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Sony still dead set on selling 13 million PS3s in 2009

Nick @ PS3Center writes:

Since the price cut and introduction of the 120GB PS3 in Cologne last month, things have been on the up and up for Sony's PS3. Last week, early retail reports indicated a massive movement of PS3 hardware and data supplied by the NPD Group showed PS3 sales improving year-over-year, the first occurrence of that in 9 months.

However, the fact remains that the console is still down more than 1 million units worldwide in comparison to 2008. Regardless, Sony is still confident in overcoming that gap.

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The-Warranty5332d ago (Edited 5332d ago )

Saying something like that makes me thing GT5 will come out. Reguardless the Slim is putting Sony on a Roll

N4G king5332d ago

im 100% sure
sony can do it

just keep doing the good moves that you've been doing lately Sony
and you'll sell more than that

zeeshan5332d ago

If they announce something massive like AGENT or GT5 09 release date, they have it covered. I also think that SONY should introduce a couple of bundles of Uncharted 2, GT5 and other heavy weight titles. That should nail it. They saw an extra ordinary boost in sales this month but it'll eventually start to fall. If they can do half of what they have done the last few weeks, they'll achieve their targets easily. Heck, there is a chance that they can even exceed their target. TGS is going to decide if Sony is really going to sweep this holiday!

Saaking5332d ago

Price Cut + FFXIII + GT5= Goals met and exceeded.

FlatulentGhost5332d ago

Sony sold 10 million PS3s worldwide in 2008 at 400 dollars.

There doesn't need to be any 'big news'. The 299 Slim will bring the PS3 to 13 million worldwide for 2009 with ease.

SupaPlaya5332d ago

look at my avatar.

Imitating Rob Schneider's voice: "YOU CAN DO IT!!"

umair_s515332d ago

I wont be surprised if they do it. They must have some slim bundles planned, along with others thing

LoVeRSaMa5332d ago

if this is a business projection and not PR talk then I believe they can do it 100%

Sony are an international business, they do not throw numbers into the air unless they mean it.

Anon19745332d ago

I argued this before the price cut and slim were announced. These were internal numbers that Sony stuck to as being able to hit in fiscal 2009. These types of projections aren't made haphazardly. If they can't meet those figures they have to answer to shareholders, there's internal audits, heads generally role. That's why it's such a big deal when they have to revise those numbers down.

The fact that Sony was still sticking to the 13 million figures, despite the sales so far this year pretty much cinched the fact that either the Slim was coming out, they were cutting the price or both. Turns out it was both, and with consumer spending slowing heating up again, there's no reason Sony won't be able to make this happen this holiday season.

RememberThe3575332d ago

Even if this is a PR move, it is still a very attainable number. These type of projections are the kinds that send a message not only to consumers and the competition, but internally that people need to keep their game tight. If these projections aren't met it will look bad, and no one wants to look bad. It lets everyone know that their here to play ball not shoot around.

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DelbertGrady5332d ago

"However, the fact remains that the console is still down more than 1 million units worldwide in comparison to 2008."

Sounds promising. Who cares about sales anyways? We play games, not sales, right?

xxBiG_BoSSxx5332d ago

it took the ps2 68 months to reach 100 million. that averages out to about 1.5 million a month, so i think now that the ps3's price has dropped its entirely possible for sony to reach its goal by march 2010.
don't know if they will because they would have to sell about 1.5 million a month to reach it, but either way the ps3 will do very well.
we'll have a better idea how close they can get to their goal, or whether they'll surpass it in the next couple months.

Persistantthug5332d ago

And in that time frame, there's still the Christmas holliday season,

There really should be no problem with them meeting their goal.

PiTCHBLaCK5332d ago

I Think Sony has a good Chance of pulling it off.
The Economy world wide was bad all year, PS3 Price "Was"
High", Now the PS3 Price is very Competative and According
to the stocks, Economy is picking up.

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gauntletpython5332d ago

If the news over this past week is any indication, than they should have it covered.

Saaking5332d ago

550k in just ONE week is insane. Sony is in for a great holiday as are many new PS3 owners.

Lightsaber5332d ago

Saaking kind of like GT pro had 2 million pre orders in the uk alone but then again it only sold like 300k its 1st week.

Kamikaze1355332d ago

As long as they put out enough advertisement for their big games coming out (even Eye Pet for the casual crowed), then it can be done. Not only that, but they should consider going into a bit detail on what "it can only do everything" means (buy movies online, rent, blu ray player, media stream, web browser, music, video, and picture storage, etc).

gauntletpython5332d ago

Saw a bunch of those commercials watching football today!

Snoogins5332d ago

The new commercials Sony has released in support of the "re-launch" of their system are charming in the vein of the original GEICO commercials, and we have seen the effects of those as people talked about them, for their catchy slogans and wit. One thing I must add to you talking about Sony marketting their big titles is that it is an area they need to work on. One thing Microsoft has done well (extremely well), is how much money they put into theatrical production values that get people pumped up for their exclusive titles (see: latest ODST live-action ad). However, unlike Microsoft, Sony should find a balance of production values as well as selling their games by letting the games speak for themselves. Also, Sony needs to convey a reality that has been evident (for some longer than others) of how much a true value their $299 console is, especially compared to the competition. You know it's a value, I know it's a value, but Mr. and Mrs. Joe and Jane Casual somehow don't realise it yet.

