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PS3 still in the red; promising signs for 2010.
The Sony Playstation 3 had a lot of loss ground to make up. After finally edging out its own system, the PS2, in annual sales, the PS3 still came in a distant third after the Xbox360 and the Nintendo Wii. The last 12 month annual sales period ended on March 31st, 2010, so where now does Sony stand in the console war?
Sony lost $435.6 million last year. As daunting of a figure as that may be, that is an improvement from the year prior that cost Sony a whopping $1.05 billion. PSP sales dropped from 14.1 million units sold to 9.9 million.
According to Sony,
“Game sales decreased due to unfavorable foreign currency exchange rates and decreases in unit sales of PSP hardware and of PS2 software, although unit sales of PS3 software increased……Despite PS3 hardware cost reductions and increased unit sales of PS3 software, profitability deteriorated primarily due to lower unit sales of PS2 software and of PSP hardware.”
There are promising signs for the PS3, however. Sony did meet their (what was once considered unlikely) goal of selling 13 million PS3 systems. Much of those sales came in the fourth quarter of the fiscal year, which very well may point towards 2010 being a good year for the PS3.
[Source: Gamespot.com]
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A lot has changed since Pac-Man ate his first blue ghost.
It is hard to believe that probably one of the most legendary video game characters in history has turned thirty years old. It is no secret that
Pac-Man has not meshed well into later generations of video games, let alone the 3D graphics era led by the Nintendo Wii, Xbox 360, and the Playstation 3.
Is Pac-Man out for the count?
Namco, the makers of the Pac-Man franchise, is giving a resounding “No,” and they plan to issue the rebuttal officially during E3. Avi Arad, the once CEO of Marvel Comics and film producer, is geared to unveil this generation’s Pac-Man.
[Source: Gamespot]
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Sure, Microsoft has slashed the price of Xbox 360 in order to try to get an edge against PS3. And yes, Nintendo’s DS still outsells Sony’s PSP.
But that doesn’t mean that Sony isn’t having an incredible fiscal year nonetheless.
Head honcho Jack Tretton recently revealed how the company is ahead of the game with PlayStation 3 and PSP.
“We are tracking at 100 percent up over last year,” he said in an interview with Reuters. “…About 30 percent ahead of where we should be. So sales could slow down and we will still hit our number.”
In fact, if the trend continues, there may be some heartbreak when the holidays roll around.
“I’d say we are able to meet somewhere between 80-90 percent demand, based on how things are trending,” said Tretton. But even if supply does get limited, he said that the shorages would not be “drastic”.
Playstation 2 is still in the game.
Don’t count the Playstation 2 out just yet. That seems to be Sony’s introductory message for this year’s E3 convention held in Los Angeles, California. Jack Tretton, chief executive of Sony, wasted no time to announce that the Playstation 2 will be hosting at least a hundred new titles by the end of the year. While that may not speak well of the Playstation 3’s ability to finally emerge from behind the Xbox360 and Wii sale figures, it is a good sign that Sony itself is finally listening to their consumers. The Playstation 2, which easily won the last generation’s console war and, until the last quarter of 2008, was still outselling the Playstation 3, is still a solid investment for Sony despite the fact that both Nintendo and Xbox have had much success with their newest console offerings. “We’re committed to the PS2 for as long as users see value in it,” said Tretton, and that is the most realistic and financially sound commitment a company can make whom has been struggling against the competition.
According to wikipedia.org, the Playstation 2 is the best selling console in history, totalling over 136 millions units sold by the end of December 2008.