http://www.gameplanet.co.nz/mag.dyn/News/11685.html

Wow, just wow, thats damn good

That is amazing news! Sony rules all!

Everyone seems to echoing the same statements: "PlayStation 3 will be relevant for at least the next 10 years". PS3 is in for the long run. Now that it's out in all territories, the war has finally kicked it up a notch.

Ya. Kicking it up a notch. Hopefully Sony can ignite some flames come this holiday season. There are waaaaaaay too many PS2's out there for those owners to not pick up the third. I have complete faith in Sony.

Seems like a very low number compared to other areas, but they know what theyre on about

Well done to Sony. Lets hope all of this good news keeps going, and we getm more sales

Didn't someone say that NZ had bad sales?

So there was a 'sp1ke' in sales? at a launch? really? Was this article written by 'Stating the bloody obvious magazine' or something?

Read the damn article,that sales carry on to the second week

That's great to hear... just proves what I have been saying: if Sony had enough PS3s at the launch in Japan and the US, it would have outsold the 360 and, quite possibly, the Wii. It was b/c people couldn't get a PS3 that they spent their money on the 360. Parents went out looking for a system to put under the tree and the only one available was the 360. Then, having spent hundreds of dollars on the 360 and assorted games, how many people really had another $800 ($600 plus $150 to $200 for games)? Next holiday season will really show which system is more desirable and I will bet it's the PS3.

haha guys like i keep saying Sony is at home here in new zealand lol 1 in 3 houses here have a playstation 2 in a survery of a large amount of the population. also the PSP outsells the DS/L here too.

considering we have only a population of 4 million or so 4,800 is awesome considering we are up there with one of the most expensive ps3's in the world weighing in at $870 USD / 445 GBP. I'm glad if anything its up and atom from here for ps3. America can have 360 we can have ps3

Yeah. TEN days.

Lol yeah.

Considering we got 5000 at launch that is pretty good. Entirely Sony? No. Pretty damn close? Yes. Some people still like to think it's Xbox country though.

I beg to differ

Well yes, 10 days is over a week, so I kind of assumed that. You almost sounded surprised that sales carried on for a second week there!

I wish people wouldn't just blindly post PR and say 'that's cool'. Having worked with PR people, they are paid to spin anything to make it look good and they're pretty clever at it. For example, if you read between the lines a little bit, if DigitalX is right and 1 in 3 households have a PS2, and New Zealand has 1.4m households then I would have thought the conversion rate would have been higher than 4,835 during its launch period.

Sony seem to be using the "sales" thing as spin.
It sold 4835 x $1199 =$5.8 million

So they sold a further $1 million in periphials and game or roughly 8403 games, or 1.7 games per console....

Hmm Fall Of Man and Motorstorm??? By chance.

C'mon man, cut 'em a break. What company doesn't spin? And Motorstorm and RFOM could indeed help all those sales. Not to mention all the Blu-ray, Remotes, and extra controllers that were sold.

Virtua Fighter 5, and Ridge Racer 7 were also popular sellers.

But fine. Each his own.

Sony really decieded to push hard over there, thats how they should be in all markets

Hey, I'm just interpretting the figures, but an attach rate of 1.7 (assuming that they didnt buy any periphals) is quote low.

You'd think if they can afford the console, they could afford more than 2 games....

From memory the 360 did 5000-7000 units, but I'm being vague, and I cant find any articles on it now.

That doesn't really make sense to me.

If I hadn't imported my PS3, I would've only gotten 2 games MAX! (It would've been more, but games were being kept 'delayed'). A lot that do get more, put it on some layby.

1.7 low? I thought that was 'decent'. Not saying you're wrong. I just remembered that both the Japanese and NA launches had less than one! So 1.7 is a huge improvement. And like I said, apart from MotorStorm and RFOM, a lot of the games are delayed.

As for 360, that would also depend on supply. PS3 supply was only about 5000 max. So it would've been a little hard to surpass that.

Now I can frag some aussies in RFOM!

Now I can sputter mud in the faces of aussies!

Now I can sneak around and gether data fro the nodes around aussies. This is gonna be soo cool.

I am glad you guys got on board. Lets ride this thing till it wont ride anymore!

I"m from america and i dont want a 360 lol. I'll take PS3 instead! ;P