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PS3 sales worry Midway, but Sony will still get some love

Posted Aug 2, 2007 at 2:15PM EST by QJ Staff

Listed in: PS3 Tags: David Zucker, Sony

Some publishers have been reported to jump ship from Sony's boat, but Midway is still offering the PS3 full support. You have the timed exclusive title, Unreal Tournament 3 and Stranglehold's "Hard Boiled" movie only on the Blu-ray game disc. These clearly show Midway's love, but CEO David Zucker has expressed some concerns on PS3 sales.

It's all about installed user base, and the PS3 is yet to invade enough households for publishers to feel secure. "We would not be the only publisher to tell you that we're a little concerned about the take-up of the PS3," Zucker told GamesIndustry.biz.

On the bright side, sales have been increasing recently as reported by Sony during E3. Zucker, however, wonders if the price-cuts that led to better sales are sufficient enough. "Anytime you get a hundred dollar price cut on hardware it will improve sales. The question is, is it enough? Will there be more?"

No need to worry though, because we don't see Midway leaving the PS3 anytime soon. Zucker is confident that the built-in Blu-ray player will win hearts of more consumers, and Sony will "be making decisions as and when they need to as they go forth."

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what are these publishers/developers actually expecting from the PS3?? i mean compaired to how the 360 started out the PS3 is doing commendably... are they expecting the PS3 to sell like the the $200 Nintendo Wii??? i mean what the Wii is doing is phenominal and it's unfair for them so expect the same thing of the PS3...

the PS3 is doing ok in it's infancy... it just looks bad because of how the Wii is doing... they have to realize that it is a different product and expectations should differ as well.

# Speak up — Guest 2007-08-02 15:59

How cheap do these publishers want the PS3 to be?!? I agree with Quixand, the PS3 does in fact looks bad when you compare ir to the Wii and let face it the 360 has had a significant head start. Again there are ppl that can and cannot afford a PS3. I paid $638 canadian for my 60GB PS3 after taxes and I never regretted shelling out the cash.

The system as a whole is well worth the money

Blu ray is winning the format wars

Free online play

less than 1% fail rate

possibility of a DVR attachement

and with Linux being the OS choice of Sony, it only a matter of time for homebrews to be developed for the PS3.

And despite what the Sony haters have been saying, there are really good games coming out for the PS3. The PS3 version of Stranglehold will have a freakin movie in it!

# ... — Guest 2007-08-02 16:03

Monthly sales in the US the last few months have been pretty horrible. No one expected sales to be this bad. Will be interest to see how much the price cut helps.

# wtf — Guest 2007-08-02 16:03

How are the sales bad? The sales are identical to the rate the 360 sold when it first was released, and that was without competition. The fact that the PS3 is selling at the rate the 360 sold in it's first year with 2 other competing consoles is outstanding!

# the pricecut — Quixand 2007-08-02 16:17

is helping but no one knows if it will be longterm...

granted that the PS3 sales could be a lot better it seems like some people have unrealistic expectations... it's either they want the PS3 to suddenly be at par with the install base of the XBox 360 suddenly upon release of the PS3 (ignoring the fact that the 360 took some time as well to get the install base it has today) or they are expecting the PS3 to sell like the Wii (well, sorry to say but nothing compares to what the Wii is doing much less from a console three times its price)...

face it the PS3 won't suddenly get to 10million in the blink of an eye (the Wii isn't even there yet!!) and it won't sell as fast as a console which costs a third of it's price... they should temper down their expectations and be more realistic...

by the way Devise (only QJ Xboxer who has my respect), long time no see...

can't wait to see the July numbers along with everyone just to see how that pricecut worked so far.

# yes — Morbidly 2007-08-02 16:54

no kidding man

# i'm not worried.... — Guest 2007-08-02 18:07

come fall, ps3 sales are gonna skyrocket, due to all the cool games coming out. In fact i know a lot of my friends are waiting for R&C and Warhawk b/f getting a ps3.

