PlayStation sales down

Sony has revealed sales for its consoles, handhelds and games are down.

The company announced a loss of 3.5 billion yen (£28.69million GBP) for its game division in its quarterly sales report.

Only 2.8 million PS2 and PS3’s were sold, down from 3.2 million units the year before.

Sales of the PSP and PS Vita were also less (1.4 million units) than the amount of PSP handhelds sold during April-June last year (1.8 million units).

Sony declined to provide individual sales records for the PS Vita.

Games sales were also down, with just 20.1 million PS2 and PS3 games sold compared to 27.6 million last year. Handheld games sales were down by 800,000 copies.

Sony will be hoping to stimulate hardware sales with the rumoured PS3 Super Slim.