4.5 Million PS3 worldwide

Sony has reported that they have sold 4.5 million of their big black box worldwide. To make the number a bit of creditable, it is the actual number sold, as compared to the number shipped. During the first 5 months, Sony has sold 665,000 PS3 in the US. As a comparison, Nintendo has sold 1.73 million and Microsoft 1 million. Still lacking far behind the rest, but with no good games being released during that period, you would expect the number to be like that.

Sony, as a whole, has reported their first quarter profit more than tripled. Their digital camera and the weaker yen is helping the profit. For the first quarter, net profit more than doubled to 66.5 billion yen, while operating profits rose three-fold from 27 billion yen last year to 99.3 billion yen. Sales were up 13.3 per cent to 1,977 billion.

The film division made a 3.25 billion yen profit against a 1.17 billion loss last time, largely thanks to the success of the third Spider-Man film.

So Sony as a whole is still very healthy, but it's PS3 that's killing them. And that's probably all we care about at the moment.

Source: PS3fanboy, International Business Times