Playstation - By The Numbers
From Sony PR
(altho their PR folks never talk to me... how annoying is that? Art - you know who you are... ) :
The PlayStation® platform is off to a great start this holiday season based on NPD November 2007 sales data:
Hardware Momentum (PS3, PS2 and PSP) - For the month of November, PlayStation hardware unit sales reached more than 1.5 million units, an increase of 160% when compared to last month's unit sales (October 2007).
- PlayStation total hardware revenue was $373 million in November, sales dollars increased by 170% compared to last month's sales.
- For the month of November, PlayStation console sales reached 962K units.
- 466K PLAYSTATION®3 (PS3) hardware units were sold in November, a 285% increase over the previous month's sales. PS3 had the biggest October to November sales increase of any hardware platform.
- PlayStation®2 (PS2) also experienced great momentum in November, hardware unit sales reached 496K, a 170% increase over last month's sales. Since its release in North America on Oct. 26, 2000, more than 120 million hardware units and more than a billion units of PlayStation 2 software have sold worldwide, making it the best-selling gaming platform ever released.
- According to the latest Nielsen data (April November 2007), PS2 is the most played videogame console averaging 42.2% usage minutes compared to 11.8% for Xbox 360 and 5.5% for Wii.
- PSP® (PlayStation®Portable) continues to experience strong sales momentum with new pricing and the availability of new entertainment packs. In November, 567K PSP hardware units were sold, nearly a 100% increase over last month sales.
Software Momentum (PS3, PS2 and PSP)
- PlayStation total software revenue in November was $414 million, sales dollars increased by 128% compared to last month's sales.
- In November, retail dollars from PS3 sales totaled $138 million, a 192% increase over last month's sales.
- PlayStation had three software titles in the top ten list across all consoles: Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock for PS2 sold 966K units, Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare for PS3 sold 444K units and Assassin's Creed for PS3 sold 377K units.
PLAYSTATION®Network Momentum - Just one year after launch, there are more than 3 million registered PLAYSTATION Network users worldwide who have downloaded more than 60 million pieces of content.
- In North America alone there are more than 1.8 million registered users who have downloaded more than 34.5 million pieces of content.
- A recent PLAYSTATION Network price promotion for Calling all Cars, Everyday Shooter, flOw and Pixel Junk Racers resulted in a combined 920% increase in total downloads.