Sony on pace to sell 15 million PS3 consoles this year

By on Dec 22, 2010 at 9:02 PM
Gaming December 22, 2010

Microsoft’s Kinect sensor may have stolen the show this holiday season, but it looks like Sony might have the last laugh. Kazuo Hirai, head of Sony’s games division, sat down with reporters on Wednesday to talk PlayStation. Hirai confirmed that Sony’s PlayStation 3 console sales are currently in line with the company’s expectations. In the fiscal year ending March 31, 2011, Sony is on track to sell 15 million PS3 game consoles — up over 15% from last year’s 13 million consoles. Sony also announced last month that it had sold 4.1 million PlayStation Move controllers in two months. Independent gaming industry monitor VGChartz indicates that Sony has sold 12.4 million PlayStation 3 consoles so far this calendar year, landing it ahead of Microsoft’s Xbox 360 (11.3 million) and behind the Nintendo Wii (15.7 million) and DS (19.2 million).

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  • Trailer Trash

    Sweet! (o) (o)

  • Freighttrain2126

    Nice, so there is a true three horse race in the gaming market now unlike years past where the playstation blew everyone away. Now if only they can get the prices lower…..

    • Stephen

      LOL…no.

      The Xbox 360 is dead everywhere but the US. Just like last gen. The only thing that has changed this gen is the millions and millions of duplicate Xbox 360s Microsoft sold due the RRoD and other hardware failure that plague the piece of crap console.

  • http://twitter.com/mistercarter7 Mike Gonzalez

    what?? wasnt the Xbox the best selling console for the last 6 months? how come it’s now the lowest seller?

    • Nokia N900

      I believe these are Worldwide Sales numbers, Xbox outsells the PS3 in the US but not overseas.

  • Trieu80

    nice uh….sony ;)

  • Warren

    Amazing sales.

    Even more amazing when you consider the PS3 is the most expensive console in history and yet is the third fastest selling console in history.

    The sales are going to be absolutely insane when the PS3 drops to 200 dollars next year.

    And LOL BoyGenius quoting the fake fanboy sales number site vgchartz. Way to make yourselves look like fools.

  • http://twitter.com/rdubmu Robert Mutton

    I’ll take that girl in the pic over a playstation :)

  • Nokia N900

    I’d like to show her my Magic Wand ;-)

    • http://twitter.com/rdubmu Robert Mutton

      haha!

  • michael scott

    Boooi ooooi ooooi ing!!!!!
    Me likey.

  • Todd

    They would sell 15,000,001 if they would let me see that chick naked.

  • http://www.mobilecubix.com/services/application-dev/ipad-developer/ iPad Developer

    If that target achieved then it’s very used full for Sony Company.If not (not good sign for consoles users)

  • http://twitter.com/hijackerjack Rohil Thopu

    What about a PS3? I couldn’t concentrate on anything but her tits.

    • Chut Pata

      Come on. It is all plastic. Japs tits are supposed to be smaller than my man boobs.

      • Pp

        Are you stupid or just joking?

  • Gman

    Not true, they include giveaways with Television sales. All statistics are lies

  • rex

    It’s funny that most drooling over the pic are akin to the guy in the back. You know it’s true. Hehe

    • mp

      There’s a guy in the back?

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=719700001 Edward Calderón

    make is disappear

  • Anonymous

    I’m not sure if her….’accessories’ are store-bought or not, but I wouldn’t mind playing with them in either case.

  • http://twitter.com/livingbasehead Shelton

    Look how round a full they are…. oh and nice controller.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_GP2WYAHXS6CRUREISWBGPUSUGE Michael

    Don’t get me wrong, that is a nice looking young lady. But there is no reason for you guys to treat it like it is an object.. you guys need to grow up…. like seriously….

    now question for the Japanese lady, why are you not in the kitchen wearing nothing but a cooks apron and making me a sammich?

    • David

      ah, “treat it”??? talk about objectification! You would have more cred if you had said,”treat her…”

  • Jsantana0793

    World Wide number of systems sold as of today since the systems been on sale.. KEEPING THEM HONEST..

    Wii: 46. Million

    360: 43.5 Million (Kinect SOLD over 4 Million World Wide)

    PS3: 37.9 Million (PS3 Move SHIPPED 4.1 Million World Wide) Shipped…. not sold. Sony put out Misleading numbers to try to one up on Microsoft on Kinect. Some websites put sold, but move of them corrected the information after contacting Sony. Sony rep stated that the number was not units sold, but in fact was units shipped.

    Lets be clear. PS3 has not sold more units world wide then Xbox 360 and Wii.. PS3 MOVE is not a big money maker for Sony.

    The record was set only a year ago by Apple’s iPad, but now Microsoft have stolen back the crown as their new Kinect motion controller for the Xbox 360 has become the fastest-selling device in gadget history.

    Apple managed to sell 2 million iPads on the first two months after it went on sale. The Kinect figures are several leagues ahead of this with 2.5 million selling in just 25 days, an average of 100,000 units a day according to ReadWriteWeb. Indeed it makes you wonder how Microsoft can produce the device in such huge quantities to keep up with demand.

    • jay

      hmmm do i smell jealosy of the p3 yea yea smells like heter

    • Nokia N900

      XBOX360 came out a year before the PS3 and Wii, so they have to be outselling the 360 to catch up and/or surpass it.

  • Paul

    It’s all rubish’ Sony are not selling anywhere near what they say, due to the manufacture defects the do not up to, and them making a loss of over £100,000,000 in 2010, and not being able to pay there share holders.

  • Anonymous

    *Sigh* more bad reporting.. these are SHIPPED units NOT sold.

  • Stillirisep

    xbox has been the number one selling console here IN AMERICA, not the PS3…they should make that clear in the article.

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