Worldwide PS3 sales total 4.48 million for Q1

  • Posted July 27th, 2007 at 15:28 EDT by Eric Blattberg
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Sony has just released their fiscal records for the first quarter of 2007. The records included both past sales (not consoles shipped but actually sold at retail) and their future projections.

A total of 4.48 million PS3's have been sold at retail thus far, with a mere 0.71 million of that number sold during Q1 2007. Regardless, Sony still projects 10.29 million sales during the following three quarters. Should that approximation hold true a total of 14.5 million PS3's will be out in the wild following the close of Q4 2007 (March 2008).

Sales of Sony's other two consoles, PS2 and PSP, fared far better than their black behemoth friend. PS2 sales reached a staggering 2.7 million during Q1 2007, 0.4 million more than the same time last year. PSP reached an impressive 2.14 million units sold ( .7 million unit increase from Q1 2006), proving that it and the DS can live profitably side by side. The PS2 and the PSP are expected to sell 10 and 9 million units for the rest of the 2007 fiscal year.

Source: ProG

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  1. Arion

    • 3:36pm BST - July 27th, 2007
    • 1

    VGChartz says 3.89M, that means that they are 0.59M off, thats quite a bit! And here everyone thought PS3 sales werent doing well, I sure am happy that the sales figures were better than the internet made them out to be

  2. Cyrann | Cyrann Folding@Home Team: 54376 F@H ID: Cyrann

    • 3:37pm BST - July 27th, 2007
    • 2

    An Australian game site stated 6 million at their press conference today, I guess they are pretty of as well? http://ps3media.ign.com/ps3/image/article/808/808656/au-sony-experience-more-event-coverage-20070726113933269.jpg

  3. stennex | stennex

    • 3:45pm BST - July 27th, 2007
    • 3

    Kiill the PS2 Sony. And offer the PS3 @ $399.99

  4. Deldwen | Deldwen1

    • 3:50pm BST - July 27th, 2007
    • 4

    sweeet yay

  5. Necronius | Necronius

    • 3:54pm BST - July 27th, 2007
    • 5

    @Stennex Killing the PS2 now would be the dumbest move any company could ever make. It is still selling better week to week than the rest of the consoles (except in japan), and im sure at this point it is costing them next to nothing to produce. That machine is as much of a money factory for sony as the DS is for Nintendo. If it wasnt selling, id say by all means ditch it, but when its still the fastest selling of any console, theres no need/reason to kill it.

  6. Taker_129

    • 4:44pm BST - July 27th, 2007
    • 6

    @Necronius: Exactly, why would you kill something that making you money. Stennex that logic just doesn't make sense. Sony knows that when the ps2 finally dies alot of the customers are going to upgrade to ps3. And that's why they are not to worried.

  7. gingo | gingo

    • 4:49pm BST - July 27th, 2007
    • 7

    psn id: gingo... this is excellent news because it means more people to play online but sonys prediction of 14.5 mill by March next year might be just a tad off

  8. thegame97338 | G_PIG79

    • 4:56pm BST - July 27th, 2007
    • 8

    this is sony not microsoft, why would they give up on the ps2, and the millions of people who still only own a ps2, they're still making good money with it...

  9. Alti | Alti

    • 5:26pm BST - July 27th, 2007
    • 9

    I don't think they'll get that high..

  10. SlimDan22 | SlimDan22

    • 6:01pm BST - July 27th, 2007
    • 10

    i dont see almost 15 mil by march 08 maybe 10 i was using nexgenwars.com for results and they where off by about .59 mil also but they list the 360 at almost 12 mil so the ps3's catching up

  11. shaka | Shaka

    • 6:20pm BST - July 27th, 2007
    • 11

    Expect that number to go even higher come this holiday season with all the hot tittles dropping on PS3, and it begins once the PS3 starts to fly off nothing will stop it nothing. PS3 FTW!!!!!!!!

  12. Dimitrius | Dimitrius

    • 6:29pm BST - July 27th, 2007
    • 12

    Sony should just make a motion sensing controler to the ps2 that come in box with a regular controler and told dev to make games for it. So, with the install base that sony have on PS2 around the world the dev will make games for it or just tranfer the tird parties from wii to PS2. That means that Sony will have a competitor for each generation of consoles already on market.

  13. smallvillefreak

    • 6:40pm BST - July 27th, 2007
    • 13

    If you compare the PS3 numbers at the end of the 3Q after release to the 360 numbers at the end of the 3Q following it's release, Microsoft had only sold .52 million more than the playstation 3. Meaning that even with the higher price the 360 is only performing slightly better than the PS3 in terms of sales. But when you consider the reported failure rate of 25-33%(if memory serves) with the 360 vs. PS3's less than 1% failure rate, you can see who's actually doing better respectively and who's going to come out top dog in the end. Even if they don't hit their target amount, they'll still be building momentum and taking over soon, plus all the added support for Blu-ray and the new games and hardwarde coming out. There's no doubt in my mind that in 1 year, 2 at the most, sony will be top dog. Anyone who thinks the same, can I hear some support?

  14. smallvillefreak

    • 6:41pm BST - July 27th, 2007
    • 14

    If you compare the PS3 numbers at the end of the 3Q after release to the 360 numbers at the end of the 3Q following it's release, Microsoft had only sold .52 million more than the playstation 3. Meaning that even with the higher price the 360 is only performing slightly better than the PS3 in terms of sales. But when you consider the reported failure rate of 25-33%(if memory serves) with the 360 vs. PS3's less than 1% failure rate, you can see who's actually doing better respectively and who's going to come out top dog in the end. Even if they don't hit their target amount, they'll still be building momentum and taking over soon, plus all the added support for Blu-ray and the new games and hardwarde coming out. There's no doubt in my mind that in 1 year, 2 at the most, sony will be top dog. Anyone who thinks the same, can I hear some support?

