SCEA PlayStation consoles sales numbers for Black Friday week

Sony Computer Entertainment America sent in a rather short press release today detailing the performance of the three current PlayStation consoles for this week with focus given on Black Friday sales.

In general, the PlayStation 3, PlayStation Portable, and PlayStation 2 did all excellent jobs in the sales department the past couple of weeks. Click the “read more” link below to see the actual numbers.

Sony Computer Entertainment America sent in a rather short press release today detailing the performance of the three current PlayStation consoles for this week with focus given on the Black Friday sales.

In general, the PlayStation 3, PlayStation Portable, and PlayStation 2 did all excellent jobs in the sales department the past couple of weeks resulting to unit sales increased of 178% and sales dollars increased of 154%.

The breakdown per console is as follows:

• PlayStation 3 hardware sales increased by 245% when compared to Black Friday sales last year. Since November 2nd, and the availability of both the 40GB and 80GB PS3 models, PS3 hardware sales have increased by 298%.
• PlayStation Portable hardware sales increased by 136% when compared to previous week sales.
• PlayStation 2 hardware sales increased by 287% when compared to previous week sales.

SCEA mentioned that these numbers are based from the sales figures provided by the top ten retail chains in North America.