PS3 Hardware Is In Its Strongest Position Since 2006.

As such, the various subsidiaries of Sony Computer Entertainment have been posting huge growth around the world. And that's no different in America, where SCEA has claimed a 90 per cent increase in hardware sales, and 60 per cent software increase year over year.

NPD numbers are due tonight, and expect to show a much more fraught battle between Sony and Microsoft through the month of December. Sony claim to have sold 1.7million PS3s in the US throughout the Christmas months, and shortages were reported.