Playstation 3 Sales Have Exceeded Expections by 30%

You have nothing to fear Sony fans, everything is going as planned! Jack Tretton, CEO of SCEA stated in an interview earlier this week that sales of the Playstation 3 were 30% better than they had initially anticipated. That means that even if no one bought a PS3 for the rest of the year, Sony would still be right on target. Even more inspiring is that Tretton predicts that the PS3 will be sitting at an install base of 10 million by the end of the fiscal year (March 2009). I have a feeling LittleBigPlanet will have a little something to do with that.

Driven by solid demand by video games, and the appeal of the Blu-ray disc movie system built into the devices, PlayStation 3 sales are some 30 percent better than Sony’s plan so far in its fiscal year, according to Jack Tretton, Chief Executive of Sony Computer Entertainment of America.

As a result, he anticipates sales of the PS3 to reach a previously announced target of 10 million units by the end of the year, in March 2009.

“We are in good shape for that number worldwide,” he said in an interview. “We are tracking at 100 percent up over last year … about 30 percent ahead of where we should be. So sales could slow down and we will still hit our number.” — Reuters

I was actually kind of surprised when I heard that they were 30% above the estimate, but it’s a great bit of news for not only Sony fans but the industry as a whole. People are buying systems and while you might not like the Playstation 3, every time they sell a system the gaming industry becomes that much stronger.