Sony platforms dominate latest EA sales figures

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http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.ps...jpg-764466.jpgAccording to Electronic Arts' Q4 2008 fiscal report, all of Sony's current platforms (PS3, PS2, PSP) dominated EA's game sales across the three month period. The PS2 did the best out of the lot and accounted for 166 million units sold and was closely followed by the PS3's 152 million. The Xbox 360 clocked in at 128 million, while the Wii came last at 75 million units. Sony's systems accounted for 61 percent of the total console title sales for EA.

Sony also reigned supreme in the portable arena with the PSP accounting for 69 million games sold. This gave the PSP a boost taking 47 percent of total EA portable software. Mobile phones surprisingly beat out the Nintendo DS with 28 and 25 percent shares respectively.

It's great to hear that Sony's platforms are strong systems for software sales. On the other hand, it's not so grand to think that this sales push contributes funds for EA's obsessiveness to buyout Take-Two. Switching topics, this news also makes it all so apparent why EA's Peter Moore showed so much concern over PS3 related products recently.
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