Move has had “very significant sales in the first month since launch, somewhere in the region of 1.5 million units for the new controller across just Europe,” House [Andrew House, head of SCEE] said. “The initial sales response has been so far in excess of our initial plan that we’ll probably be looking at accelerating production.”
PlayStation 3 sales are somewhere around 16m units in Europe (as of late August), so this would place the Move install base at about 9% or so. That is certainly a much better start than what I expected.
[...] got some idea of how the PlayStation Move was selling in Europe yesterday (around 1.5m units) but now we have our first hint of what the US sales numbers are and they are not quite has hot. A [...]