Sony Meets PS3 Target

by Billy Brown

Sony shipped one million PS3 units to North America in 2006, which many critics thought would be impossible due to production delays.

"Are we worried about strong sales of the Wii or Xbox 360? Not really," said Sony spokesperson Dave Karraker as quoted by AP. "It was a great year for the industry overall. With the tide all ships rise."

Sony would up selling 197,000 PS3s on launch day alone, which was a little less than half of the 400,000 originally projected. The company utterly dominated the previous generation competition with a 70% share of the global market.

Nintendo has not released any hard numbers yet, but they claim that their prediction of shipping four million consoles before the beginning of 2007 is still
on target. As for Microsoft, their totals are still unknown as well.