1.2 million PS3s sold since Black Friday

  • Posted January 6th, 2008 at 18:18 EDT by
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Sony Computer Entertainment announced today that they had sold over 3.9 million units of PlayStation hardware in North America since Black Friday. So that's from November 23rd till December 31, 2007. Out of 3.9 million the PlayStation 2 sold over 1.3 million units, the PlayStation Portable over 1.4 million units, and the PlayStation 3 over 1.2 million units. Keep in mind that these numbers are North America only.

"The PlayStation brand ended the year in a very strong position and clearly indicates more positive momentum going into 2008. We are particularly pleased to have sold through 1.2 million units of PS3 during the holiday selling season," said Jack Tretton, president and CEO, SCEA. "The strong PS3 sales also further establish Blu-ray's dominant position as the high-definition medium of choice for games and movies. Consumers are clearly responding to the expanding multimedia capabilities and a great line-up of over 200 games."

This is it for PlayStation for now, probably more news to come from CES as the Sony press conference approaches. Stay tuned!

 

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  1. Ezcobar411

    • 6:21pm GMT - January 6th, 2008
    • 1

    Now this is what I want to hear

  2. solinox

    • 6:29pm GMT - January 6th, 2008
    • 2

    2008 IS the year of the PS3!!

  3. Ant-Money909

    • 6:46pm GMT - January 6th, 2008
    • 3

    PSN ID: Ant-Money909......Yeah, 2008 is the year of the PS-Triple. Blu-Ray won the Hi-Def war and we have some really great exclusive games coming out this year. The PS3 will outsell the XBox weak60 this year!!!!

  4. gingo | gingo

    • 6:53pm GMT - January 6th, 2008
    • 4

    psn id: gingo... those are some great numbers from all the sony consoles but especially happy now that more than 1 million ps3s were sold during this time period and soon playstation should have an online ommunity to rival the xbox or so i hope because we need more people talking and chatting in games

  5. Staude | Staude

    • 7:33pm GMT - January 6th, 2008
    • 5

    Awesome.. what are the numbers in the rest of the world though ?

  6. luis123 | espinlh

    • 7:34pm GMT - January 6th, 2008
    • 6

    yeah , 2008 is ours

  7. J08hawks | J08hawks

    • 7:38pm GMT - January 6th, 2008
    • 7

    Nice

    psn id J08hawks

  8. BD_BLACKAZZ | BD_BLACKK

    • 7:49pm GMT - January 6th, 2008
    • 8

    the SONY takeover has begin .......

  9. VIPER-G1 | VIPER-G1

    • 8:14pm GMT - January 6th, 2008
    • 9

    Very good news

  10. Phazon185 | Phazze185

    • 8:47pm GMT - January 6th, 2008
    • 10

    Good boost for both PS3 and PSP.

    And worldwide that puts it close to 9 million sold.

     

    Hopefully they aren't as far behind the 360 and Wii as usual, expect huge numbers there too.

     

  11. Stickemup

    • 9:57pm GMT - January 6th, 2008
    • 11

    Yeah with all these HD-DVD downfalls the PS3 will surely outsell it this upcoming year. BUT it will not outsell the Wii. Maybe in 2009. Depends on how many good games come out for the Wii. After Smash Bros Brawl what do they really have?

  12. Spacebilly | 51113677

    • 10:10pm GMT - January 6th, 2008
    • 12

    well done sony

     

  13. yoboyrob9041226 | BIGROB904

    • 10:27pm GMT - January 6th, 2008
    • 13

    more people to have online and more people to beat.

  14. Uncool | Admodistrator

    • 10:34pm GMT - January 6th, 2008
    • 14

    Wow not bad if I do say so myself. ;)

  15. psn_frov | frov

    • 11:03pm GMT - January 6th, 2008
    • 15

    With MS and Nintendo using their big titles already, PS3 will start to slaughter sells on a monthly basis beginning with the first exclusive that comes out!!!

  16. Lp47PS3 | Lp47

    • 11:08pm GMT - January 6th, 2008
    • 16

    very good sales, it's great to hear the ps2 selling as good as it is even after 7 years.

    Off topic: For those who complain about 40gb having no BC. Well if you really want to play ps2 games buy a 40gb ps3 and then buy a ps2 it equals qhat an 80gb is worth. 40gb PS3=$399 + PS2+$100 = 499.00 Which also equals an 80gb.

  17. Stev-o | kingboy941

    • 11:42pm GMT - January 6th, 2008
    • 17

    pshhh,wait till mgs 4 and gta IV comes out..ohh man people are gonna be busy getting a ps3 to play those games!!

  18. snake_eater | MetalGearHMN

    • 12:42am GMT - January 7th, 2008
    • 18

    Wait to celebrate until the 360 numbers are announced.

  19. Muzikguy | Muzikguy

    • 1:08am GMT - January 7th, 2008
    • 19

    psn id: Muzikguy...Where are they coming up with the 200 games? I can only count around 40

  20. Jared

    • 2:13am GMT - January 7th, 2008
    • 20

    2008 looks to be a bright year for Sony.  Here's to a hopeful year for the PS3! *raises glass*

  21. The Cleaner

    • 5:38am GMT - January 7th, 2008
    • 21

    Reality check....The consumers responded to the price drops and now they are waiting for the next price drop. 

     

    Reality is PS3 did poorly once again over Christmas. The revenue line figures got released on Friday the 6th ... Xbox 360 pulled in a massive US$3.5 Billion compared to PS3 which did just $1 Billion. Worst still Live has crossed the 10 million mark over Christmas. We got pounded...

     

    On the upside Microsoft Live whilst succesful got smashed and has had to handle 380 million downloads. Their server infrastructure is straining under the load and this has caused outages....

     

    With delays on MGS 4, Haze, Little Big Planet - Sony needs to really pull the finger out and get Home on track and get some proper games out before the end of Feb. Otherwise slash N burn those prices... again...

     

    Nintendo's US revenues for December was above $2 Billion and inspite of the shortages it appears that they finished 2007 with an installed base of 19.5 Million consoles VS Xbox 360 with only 17.7 Million. If thats the case Wii will have passed the 20 million mark before you read this message.

     

    I think the most important figure to watch is the sales of COD4, Assasins Creed over christmas and again launch figures for DMC 4, and GTA 4 on Xbox 360 VS PS3. If the gap is too wide in favor of Xbox 360, the publishers will certainly slow development of PS3 further and focus on PC + Xbox 360 and plus support dedicated DS / Wii dev teams. They wont have a choice.

     

    We cant rely on Square Enix again or Konami to save PS3 - Sony needs to pull a rabit out of the hat and deliver that must have content within the next month or two otherwise momentum will probably stall.

  22. Bedsidelee

    • 5:55am GMT - January 7th, 2008
    • 22

    The ps3 is the greatest console ever i was an xbox man until i discovered the ps3 i have even sold my xbox 360 it's so obsolete, i'm not being a fanboy but it's true, you can download divx movies straight to your harddrive but the xbox 360 can't, you can watch blu-ray movies on your ps3 xbox 360 can't you need to stream divx via a pc even photos and music it needs a pc to stream everything, and this year the ps3 games are going to be a hundred times better than the xbox 360’s, my point is this is why the ps3 has sold over a million consoles in just over a month long may it continue

  23. Clarky_psu | clarky-132

    • 3:09pm GMT - January 7th, 2008
    • 23

    Awesome, I really want to know how the Xbox360 did..

  24. InfernoReaper | GrimDarkling

    • 4:17am GMT - January 8th, 2008
    • 24

    If for some freakish reason you haven't picked up a PS3 by now, 2008 will knock your legs out from under you.

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