Sony also sold 1.4 million PlayStation Portable handheld machines in the region during the same period, from November 23 to December 31, Sony Computer Entertainment has stated. <\/p>\n
Sony, which faces fierce competition from rival Nintendo, slashed $100 from its top model PS3 consoles in the United States and introduced a cheaper, slimmed down version ahead of the crucial year-end sales period.<\/p>\n
"The PlayStation brand ended the year in a very strong position and clearly indicates more positive momentum going into 2008," Jack Tretton, head of Sony's US games unit, said in a statement.<\/p>\n
PS2 still popular<\/strong><\/p>\n The PlayStation 2 also continued to enjoy brisk demand with sales of 1.3 million machines between November 23 and December 31, Sony said.<\/p>\n Sony previously dominated the home video-game market and shipments of the original version and the PlayStation 2 have both topped 100 million each.<\/p>\n However, it has fallen badly behind Nintendo with its hit Wii console, which is much cheaper than the PS3 and designed to appeal to a wider audience.<\/p>\n Sony has also announced that it teamed up with Skype to enable users of its new slim PlayStation Portable hand-held video game machine to make free or low cost telephone calls around the world.<\/p>\n After a software update that will be available from late January, PSP-2000 users will be able to chat for free to other Skype users and, for a charge, call landlines and mobile phones anywhere in the world, Sony said.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Sony’s game unit says that it sold 1.2 million PlayStation 3 video game consoles in North America during the key year-end holiday shopping season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gaming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2423"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2423\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}