PS3 sales up 130 per cent during Xmas

Eurogamer writes: "A Sony Computer Entertainment America exec has said sales of PS3 were up by more than 130 per cent during the festive period.

He described 2008 as "a pivotal year for PlayStation" with "the best software line-up in the industry" on offer.

"Early internal data points to an increase of more than 130 per cent of PS3 hardware sales for the holiday season - since Black Friday - and we're also seeing a growth of nearly 40 per cent in total PS3 hardware sales for the calendar year," Jackson continued. "We remain confident this momentum will continue into the new year."

[pp]

Stop kidding your self Sony your sales are down not up 130 per cent. Sony will Bull sh*t anything to make the droids feel happy for the purchase of PS3 so sad.

[BRACHATTACK]

Because Moneysoft don't talk out their ass with console sales do they?

[InMyOpinion]

At least M$ sales are better than last year. $ony are down by 18% compared to last year and still have the guts to brag about numbers lol!

[Kotaku_Succs]

even at 400-500$ PS3 sales are up 40% over last year

However x360 sales are down from last year . MS now reports FAKE shipped numbers

X360 sales have plummetted everywhere except USA

in 2009 it wont exist in the market anymore

[Graphics Whore]

Haha this is my impression of Jenzo.

"Yhuk yhuk, I got 9 toes and 8 fingers, that sounds riiight!"

[InMyOpinion]

This is my impression of all PS3 fanboys:

"Why rely on facts when you can make up your own numbers? The PS3 is in last place but in my mind it's in first place because I'm deluded and ignorant."

[Man_of_the_year]

Can you provide a reliable source that claimes "MS now reports FAKE shipped numbers" if you can't i can understand since it does sound like you are AGAIN pulling BS out of your a$$.

A typical SDF practice.

[BRACHATTACK]

It was inevitable that everyone would want a ps3 for Christmas, just imagine if Sony do a price cut next year just in time for christmas. Sales would be up 1300% :D

[Genesis5]

At this price point the PS3 is at it is still competing in these tough times. I would like a price cut too. Though as long as the hardware growth is expanding it keeps the machine viable in the eyes of 3rd party publishers. We also know that these 3rd party publishers are make substantial profits from it.

[Capt CHAOS]

Sales increase 100%+ for pretty much everything at xmas..

[Lifendz]

that's the one barrier to everyone jumping in/on (no pun intended) the PS3 bandwagon. Good stuff for Sony.

[SL1M DADDY]

The console that is priced twice as high as everybody else is still selling very well. They have averaged 10 million consoles sold per year and at a huge price point. Not shabby if you ask me.

[evrfighter]

"An imagine what the sales will look like when Sony drops the price."

except that this isn't "imagine news for gamers.com"

[InMyOpinion]

130% compared to what?

"As the CNET article points out, PS3 sales were down by 18.8 per cent for November 2008 compared to the same month a year previously. Xbox 360 sales were up by 8.6 per cent, while the figure for Wii rose by 108 per cent."

"But Sony said this was an anomaly, blaming 'an abnormally strong month due to a price cut (with) the introduction of the 40GB PS3'."

So "Early internal data points to an increase of more than 130 per cent of PS3 hardware sales for the holiday season" translates into 18.8% less sales than last year?

Sounds more like early internal bs to me.

Btw, Wii up 108%? That's insane.

[DaTruth]

130% compared to the month before the holidays! I would have thought that was obvious.

[InMyOpinion]

I guess it's awesome news then ;)

[meepmoopmeep]

i liked your old avatar better

[DaTruth]

It's probably just news; Every company should see better than usual sales for the holiday season. Given that they had the same price point, the strong competition from 360 price cut and the epidemic that is the Wii, they probably couldn't have hoped for better.

[InMyOpinion]

I never liked you at all. j/k

You mean the IK+ one? Great game, wish they made an updated(celshaded?) XBL/PSN version of it.

