stores sell out of the devices as soon as they're received, said John Koller, director of hardware marketing for Sony's PlayStation business in Foster City, Calif.

"There's minimal on-hand inventory in many stores," Koller said. "We're basically shipping every unit we can make."

That's counter to what some have speculated about the robustness of Move sales prior to Sony's announcement.

Koller credits the brisk sales to the diverse lineup of 24 games that use Move, including iPets for kids, Time Crisis: Razing Storm for hard-core players and Start the Party for families and casual players. Sony expects another 15 Move-enabled titles to come online by March 31, which it hopes will prompt the overall console to get a move on.

Source: http://latimesblogs....ion-3-ship.html

That's without Japan, Move only launched there today (or was it yesterday?).

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I can only imagine how much those numbers will soar once Japan gets their hands on it. laugh.gif

Once they launch a "date" simulator with Move support I guess laugh.gif

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I am shocked. MS is claiming selling out of pre-orders, Sony moves 2.5 Million, I never really enjoyed this kind of gaming. I never thought it would do so well. Even my kids play the PS3 or Xbox360 more than the Wii.

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Let's get this out of the way: Sony posts numbers that were shipped to stores, not sold to customers... blah, blah, blah.

I don't know about Europe, but it's definitely easy to find around here.

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I am shocked. MS is claiming selling out of pre-orders, Sony moves 2.5 Million, I never really enjoyed this kind of gaming. I never thought it would do so well. Even my kids play the PS3 or Xbox360 more than the Wii.

Well that's because of the "Wii misconception", Kinect isn't out so no comment on it, but PS Move is not just a Wii with HD. The experience is different, obviously echoed enough to give it decent launch sales.

Let's get this out of the way: Sony posts numbers that were shipped to stores, not sold to customers... blah, blah, blah.

I don't know about Europe, but it's definitely easy to find around here.

The first post already says that so it's already out of the way...

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The first post already says that so it's already out of the way...

Yeah, but if you only read the title it makes it sound like they were actually sold to customers (moved). And if I didn't point it out now it would be pointed out later.

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Yeah, but if you only read the title it makes it sound like they were actually sold to customers (moved).

You think people that only read a title are going to skip the actual first post and read yours? laugh.gif

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Looks like it never done too bad, once I saw the pricing in the UK I knew it would do well, I was actually tempted getting it myself, but no game can get be off COD4, and it has been the same since 2008, 41 days on there and still going xD.

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You think people that only read a title are going to skip the actual first post and read yours? laugh.gif

Well, I thought I'd move the discussion away from the "wow Sony is selling a lot of these" to "wow Sony shipped a lot of stuff to stores, I wonder what'll happen next?" Maybe Stringer will offer us a couple hundred dollars for every Move we find at retail...

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Well, I thought I'd move the discussion away from the "wow Sony is selling a lot of these" to "wow Sony shipped a lot of stuff to stores, I wonder what'll happen next?" Maybe Stringer will offer us a couple hundred dollars for every Move we find at retail...

Those discussions seem to go down fine in here (apart from the out of the blue HawkMan trolling), so need to pre-emptively protect thread ****ting up when there is none.

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Dating sims are so 5 years ago.

Well by "date" I did mean the underground kind that was eventually banned but got mass media coverage before it went underground rofl.gif Clue: 4 letter word as well.

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Those discussions seem to go down fine in here (apart from the out of the blue HawkMan trolling), so need to pre-emptively protect thread ****ting up when there is none.

Don't get me wrong, those discussions are fine when talking about actual sales number. Since these aren't I just wanted to discuss that aspect of it. Basically I agree with other posters here that units shipped to retail means squat. Also, he mentions that they are sold out at retail, yet I checked all the main stores and they show in stock. For GameStop I happened to put in various zip codes from Miami (my area), New York (Manahattan specifically) and L.A. (the only one I knew was 90210 :blush: ) and even going out to 12 stores every single one of them had it in stock.

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Don't get me wrong, those discussions are fine when talking about actual sales number. Since these aren't I just wanted to discuss that aspect of it. Basically I agree with other posters here that units shipped to retail means squat. Also, he mentions that they are sold out at retail, yet I checked all the main stores and they show in stock. For GameStop I happened to put in various zip codes from Miami (my area), New York (Manahattan specifically) and L.A. (the only one I knew was 90210 :blush: ) and even going out to 12 stores every single one of them had it in stock.

It's a new product, if they've shipped that many to shelves in a month they're obviously selling at a consistent rate, Gamestop isn't going to stock 50,000 Move controllers in one store because Sony wants to round up to 2.5 million for internet blogs to report on. Retail only takes in what it can afford to stock and predict to sell.

It's still an indication of how the product is doing, pants need to be untangled, people need to read the first post and I have no idea what else to add.

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Eroge aren't that underground.

I was talking about rape sims... discretely, but I might as well just say it laugh.gif

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Great news for Sony if they sell them all. I am one of those sales :)

Same here. Anyone who has tried it since I have got it loves it as well. A system based off of both camera and controller motion tracking gives the best of both, and with how accurate it is, and how games will hopefully start utilizing it more, it will make some games just that much more fun.

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On the side note AB seriously I think half of your post goes to defend Sony. :laugh:

Because half of other people's posts are attacking Sony. Really cannot have one without the other.

It goes both ways.

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