SCEA: PlayStation 3 & Peripherals See Strong Demand on Black Friday

According to a recent statement made by SCEA, the PlayStation 3 and peripherals saw a “very strong” demand during Black Friday. With many retailers pushing sales, deals, and other enticements while competing for consumers dollars, Sony believes that gamers “recognize the incredible value” in such offers.

SCEA: PlayStation 3 & Peripheral See Strong Demand During Black Friday

According to a recent statement made by SCEA, the PlayStation 3 and peripherals saw a "very strong" demand during Black Friday. With many retailers pushing sales, deals, and other enticements while competing for consumers dollars, Sony believes that gamers "recognize the incredible value" in such offers.

An unnamed SCEA representative told Industry Gamers:

"Consumer demand for the PlayStation 3 system, peripherals and software was very strong during the Black Friday weekend. Gamers were quick to recognize the incredible value of the PS3 with its free access to PlayStation Network, Blu-ray capabilities, and the industry's best lineup of new titles, including the critically acclaimed Uncharted 3,"

While no exact sales figures were cited in the statement, apparently Sony has kicked off the holiday season with a bang. The price point for the console which was lowered earlier this year, put the console in a better competitive position with Microsoft, who has been dominating the North American market for months. Since Sony hasn't released regional sales numbers with the NPD in quite some time, it's hard to tell if they are gaining ground on the competition.

We'll just have to wait for the NPD numbers and Microsoft's statement to find out.

