PlayStation 3 Sees Strong Software Sales in the U.S.

As usual, Sony has not released their sales data for the month of October with the NPD data. However, the company did once again crown their software lineup as the strongest in the industry. Sony, believes that the console is ready for a great holiday season and is seeing increased momentum in 1st and 3rd party sales.

PlayStation 3 has the best games, Sony thinks so

As usual, Sony has not released their sales data for the month of October with the NPD data. However, the company did once again crown their software lineup as the strongest in the industry. Sony, believes that the console is ready for a great holiday season and is seeing increased momentum in 1st and 3rd party sales.

Patrick Seybold of SCEA issued the following statement concerning the month of October and forward looking statements.

"PlayStation 3 is primed for a great holiday season as this month's NPD report shows. We're seeing increased momentum in our 1st and 3rd-party software sales at retail, which are up 5% over last year, and we're demonstrating the industry's strongest software line up with blockbusters like Uncharted 3, Ratchet & Clank: All 4 One, Battlefield 3, and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, and new Move titles Everybody Dance and Carnival Island. On the digital front, we are also pleased to report that inFAMOUS: Festival of Blood is the fastest selling PS3 digital game ever launched on PSN,"

Sales of Uncharted 3 have already been announced to be a massive success for the company, with the third act of the franchise outselling all others.