[meepmoopmeep]

lol, yeah that one.

would be cool if they brought those retro games for downloads

[InMyOpinion]

I like your ICO avatar as well. Groundbreaking game, just like SOTC.

[ultimolu]

Not surprised. Sony talks in terms of growth, not numbers every five minutes like a *certain* company...

[Sarcasm]

Actually company execs, C.E.O.s, etc. look at TRENDS when it comes to numbers. My boss doesn't give a damn about the specific numbers just as long as the trend is pointing the upper direction. It's only if the trend is going downwards, will there be production cuts or layoffs and things like that.

If people look at the bigger picture especially in the U.S. economy, everything is trending downwards hence the word (recession).

But Blind 360 fanboys will always sit and deny the fact that even in this rough economy. A $400 console like the PS3 is selling healthy despite other world issues.

Now I have to be cool like breakfast and put a smile at the end of my comment.

:)

[Death]

Since they came in last, they omit the sales of the competition. What would they say? We had a year to year growth of nearly 40% and came really close to beating the Xbox 360 for the year, but still came in last? Sony isn't being professional, they are simple in a unique position to not be able to make comparisons since they had the worst holiday of the three.

-Death

[ultimolu]

Well nevertheless, PS3's are still selling, despite this economic climate.

That's nothing short of amazing.

[karlostomy]

not really, guys.

the ps3 will sell a certain number of consoles just because the ps2 was so successful.

It is called brand loyalty.

Thus, a certain proportion of ps3 sales were assured regardless of price and quality.
In other words, it was expected, by default. It is not amazing at all. In fact, it is rather predictable.

http://en.mimi.hu/marketing...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wik...

Further to this, consider the opposite, too.... a certain number of Sony fans will never buy a 360 purely because of this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wik... despite obvious reasons to do so.

[pippoppow]

Sure, there will always be brand recognition/loyalty to any platform but to not mention the solid 08 lineup as well as the known 09 lineup to be released as a major contributor to it's success this holiday season is omitting. Of course Blu-ray market penetration is also a factor as well as are it's feature set.

[mynd]

That would put them around 800k, that's not bad, and about the same as last year.
Recession be damned.

[Sarcasm]

True dat, recession be damned. I better not get an I.O.U instead of my tax refund.

[yoghurt]

wrong jenzo, they are up 40-60% on total sales from last year.

[Sir_Ken_Kutaragi]

...You sad xbotzombielemmingcuntsonthis

YUMMY!!!;) I can't wait for a PS3 price cut!!! ;-P
There will be BLOOD...xBox 360 GREEN BLOOD!!! ;-D

[DNAgent]

Green blood? We all know the 360's color is white & red. Where did you get green from?

[Sir_Ken_Kutaragi]

The 'Power of Gr...' ;-D
+
'xBox 360' has Green logos etc etc;)

+WOW!!! I just been back 3 days and lost 2 Bubbles!!! ;-D
Thank you Mod's you bunch of...(better not say it) ;)

Put me down to 1 if it makes you feel GOD-LIKE???
The only GOD on this is ME!!! ;-D
(Well Sir Ken is!!!)
Ahh the Destroyer of your beloved xBox and your HD-DVD add-on and soon your xBox 360!!! ;-D
You can't STOP the PS3!!! What ever you ***** say or do on this!!!;)

[360RRODFIX]

Playstation is a famous brand name that SOny has build with PS1 and PS2.
If SOny had console that is 250 than o boy no one would even look or buy those other two system, it would be like previous gen with PS2. So both MS and Nintendo should be thankful that SOny is allowing them to make some money.

[Bombomb]

now lets see them numbers..

[Chrissy]

"a pivotal year for PlayStation" with "the best software line-up in the industry"

Their company is on the verge of collapse, ps3 sales are getting annihilated, 3rd parties are running away to either MS or even nintendo, non existent software sales, massive losses............

All this and yet they still spit such arrogance and ignorance?!?! No matter how many of their divisions get the axe next month Im pretty confident that their massive ego will never perish. sad

[she00win99]

sigh, even if you put a beautiful face in your avatar pp, we still know it you because your brain is as retarded as ever...

