PS3 Sells 2 Million Units In The UK

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Months before its second anniversary and in a crap world economy, Sony's PLAYSTATION 3 console has sold 2 million units in the United Kingdom.

"It's a premium product, so therefore it costs a premium price, and that does give us issues in terms of the expected sell-through that analysts and the media want," explains Sony Computer Entertainment UK's Ray Maguire, "but actually when you look at it in isolation: close to a million units in a year which is really tough, at a premium price, actually shows that's a great number."

What's more, the PS3 United Kingdom sales show great potential. Meaning? If the price went down, you'd see higher sales. "We have potentially more longevity in PLAYSTATION 3 than we had in the previous PlayStations," Maguire added, "simply because if the price goes down we've still got a massive market place to sell in to."

Sony also announced that the PSP has reached the three million milestone in the UK.

Its interesting, but then again the Wii sold that many in December alone in just USA :P

I just would like to see the price drop to make it more value for money rather than the "well lets not cut the price, lets put a bigger hard disk in and sell that" approach Sony has.

Yeah, I think these current generation consoles are too expensive. Although Sony is doing good, they should try to get more revenue out of software sale instead of the console. In this aspect, I think Sega did the smartest thing. They can now sell to any platform and get more money instead of relying solely on Dreamcast. DeadManRollin

I also think SquareEnix is also trying that behaviour aswell... I think many companies will do the same to develop games in all areas to rake in more revenue.