Monday, May 16, 2011

Sony: Data disaster pushes sales

Business with consoles and games are booming in all product categories, but Sony fall in sales well below the competition, reports the Wall Street Journal. For weeks the Playstation Network is turned off, which makes online gaming impossible with the PS3. The online role-playing games from Sony Online Entertainment and the film are Qriocity service since hacker attack offline.

The sales figures in April suggested that customers resorted slowly in recent weeks to alternatives, the newspaper said. Despite the sharp rise in demand for the business and the Sony Playstation 3 moved significantly less than at rivals such as the Microsoft and the Xbox 360 In April, Sony sold 204,000 PlayStation 3 consoles compared to 180,000 in the previous year.

Microsoft sold 297,000 Xbox 360 recorded with a sales jump of 60 percent over last year. The video games industry presented according to the report in the U.S. in April by 20 percent. The U.S. market research firm NPD Group calculated year on year sales growth of 802.4 million to $ 961,200,000.

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