Global PS3 sales near 13 million units

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Sony Corp has announced its full year financial results for the financial year 2007, which includes updated sales figures for its game hardware.

For the twelve month period ended March 31, 2008, 9.24 million PS3s were sold, taking worldwide cumulative sales to 12.85 million units. This compares to 19 million units sold for the Xbox 360 and a staggering 24.45 million units of the Wii.

During the same twelve month period the PS2 sold 13.73 million units and the PSP 13.89 million units.

For the current year, ending March 31, 2009, Sony Corp estimates a further 10 million PS3s, 9 million PS2s and 15 million PSPs will be sold. Interestingly the estimated 10 million PS3 sales does not show any significant growth over financial year 2007.

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