Sony responds to March NPD figures

  • Posted April 18th, 2008 at 04:39 EDT by Mike Harradence
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Sony Computer Entertainment America (SCEA) has issued a statement in response to March NPD figures, observing 98 per cent year-on-year increase in PlayStation 3 sales.

NPD figures released yesterday revealed that the PS3 sold 257,000 units for the month of March 2008; edged out slightly by the Xbox 360, which shifted 262,000 units during the same period.

Speaking in a statement issued today, Jack Tretton, CEO of SCEA, commented: "Our sales momentum continues to defy what is traditionally a sluggish sales month. PS3 continued the strong momentum with a year-over-year sales growth of over 98 percent.”

"...PSP expanded the portable market with more than 297,011 in hardware sales this month, driven by the monster releases of the two best-selling handheld games in March, God of War: Chains of Olympus and Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII. This further proves the trend that 2008 is the year for PlayStation."

PlayStation hardware revenues reached USD 186 million for March, amounting to a year-on-year increase of 23 per cent, with PlayStation brand software revenue for the month up 25 per cent to USD 304.7 million, said the company.

Furthermore, the platform holder revealed it had sold 1.9 million units of software across all three PlayStation platforms during March, which yielded a year-on-year increase of 139 per cent.

Sony also said that PlayStation Network registrations in North America to date have reached 3.7 million, with 67 million pieces of content downloaded since its inception in November 2006.

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  1. jicaley | UKMF-Jay

    • 4:44am BST - April 18th, 2008

    With all these new customers they are getting its ever more reason to sort out the online community. Come on Sony, release the in-game XMB, Home and fix the slow PSN store. The rest of the system is awesome : )

  2. Staticneuron | Staticneuron

    • 5:01am BST - April 18th, 2008

    So if the PS3 outsells the 360 next month they cannot use the shortage excuse can they?

  3. Limanima | Limanima

    • 5:02am BST - April 18th, 2008

    @jicaley

    Yesterday the store looked good. No more problems while loading the images. It looked great. Except for the organization in the EU store, because it still sucks.

  4. ephracis | ephracis

    • 5:09am BST - April 18th, 2008

    Worst thing with the stores are the different content. I just wanna get Shivering Isle for Oblivion without having to buy the game again (buying the GOTY edition). But I cannot buy anything on my US account since the billing info on my credit card is inside the EU, so I cannot use it on the US account.

     

    I really hope those PSN cards will work world-wide. How am I gonna buy stuff from the US store otherwise?

  5. gingo | gingo

    • 5:55am BST - April 18th, 2008

    psn id: gingo.... good to see more people on psn and as jicaley said maybe that will make them get home and in game xmb out as soon as

  6. killercop | killercop

    • 6:35am BST - April 18th, 2008

    @ Staticneuron

     

    PS3 has outsold Xbox 360 every single month in 2008. Shortage excuse from Microsoft is pure bullsh't! xD

  7. terminator12259 | tacitassassin25

    • 6:39am BST - April 18th, 2008

    lets wait until all of the exclusives start pouring in. then we will see who sells more and @ staticneuron they will have another excuse by then, it will go something like this "because of all of the 360's breaking we have not been able to make any new ones"

  8. Odium_Generis_Humani

    • 6:57am BST - April 18th, 2008

    Wow.  I just can't see how someone could get a 360.  I had one.  What do people see in that machine?  Well I guess they don't find out what I know until they buy it, so I take that back and I guess price really IS everything.  Those poor people.

  9. Ryoma

    • 7:10am BST - April 18th, 2008

    360 did have a shortage but its due to them saving consoles for gta4 release, now we will see what happens. my prediction is 360 and ps3 will be close on hardwre but we all got to face it that 360 is alot stronger in game sales.

  10. HazdoTT | Tazmyster

    • 7:44am BST - April 18th, 2008

    ps3 has to do well this year and by september reduce the price a bit to get more people in during the holiday seson......although they wud of done well with MGS4 as thats a system seller without a doubt but sony needs to catch up wid xbox in total sales to have a chance in winnng this generation of consoles......(wii dont count) but im a big sony fan nearley everything in my house is sony:P technology wise sooo come on sony!!!!! 

