Within an hour of launching, the website had crashed under the weight of fans clamouring to find out more.
We had our first order within half an hour of launching the business – we were really excited and then realised it was for a material swatch [samples of fabric].
It is expected to reach the ISS within seven hours of launch, at around 5.30pm on Tuesday evening, where Major Peake and his fellow crew will spend six months carrying out experiments and maintenance as part of the Principia mission.
Most importantly for Sony though, the PS4 outsold the Xbox One, clearing more than 250,000 units within the first 48 hours of launch and easily beating the Xbox One's sales of 150,000 consoles in the same time period.
Within 24 hours of launch, however, the site was receiving 70,000 classifications an hour, and more than 50 million classifications were received by the project during its first year, from almost 150,000 people.
Sales figures for the Xbox One are not yet know, though during its first 24 hours of launch Sony's rival console managed to shift more than one million units – a record for the company and significant considering the sales came solely from North American markets.
As for the new watches themselves, they are on sale via Kickstarter, where they have already raised more than $500,000 within the first 24 hours of launch.
Within the first eight hours of launch, the service signed up 13,000-15,000 users, and hosted 3,000-4,000 meetingood good numbers for a service that didn't launch with any fanfare and is essentially aiming at enterprise users, not consumers.
