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800,000 PS3s sold in Europe

Sony CEO Stringer declares success

18 April 2007 13:47 GMT / By Chris Ford

Sony bashers might be saying that Sony is failing to sell its lastest console the PS3, however Sony say otherwise.

According to Company CEO Howard Stringer, the media giant has stated that almost 800,000 units have already been sold in Europe making the European PS3 launch a success.

In the Financial Times newspaper Stringer commented, "I think [in] the first 2 days in the UK, £100m/US$199m revenue changed hands and that's probably the largest consumer electronics sale in history".

He also mused over the difference between the European launch and that in Japan, saying that Europe hasn’t experienced "the perception wars" like those in Japan, and he also recognised that the PS3 launched with more games in Europe than Japan.

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