By Al McCarthy on November 29, 2011

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Silenthawx
Its never too late to pick up the Ps3. Dont limit yourselves to anything less! xD
Titan
I’m an xbox fan and grabbed a bundle, needed another blu ray player and after selling ratchet and lbp it cost me around $140. Great deal.
njb
A ps3 now.costs less than £150. U can.get a 160gb slim witb games for £117.99
No other console.offers.more.value now.
Bluray
Free online play
True 1080p
Cant argue. Im actually.shocked.a.3ds.costs nearly.as.much as.a.ps3 now. Im.still shocked ppl.pay over £ 200 for.a.360
- Cool dude
  True 1080p??? Significantly more games run on 1080p on Xbox 360 than Ps3.
- Silenthawx
  I rofl at you cool dude if you consider how long it took MS to bring in HDMI on their console. Aside from that 95% of games run native 720p thus merely stretching out the image a bit for anything higher. Dont kid yourself. Unless you decide to add reference to your claims its obviously BS.
- Cool dude
  Go to the lens of truth website. There are A LOT of games that run on 1080p on Xbox 360 as compared to 720p in Ps3.
- Silenthawx
  Dude 1080p is not the native resolution for almost any games on the 360. The 360 upscales the games, which means that it is merely stretched in order to fit that resolution. As far as im concerned Id rather have native 720p then upscaled 1080p. Either cases still warrant no significant difference. The only game that I know that is native 1080p on Ps3 is Wipeout HD and I cant see how it even comes close to games that run 720p like uncharted.
  BLU Ray Movies: 1080p 99% of the time
  Blu ray games or DVD game: 720p (or upscaled 1080p) End of story
- Raven
  Funny thing with these 720/1080 debates, majority of people are playing on 50 inches or less and sitting over 6 to 8 feet away, doubtful they could tell the difference between the two.
  But I’m a hypo-critic, 51 Sammy 1080p for me, I’d rather have the better option with 1080p but I’ll acknowledge it’s not a huge difference.
- Cool dude
  Most PS3 multiplats cant even upscale to 1080p because the console doesnt have enough memory in it. But theyre able to upscale it in the Xbox 360.
  Do you also know why the Ps3 can play a simple music while playing a game at the same time? Because the Ps3 doesnt have enough memory…. But the Xbox 360 does….
  Same thing goes for Cross game party chats.
  Tells you quite a lot about the bragged about “More power” actually.
Titan
Having both now I can see why xbox is still selling, the us gaming community is much smaller for sony. Great system, but in my area very few people own or play ps3 online.
Of course if you’re not looking to play against actual friends, there’s still plenty of people on psn.
Heavenswarrior121
Ima buy me a ps3 slim :p but then again i dont want to xD my 1 generation 80bg baby has ylod again lmao its nothing like the classic ps3s smh wateva
AKA Zzz
The Sony-bias on this site is so disgraceful. Any time an article is released with information that can make Sony look good, it’ll be posted. They quote an unknown rep and post no numbers. The Kinect is the fastest selling consumer electronic device of all time but the only articles they’ll post about it are ones that describe poor sales.
- A113n
  STFU Zzz, we just now finally got this site to add the words “US sales only” when describing Xbox sales. I still don’t understand why you fools choose to ignore the fact that the PS3 sells really well in the US. Sure it gets beat in the US only by Xbox but all around the world Xbox get’s stomped on.
- Cool dude
  Ok, stop saying that Xbox 360 is getting wasted world wide. Because theyre not.
  Anyways…. @Zzz stop saying that this site is biased, the staff are only delivering the latest news…
- Hoppsy
  cool dude. but they are getting beat world wide, am i right?
  and xbox has a year on them?
  and sony is still outselling them worldwide?
  ok
Titan
Just read over 950,000 xbox’s sold last week in the US, I’m sure Ps3 will do well too.
Lolall3n
Plus 750,000 kinects sold last week too
Lolall3n
http://www.digitaltrends.com/gaming/xbox-360-shatters-its-own-sales-records/#
Titan
Any idea what xbox and playstation sold last year? Curious if 950k is normal for black Friday week.
- Cool dude
  No worries mate :)
  Ill give you links…
patrick
ok here’s the facts IDGAF about 360. microsoft can go fuck themselves for all i care. ps3 has more and better exclusive’s. uncharted, ratchet n clank, rock* after ps3′s power and microsoft’s wallet. microsoft lost bungie’s contract but keeping halo, screws everybody over after $1000 console alone spending’s, including everything 360′s missing including game system HDMI port. gears of war is like steroids, fable like far cry only gd games are left 4 dead and forza. plus puny R1 L1 buttons. that sux because on ps3 we do alot of grenades, aiming, firing, jumping, climbing and running. and well you run out of comfortably reasonable buttons for shooters. ps3 owns on shooters, fighting, RPG, having naughtydog, isomaniac and guerrilla’s loyalty. sony is more loved worldwide and well microsoft is hated because they screw everybody over. and americans only support microsoft because its a IN country company. why hate something our country hates? well guess what if it aint chevy or food american products sux
- Cool dude
  Wow, I thought Allen (I respect you bro) was biased but then Patrick starfish came along and changed the meaning of “Fanboyism”..
  Trololololololol
Cool dude
http://www.vgchartz.com/hwtable.php
patrick
ok microsoft sux. and is well hated around the world and they screw everybody over. they’re only loved by americans because its an american company
- Cool dude
  91% of all computers in the world are Windows OS. I dont think people hate Microsoft…
patrick
and who all has a windows program? i’d much rather linux and dude i’m not a fanboy because well i love sony and nintendo not bill gates who ripped off his college buddies ideas and still losing company loyalty. everyone with exclusive on 360 kinda regret it because they got backstabbed like microsoft’s supporters. has anyone done history on microsoft? i think its time microsoft paid back people for trashing them over. i’m sick of microsoft and wanna see them go bankrupt so badly
patrick
sorry if i offend anyone but i’m through with microsoft’s ways. i’m against how they’re treating people. they had my brother’s 360 account locked up after paying the xbox live bill, microsoft just put his bill on a fake credit card and took hours too get a non shaky english guy on the phone. apparently sony takes 30 minutes average calls. but yeah how do u get a paid bill on a fake credit card i have no clue
Raven
Sadly Sony’s far closer to bankruptcy then ms will ever be, failing in almost every division year after year. Soon all those Segastation exclusives will be multi plats. Lose the biggest market, owners not buying exclusives, free online costing millions, and Sony fanboys keep bragging while their company slowly dies…
- Hoppsy
  LOL U MAD BRO?
njb
Ms only got where they are today by practically giving windows away at the start. The OS market is basically a monopoly. Ppl who.actually know code and basic commands use.linux or another os. Windows is just a gui. Nothing special. Simple.fact is.thats its a monopoly.
Vista was just awful.
@Raven. Please give us ur source. Sony.doesnt.just earn money from the gaming market. Sony are.practically the.entertainment everything.
1 division isnt a whole company
reality
It’s not like Microsoft took away a huge chunk of market share or anything this gen. Sony is definitely not losing money in every department except PS3 hardware. Oh wait, Microsoft did and Sony is going down fast. I bet if they were able to release their exclusives on time the first time, have some damn security in place for PSN, would have never introduced the multi-decade failure know as 3D, and wasn’t preparing to release an overpriced handheld as opposed to making the PS3 better, more secure, and more stable, they might be doing better, and wouldn’t be seeing red. If PS3/4 goes away it will be a sad day, but if things keep going the way they are that is exactly what will happen.
reality
Njb, there was an article on gameinformer and most likely this site about Sonys second quarter for 2011 being a disaster of losses in every aspect of the company except PS3 hardware.
here’s the link – gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2011/11/02/sony-loses-billions.aspx