"We're still on target," says Sony exec
- Posted January 30th, 2009 at 08:19 EDT by Mike Harradence
- 12 Comments
Sony Corp. EVP and CFO Nobuyuki Oneda has said that he believes the company is still on track to meet its target of 10 million PlayStation 3 consoles sold, despite yesterday’s news of a year-on-year decrease in quarterly PS3 unit sales.
Speaking in an earnings call this week, Oneda commented: "In terms of units, it is true that PS3, as compared to last year, is slightly worse, but on a full-year basis we believe we are on track to sell the 10 million units that I said at the beginning of the year.”
The Japanese electronics giant announced Thursday that it sold through 4.46 million PS3 consoles during its fiscal Q3 compared to 4.9 million during the same period the year before.
"...Relatively speaking, [compared to] the growth of other platforms, we are behind, but it's not the case that we are not meeting the target,” noted Oneda.
On the PSP front, Oneda revealed that Sony has opted to revert back to its fiscal year goal of 15 million units sold in light of the handheld’s performance over the holiday season.
"We thought 16 million would be rather difficult" to accomplish, he offered.
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darthrazorback
- 3:53am EST - January 30th, 2009
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That Sony executive is too honest. Time to fire him.
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DarkNemesis
- 5:42am EST - January 30th, 2009
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Selling over 21 million consoles in two years at a higher price than your competitors is a great success.The 360 had to keep dropping it's price to even sell 20 million consoles and still took 3 years to reach that milestone.People also need to remember that alot of people are still waiting for a price drop and that in 2007 the PS3 dropped to $400 so of course their Holiday sales for 2008 would be lower.Anyway,when I went to Best Buy yesterday to get a new iPod,they were sold out of PS3s.They had plenty of 360s though,so imagine what the PS3 sales will look like after the next price drop.
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marronthered
- 6:16am EST - January 30th, 2009
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this site is a joke "f@nboy" is an offensive word??? keep holding that sony flag up !!!!
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Staticneuron
- 8:30am EST - January 30th, 2009
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10.78 million for 2008 and 8.45 for fiscal year 2008.
I wish em luck. They may make it thanks to Killzone 2.
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