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Sony Ships 50 Million PS3s Worldwide, 8 Million PlayStation Moves

Posted on Friday, April 15 @ 12:55:28 Eastern by


Sony was once the king of video game consoles, for nearly a decade. The original PlayStation broke hardware sales records, which its successor, the PS2, smashed to smithereens.

This console generation... not so much. The PS3 has been trailing behind the competition, largely in part due to the PS3's far more expensive price tag at launch. Sony has since been able to reduce component costs and turn the savings over to the consumers, bringing the Blu-ray equipped console to the market at a reasonable cost.

It's helped a lot, too, as Sony has now shipped over 50 million PlayStation 3s worldwide. That's not the only good news for Sony's hardware division. The PlayStation Move has managed to ship over 8 million units to retail channels.

Admittedly, I expected the PlayStation Move to perform even better considering its only 33% of the price of Microsoft's Kinect, which has moved over 10 million units in a shorter time period. And the fact that a lot of people buying a PlayStation Move are likely buying more than one so they can enjoy it with their family or friends. I alone own 3. No word as to how the Navigation sub-controller factors into these numbers or if they do at all.

That said, we fully expect PlayStation 3 to have a strong year this year and the next thanks to an amazing first-party software line-up, stereoscopic 3D support, and hopefully, a price drop.

So, who has a PlayStation Move? And if you do, do you own more than one? Let us know!
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  • Rinnon
    Rinnon
    Joined: Nov 2005
    Posted: Apr 15th, 2011 at 1:08 pm
    I own a PS3, and I have for years, but I don't own a Move. If I still owned a 360, I wouldn't own a Kinect either.

    Question for you though Anthony, since I don't know anyone who actually owns a Move... how often do you actually use them? Like, represented as a percentage of how often you play your PS3, as well as a percentage of how often you play Video Games (non work related) in general. I might buy them if I thought I was going to use them, but I don't even use my Wii that often, the novelty kind of wore off for everyone I know a few years ago.
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  • MrrClean
    MrrClean
    Joined: Aug 2010
    Posted: Apr 15th, 2011 at 1:32 pm
    I don't really get why the 360 is ahead of the PS3, even if it is cheaper. Seriously, it's common sense. PS3 = $300 dollars, and its yours, no online fees, no monthly charges, and tons of free downloads. The 360 costs $200, plus $60 additional dollars for every year you wanna play online. In an age when the focus of gaming seems to be almost entirely focused on online mutiplayer, the price difference balances out in less than 2 years, and hey, they've been around a lot longer than that. Plus the whole RLOD thing... Seriously, I don't get it.
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  • Anthony_Severino
    Anthony_Severino
    Joined: Oct 2010
    Posted: Apr 15th, 2011 at 1:42 pm
    @Rinnon, the dust covering my Move controllers will tell you that I almost never use them. If they weren't a necessary tool of my trade, I probably still would have bought two anyway. They'd still be covered in dust, though.

    I'm not particularly a fan of Kinect, and I've used that far more than Move. The games just plain out suck on it. Sure Killzone 3 and SOCOM 4 it's cool to use the Move, but I'm too lazy. I'll tell ya, echochrome ii was really awesome. That's about the most I used it.

    @MrrClean, I have to agree with you. I don't get it either. I think it's just "my buddies have a 360 so I'll get a 360" type of thing. I think things were beginning to tip in the PS3s favor, then Kinect started luring in children and moms everywhere.
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