PiTCHBLaCK5332d ago

I Totally agree, I Think Sony should Advertise with the
focus of comparing the PS3 to Both the Wii and the 360, if
they did that then People will understand the True Value of the PS3
Compared to the 360 and Wii.

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NecrumSlavery5332d ago

i see a slight Christmas price drop on top of the current one and TGS will unveil a 250gb Slim. they will replace the current models as the two ps3 consoles, and the rest of the fats will sell out completely. this also makes me think TGS will be the big seller for the ps3 this year. i don't know what they will have but, i am sure its going to be groovy. sony can do it.

Mr Tretton5332d ago

I reeeeally doubt any further price drop is happening this year. C'mon. I think the PS3 is staying $299 for a good while. Especially if it continues to sell well at that price point.

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rlow113h ago

Sad day, hopefully they’ll allow a third party server solution. Goes to show game preservation is an uphill battle.

blackblades5h ago

Sad day oh wait everyone that whining about it didn't play it or haven't played it in years and never was going back to it. Funny how people start to care when this happens but when it was actually up those same people didn't even pay attention to it.

rlow11h ago(Edited 1h ago)

First, you don’t know who has or hasn’t played it. So that’s your assumption. Secondly, even if people haven’t played it in awhile, it’s still nostalgia. Those memories of sharing your creation and having fun playing other peoples creations. Third, no game out there is really like this or as iconic. Today if they made this they would nickel and dime the whole way through and it would launch broken.

Cacabunga48m ago

Reason why i really dislike online games.. they become unplayable over time.. LBP story mode is actually only a tutorial

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just_looken8h ago

What needs to be highlighted by this is that the series has had 4 main games then that go kart spin off yet sony let them all die.

There is 0 games like this on ps5 and to my knowledge 0 first party main kids games no tech demo crap

Sony purchased Media Molecule studio the ip then tossed it away letting it rot for over 7 years yet the community carried on until now were we have lost 16 years on all games of content along with no replacement.

Everyone goes on about ea killing studios but sony has killed way way more but its fine its sony they can do no wrong.

Before the sony blidboys track me down again go fire up your holy boxes all the dlc they tossed out all the trophies and all the user content needs a server side handshake that no longer works. Yes offline single player version 1.0 works but that is it.

Media Molecule was not cut i know but they only made LBP and dreams it was reported they just missed the chopping block
https://gamerant.com/little...

Do not forget the dreams game was tossed out 2020 but 3 years later support was pulled
https://www.digitaltrends.c...

All in all this is another failure at sony on a long long list in the past 10 years

Inverno7h ago

It's kind of hard to disagree when SONY has a history of abandoning many of their IPs. They killed Mod Nation and turnt it into LBP Karting because of brand recognition but left it to die too. They made their own Smash Bros only to rush the studio, and turn the game into an advert for recent release at the time and still let it die. They shut down PS Home for more or less the same reason, they left it to rott till it became too broken and exploited to bother fixing.

just_looken5h ago

This right here

Playstation home is what facebook is trying to make now but in vr that metaverse deal

Imagine if sony kept up ps home development

The death of playstation forums was also a huge loss

u-bEttA-rUn6h ago

Their games were unable to attract the masses every game that came out the attachment grew smaller and smaller they advertise LBP for years the industry changed and then came fortnight... You want Sony to continue to support them which cost them money that they're not getting back from the studio.

DOMination-3h ago

Honestly, I think a well-designed LBP-style game would do better than ever in the current state of the industry.

People have short attention spans. Having something that is pick up, play a few levels and put down again is the experience the "masses" are after.

Keep it as a 2D platformer only with well-designed base levels, make it easy to build new levels and more importantly easy to access new content - personally I always found the way Forze Horizon 4&5 provide daily, weekly and monthly challenges via new content that they've built or handpicked from the community is a system that works great - and then stick it on mobile and PC with Steam Deck support.

Make it F2P with a one-off fee for the level editor (to stop people spamming crap onto the store) and have MTX for more characters, outfits etc. and there you have a live service game that Sony should be all over.

Do the same with a new Karting game and a 2D fighting/Smash Bros style engine and you have three bangers right there.

(I appreciate the N4G community will hate the idea of LBP being a live service game with MTX and I get that but I think if there's one game this model could work well for, it's this.. just imo)

anast1h ago(Edited 1h ago)

Astro's is similar.

Not enough people cared to play it, so they cut it.

Sony has never been a kid friendly console. This should be obvious. People go to Nintendo for this stuff.

StoneTitan1h ago

Its on media molecule though. They did not want to continue LBP. Sony accepted that.
Sumo continued it. With a solala lbp3 and a great sackboy though.
Its not sonys fault. They dont want to force a studio to create a new LBP game.
But I would love a revival.

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Tacoboto8h ago

I feel bad for Media Molecule. For the ideas they have it seems they need a publisher that supports games like this and Dreams especially for as many players as possible.

DOMination-4h ago

Sony in the Andrew House era did support them massively though. They let them do their thing with LBP and spent millions marketing it. I remember one E3 they even used LBP to cover the boring parts of the presentation where they talk about sales figures etc.

And then they allowed MM to announce their game on the PS4 console announcement/showcase event and waited the entire generation for them to release it.

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