Plus i feel much safer buying a ps3, than a 360 (not b/c of the red ring of death), but because Microsoft pushed the 360 out a year to soon, and come 3 years from now when its time for a xbox 720, the ps3 hardware will still be strong and they will still have their instal base, which means i wont be having to spend a LOT of money for a new console, b/c my old one will still be supported for a couple of more years (if the ps2 held out s long with its shoddy hardware, think of how the ps3 will be).

After all sony did say that they wanted to extend the ps3 life to 10 years (instead of the industry average of 5) and even if its not 10, but 7-8 its still gonna be worth it

# Pffft — Guest 2007-08-02 20:40

Price matters not. Once the AAA games start to hit the SONY platform people will start running towards them with their wallets in hand. It has always been like that, and always will be. SONY has a strong line-up for the holidays and that is when they will turn it around.

# ... — Guest 2007-08-02 23:52

I guess Sony had "unrealistic expectations" also, because they are failing to hit their targets.

.. and thanks

# Devise — Stealth! 2007-08-03 01:24

You have no idea what your talking about. Did you know the PS3 sales for and yes for 80Gb bundle system has been on a tare on amazon, Ps3 has a 5,369% sale increased since the thing has been released. Talk about off the charts. I say the PS3 is doing great in its infancy just wait for the awesome games like killzone 2 and such to available to play. Not to mention Home and PSN has also gotten some great stuff.

# who wonna make a bet with me? — Guest 2007-08-03 01:40

I bet u when the next xbox console comes out it's gonna have a built in blu ray player also. why u ask me this I shall tell u cause when blu ray is name the winner on the new format war ms gonna jump to it also for more disc space and by that time the devs know how to work around it, think about it why didn't ms made the elite with a built in hd-dvd player cause they didn't want the dev to complane and there letting Sony do the work for them on the blu ray about how the devs are doing on that format. They also know by that time all the Devs are gonna be way better at making games on blu ray format. So who wonna bet?

# ... — Guest 2007-08-03 02:40

LOL the 80GB was only just released. It could of been an increase of a couple hundred units. I really pitty those people that try and base facts on amazon wacky top seller and sales rank figures. Monthly NPD figures are what publishers, manufactures, and gamers with common sense go by. I think will all expect Sony's price cut to give PS3 a kick, but I don't expect anything spectacular.

# xbox — Guest 2007-08-03 04:26

microsoft is not making another xbox after having 2 flop

# No just with competition — Guest 2007-08-03 04:43

But with the highest price of the three as well. I'd b e curious to see how the numbers look if you adjusted the sales by price.

# Haha Stealth... — Shatterdome 2007-08-03 08:42

Do you realise that the 80gb PS3 isn't even released yet, so how can it be a factor ?

The only reason that the increase happened was because of the price drop and all the people that were holding out for some sort of drop went out and got one.

However, that is only good until around the 12th or so when the new 80gb models come out....my local stores are ditching/returning 60gb models and going with 80 at the outrageous price now...

Which could actually hurt Sony as some people may have saw it was cheap, had to wait till mid-end August for whatever reason, then go out and see that it's super expensive again and they are $100-150 short......They will feel ripped off and angry at SOny, and guess what they will probably buy instead....

# ... — Guest 2007-08-03 14:42

I wouldn't call the 360 a flop. after all, it currently has the largest install base. And if it wasn't for the outrageously large number of defects MS would be making a large profit on their new console. I'm sure they've learned their lesson and will improve the quality/engineering of the next xbox.

# Shatterdome — Stealth! 2007-08-03 18:22

Are you on crack or just living in a cave, read Devise just said it came out on Wednesday, moron.

And it has nothing to do with a price cut., considering the fact its 600 dollars, wow more idiocy from your xbot fantard mouth. I actually have to agree with Devise over your post, at least he makes more valid points and can hold a conversation than you and MCS.

# stranglehold — Guest 2007-08-03 20:57

a movie? wth?

# idiot — Guest 2007-08-03 21:00

why would sony let their competers use their exclusive video format that is selling like crazy? I'll bet the next xbox will have like Windows Oasis (TM) lol.

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