SCEA: increase of 130 percent of PS3 hardware sales for holiday season

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johnsobas said:

DaGreatestHope said:
Why wont the media mention this? Everytime there is some good PS3 news they stay mum about it but one little bad thing they jump on it and blow it out of porportion.

What you need to think about is the price of the PS3 and thus the price of the games. Of course they cost alot and people wait til things are cheaper especially games because they drop in price fast(just picked up World at War for only $40). So with this logic and this economic recession the PS3 is selling pretty well for its price.

I expect Kotaku and other media gaming sites that usually sprout PS3/Sony negatively to accurately report this news, but fearing their bias I am sure they wont.

Maybe because it's not good news.  It basically confirms that december sales are down from last year in addition to sales being down in november.  The 130% part 100% spin, nothing to talk about.  The 40% YOY is nice but ignores that sales are decreasing and that a few days ago the same man said sales were 60% YOY (http://www.endsights.com/?p=538).

 

I don't think the 60% YOY part was in reference to NA only, as its only until after that is mentioned that Ian Jackson is quoted, I think the 60% YOY is for Worldwide, and 40% is for NA.