PS3 Kicks Off the Holiday Season with a Bang
To coincide with the year’s biggest shopping rush, SCEA released some extremely enticing PS3 bundles. These amazing bundles paired a 120GB PS3 up with some of the year’s biggest releases. As expected the bundles sold out almost immediately the morning of Black Friday.
Official word has come in from SCEA’s Sr. Director of Corporate Communications and Social Media, Patrick Seybold, about exactly how well the PlayStation 3 performed during this massive holiday shopping week.
The PlayStation 3 was in extremely high demand and is looking to be this holiday season’s hottest item. During the week ending on 11/29/09 the PlayStation 3 sold an outstanding 440,000. With the PS3 having such a great game line-up, and the overall value packed inside the PS3, it’s really not a surprise to see consumers flocking to Sony’s console.
No doubt extremely pleased at these significant sales numbers, Patrick Seybold had this to say:
“The 2009 holiday season got off to an amazing start for PlayStation, with all key retailers showing a significant increase for PS3, PSP and key holiday titles over Black Friday and the holiday weekend. PlayStation 3 demand was at an all time high with the system selling more than 440,000 units for the week ending 11/29/09.
In today’s economy, consumers are drawn to items that offer the most value for their money, making the PS3 an ideal choice for those who want a comprehensive gaming and entertainment system all in one package. Combine that with exclusive holiday bundles and an extensive software line-up, one that many analysts are calling the best in the industry, with titles such as Ratchet and Clank Future: A Crack in Time, UNCHARTED 2:Among Thieves, and LittleBigPlanet: Game of the Year, we have no doubt the momentum and demand will continue and consumers will prove that entertainment this holiday season is going to be defined by PlayStation.”
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November 30th, 2009 at 11:04 PM
Nice. 440K is an impressive week.
November 30th, 2009 at 11:12 PM
VERY impressive…this is way higher than i expected
November 30th, 2009 at 11:26 PM
That’s just for one week of sales!?! November is going to rule for Sony!! Too bad the Wii stll did good. Oy. Doesn’t everyone and their mom have one of those now? Those peeps need to Play BEYOND, not last-gen.
November 30th, 2009 at 11:33 PM
Awesome news.
So is this just for the week or for the month
11/30/2009 at 11:53 PM
Just for the week
November 30th, 2009 at 11:44 PM
Amen.
November 30th, 2009 at 11:57 PM
holy fuck rabbit.
December 1st, 2009 at 12:08 AM
I think the Wii has a new contender…In three years. That will be when every single person on Earth owns one and they decide to try something new with HD support. My uncle had a 52″ Bravia for a year but the only thing he had connected to it was a Wii and an SD cable box. I got him t buy a PS3 and a few blu-rays and he was blown away. Never will he play the Wii again.
December 1st, 2009 at 2:00 AM
KABOOM!
December 1st, 2009 at 5:34 AM
I love stories like that Brent. I love being the reason people transform what they have into something they didn’t know it could do.
Keep it up Sony, this is getting interesting.
December 1st, 2009 at 8:00 AM
Sony do have the best lineup of exclusive games and next year it’s only going to get better. I know it’s cliche but………next year is the year of the PS3.
December 1st, 2009 at 11:04 AM
very nice
December 1st, 2009 at 1:42 PM
Every year from 2008 – until the next gen of consoles will BE the year of the PS3.
December 1st, 2009 at 3:16 PM
ssssssssssssssssss… BOOOOOOM!
December 1st, 2009 at 6:20 PM
That is incredible. That amounts to just over 39 consoles sold EVERY MINUTE of the week hahahaha.
December 1st, 2009 at 9:05 PM
good work
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