Sony claims to be selling 200k PS3′s a week in Europe, and 200k in U.S. for Black Friday
From Bloomberg:
PlayStation 3 SalesChief Financial Officer Nobuyuki Oneda said Oct. 25 that the company may miss its target to sell 11 million of the consoles during the year ending March 31.
The company sold 2.02 million PlayStation 3 machines in the first half ended Sept. 30. That’s less than one-third the 7.34 million for the $250 Wii, which sports a motion-sensing controller that users can swing like a golf club or brandish like a sword, with movements replicated on screen.
Ken Kutaragi, developer of the PlayStation consoles, retired in June after production delays caused PS3 sales to lag behind rival game consoles.
The PlayStation 3 outsold the Wii for the first time in Japan last month, after Sony cut prices and offered a cheaper model, Tokyo-based research firm Enterbrain Inc. said in November.
Stringer today said the company sells about 200,000 PlayStation 3 consoles in Europe each week, and 40,000 to 50,000 in Japan. It also sold more than 200,000 in the U.S. following “Black Friday,” the day after Thanksgiving.