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Sony sold over 525,000 PlayStation 3s and 160,000 PS Vitas in North America during the week of Black Friday (Nov. 18-24), it has announced.

PlayStation 3 Black Friday bundle sales increased 15 percent, and total PS3 sales including hardware, software, and peripherals grew 9 percent compared to last year.

“We’re very pleased with the Black Friday sales results, especially the incredible reception for the PS3 and PS Vita bundles. The demand was very strong which quickly depleted our inventory across retailers nationwide,” said Jack Tretton, President and CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment America. “The PlayStation brand generated significant revenue and year-over-year growth at retail because of our focus on what gamers love most in combining amazing hardware with great games and digital entertainment.”

http://gematsu.com/2012/11/sony-black-friday-sales-break-685000

Some additional information as pointed out by Seda

"Sony also announced that sales of PlayStation Plus subscriptions on PlayStation®Network increased 259% compared to last year’s Black Friday period. In addition, since the Instant Game Collection was introduced earlier this year, customer satisfaction rates for PS Plus are above 95%."

http://www.gamingexaminer.com/sony-...week-160000-ps-vita-units/19112/#.ULe2kod9LFJ

 

[dallow_bg]

Good for them.

 

[RedNumberFive]

Well I definitely contributed to that. I'm loving my new Vita.

 

[BlazingDarkness]

vita bomba

 

[Hero]

For them, that's certainly a lot of Vita's.

 

[Brazil]

Hopefully the weak Vita numbers mean I'll be able to find one in the cheap in two weeks.

 

[LastNac]

Thats a nice Vita number. Right?

 

[Seda]

bit more:

Sony also announced that sales of PlayStation Plus subscriptions on PlayStation®Network increased 259% compared to last year’s Black Friday period. In addition, since the Instant Game Collection was introduced earlier this year, customer satisfaction rates for PS Plus are above 95%.

http://www.gamingexaminer.com/sony-...black-friday-week-160000-ps-vita-units/19112/

 

[Takao]

I know they wish those Vita numbers were higher, but all things considered not a bad outing.

 

[iamvin22]

awesome news.

 

[Loudninja]

Nice.

 

[thehypocrite]

Seems like decent, considering america is Xbox land

 

[DR2K]

160k Vitas, sounds like they found the pricing sweet spot.

 

[Kerub]

Uh, that should be an allright amount of Vitas right? I expected much lower.

 

[Impeccable]

Nice bump for Vita.

 

[gaming_noob]

Great number for PS3.

 

[sTeLioSco]

for the week?

good...

 

[McHuj]

I'd didn't think Vita would break 100k. This will be it's highest selling month month until next November.

 

[Tratorn]

Good vita numbers.
And also better ps3 numbers than i expected.

 

[Striek]

Someone has to eat their hat because Sony provided Vita numbers, IIRC.

 

[Shtof]

Vita strong!!!

Not really, but it might not be dead... yet.

 

[Toki767]

Selling half as much as the 3DS has to be considered a victory for them considering how it was before Black Friday.

 

[YuriLowell]

Still a pretty bad Vita number.

 

[DieH@rd]

Vita needs to grow! [announce that killzone game already]

 

[The_Darkest_Red]

So, here's what we know:

Japanese market + Animal Crossing = US market + crazy black Friday bundles

 

[Tallshortman]

Good numbers for both (well, vita numbers are good, not fantastic, but a big step up from where they were before), looks like I was close when I predicted 500k+ for PS3 in NA during the shopping weekend.

They really should drop Vita to $200 bundles sometime soon. Much sweeter price point.

 

[Kazerei]

$200 Vita worked!

 

[grimshawish]

I know they wish those Vita numbers were higher, but all things considered not a bad outing.

Pretty much.
PS3 doing alright as well. Though 'all things considered' there, probably not as good.

Still. Decent.

 

[AranhaHunter]

Ok numbers for both PS3 and vita. I think that's the closest the vita will ever get to the 3DS (160k to 250k)

 

[JaseMath]

Black Friday 2012

360: 750,000
PS3: 525,000
WiiU: 400,000
Wii: 300,000

DS: 275,000
3DS: 250,000
Vita: 160,000

 

[metalslimer]

Those Vita numbers are probably 75-80% of the month, but I gues it will break 200k after all

 

[Live Free or Die]

cool.

 

[Kung Fu Grip]

MS sold 750K in the same week or was it weekend?

Either way, very good numbers for sony.

 

[Tratorn]

Does anyone have the ps3-numbers from last year?

 

[Trevelyon]

That's decent PS3 #'s in comparison to the 360. Thought it'd be a blow out, what's the yoy +/-?

 

[rpmurphy]

I wonder what PSP numbers are?

 

[grimshawish]

Black Friday 2012

WiiU: 400,000
Wii: 300,000
360: 750,000
PS3: 525,000

3DS: 350,000
DS: 275,000
Vita: 160,000

I though 3DS was 250?

 

[SirIgbyCeaser]

So vita + ps3 still sold less than xbox 360?

Oh well, good for sony. The vita needed at least one good month.

 

[schwabdizzle]

PS3 # does not surprise me, but the Vita # does....I am surprised it sold over 100k to be honest......people must of fell for the Block Ops for Vita "being like the console experience"....sucks for them.

 

[zroid]

Considering some of those deals, it's a disappointing Vita number, but at least they've got 160k more Vitas out in the wild. That's not entirely a bad thing, and could have been much worse.

 

[cw_sasuke]

Vita sales aren that bad.

 

[marrec]

Ok numbers for both PS3 and vita. I think that's the closest the vita will ever get to the 3DS (160k to 250k)

Yep, that's a victory for Sony, but they also have to be seriously considering giving a permanent price drop at this point. They CAN compete with the 3DS if the system is competitively priced, that's obvious.

 

[evolution]

Despite selling much less than MS, I guess they must be kinda pleased that there was an increase yoy. Didn't expect that many vitas either tbh.

 

[The Grim Heaper]

Not bad.

 

[jimmypython]

Good numbers. Now please make some true AAA games for the Vita.

 

[Lkr]

Black Friday 2012

360: 750,000
PS3: 525,000
WiiU: 400,000
Wii: 300,000

3DS: 350,000
DS: 275,000
Vita: 160,000

So Sony came in last on both fronts

 

[JaseMath]

I though 3DS was 250?

You're right. Fixed.

 

[Tallshortman]

MS sold 750K in the same week or was it weekend?

Either way, very good numbers for sony.

Both are for the black friday shopping holiday (thursday through the weekend)

 

[Metalmurphy]

bit more:



http://www.gamingexaminer.com/sony-...black-friday-week-160000-ps-vita-units/19112/

Satisfaction rate only up by 2%... weak!

So Sony came in last on both fronts

I don't see PS2 or PSP numbers in that.

 

[T.M. MacReady]

PS3 # does not surprise me, but the Vita # does....I am surprised it sold over 100k to be honest......people must of fell for the Block Ops for Vita "being like the console experience"....sucks for them.

i think people "fell for" the ridiculously great value bundle amazon offered. I sure did. Thing is awesome.