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Shipments of PSP, PS2 dropped in holiday seasonDela @ Jan 30, 2007 23:19 | 4 comments
While Sony did manage to ship 1.83 million PS3 units before the end of the year, it is important to remember the difference between shipments and sales. Sony's figures seem to mirror a Microsoft warning last week about a global softening in demand especially for video games.
Sony knows that it will receive a loss immediately on the sales of PS3 console, due to the high manufacturing costs involved. However, the company had hoped to soften that loss a bit by reducing the price of the PS2 console and through a promotional campaign. However, now demand also seems to be falling for the PSP console at a time when the Nintendo DS is doing very well.
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The demand for Sony's PlayStation Portable (PSP) console and the PlayStation 2 (PS2) console reportedly dropped quite dramatically in the 2006 holiday season. There was a 71.7% drop in
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Comment by: solarf (Jan 31, 2007 11:54) More bad news for sony. It seems they cant catch a break. |
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Comment by: geeoh (Jan 31, 2007 14:14) Sony makes their own bad news without trying. |
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Comment by: wetsparks (Feb 04, 2007 15:25) Like no one saw this coming, they released a new console, and the old one's sales drop. It doesnt take much thought to figure out why. Besides, its been over a year that the PS2 has been at $130, if people were going to buy it, they would have it by now. |
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Comment by: Xenores (Feb 06, 2007 13:39) Doh! Looks like Sony is just sucking lol. |
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