PlayStation 3 Hits 80 Million In Worldwide Shipments

Ishaan Sahdev

Published: Nov 5, 2013 11:18 pm

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Global shipments of PlayStation 3 have reached over 80 million units since its 2006 release, Sony have announced. That sales figure is as of November 2nd, 2013.

Currently in its seventh year on the market, PlayStation 3 will soon be joined by the PlayStation 4, which is set to launch later this month in North America and Europe.

Despite the PS4 launch, however, Sony are continuing to release first-party PlayStation 3 games such as Gran Turismo 6, which will be available on December 6th.

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Ishaan Sahdev

Ishaan specializes in game design/sales analysis. He's the former managing editor of Siliconera and wrote the book "The Legend of Zelda - A Complete Development History". He also used to moonlight as a professional manga editor. These days, his day job has nothing to do with games, but the two inform each other nonetheless.