SCEA: September a Bumper Month for PS3, PSP

PSP 2000, Heavenly Sword, Warhawk, Lair and more on the way

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The new, slimmer, lighter PSP
The new, slimmer, lighter PSP
Following the earlier news on July’s NPD sales data for the US videogame industry, SCEA’s analyst relations manager Mariam Sughayer predicts that September is going to be a big month for Sony.

Sony sold 159,000 PS3 units in North America during July, which is a considerable improvement on the 98,500 sold in June and 81,600 in May. Why the sudden increase in consumer interest?

“From a PlayStation perspective, coming out of E3 we were really anticipating a good reaction to our new hardware pricing announced on July 9th, and we were obviously very pleased to see that PS3 sales increased with 159K units sold at retail for the month of July, which puts us up 61% over June numbers,” Sughayer writes on the PlayStation blog.

“While I think a lot of that had to do with the new price, I also think there is a great deal of anticipation for the line up of games just around the corner, including Warhawk (Aug. 28), Lair (Sept. 4) and Heavenly Sword (Sept. 12). In fact, September should definitely be a big month for us when you add in the launch of the new, slimmer, lighter PSP (pictured) which will hit store shelves next month.”

You can see the whole of SCEA’s spin on the US PlayStation blog.
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Comments

hollywooda 24 Aug 2007 14:52
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Only need Three words 4 why PS3 is selling.........Metal Gear Solid. end of.
Joji 24 Aug 2007 15:09
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There's also plenty of syllable reasons why PS3 won't sell.

Halo 3, Mass Effect, Bioshock, Blue Dragon, and it'll get worse still for PS3. PSP will have a bad time.
hollywooda 24 Aug 2007 15:11
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I do feel sorry 4 ever game that gets release on the PS3 after MGS4..... its gonna b down hill from then on.........

p.s. i dont feel sorry for them at all... i just thought i'd say that.
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