'We'll sell 10m PS3s inside one year,' says Sony
Still no sign of a price cut, though
Sony Computer Entertainment America chief Jack Tretton has forecast that the firm will have sold 10m PlayStation 3s by the end of its current financial year.
According to a Reuters, Tretton said yesterday that the firm’s “in good shape” and “about 30 per cent ahead of where we should be” in terms of global sales.
The firm’s never widely publicised its 10m 12-month global sales forecast, but Tretton added that although “sales could slow down” the firm will still hit its target.
Sony's current financial year ends 31 March 2009.
Tretton's PS3 world sales forecast came in the week that analyst GfK Chart Track said that the console was currently in third position in the UK. Between September 2007 and 2008, roughly 1m PS3s were sold, while Nintendo shifted 2.5m Wiis and Microsoft sold 1m Xbox 360s.
Sony also expects to have sold 15m PlayStation Portable handhelds by the end of its financial year.
The Japanese giant will be pleased with the latest sales figures from local market watcher Enterbrain, which found that – in Japan – the PSP was the strongest selling console between April and September this year, notching up sales of 1.58m units. The PSP’s closest rival, Nintendo’s DS, sold 1.31m units during the same period.
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COMMENTS
re: 100m?
Worry about "Mark" because he posts sometimes anonymously and sometimes as Mark. Also sometimes as fat hairy idiot who has a vendetta against everyone else in the world. He's this generations grumpy old man who does indeed have a pile of failed 360's as well as a glorious tank full of Sony merchandise and PS3's that nobody else was going to buy.
re: 100m?
Don't worry about "Mark", he just posts his pathetic little posts pretending to be a PS3 lover, the reality is, whilst posting it, he his bashing a quick one off over his pile of failed 360's..
As for your comment "as a rough tally the ps3 has sold a little over half that of the 360" I think that's pretty inaccurate to. The last official global numbers showed PS3 at 15m and 360 at 19m, and that was way back in July (PS3 has matched or outsold the 360 is every region since then).
100m?
I'd doubt the validity of your feeling and your facts. Firstly the wii has outsold both 360 and ps3. I think accurate sales figures are pretty hard to come by but if you take http://nexgenwars.com/ as a rough tally the ps3 has sold a little over half that of the 360 and a little under half of the wii's target. Still they sold there 10mill by that tallys judging so not bad sony. I'd work out those trust issues with the missus as well and babestations pap.
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