State of the PlayStation: Second-half FY07 numbers
by Randy Nelson 
{ Jun 26th 2008 at 8:15PM }
Peering into the abyss that is a collection of PowerPoint slides, we've concluded a couple of things. First, PS3 is hurtin' for games, with a mere 475 having been released in total at the outset of FY07. Second, PS3 is certainly selling a lot better. Here's how things look on whole.
PS3 worldwide sales for the second half of FY07 were 7.23 million, up 200% from the same period during the previous fiscal year. No doubt price drops and the release of a few desirable, exclusive titles helped there. PSP, by comparison, saw sales of 9.18 million during the same period, for an increase of 146% over FY09 2H. At the outset of FY07, there were 1,834 titles available for PSP total.
PlayStation Network has seen 9.8 million users register accounts since it launched, or roughly 45% of PS3's total owners. Hirai noted that PSN users worldwide have downloaded the data equivalent of 17 million single-layer DVDs – that's 86 petabytes.
With that, the part of our brain that deals with numbers has exploded.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
nxtiak @ Jun 26th 2008 8:19PM
I don't understand why/how PSP is selling more than the DS in Japan. It's crazy.
Funny how it sucks in the USA though :)
erico316 @ Jun 26th 2008 8:48PM
i think the reason it started to sell so well is that people like u are not as blind sighted anymore .the psp does have games its had game when it first launch and still had them to this day.the ds is aim for female and lil kid while the psp is game for teen and males.
Josh @ Jun 26th 2008 8:57PM
You still don't get it, do you?
(This isn't aimed at nxtiak)
Tonyplusplus @ Jun 26th 2008 9:03PM
@erico316
"the ds is aim for female and lil kid"
Speaking of blind sighted...
Ethan @ Jun 28th 2008 9:03AM
I do find the PSP incompatible with vaginas.
samfish @ Jun 26th 2008 8:26PM
Hot damn! This one's gonna get UGLY!
Stink Snake @ Jun 26th 2008 8:50PM
You missed the requisite '*Grabs Popcorn*' following your comment.
Levi @ Jun 26th 2008 9:33PM
Boy, you sure said it. How ugly is it gonna get?
samfish @ Jun 26th 2008 9:35PM
hm...only 13 comments after more than an hour.
So by "ugly" I mean "ignored".
Levi @ Jun 26th 2008 10:02PM
Seriously! Where are all the fanboys on this one? Sony even provided all of the numbers for everyone to throw back and forth at each other. No additional research required! Is it feeding time for all the trolls?
Jacksons @ Jun 26th 2008 10:22PM
It's just sales figures. Not much to fight over.
Draco @ Jun 26th 2008 8:29PM
lol... I realize its a rounding issue, but 37 + 12 last time I checked was 49 :P
come to think of it, its impossible for it to be a rounding issue, 37.49 + 12.49 is 49.98 which is less then 50... if it was higher then 37.49 then it would be rounded to 38 same with 12.49..
What's the deal? plus the graph shows them closer to 51 million
Draco @ Jun 26th 2008 8:30PM
ooh they used the word over instead of roughly... I take back my crazed rantings.
Draco @ Jun 26th 2008 8:31PM
... This could be a double post.
they used the word "Over" not about or roughly, so I guess it could be 37.99 and 12.99 or even 58 million PSP's and 12,000,001 PS3's
Titanium_Orchid @ Jun 26th 2008 8:33PM
If you look at the graph, the 12 and 36 million numbers have the word "over" before them. Implying over 49 million sales total.
SimbaDogg @ Jun 27th 2008 3:13AM
people really aren't supposed to this
1) post comment
2) reply to comment
3) reply to reply
if you do all this before someone else has even replied to comment 1)...you're doing something wrong here
tmacairjordan87 @ Jun 26th 2008 8:35PM
"PlayStation Network has seen 9.8 million users register accounts since it launched, or roughly 45% of PS3's total owners"
Maybe I read that wrong or am missing something (math is definitely NOT my strong point), but when did the PS3 have close to 20 million sold? That number sounds wrong.
Lekko @ Jun 27th 2008 2:14AM
I have 5 PSN accounts.
Hooray for screwing with numbers!
tmacairjordan87 @ Jun 27th 2008 8:45AM
Yeah that's what I thought was really going on, cause last I knew PS3 only had like 13-14 million sold so the numbers had to be skewed.
Mr.ESC @ Jun 26th 2008 8:38PM
IT'S OVER NINE...million users.
Good for them.
why not the LS2LS7? @ Jun 26th 2008 9:27PM
Sales figures are boring. I can't play sales figures.
Chewmanfu @ Jun 26th 2008 11:07PM
Spoken like a true gamer....
Evan Brown @ Jun 26th 2008 9:32PM
12 > 39?
Maverick Saturn @ Jun 26th 2008 9:45PM
PSP is doing well for itself :)
driven2sin @ Jun 26th 2008 11:34PM
$3 billion loss on PS3 - they would be better off to just dump them next to E.T.'s crib in the desert
hotnutz @ Jun 27th 2008 12:55PM
yeah, Sony's doing pretty bad. They are going to really have to work hard so they can catch up to the losses of the Xbox brand.
driven2sin @ Jun 28th 2008 2:32PM
heh - M$ might of shit the bed with vista but they still rake so much dough they can afford to lose money. Sony needs to get scared straight like Nintendo did.
let's review: Nintendo's profit,stock,branding is through the roof to the moon
M$: got their act together on their second try and is now in the hunt for good already
Sony: resting on their laurels even as they sink into debt
just saying WAKE UP!
Ethan @ Jun 28th 2008 9:01AM
Hey if you add them it looks exponential and not exactly the same every year.