Sony Ships 1 Million Move Units In The Western Territory
See Full ImageAlthough we didn't have exact numbers for the NPD Group's report for September, they did note that accessories were up 13%, and they attributed that increase to the freshly launched PlayStation Move.
Reports from Europe have been that retailers have had difficulty keeping the new motion-sensing tech in stock, and 1.5 million units had already been sold. But since the estimate that around 300,000 units had sold in North America during Move's first few weeks of availability, we haven't heard anything official. Until now: Sony has announced that they've shipped - shipped, not sold - 1 million Move units in the Western hemisphere (i.e., North America and Latin America). This is "in line" with analyst predictions that Move had a relatively modest launch, but SCEA president Jack Tretton says production is an issue: "We had to go back and increase production twice, we're absolutely maxed out right now," he told Reuters. As of now, there are no less than 24 Move games on the market and 16 more are planned to launch this fiscal year (before March 31, 2011).
So, are you on board with Move yet? We've looked at Sports Champions and EyePet for you, and a review for Time Crisis: Razing Storm is coming this weekend. Any other requests? ...if there are, just stuff 'em in your shorts for now because we won't be free of crunch time for another month at least.
Tags: move, playstation move, move sales, move ps3
10/21/2010 8:51:00 PM John Shepard
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Comments (26 posts)
maxpontiac
Friday, October 22, 2010 @ 9:05:10 AM
My issue with it now is that games that like (IE - Fallout Vegas) are not supporting it. I did play the Lord of the Rings game last week with the Move though..
The Force Unleashed II needs to support Move and it does fast.
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LimitedVertigo
Thursday, October 21, 2010 @ 9:44:23 PM
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Glad to see Sony having success with it, as long as it doesn't effect my standard gaming in any way.
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Ben Dutka PSXE [Administrator]
Thursday, October 21, 2010 @ 9:46:18 PM
You know I've been pretty vocal about my skepticism over the past year and while I still won't be dumping a lot of hours into Move titles, I'm still pretty impressed.
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LimitedVertigo
Thursday, October 21, 2010 @ 9:52:17 PM
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frostface
Thursday, October 21, 2010 @ 9:45:52 PM
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B-RadGfromOV
Friday, October 22, 2010 @ 4:10:10 AM
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BikerSaint
Thursday, October 21, 2010 @ 9:48:27 PM
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WolfCrimson
Friday, October 22, 2010 @ 1:37:19 AM
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t4_robz
Thursday, October 21, 2010 @ 10:11:35 PM
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frylock25
Thursday, October 21, 2010 @ 10:15:55 PM
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LimitedVertigo
Thursday, October 21, 2010 @ 10:21:35 PM
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Ben Dutka PSXE [Administrator]
Thursday, October 21, 2010 @ 10:25:05 PM
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Lawless SXE
Thursday, October 21, 2010 @ 11:32:47 PM
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I say, good for Sony, now show us what this is truly capable of, and give us a bona fide reason to own it, and not just excuses. (I assure you that that made more sense in my head than it seems to there)
Peace.
P.S. Ben, error in the quote. You spelt go wrong.
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Ben Dutka PSXE [Administrator]
Friday, October 22, 2010 @ 12:05:07 AM
...anyway, I fixed it. ;)
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LimitedVertigo
Friday, October 22, 2010 @ 12:30:34 AM
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Lawless SXE
Friday, October 22, 2010 @ 12:51:37 AM
LV,
Yeah, maybe he should start doing the occasional editorial. That'll make him feel more like a real person, and as such, a bit more identifiable.
Peace and Sorrow.
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frylock25
Friday, October 22, 2010 @ 11:29:49 AM
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___________
Friday, October 22, 2010 @ 1:56:42 AM
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suited the game really well, was quite well implemented.
shame its really the only game worthwhile buying the stupid thing for.
biggest waste of 180 bucks ever!!!!!
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The X Factor 9
Friday, October 22, 2010 @ 4:04:49 AM
I have complete faith that Little Big Planet 2 will incorporate Move controls in a VERY good way, a la Mario Galaxy.
I will buy "The Fight" and/or Time Crisis if the reviews are good (8 or higher) and I can get them on sale.
Next year's Tiger Woods game should be pretty good as well.
The Move game I'm looking most forward to is Sorcery though.
Impressive tech, but not much use for anything else at this point.
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___________
Friday, October 22, 2010 @ 8:54:02 AM
socom 4 and sorcery look the best so far.
but it was a massive waste buying it now, i could of waited till next year bought it when KZ3 came out and 50 bucks says it would of been 20 or so bucks cheaper.
i cant understand sonys logic, they are thick as mules!
they released the ps3 with a crap lineup, it sold poorly.
they released the PSP with a poor launch line up (most games were not available on PSN at release, still aren't).
so you think they would of learned there lesson with the move?
look at kinect theres heaps of launch games releasing for that.
theres so many games i want for it, kinect joy ride looks really cool, kinect adventures looks like a lot of fun just to name a few.
if i remember right this years harry potter game has move support, so will tron evolution so i guess they will have to do.
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sirbob6
Friday, October 22, 2010 @ 3:16:18 PM
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JackC8
Friday, October 22, 2010 @ 6:50:42 AM
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I haven't bought it yet. Sort of plan to, some day. I guess the turnoff is that some games need one Move controller, some need two, some need a Move plus a nav controller. And with all that stuff you probably should get a charging station. And of course the camera and the little clip to hold it on top of the TV. That's runs into a fair bit of money, and I haven't even played Uncharted 2, Heavy Rain, or God of War 3 yet. Not to mention the huge slug of really exciting non-Move games coming out over the next few months.
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Highlander
Friday, October 22, 2010 @ 12:41:39 PM
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I'm actually really impressed by the sales of Move so far, it will sell sufficiently well by the end of the Holiday season to earn a permanent place in the market, and a large enough audience to justify game development for it. Well done by Sony getting it to grow that quickly. As long as they can keep pushing *good* games on it, it will continue to drive purchases.
As for all those pre-launch, E3 comments by A.N.Other game console maker? What say ye Mr. Microsoft spin-meister? Someone needs to review the claims made by the usual MS spin merchants. All those statements about how Kinect was going to sell millions and Move would do next to nothing. Of course that was back when Kinect was coming out before Move. Before Kinect's feature set was eviscerated by cost cutting. *AND* before the actual price of Kinect was known.
I'm having a bad case of the "I hate Microsoft" blues this week, can you tell?
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hehateme
Friday, October 22, 2010 @ 5:50:49 PM
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SvenMD
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Thursday, October 21, 2010 @ 9:34:19 PM
I'll get Move eventually... I just don't know when.
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