Sony: PlayStation 3 Shipments Pass 70 Million
by William D'Angelo, posted on 16 November 2012 / 10,700 Views
PlayStation 3 shipments are currently one month behind the Xbox 360. Sony has announced that on November 4, 70 million units of the PlayStation 3 has been shipped to retailers. To compare the Xbox 360 passed 70 million consoles shipped to retailers at the end of September.
The PlayStation 3 has reached this milestone almost six years to the day since it released in November 2006. The average number of units shipped per year is 11.67 million. As a note the console did release four months later in Europe, March, 2007. As a comparison, the PlayStation 2 shipped over 100 million units six years after it launched.
Sony also announced that as of November 11, 15 million PlayStation Move controllers have shipped. Also more than 400 games now support the use of the Move controller.
The PlayStation Network is now available in 59 countries and members have access to 170,000 downloadable digital content. There are now 3,590 titles for the PlayStation 3 which has sold more than 595 million games.
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If PS3 keeps doing 70% as well as PS2, it could top PS1 sales, and maybe Wii too. Pretty sure PS3 will surpass 360 with Sony's post gen legs history.
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Which could explain why it sells so much more over there than here in America?
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Hi. No need. Leave you to it. It's pretty obvious what the situation is to anyone with a little intelligence. The 360 had shipped 70m by end of sept. since then it has sold over 1.4 million and will sell another million plus in the next 2 weeks. Shipped is at 72 or 73 million easily. But we shall see come the January release won't we. Provided Sony has the balls to actually release numbers for a change.
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From all the rumors and such stirring about in the MS camp atm it's pretty sure that the next Xbox will be announced in the next few months, as soon as that news hits you'll see 360 sales hit the floor and the ps3 is a cert to have taken 2nd place this gen after such a bad start that is a great outcome. GG sony :D
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I've been hearing much more PS4 rumors lately than Xbox....in fact we hear PS4 dev kits will be finalized before next summer, last I heard they had problems with horrible yields. They couldn't even create enough dev kits for developers.
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Congratz PS3. Lets shot for 80Mil next. Can they do it before the end of 2013? Almost guaranteed!
Is there still any analysts who gives 360 winning over PS3 when all is done ?
It good to see that more and more consumers are buying a console with some of the best hardcore games around. I hope this means that the core of gaming is strengthening.
Let's not forget that the PS3 launched a year later than the Xbox 360. That was "conveniently" not put in the article.
congratulations to both Sony and it's consumers, without either this milestone would not have been possible.
congratulations to both Sony and it's consumers, without either this milestone would not have been possible.
This is Shiped data... VGCHartz count Sold only... based on mathematicals stuff...
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Just under 2 million PS3's on store shelves just before the holiday is normal.
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Strange that people think that for Sony is normal to have 2 Million consoles on shelves but for Xbox 100.000 is a more accurate number because if Sony shipped 70 Million 1 month after Xbox so the difference in sales should be 1 month worth of sales (more or less) something like 400k~700k not 1,4M.
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I don't know anyone who seriously would say 100k on shelves that knows what they are talking about. Anyway, at least for last year Microsoft has over shipped 360 by quite a bit which would explain the 1.4 million if that number is accurate. Their over shipping is why they claimed to have sold the most world wide last year, even if they didn't really sell more.
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The fact that people think the ps3 will pass Wii WW sales is laughable. What makes people think the Wii will stop selling all of a sudden?
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oh look at this :)
Nintendo Not Working on Anymore Wii Games
http://www.gamrreview.com/news/89502/nintendo-not-working-on-anymore-wii-games/
any questions ?
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