Joystiq

During the PlayStation Network Analysis panel at GDC, SCEA digital distribution manager Pierre Gravereau provided some platform stats to attendees, revealing worldwide sales of over 41.6 million PS3 consoles. More than 80 percent of consoles are connected to the internet and have spawned 70 million PSN accounts.

Gravereau boasted about the success of PSN in 2010, saying traffic to the PlayStation Store increased by 60 percent compared to the previous year and Sony subsequently saw a 70 percent spike in revenue. Even without exact hard figures, it's quite a dramatic uptick.

Now, we're no bussinessologists, but if you ask us (you asked, right?), we'd have to attribute Sony's success in 2010 to one thing: KB.

http://www.joystiq.com/2011/03/03/ps3-stats-over-41-million-consoles-sold-psn-revenue-up-70-perc/

So is vgchartz overtracking PS3 by around 6 millions ?

Either that or major typo.

And there's 8 milion consoles shipped but not sold on shelves?

t3h ch@nn31zz stuffingz

If it were a typo It would be the mother of all epic fail

Something is wrong . Look at the offical Sony of Japan website: http://www.scei.co.jp/corporate/data/bizdataps3_sale_e.html .

And the presentation shows > 41.6. I think they reused a slide.

 Edit: 47.9 is right. 41.6 is wrong, but > 41.6 is also right.

Haven't they done this before....using old figures and such? 

bad presentation

someone forgot to add in the (calendar) Q4 2010, which was 6.3 m:  47.9m - 6.3m = 41.6m