Wed, Oct 29, 2008 | 10:16 GMT
YoY PS3 sales nearly double in Q2, software rockets
Sony’s announced second quarter financials, showing PS3 sales up to 2.43 million consoles for the period, up from 1.31 million in Q2 2007.
PSP sales have also risen, up to 3.18 million from 2.58 million.
PS2′s fortunes are continuing to slide, however, down from 3.28 million in last year’s second quarter to 2.50 million this year.
On the software front, 21.1 million pieces of PS3 software were sold in the quarter, up from 10.4 million last year.
The other PlayStation formats showed a grimmer outlook, however, with PSP game sales dropped from 12.6 million in 2007 to 11.8 million in this year’s Q2, and PS2 software sales plummeting from 38 million in the second quarter last year to 23.1 million this year.
Overall sales for Sony’s games division were up from ￥243.4 billion to ￥268.5 billion in the period.
5 comments
#1
Blerk
29/10/08, 10:19 am
Progressing steadily. Which is nice for them, but certainly surprising for me. If you’d asked me two years ago I’d have expected them to be way ahead by now. There’s showbusiness for ya.
#2
patlike
29/10/08, 10:22 am
“Solid”. They have to do something about PSP. A marginal hardware rise and a drop in software sales isn’t acceptable. It’s obviously stagnating. Sticking a microphone in the front does not a renaissance make.
#3
Blerk
29/10/08, 10:24 am
That’s not all they did though, to be fair. They made the screen worse as well.
#4
patlike
29/10/08, 10:27 am
*smirk*
I wish they would sort it out, though. I love PSP. It’s such a great machine. It could be amazing if they stopped focusing on GoUkraine! or whatever and started really pushing the games out.
#5
MesserWolf
29/10/08, 11:52 am
no wonder that they wait to drop the price for ps3 . They are doing quite well even with the actual price .