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PS3/PSP sales to rise by 10-15% in coming year, says Sony

John Koller, director of hardware marketing for Sony Computer Entertainment America (SCEA), has declared that the firm expects global sales of both PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Portable to rise by approximately 10-15% in the coming year.

“We’ve been very bullish on PSP,” Koller told VG247.com. “We had our largest sales year ever last year, and we’d look to go about 10-15 percent north of that this year."

“It’s for a number of reasons, but primarily because of the entertainment packs and line-up of software that’s coming. The software line-up alone should drive a lot of hardware sales.”

Koller also forecast a similar increase in PS3 sales for the same period, adding, “For PS3 I’ll stay general as well, but we also had our best sales year for PS3 last year and we’ll look to go north of that by a similar percentage.

“That’s being driven by, in a lot of ways, by our first-party software line-up, which is outstanding, but there’s some third-party titles coming. The line-up’s very strong.”

“What I mentioned there was North America-focused, but you could probably extrapolate that globally as well,” he noted.