The UK high street store GAME has today said that the PS3 is responsible for over half of its like-for-like sales boosts since the beginning of the year. GAME have seen a 74.1% increase in total group sales for the first 22 weeks of the year, with a 46.6% like-for-like sales boost in the same period. Of this 46.6%, 22.5% is attributed to PlayStation 3 hardware, software and peripherals.
This is great news and shows that the PS3 is still going strong here in Europe. When the really huge games start getting released, no doubt we'll be seeing an even larger increases in sales, particularly hardware. Peter Lewis comments on this, saying that "higher volumes of new generation platforms will increase hardware participation in the sales mix for the year to January 2008." Which is flowery-speak for "hardware will make up a larger part of overall sales in the next six months," which makes sense. As the end-of-year games splurge occurs, more people will be persuaded into buying consoles.
