Sony has sold 4.1 million Move motion control systems since launch in September.
The company says today that worldwide sales passed 4 million this week thanks to strong holiday demand.
“The milestone was reached in just two months since its release in September for North America, Europe/PAL territories and Asia, and 1 month since the release in October for Japan,” added Sony.
“The number not only shows clear success of the launch of the new motion sensing controller but also indicates positive momentum going in to the holiday season and to the year 2011.”
Move is supported by 25 games.
Over the holiday, Microsoft announced it had sold 2.5 million Kinect motion control systems since launch this month.
Result for: worldwide sales
Gartner has released their second quarter smartphone sales data this week, which shows Nokia clearly still in the lead, but slowly losing market share to RIM, Apple and HTC.
The numbers are for worldwide sales and shows Nokia with 45 percent market share, down 2.4 percent year-on-year. Apple exploded to 13.3 percent from 2.8 percent and RIM and HTC made smaller gains at the expense of Nokia, Fujitsu and “other” companies.
The chart, via AIS:
Result for: worldwide sales
Nintendo president Satoru Iwata has revealed that the company is not likely to cut the price of its ever popular Wii and DS gaming systems in the foreseeable future.
“Our earnings projection for the year is not based on hardware price cuts, and I don’t think we are going to need them,” said Iwata.
Despite supply shortages on huge demand for both systems, Nintendo revealed its fourth quarter earnings this week which showed the company has sold 18.6 million Wii consoles over the last 12 months, putting worldwide sales since launch at almost 25 million. The company also added that total sales were up 73 percent year on year “while operating income was up 115.6 percent and profit up 47.7 percent.”
Nintendo added that it hopes to sell 25 million consoles worldwide for the upcoming fiscal year. To meet growing demand, the company will also be ramping up production from 1.8 to 2.4 million consoles every month. Maybe this year there will be Wiis on the retail shelves next to all those PlayStation 3s and Xbox 360s.
