Sony Computer Entertainment Europe (SCEE) boss Andrew House has said that the platform holder is forecasting “very, very strong” sales this holiday season in the region.
Speaking during a chinwag with Bloomberg, House revealed that Sony’s expecting to “exceed its current sales estimate of 15 million PS3 consoles moved this fiscal year” as a result of strong demand throughout European territories. To date, PS3 has shifted north of 38 million units of hardware in PAL regions since its launch in March 2007.
“Sales have been significantly up year-on-year in a market that has been overall slightly down,” noted House.
Elsewhere, the executive also touched on PlayStation Move, revealing the motion-sensing peripheral enjoyed “very significant sales in the first month since launch, somewhere in the region of 1.5 million units for the new controller across just Europe”.
“The initial sales response has been so far in excess of our initial plan that we’ll probably be looking at accelerating production,” he continued. “We have lots of confidence in our ability to hit our profitability target this year, but currency movements present significant challenges.”
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