Sony’s PS3 Sales Up 60 Percent in 2008

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While Sony’s PlayStation 3 is selling nowhere near as briskly as Nintendo’s Wii, the company’s gaming console has seen sizeable growth year-over-year in 2008.

PlayStation 3 hardware sales have risen 60 percent during the first 11 months of the 2008 when compared to the first 11 months of 2007. Hardware sales data for December 2008 is not expected until next week.

“We’ve had a solid holiday season and have delivered consistent growth throughout this year. [2008] was a pivotal year for PlayStation with the best software line up in the industry, a dramatic expansion of PlayStation Network including the launches of the video delivery service and the beta of the PlayStation Home,”  Ian Jackson, vice president of sales for Sony Computer Entertainment America, said in a statement to CNET.

Despite this, many people have pointed to Sony’s low November sales as a worrying sign for the PlayStation 3 system. Sony blamed the year-over-year percentage drop on the strength of November 2007’s sales, calling that month’s sales “”an abnormally strong month due to a price cut (with) the introduction of the the 40GB PS3.”