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Despite being behind Sony is confident about PS3

January 18, 2009 in News comments 24

As most know in the ever raging console war Sony's PS3 is trailing behind in 3rd out of 3 but despite that Sony seems to be confident because of their 40% hardware sales increase from last year. They also take a moment to talk of PS2' recent 50 million mark, and the success they are finding with PSP.

Sony has said it's confident of its momentum going in to 2009 following a rise in full-year PlayStation 3 sales of 40 per cent.

Over 3.6 million PS3 units were sold during 2008 in the US, with NPD data showing that 726,005 units were sold during December.

PS3 software sales reached almost 6 million units in December, and grew 116 per cent for the full year. Hit titles included LittleBigPlanet, Resistance 2, Call of Duty: World at War and Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe.

"We remain confident in our momentum into 2009 as we continue to deliver to our consumers the best entertainment content and technology out there," commented Peter Dille, SVP of marketing and PSN.
SUPREM_KITE via gamesindustry.biz »
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  • 0
    chautemoc Jan 19, 09
    In related news, Sony has been taken over by its now parent corporation 'ony'.
    • 1
      SUPREM_KITE Jan 19, 09
      Yeah that would be my bad. The sad part, I even proof-read it so I wouldn't post something stupid like that, and still didn't notice it. Please community forgive me.
  • 0
    Capn Droid Jan 19, 09
    I'd be less confused if the date for this article was a year + old. Sony's been arrogant forever.
    • 2
      Existence Jan 19, 09
      "Arrogant"? They've made the PS3, they have to be confident about it- or atleast act to be. Little like a parent being confident about his child even if the childs a duffer. And the PS3 is no duffer.
    • 4
      Fatal Error Jan 19, 09
      Lol, and Nintendo and Microsoft aren't arrogant either? That's part of being a large corporation.
    • 4
      Koloth Jan 19, 09
      Arrogant how? They had 3 really good quarters. They have by all accounts the better "looking" line up for 2009. They are almost selling at cost. Everything is looking up for Sony.

      If they do indeed go through with the predicted price cut in the spring sales can only get better.
      • 0
        SUPREM_KITE Jan 19, 09
        This is true while not doing as good as others things can basically from here only get better for them.
      • 0
        GrEyCrEsT Mar 19, 09
        quote Koloth
        Arrogant how? They had 3 really good quarters. They have by all accounts the better "looking" line up for 2009. They are almost selling at cost. Everything is looking up for Sony.

        If they do indeed go through with the predicted price cut in the spring sales can only get better.


        • yeah i agree with you
  • 3
    Red 9 Jan 19, 09
    Every article concerning the PS3 in its entirety always unnecessarily brings up a controversial mention of its standing in the "war". The PS3 could be selling millions right now, but I'd warrant that people would still stick things like "Despite it being heavy..." in article titles...
  • 5
    DiP_N_DaBaY Jan 19, 09
    Stop putting the PSP on the back-burner Sony!!!!
  • 2
    joshthegreat Jan 19, 09
    Logically they've have won this generation in the end anyway. The PS3 has a 10-year projected life-span. Unless things go horribly wrong, even if the PS3 doesn't outsell the xbox in the xbox's lifespan, it will by the end of the PS3s.
    • 0
      Blackfalcon Jan 19, 09
      Wow, good point. Any idea what an Xbox 360's lifespan is?
      • 0
        SUPREM_KITE Jan 19, 09
        No one is really sure we only know the ps3's because Sony constantly iterates the point that they stand behind their consoles for 10 years. I would guess though that the 360's life is shorter though because the technology in it is far behind the ps3 and to keep up with ever increasing needs for more power to everything they will need to upgrade hardware in probably 2-3 years. This is only my opinion though.
        • 0
          Aether Jan 19, 09
          You can't pin-point the exact time of a life for a console. Some consoles could strain on for decades. All depends if people still enjoy them.
    • 1
      SUPREM_KITE Jan 19, 09
      I wouldn't go as far as to say they have won this generation. They have alot of ground to make up. Now I'm sure they can but right now they really need to work on advertising because because their advertising sucks I have seen 1 commercial in the past week and about 400 for 360.
    • 2
      kik36 Jan 19, 09
      Now if only my PS3 truly did live 10 years that would have been great. Unfortunately mine died at 14 months. LMAO Let's hope the second go around sees her living the full 10. ^.^
      • 2
        RabidChinaGirl Jan 20, 09
        Great, now let's add that to the other Blu-Ray failures out there and blow the statistics completely out of proportion. We'll give it a snazzy acronym and then cite it frivolously for every article and fanboy fight even if they have nothing to do with hardware.

        ?
        • 0
          kik36 Jan 20, 09
          I can't come up with any catchy acronyms off the top of my head.......especially what matched my feelings at the time.....LMFAO Plus there were no pretty lights to indicate WTF happened, so I have very little motivating factors. If I think of one I will let ya know!
        • 0
          Slumpy monkey Jan 20, 09
          quote RabidChinaGirl
          Great, now let's add that to the other Blu-Ray failures out there and blow the statistics completely out of proportion. We'll give it a snazzy acronym and then cite it frivolously for every article and fanboy fight even if they have nothing to do with hardware.

          ?
          How about GPHFIBFFTABPPMD

          General Playstation Hardware Failure Including Blu-ray Failure Figures That Are Blown out of Proportion Purple Monkey Dishwasher?
        • 0
          SUPREM_KITE Jan 20, 09
          quote RabidChinaGirl
          Great, now let's add that to the other Blu-Ray failures out there and blow the statistics completely out of proportion. We'll give it a snazzy acronym and then cite it frivolously for every article and fanboy fight even if they have nothing to do with hardware.

          ?
          lol is all i have to say to that
        • 0
          GrEyCrEsT Mar 19, 09
          quote RabidChinaGirl
          Great, now let's add that to the other Blu-Ray failures out there


          • i would say they need a large fixing to do about that part
    • 0
      joshthegreat Jan 20, 09
      No idea what territory you guys took replies to my post to... Wow.

      Simple math guys. Nothing to do with which console is better. Sony stuck by PS1 for 10 years. They're sticking with PS2 for 10 years (and it's still selling like hotcakes). They plan to stick with the PS3 for 10 years.

      The same can't be said about Microsoft. They totally abandoned the Xbox after 5 years or so.

      Sony don't have a huge margin to catch up on either. In the grand scheme of things a couple million isn't that many. Look at the PS2. It sold over a hundred million world wide and counting.
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    kspiess Jan 20, 09
    Personally I don't get much from this story -- the way I see it, of course the marketing dudes are going to put a brave a face, and as positive a spin, as possible on the situation.

    They aren't going to say "Yeah we lost the console war and we are pretty much screwed." I mean, they wouldn't be marketing guys if they said the truth. Of course they are going to be positive and say they are confident up until like 5 seconds before Sony (if ever) decides to give up on the PS3. You can't really gain anything from listening to marketing talk -- they always say the same thing, no matter the product.

    --mr. cynical

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