{"id":866,"date":"2007-04-19T21:35:56","date_gmt":"2007-04-20T01:35:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2007\/04\/19\/dubious-ps3-numbers\/"},"modified":"2007-04-19T21:38:24","modified_gmt":"2007-04-20T01:38:24","slug":"dubious-ps3-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2007\/04\/19\/dubious-ps3-numbers\/","title":{"rendered":"Dubious PS3 Numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Great post by <a href=\"http:\/\/dubiousquality.blogspot.com\/2007\/04\/console-post-of-week.html\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/dubiousquality.blogspot.com\/2007\/04\/console-post-of-week.html', 'Bill Harris');\" target=\"new\">Bill Harris<\/a> about poor PS3 sales figures for a five week period in March.  It seems that while the Wii continues to post solid numbers, the 360 is not doing very hot, while the PS3 is totally tanking.<\/p>\n<p>I have been bouncing around the idea of picking up an up-converting DVD player because I have not settled on HD-DVD or Blu-ray as the future format of choice.  I guess this is the billion dollar question \u2013 which format will win?  If I decided to go Blu-ray, it may make some sense to go with a PS3, but to be honest I do not know if the unit included in the PS3 is top of the line, middle of the road, or a poor performer (kind of like the DVD units shipped with the early PS2 systems).<\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\nif(wpa2a)wpa2a.script_load();\n\/\/--><\/script>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Great post by Bill Harris about poor PS3 sales figures for a five week period in March. It seems that while the Wii continues to post solid numbers, the 360 is not doing very hot, while the PS3 is totally tanking. I have been bouncing around the idea of picking up an up-converting DVD player &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2007\/04\/19\/dubious-ps3-numbers\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Dubious PS3 Numbers<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}