Playstation 3 gains ground at Christmas

More good news for Sony and for Blu-ray.

Mercury News.com: PS3 holiday sales total 1.2 million

TOKYO—Sales of Sony's PlayStation 3 game machine sales totaled 1.2 million in North America during the key holiday season, the electronics and entertainment company said Monday. The performance gave a lift to its Blu-ray video format because the console also works as a Blu-ray player.
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Nintendo said previously it had shipped 13.2 million units worldwide of the Wii by October. The Kyoto-based maker of Pokemon and Super Mario games is expectingto sell a cumulative 23 million Wiis by March 31, the end of its fiscal year. Sony has said previously that it sold 5.6 million PS3s worldwide as of the end of September. The latest will add to the tally but the company did not yet have the numbers from the other regions.
The PS3 has lagged behind the Xbox 360 console from Microsoft, which has sold 17.7 million Xbox 360 consoles globally over the last two years.

Despite the fact that I love indulging my sense of schadenfreude when Sony miss-steps, I have to say that it is a relief to see Blu-ray start to gain ground, considering that I called the format war in their favor last October.

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