Early reports have pegged Sony's new motion-control accessory for the PlayStation 3 as something of a dud. Less than a week ago, initial sales in the United States were pegged at just 300,000 … a pretty abysmal launch.
Sony's just sent out a press release, though, to set the record straight: the PlayStation Move is a huge success. How huge? Sony's sold over 2.5 million PlayStation Move controllers in the first month.
Here's how the numbers break down. In the United States and Canada, over 1 million controllers have been sold at retail, while Europe has slurped up an additional 1.5 million of the brightly colored and bulbous accessories.
Keep in mind, those numbers don 't take Asia into account, where the Move has yet to be released. It gets better for Sony. According to CEO of
Sony Computer Entertainment of America, they don 't even have the supply to fulfill demand. "We had to go back and increase production
twice, we're absolutely maxed out right now," he said. Not bad for a $50 accessory that largely does the same thing as the Wii that's been collecting dust in gamers' living rooms for a couple years now, but Sony blames it all on the quality
launch titles. Being able to play a motion control game in high-definition can 't hurt either. Will Microsoft's Kinect for the 360 do
nearly as well?
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