2010 for the PS3 will be broken into 3 parts. The PS3 sold 12.4M consoles in 2009.
VGChartz Hardware data for the period 04th Jan 2009 to 02nd Jan 2010:
Console PS3
Total 12,404,833
Part 1: Time period matching same period in 2009 prior to slim and price cut. During this time in 2009 the PS3 sold 4.7M consoles.
Part 2: Time period from slim introduction and price cut and before Black Friday. During this time in 2009 the PS3 sold 3.2M consoles. This is the time period most affected by the slim and price cut.
Part 3: Black Friday through the end of the year. During this time the PS3 sold 4.4M units.
Part 1 will see a YoY increase and Kowenicki estimate of 30% is probably good boost. That would move the sales in this period to 6.2M consoles.
Part 2 will see a drop because no pent up demand for price cut. Probably see PS3 drop of 10-20% to closer to 2.5M consoles.
Part 3 will see sales at about the same level.
Putting the PS3 at about 13M in sales for 2010.
Its libraries that sell systems not a single game.