  15. DeadOnArrival06 | DeadOnArrival06

    • 6:46pm BST - July 27th, 2007
    • 15

    Sony, Don't kill PS2. Upgrade it with a slight bigger engine and motion sensing. Also add an online Network to it and there my friends is how you kill a Wii!

  16. smallvillefreak

    • 6:50pm BST - July 27th, 2007
    • 16

    If you compare the PS3 numbers at the end of the 3Q after release to the 360 numbers at the end of the 3Q following it's release, Microsoft had only sold .52 million more than the playstation 3. Meaning that even with the higher price the 360 is only performing slightly better than the PS3 in terms of sales. But when you consider the reported failure rate of 25-33%(if memory serves) with the 360 vs. PS3's less than 1% failure rate, you can see who's actually doing better respectively and who's going to come out top dog in the end. Even if they don't hit their target amount, they'll still be building momentum and taking over soon, plus all the added support for Blu-ray and the new games and hardwarde coming out. There's no doubt in my mind that in 1 year, 2 at the most, sony will be top dog. Anyone who thinks the same, can I hear some support?

  17. smallvillefreak

    • 6:51pm BST - July 27th, 2007
    • 17

    If you compare the PS3 numbers at the end of the 3Q after release to the 360 numbers at the end of the 3Q following it's release, Microsoft had only sold .52 million more than the playstation 3. Meaning that even with the higher price the 360 is only performing slightly better than the PS3 in terms of sales. But when you consider the reported failure rate of 25-33%(if memory serves) with the 360 vs. PS3's less than 1% failure rate, you can see who's actually doing better respectively and who's going to come out top dog in the end. Even if they don't hit their target amount, they'll still be building momentum and taking over soon, plus all the added support for Blu-ray and the new games and hardwarde coming out. There's no doubt in my mind that in 1 year, 2 at the most, sony will be top dog. Anyone who thinks the same, can I hear some support?

  18. smallvillefreak

    • 6:52pm BST - July 27th, 2007
    • 18

    Sorry, didn't mean to do that so many times. Stupid refresh

  19. Alpha2

    • 7:20pm BST - July 27th, 2007
    • 19

    The PS2 is doing fine as it is and will be phased out only when there is no more demand for it. just like the PS1 which didnt stop production until just last year. SO dont worry the PS2 and PSP have lots of life left, That also means low cost games for PS3 owners as well. Dont want to blow 60 bucks on a game that might suck? chances are there's a PS2 version on the way as well considering the numbers, developers would he stupid not to, and then the prices are sometimes half that of the PS3 version anyway. That's not to say there arnt plenty of PS3 games that ARE worth getting though but of course with 60 dollar prices it makes sense to be careful what you drop you cash on. As for the sale numbers I think they're being waaay too confident to hit that number in under a year unless they really do meat that insane 100+ game release schedule that they've been saying is on the way. I mean 130 games by march 08? They gotta be counting PS2 games as well.

  20. jasonbay

    • 7:22pm BST - July 27th, 2007
    • 20

    @Steenex, why kill the PS2 when there's like 75 million with them at home waiting to buy up games. This cash cow is helping ease the losses of the PS3. So untill PS3 get itself in position to be a major cash the PS2 will be on the market helping. Anyways why kick customers in the teeth and drop support like Nintendo did with the Gamecube and Microsoft did with Xbox sure they could'nt win but that's not the point the fact that they were like enjoy games that have been released or upgrade is not a nice way to treat customers. I love Sony's ease it's last console out the window instead of kicking it to the curb.

  21. LittleB69 | MightyB69

    • 7:44pm BST - July 27th, 2007
    • 21

    Wow, very nice sale figures. That provides us with a very good install base for a new system. Seems like they sold 1 mill. more than most of the press thought.

  22. ps3fan16

    • 8:22pm BST - July 27th, 2007
    • 22

    cool o was thinking about 3million better than i thought go sony

  23. Falanx13 | Falanx13

    • 8:37pm BST - July 27th, 2007
    • 23

    @Smallville I was going to ask how the 360 did by its first Q3. Thanks for the info. A half-million consoles isn't too huge of a gap.

  24. Untildeath89 | willmakenewonesoon

    • 9:04pm BST - July 27th, 2007
    • 24

    most of you dont seem to get the fact that ps3 sold 4.5 in this time at that price with those games and u dont think with great games better system and less price they can reach 4 3 times that point in same amount of time?

  25. dandad1

    • 10:12pm BST - July 27th, 2007
    • 25

    I agree with you smallvillefreak no mater what Sony is guaranteed to dominate with the 360s failure rate and lack of good games (yes I know there are a few good ones but they no way compare to PS3's line-up) and the Wii's its a fad system (no matter what any niny says within 2- years the Wii will fade) so its Sony all the way.

  26. sofaking13 | iToke

    • 12:40am BST - July 28th, 2007
    • 26

    Kill the ps2? That's dumb....so many people still rock the ps2....and they are just waiting for the right moment to get their ps3....the ps2 being the most successful console in history or whatever, if half of those people get a ps3, that's a huge deal......so we need to cater to that audience until they are ready, either financially, or mentally, for their ps3....

  27. ChaozXCreator | ChaosXCrazy

    • 1:38am BST - July 28th, 2007
    • 27

    4.48 million!? Sweet! I knew that a price drop is all it needs!

  28. cb_32 | cb_32

    • 2:24am BST - July 28th, 2007
    • 28

    Cmon sony, dont give up!

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