  11. princevegeta1980

    • 8:01am BST - April 18th, 2008

    how many ps3's were sold worlwide at the end of march?, did sony reach thies 11million goal?

  12. Xdeth | Xdeth

    • 8:50am BST - April 18th, 2008

    "...PS3 sold 257,000 units for the month of March 2008; edged out slightly by the Xbox 360, which shifted 262,000 units during the same period."

    I find it funny they used the word shifted. As in they juggled units around to make it seem like they sold more. Sony really needs to bring back the upper tier model. I know a lot of people who are ready to buy a PS3 but don't want the 40 gig model.

  13. liquidghost | LiquidGhost

    • 8:58am BST - April 18th, 2008

    whaaaaaaattttt!!! this is jiberish i know if i didint have a ps3 already i would be waiting on the bundle to come out GTA4 and MGS4 so this doesnt really mean anything because in preorders the ps3 has already sold more than the 360 for those months so thisa means nothing...

  14. azad_champ

    • 9:17am BST - April 18th, 2008

    Sony really needs to get it's acto together and start competing with the Wii. They should invest more heavily in first-party so that the games get released earlier.

    Great to see the high PSN user number.

  15. markwesker

    • 10:29am BST - April 18th, 2008

    360 has had a price cut tho so that explains it

  16. PS3-The Ultimate Machine

    • 10:42am BST - April 18th, 2008

    257,000 ain't a bad figure,especially considering the fact that so many playstation most wanted games were pushed back.

  17. Mattchewie | Mattchewie

    • 11:31am BST - April 18th, 2008

    @azad_champ -

    I don't think you want that. I own a wii and to be honest I see no value in the system. Sure, if I had kids or a family it would be great however currently their 3rd party games are for the most part horrible (outside of no more heros) and on top of that they don't even support HD resolutions. Which btw, a wii on a 42 inch LCD tv without the ability to hit at least 720P looks AWFUL.

     

  18. InfernoReaper | GrimDarkling

    • 2:21pm BST - April 18th, 2008

    I plan to pick up a 360 Elite in the next few months but for reliability sake, I'm only buying the platform exclusives for it (Halo, GeOW, Dead Rising, etc.)  Everything else I buy for my PS3, GTA IV included.

  19. PoStedUP | StreetVeteran

    • 3:03pm BST - April 18th, 2008

    ps3s will sell even more when their exclusives start poping up on the news for being the most spectactular games ever created, now thats media attention, with the slight price drop ofcourse

  20. I95SOUTH | I95SOUTH

    • 4:13pm BST - April 18th, 2008

    If you got a ps3 then your on the right track. If you bought a xbox in the mix then you are losing money. I don't really see what is so big about xbox. It only has helno(halo is what u call it) and that game isn't all that, the only only reason it was so good cause the media blew it up and everyone talked about it.

     

    psn id: I95SOUTH<--- King of all kings

  21. psn_frov | frov

    • 5:51pm BST - April 18th, 2008

    Next month MS won't have an excuse for lower sales

  22. chubacca

    • 11:29pm BST - April 18th, 2008

    WTF? PS3 is still not outselling Xbox 360? I thought they were supposed to be double Xbox 360 sales so they can catch up a bit. Maybe Sony should cut the price again.

  23. DeadOnArrival06 | DeadOnArrival06

    • 10:41am BST - April 19th, 2008

    Good job, Sony. Let's just hope they outsell the 360 next month.

  24. PoStedUP | StreetVeteran

    • 4:21pm BST - April 19th, 2008

    ps3 selling more thant x box did when it was released, it had over a year head start theirfor it has over a year worth of sales but its catching up mighty quickly so you really cant comepare them now but compare them from their individual release dates, also wii is ahead beccause its a cheap famlily fun console heck i even picked 1 up cause it was so cheap...i was alos dissapointed because marios not the same anymore

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