Skip to main content

Full Sony Q3 financials: PS3 hardware sales up 195 percent

The VG247 logo in white on a red background
Image credit: VG247

Right here. It's exhaustive stuff. This is the important slide, saying PS3 hardware and software sales for the quarter ending December 31 were up 195 percent and 391 percent respectively over the same period in 2006. It's worth noting that PS3 hadn't launched in the PAL regions in the earlier period. There's a note at the bottom of the chart that says, "Beginning with Q1 FY07, the method of reporting hardware and software unit sales has been changed from production shipments to recorded sales." This seems to suggest those figures would be even higher had Sony're recording criteria remained the same.

Read this next

Patrick Garratt avatar
Patrick Garratt is a games media legend - and not just by reputation. He was named as such in the UK's 'Games Media Awards', the equivalent of a lifetime achievement award. After garnering experience on countless gaming magazines, he joined Eurogamer and later split from that brand to create VG247, putting the site on the map with fast, 24-hour a day coverage, and assembling the site's earliest editorial teams. He retired from VG247, and the games industry, in 2017.
Related topics

Sign in and unlock a world of features

Get access to commenting, homepage personalisation, newsletters, and more!