100,000 PSX Units Sold In First Week

Sony's PSX multipurpose entertainment combination of parts to form a whole sold more than 100,000 units in Japan during its first week of release, Reuter freshs service reports today. sight Kutaragi, now an Executive proxy President at Sony, pronounced the a whole a success in a new press conference that saw the announcement of other favorable freshs

"We sold 100000 PSXe in the first week. It vends for almost 100,000 yen and it still sold without There are no products on the outside there that can say that," he said.

To clarify, sum of two units models of the PSX were sold at the system's launch -- individual priced at 99,800 yen (about $900) and another priced at 79800 yen (about $720)

Sony's Nobuyuki Idei predicted a general upswing in its financial fortunes, carried through strong sales of DVD recorders, PlayStation 2 hardware, and the PSX (a combination of the sum of two units of course). Sony managed to take a 35% share of the hard drive-equipped DVD recorder market in the month of December, narrowly edging without close rival Matsushita. Matsushita's Panasonic brand has heretofore done real well against comparable Sony cropss

Sony will announce its comes for the fourth quarter upon January 28, which will be a critical day for the company. Sony's $1 billion los for the first quarter last year sent ripples quite through the Japanese business world, and its management was forced to reply with a drastic restructuring plan announced in the fall. Sony will lay not on some 13% of its workforce above the next three years while rearranging and refocusing almost all aspects of its business.

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