Sony game unit revenue fell by 97 percent.

Sales of the game unit of Sony in the third quarter of fiscal year declined by 32.2 percent compared with last year's results, reports MCV. From October 1 to December 31, the company managed to earn 393.8 billion yen (4.33 billion dollars). In this game unit operating income fell by 97 per cent - from 12.9 billion yen (144 million dollars) to 400 million yen (U.S. $ 4 million).
During this period the world has sold 4.46 million PlayStation 3 prefixes (at 440 thousand less than a year earlier), as well as 5.08 million portable PSP (at 680 thousand less than last year's result). Most sales dropped PlayStation 2 - with 5,4 million to 2,52 million consoles.
Sales of games for the PlayStation 3 have increased with 26 million copies to 40.8 million. In doing so, for the third quarter were sold 29.7 million copies of games for the PlayStation 2, which is lower than 31.2 million copies last year's results. Demand for projects for the portable PSP is also decreased. During the reporting period was 15.5 copies of games sold for that platform - 2.8 million copies in less than a year earlier.
Note that the currently PlayStation 3 is the last place in the race prefixes the current generation, after running in second place Xbox 360 as well as leading Wii. Console PSP took second place in the market of portable consoles, yielding DS from Nintendo.