Sony Reveals Black Friday Console Sales Figures

<p>Not doing too badly for itself this holiday season is Sony&comma; who saw the PS3 sell 525&comma;000 units and the Vita sell 160&comma;000 in the US during the week of Black Friday &lpar;Nov 18 to 24&rpar;&period; Sales for the PS3 including hardware and software increased by 9&percnt; from last year&period; In Latin America&comma; the year-on-year sales rose by 200&percnt; for 2012&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Sony noted that the <em>Assassin&&num;8217&semi;s Creed III&colon; Liberation<&sol;em> PS Vita bundle was a particularly hot item and saw Amazon sell out of the pack within 5 hours&period; The gaming giant mentioned that at stores&comma; other Vita bundles such as <em>Lego Batman 2&colon; DC Super Heroes<&sol;em> and <em>Call of Duty&colon; Black Ops&colon; Declassified<&sol;em> also sold out during the Black Friday week&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Adding to Sony&&num;8217&semi;s success is the increase in subscribers for the PlayStation Plus service and PS Plus subscribers helped bump up sales through the PSN by 259&percnt; this year&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>This news comes after the reveal of sales figures from Nintendo and Microsoft&period; Nintendo sold 300&comma;000 and 400&comma;000 units of the Wii and Wii U respectively whilst the 3DS sold 250&comma;000 units and the DS sold 275&comma;000 units&period; Microsoft revealed that the 360 sold 750&comma;000 units and that subscriptions for Xbox Live increased by 50 this year&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&lpar;Via <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;asia&period;gamespot&period;com&sol;news&sol;ps3-sales-hit-525000-during-black-friday-6400789">Gamespot<&sol;a>&rpar;<&sol;p>&NewLine;