In a press release this morning, Sony Computer Entertainment announced that sales for the PS3 have reached over 70 million units worldwide as of November 4th 2012. The milestone has been achieved in less than six years after the console was first launched in 2006. Sony’s PlayStation Move controller has also surpassed 15 million units as of November 11th 2012.
Sony has revealed that sales of the PS3 in the UK has passed the 5 million unit mark, since the console was first launched in March 2007. The console has sold over 5 million across all three designs, starting with the very first 60GB model, down to the 500GB “Super Slim” models recently launched.
Capcom has shipped a “record breaking” 4.5 million copies of horror title Resident Evil 6 worldwide. The figure is a new company record according to Capcom, which shipped 4.4 million copies of Resident Evil 5 back in 2009. The company is expecting the game to sell 7 million copies by the end March 31st, 3012.
Sony has sold over 200,000 copies of Tokyo Jungle, a survival action game exclusively available on the PS3. The number includes both digital and Blu-ray disc versions of the game, since the title was launched in Japan on June 7, 2012.
SCEE has revealed that over 830,000 gamers entered the Nissan and PlayStation GT Academy Online Competition across Europe. The entry for the competition closed last week, which involved gamers download and competing in a Gran Turismo 5 standalone demo.
Capcom has announced that its latest IP, action RPG Dragon’s Dogma, has shipped over one million copies to retailers, since the title was released toward the end of May. Of course, it doesn’t indicate the actual number of units sold, but it does mean there is a huge demand for the game.
SCE President Andrew House told Reuters in an interview that Sony is aiming to sell ten million PlayStation Vita systems before the end of the current fiscal year. Sony is hoping to achieve the sales target by releasing major software titles during the holiday season.
Telltale Games have announced that The Walking Dead series has reached the one million sales mark, just two weeks into the games release, making it the developer’s fastest ever selling title. The first episode – ‘A New Day’ – took the top spot on the Playstation Network in its first week on the market.
Since its launch on October 25 2011, Battlefield 3 has become the fastest selling title in EA’s 20+ year history selling more than 15 million units since release. Battlefield 3 has also won more than 120 awards including IGN.com’s “Best Multiplayer Game of 2011.”
It has been two weeks since Journey was launched on the PlayStation Store. Today, it was announced that Journey has officially broken PlayStation Network and PlayStation Store sales records, surpassing all games ever released on the PlayStation Network to become the fastest-selling game ever released on PlayStation Store, in both the SCEA and SCEE regions.
