Interesting Things For you Late @ Night 2: Sony sells 9 million PS3s, sets bar (slightly) higher for '08

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Friday, May 16, 2008

Sony sells 9 million PS3s, sets bar (slightly) higher for '08

Filed under: Sony PlayStation 3, Business

GameDaily brings news that the house Ken Kutaragi built - and Kazuo "Kaz" Hirai currently holds the lease to - has dropped ~~farm~~ factory-fresh PS3 sales data in parent Sony Corp's latest earnings report. The bottom line: 9.24 million PS3s were sold world-wide during FY08, and SCE projects bettering that by 8% for the current period ending March 2009, expecting its FY09 unit sales to number at least 10 million.

PS3 sales for FY08 were up a whopping 156% over FY07, which saw only 3.61 million systems leave the warehouse. Despite the impressive upturn, Sony's current-gen box continues to trail behind PSP and last-gen's champ, PS2, which sold 13.39m and 13.73m units during the same period, respectively. Still, Next-Gen reports that SCE has managed to make a significant dent in its losses over FY07 (￥124.5 billion [US$1.18b], down from ￥232.3b [US$2.21b]) and predicts that it will finally be back in the black by this time next year.