PS3 Sells 3.8 Million Consoles During 2009 Holiday Season
The holiday season accounts for a large portion of consoles sold throughout the year, and is a pivotal time for console manufacturers to get their machines into the homes of consumers across the globe. Sony Computer Entertainment have done a phenomenal job at getting the PlayStation 3 into homes this holiday season and are quite proud of their achievement, releasing final worldwide sales figures for the PS3 during the holiday season.
The PlayStation 3 started off the holiday shopping season with a bang, selling over 440,000 consoles during the week of Black Friday. It seems as though those sales didn’t slow down at all during the following weeks of the holiday shopping season. Just moments ago, Sony issued a press release revealing massive worldwide sales figures during the holiday season.
Across all markets, the PlayStation 3 sold an astounding 3.8 million units, a 76% increase from the previous year. This marks the most successful holiday sales for the PlayStation 3 in the console’s history.
Sony looks to maintain this momentum by bringing a stellar PS3 software line-up in 2010 featuring games such as God of War III, Gran Turismo 5, MAG, Heavy Rain and more. Along with the best line-up in gaming, Sony will be releasing motion controllers for the PS3 to help tap into the casual market, as well as giving the PS3 3D viewing capabilities for both gaming and Blu-Ray disc playback.
2010 is shaping up to be the PlayStation 3’s best year ever.
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January 6th, 2010 at 8:52 PM
always good to hear the ps3 selling is selling well. This year’s game line up seems to be spread across evenly. I know I’ll have something new to play each month and hopefully there will be some great surprises later on.
January 6th, 2010 at 9:04 PM
This is great news. Bravo to Sony.
January 6th, 2010 at 9:31 PM
now that’s impressive.
January 6th, 2010 at 9:34 PM
wow. that very impressive.
January 6th, 2010 at 9:43 PM
nice
January 6th, 2010 at 9:56 PM
This is great. I’m excited for the NPD’s that release the 14th.
January 6th, 2010 at 10:02 PM
Excellent!
January 7th, 2010 at 12:44 AM
@Kyle P.
NPD’s is on the 14th? That my mom birthday. Need to buy her something.
January 7th, 2010 at 12:50 AM
Good news. So nice to come to a website without all the hate just to get news.
Over at Kotakrap Luke (the raging MS fanboy) couldn’t post this same article without a dig at Sony.
Come to think of it he can’t post any article about Sony without somehow slamming them.
/rant off
Keep up the good work guys!
January 7th, 2010 at 1:00 AM
huge numbers
January 7th, 2010 at 1:35 AM
does anyone know the total numbers worldwide for both the x360 and ps3 ??
January 7th, 2010 at 4:00 AM
That’s what I call Dominating
January 7th, 2010 at 12:09 PM
@WestSiide – Total numbers can be found here; http://www.vgchartz.com/
January 7th, 2010 at 8:53 PM
I’ve been all over, PS3s are sold out almost everywhere.