Sony Computer Entertainment America (SCEA) announced today that PlayStation hardware retail sales reached more than 3.9 million units in North America during the critical holiday sales window (Friday, November 23, 2007 to December 31, 2007).   This accounts for SCEA’s three systems currently in the market PLAYSTATION 3, PSP and PlayStation 2.  PS3 retail sales reached 1.2 million hardware units during this holiday timeframe.

    
    "The PlayStation brand ended the year in a very strong position and
clearly indicates more positive momentum going into 2008.   We are
particularly pleased to have sold through 1.2 million units of PS3 during the
holiday selling season," said Jack Tretton, president and CEO, SCEA. "The
strong PS3 sales also further establish Blu-ray’s dominant position as the
high-definition medium of choice for games and movies.  Consumers are clearly
responding to the expanding multimedia capabilities and a great line-up of
over 200 games."

Sales of PSP reached 1.4 million units during this same timeframe.  The
success of the recently introduced Daxter PSP Entertainment Pack and
Star Wars Battlefront PSP Entertainment Pack have continued to swell the
PSP install base.  Upcoming platform defining software such as God of War:
Chains of Olympus and Final Fantasy: Crisis Core will further increase PSP
momentum in 2008.