NPD: PS3 sells over 230k in September

September was just the littlebigcalm-before-the-storm..........




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I'm hoping the best for Sony. Anyone can just screw their fanbase over but Sony chooses not to.

I'm looking forward to the interesting year sony has planned out.

Nice work Sony. Keep it up!

Yeah!! GO GO GO S-O-N-Y ! ! !(Bionic Commando Anime Opening FTW lol)

wow 360 crashed PS3.... we should be ashamed of ourselves!! what are you doing if not persuading your friends to all get one?!!

They may not be leading, but they're not doing bad. A little advertising and we could probably close that gap. And when you look at the total Sony numbers, they are nearly double Microsoft's.

September sales chart:
PS3 - 3000K Unit sold!
Software -
LBP - 6000K, A new record

These are fantastic sales numbers in general for a slumping economy. Its good to see consumers have more sense right now then stockbrokers. Sorry I'm a bit pissed off at the rollercoaster ride that is the global markets. My RSP's(Canadian savings plan for university/retirement) are down 25%... :(

if they dont start playing furious and drop the price big time next year and get some exclusives and start acting like msoft, stop loosing exclusives and loose metal gear 4, im sorry but i cant see them surviving this gen, they better hold fast. the competition is not standing still...

Not droping the price was a bold move to me.
And it shows... 360 sales >> PS3. And it strikes me odd that PS2 Madden 09 > PS3 version.. Most odd is the PSP > PS3...

But hey, I'm still a damn proud PS3 owner ;]

Is there a reason why the PS3 is listed above the PSP up above...when the PSP sold more?

sony needs to drop this. drop it to 319.99 or 350 and 450 or 419.99

Why drop prices? If you can sell just as many or just below the Xbox 360 for $200 more then why worry. This was a very dry month for the PS3 and sales were still pretty impressive and they should continue to climb. For the next few months the PS3 has a stacked lineup+ Home+ Holiday Season+ Please prey for a stronger economy.

Shouldn't PSP be above PS3? O.o

* Wii 687.0K
* NDS 536.8K
* 360 347.2K
* PS3 232.4K
* PSP 238.1K
* PS2 173.5K

well unlike u i want the ps3 to surpass the 360. so i want the price drop to increase sales ESPECIALLY for this holiday season. the gap is 6 or 7 million. they need to make an attempt to at least cut this down. try and get it down to 4 or 5 million within the next year

i am a true fanboy of the ps3 but latley i have been very disapointed i mean horrilbe news every day chances that 360 may get blu ray or mgs4 no confrence at tgs the suppose to be 9 new games which turn out where 9 already known games sony plz buy your exclusive i am beging you, this way you will endup with lbp coming out in 360 in weeks or versus released exclusivly on 360 cause microsoft dicide they would buy that as an exclusive , we already lost assasins creed , mercenarys ff13 and tekken i dont want to see not another exclusive lost to 360 in at least 3 years other wise i will have to take the emberrsing crap from 360 fanboys, home should already been out and you delayed kz2 just so r2 could sell in holiday i got news for you i have been waiting for kz2 way longer than for r2 and the fact that kz2 lost holiday season lunch is debestating for gurriela.

Why drop prices? This is the reason why:

360 STAR WARS: THE FORCE UNLEASHED LUCASARTS 610K

PS3 STAR WARS: THE FORCE UNLEASHED LUCASARTS 325K

The same game with nearly twice as many sold on the Xbox 360. And why would not be competeting? Microsoft obviously is and they're winning. We should be at the top of that list! :D

Well, I'm one of the 232k that got their PS3 this last month and I'll tell ya it was for LBP and the fact I had to send my 360 in for the 5th time in 9 months. When I get it back from MS it's going up on EBay and I'm sticking with the PS3. Nothing I want to play isn't a PS3 exclusive or multiplat.

I don't want to have to go over why this is, but it isn't fair of Andrew to somehow use 360 Arcade and [80GB] PS3 in the same sentence.

It's like saying Sony should come out with a box that only offers DVD-playback, no wireless connectivity, no HDD (just a 256MB card) so no DLC just games saves, and no BC for PS2 games or even PS1 games for that matter, no BC whatsoever, no free online play (yes you do get 3 months of Live I think, but whoopitydo), it's louder, has no internet browser, you can't throw Linux on it and use it as a desktop or for emulators, no Gigabit ethernet for later necessity in Media Server capabilities (100 Mbps is fine atm, yes, but Idk about 4 years from now when streaming 25GB+ file-size media), could still be build-quality prone (RRoD, GPU-issues, NIC issues, DVD-ROM issues).

IMHO, the list of missing items in the Arcade is just too much to justly compare it to the [80GB] PS3 and consider them truly in the same level. It's the consumer's loss if they don't care to critically research before the make their purchase, especially in a "slumping" economy where long-term value proposition should be key.

LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL

xbox360 fanboys are excited for xbox360 sales in September.

These numbers are only due to the normal increase in sales, which happens the first weeks after a price cut or release of a AAA game (for example, BOOST PS3 sales with MGS4 was higher than BOOST xbox360 sales with price cut).

In October xbox360 sales back to normal and numbers will be very close with PS3 numbers.

In November and December, instead I think that PS3 beats xbox360 thanks to the Blu-Ray player.

@32Natan:
Yeah keep telling yourself that bub. You are not talking about a difference of 50$ between the 2 systems, it is $200 and in these times a good deal is what it is all about. Remember the price drop in September did not come till later in the month. October will be the first month that it is on sale from the first day of the month and there has been TONS of advertising since then also October is going to rock! And with Fable 2 coming out October will be a lovely month! WooT!

As much as I love my PS3. I have a feeling that the 360 is going to completely crush the PS3 this christmas. It's just too expensive for the average family to buy for their kid.

I have a PS3. I know people who have Xbox's. And yes note the (s).

I have found that many 360 owners have more than one 360. So what does that mean. It means the 360 user base numbers are not really accurate. There may be more 360's sold, but that doesn't always mean they are unique new people sales.

I would like to know how many individual people own one system or the other or both. Count the people who have 3 360's but only count them as the one person they are, not as 3 360 owners/sales.

The numbers are obscured by crazy people who own multiple 360s. If I bought 3 PS3's the the PS3 numbers would go up too.

With the 360 being a MCE extender, people use them to watch pre-recorded tv from MCE too, not just as game consoles.

I know someone who literally owns 5 360's. Seriously!

People need to look at 360 sales numbers in the right light.

I would bet that almost every single PS3 owner has only 1 PS3. Sure cost is a factor, but PS3 owners are not buying 5 of them just to inflate sales numbers like some 360 fanboys tend to.

And yes, I have heard people say they have more then one 360 just b/c they want the 360 to do better.

The PS3 might cost more but is a better thought out and more complete system then the 360, and it will last longer. I bet I will still be playing my PS3 8 years from now (thats how long I had my PS2). I bet the 360 will be history in much less time than that.

Still 640,000 Sony units when you add PSP, PS3 and PS2 together.