By Al McCarthy on November 12, 2011

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Cool dude
Starhawx got what he wanted…
Say thank you to Al MCCARTHY ok man?
IHATEHIPSTERS
they arent releasing numbers because their numbers suck. honestly the only way to prove me wrong is to release the numbers, which they wont. who cares if they “say” their doing well? ffs. and as for uncharted it SHIPPED 3.8 mill. not sold.
- IHATETROLLS (WHO DOESN’T)
  shipped also means sold, companies obviously made the money from selling to retailers in which the retailer sells it to the consumer how the hell are they gonna track exactly every video game SOLD in every country and bought individually when there’s so many different forms of purchasing.
- Hoppsy
  @ihatehipsters
  y u mad bro? lol
drake
LOL so what’s the difference between a company saying their good and releasing numbers, there’s no government body to justify it besides it’s hard to determine the numbers when most of the world do not rely on franchise video game stores like gamestop most are small retailers.
IHATEHIPSTERS
so your saying battlefield 3 SOLD 10 million copies? since it says it shipped then it must be sold by your logic. wrong again. it only sold 5 – 6 million they can confirm this so you fail.
- drake
  your obviously trolling now that u mention battlefield 3. you just seem to read that guys first three words and raged. The vendors/retailers buys the product and sells it to the consumer, for the company they already made the money, they don’t set up stores to sell them. they can’t track every personal and individual purchase. so if a person buys a game a year later does it count towards the sales? Not necessarily it might have already been in shelf life for a long time. Most game companies hardly print the disks for the game after it came out they would just estimate the sales and produce accordingly.
  “Units Shipped”(aka: shipped to vendors): This represents units of a product that are SOLD from the parent company (example Sony or Microsoft) to retailers (example – your local gaming store).
  When MS says that it *shipped* 8 million Kinect units in 2010, it means that it SOLD 8 million kinect units to retailers. However, this number does NOT represent product bought by end-using customers (me and you), even if some ambitious fanboys or PR types would like you to think it does. But remember, as far as a companies financial statements are concerned… these are units sold, and the company has its money.
IHATEHIPSTERS
i was using battlefeild as an example? are you serious or are you just trolling? when a game says its shipped that DOES not mean it sold that many. just like how battlefeild 3 shipped 10 million but only SOLD 6 million. your fckin stupid.
- drake
  yes you are trolling, as far as the company is concerned WHATEVER THEY SHIPPED TO THE RETAILERS IS ALREADY SOLD i.e the retailers paid the company for the product, either you did not read the post or you’re too stupid to understand, i’ve also said it’s hard to determine the numbers sold by the retailer to the consumer simply because most of world do not have franchise video game stores most are small third party retailers. If u want the actual numbers of sold to consumers you’re gonna have to knock on every retailers door.
IHATEHIPSTERS
to further prove my point, remember that article stating that bf3 shipped 10 mill? now have a look at this, dumbass.
http://gamrreview.vgchartz.com/sales-data/40231/battlefield-3/
- IHATETROLLS
  yeah whatever’s on the internet is true rite? face it the only real credible info is from the companies even npd can’t track small third party retailers their more focused on market research, besides why would the numbers concern you? who the fuck are you that the companies should care to prove you wrong?
- IHATETROLLS
  lol you actually link to vgchartz? that is just an entertainment site for trolls, fanboys and chart freaks to visit to satisfy their needs of looking smart and credible, it is the single biggest flame war creator, BUT admittedly for a site that is free and run by 10 people it is surprisingly good, though it has never been used as a source for professional journalist ever unless they got lazy.
- A113n
  VGChartz has defended the credibility and reliability of its sales data, often comparing their numbers with the ones published by NPD Group, although some charts have been retroactively adjusted to better match NPD’s monthly reports
  Basically VGChartz has a way that they estimate, sometimes they are wrong but mostly they are right. For information to come so fast VGChartz is good enough. If you need accurate numbers anything a month out is safe to say is accurate.
  Regardless – you are only saying vgchartz is not accurate now because PS3 has been kicking the crap out of Xbox in hardware and software.
  Although I will agree sales in MW3 and BF3 have been higher on XBOX. But then again, more than 2 Million copies on PS3 alone of BF3, and this lastweeks numbers were almost the same as Xbox’s.
Underworld
I’m confused about whether Uncharted 3 sold or shipped 3.8 million. Some sites, including IGN are saying Sony confirmed that it’s units sold. Then others are saying it’s only units shipped.
Which is it damn it.
I suppose either way Sony sold 3.8, either to retailers or consumers.
njb
Doesnt matter. Think of it like this. At least 1 mil play uc3 online. More than enough.
reality
Hard to keep track of sales? Have you never heard of a receipt or the fact that everything is done with computers that hold inventory numbers? Holy shit are you 5? Come on man, get some common fucking sense!
- drake
  yeah and ndp has only 75% of us retailers and they only do a rough estimate of canada NOT INCLUDING wallmart the largest retailer in the world, the only info comes from the company or publisher, everything might be done with computers but not all retailers would share the info.
- lol
  let’s put it in layman’s term or better yet retard speech for you to better understand, game maker makes game, sells to retailers or suppliers who buy in bulk and sell to third party brick and mortar shops then sells to gamers, the part where brick and mortar shops sells to gamers is where things get tricky when anybody can open a shop and sell games anywhere in the world, this is where the supposed real sales through info is at which is hard to get because most firms just estimate from big suppliers/ retailers.
Truth
Xbots mad their failbox sucks. You should of realized it after replacing it about 5 times already.
- IHATEHIPSTERS
  but id never had to replace my xbox? still unhappy that your playstation notwork was down for a month?
Truth
Nope, i got 2 high quality games and a month of PSN+ all for FREE on a FREE network. Don’t forget the 100+ free PS Home items! Well, that’s more than all the things you’ve gotten free on Banbox Live. For $60, you get banned. XD
- Cool dude
  Whats better get banned and get 70 dollars in compensation or get your credit card drained out by hackers?
- hoppsy
  OK, next person who says anything about credit card details i’m buying a helmet becasue they are to dumb to walk around safely without protection.
  no card details where stolen, non at all!
- A113n
  You know what’s funny about what Cool Dude said
  Sony Hack – no credit cards were taken, there is no proof of it, and even if it did happen it was encrypted and Sony gave free credit protection.
  Xbox Live – Has had personal gamertag and paypal information stolen and posted to multiple forums. CHECK THE NEWS RIGHT NOW! Since October there has been THOUSANDS of people reporting fraud on their xbox live account, people spending all their Micro$oft points and some even having their credit card charged for more points which are also then spent.
  Then of course the 3 seperate incidents of bannings that happend in 2011 alone.
  Don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying that Xbox live isn’t as secure as PSN, just saying that no one is safe and everyone needs to excercise due diligence. Oh and that Xbox live has had customers actualy lose money, here has PSN users have not lost any money.
  http://www.securitynewsdaily.com/microsoft-freezes-xbox-accounts-after-credit-card-hack-1253/
  I couldn’t hear this youtube video but it sounds like it’s also addressing the same thing.
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYwFTgJZcNk
- Cool dude
  One person means 35 million to Allen. :P
Heard it here first
The way I see it, more sold, more people to play online with.
josh
playstation!
Soul
I own both systems but I do have to say PlayStation takes a huge shit on xbox