9.2 million PS3s sold during fiscal 2007; PSP and PS2 both top 13m sales in year
Sony’s PlayStation division logged an operating loss of 124.5 billion Japanese Yen ($1.18bn), shrinking from the 232.3 billion ($2.2bn) loss reported a year earlier.
The performance helped spur the Sony Corporation to an impressive results - with net income alomst tripling year-on-year to 369.4 billion Yen ($3.76bn).
The firm's PlayStation HQ revealed that it has sold 9.24 million PS3 units globally in the 12-months to March 31st, up from 3.61 million units in the previous year.
PS3 software sales leapt up year-on-year from 44.6 million units to 57.9 million.
Year-on-year PS2 sales declined from 14.91 million consoles in FY 2006-2007 to a still respectable 13.73 million. PS2 software sales also declined from 193.6 million to 154 million units.
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PSP hardware sales rose to 13.9 million units for the year, however PSP software sales saw minimal growth.
For the current fiscal year ending March 2009, Sony forecast that sales will hit 9 trillion Yen, up one percent, but that operating profit will fall 22 percent to 290 billion Yen.
Overall, Sony Corporation posted 8.87 trillion Yen in revenues for FY 2007-2008, up 6.9 per cent on the previous year. Net profit almost tripled to 369.4 billion Yen.
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sales gap..??
so the sales gap between 360 and ps3 is still in the region of 8 mill units?? Didn't think it was that far apart still.
ps3 sold 9.2 mill 03/07 - 03/08 plus maybe 1.5 mill from USA and Asia when it launched there in 11/06.
MS have already passed 19 mill units, even with the year head start, they are selling comparatively worldwide.
impressive..
Re: sales gap..??
Pretty much ALL of the 19 mill units Xbox have are in the US (with about 2 million in the UK)
You couldn't GIVE away an Xbox in Europe (outside of UK & Ireland) and especially in Japan, so their numbers are predominatley US-based!
Re: sales gap..??
Wrong. You can add 1 million/500k for each big EU country.
Re: sales gap..??
? Why is there such a sudden backlash amongst the UK gamers on this site against the 360? I own all 3 consoles and divide play time pretty equally between the 3.
On MCV's comments recently all I see is 360 is dead in Europe. It really doesn't seem like it to me.
Yes, the PS3 is selling faster at the moment, that is because a majority of people who wanted a 360 have got one, software sales are still leading pretty heavily. The PS3s sales have finally began to take off, but will eventually slow back down as their install base gets closer to the 360's. Yes in the end they will probably sell more overall units, because it is still cheaper than most other blu-ray players and is updatable, if I was going to reccomend any Blu-ray player, PS3 would be it.
But none of that means that (according to #2) "You couldn't give away a 360 in europe", again, yes it isn't selling as well in France, Germany etc, but they aren't exactly large gamings for one, and for two, they are still selling, just not as fast as they already have a larger install base.
This is probably going to fall on deaf ears as the saying goes, but why can't gamers stop sniping at other machines in order to validate their own purchases? All 3 machines in this generation have more than enough fantastic exlcusives making the system worth buying.
Anyone who hasn't had a chance to play Bioshock or Uncharted or Super Mario Galaxy because of their fanboyism is just missing out.
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