However, SmartHouse who was not given the company press release after the company boss Michael Ephraim went on a "rant" over our price gouging story last week believes the numbers could include over 50,000 units that were given away for free by Sony as part of two promotions for Sony Bravia LCD TV's.
In January 2008 Sony is believed to have given away 25,000 PS3 consoles and in July 2008 30,000 units.
If the giveaway numbers have been included Sony sold less than 163,000 PS3 consoles over the counter. GfK Australia refused to comment on the individual performance of its clients.
There are now more than 470,000 PS3s in Australia, Sony boss Michael Ephraim claimed in the Company press release.
In comparison Nintendo sold 680,000 Wii consoles and Microsoft 370, 000 during the same 2008 period. Ephraim who claims that Sony does not "Price gouge" didn't stress other industry figures, which suggest the PS3 is still the worst selling console among the more upmarket games consoles.