[Kotaku_Succs]

PS3 outsells x360 in europe and Japan

40% growth compared to last year in USA

130% jump in HW sales. Did u read that?

did u read that perhaps

verge of collapse???

haha SONY can buy any US companies any day.
collapsed is US economy and US companies

X360 is getting murdered by PS3 everywhere except USA. In most parts of teh world an X360 costs as small as 100$ and PS3 still outsell it at 4x the price

[Chrissy]

GFK announced numerous times that 360 is outselling ps3 throughout EU more than 2:1. Even in the previously ridiculously ps3fanboy titled ''sony countries'' like italy and spain. But I guess sony sends you payroll fanboys their own numbers so you dont commit suicides an all.

[she00win99]

this is good for sony but bad to the buyers. if ps3 will keep selling an avarage of 200 thousand units per month or more, then there will be no price cut next year...

[MaximusPrime]

well here in UK a lot of people are buying PS3 instead of xbox 360.
im quite pleased with that.

[FinalomegaS]

"A Sony Computer Entertainment America exec has said sales of PS3 were up by more than 130 per cent during the festive period.

yay for Sony,

they sold an extra 2 systems =/

Seriously all systems did way better this holiday season than the previous year. Congrats to all...

[interrergator]

hmmm should they do a price cut now or is it still ya kno early i need a system for my kid

[Bazookajoe_83]

So sometimes before summer, but it´s a long time to wait. If i were you i would look around the internet and see if there´s some store that a special offer or something.

[dazzalfc]

I think it depends on how well the Playstation 3 sells in January as to whether Sony will cut the price now or later. A reasonable performance in January will probably see the Playstation 3 continue at the price it is at now.

If sales struggle in January, then we may probably see a price cut come in February, just before the launch of Killzone 2. I do think it would be a good time for a price cut. With the economic crisis along with competing with competition half its price, i think a price cut would improve sales greatly. Its been about a year since Sony dropped the price properly on the Playstation 3, i think another one will be due sometime soon.

Still, good figures for Playstation 3 last year. Hopefully it'll continue to go up and the video games industry will continue to grow with it.

[gametheory]

They didn't need to do *much* better, as long as the next year is better than this one. The problem will be if Sony starts to sell less. But again, they can always rely on Microsoft-like tactics, drop prices everywhere, hurt profitability but increase their sales numbers to surpass targets and claim it was all about their skill as great product designers instead of cheap product advertisers.

[Dread]

you act like Sony did not have a price cut already and during the first year to boot.

ms tactics... lol

[evrfighter]

so cutting prices is M$ like tactics...

/facepalm

[BigPappaPump]

I thought the @$$ from CNN said Sony is a sinking ship. Is anybody surprised that Sony is holding its own?

[Harry190]

your biceps, I want you to do 35 reps in 14 seconds.

[BigPappaPump]

35 reps in what? bench press? arm curls? sit ups? leg extentions?

[Erich Rhoemer]

why are you pretending to be a girl? you gay or something lol

[jcgamer]

and we ps3 owners will be in gaming bliss while they are getting things sorted...

*does MC Hammer* :)

[testerg35]

Weird.. when MS announces their numbers, PS3 complains how impossible the numbers are, but when Sony announces its numbers its gospel.

[Magic_The_Celt]

i think its LittleBigPlanet :) EVERYONE is talking about that game here in the UK, ads everywhere too

Its got awesome sales so far

[djslapdash]

No matter how much of a sales increase the PS3 has, it still cannot catch up to the Xbox 360.

Forget the Wii, its in a league of its own

[tiberious151]

These Sony execs are always full of shiit. Massive restructuring and "cow slaying measures" being reported by dozens of credible sources, yet they still deny anything is happening.

[bviperz]

Look forward to the games, not the sale figures.

[No FanS Land]

We'll see how sony is accurate when the NPD numbers are out. Until then, I won't believe.