SONY COMPUTER ENTERTAINMENT, INC. ANNOUNCES WORLDWIDE SHIPMENT OF PLAYSTATION GAME CONSOLES; HAS REACHED 5 MILLION MARK.TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 15, 1996--Sony Computer Entertainment, Inc. (SCEI SCEI Sony Computer Entertainment, Incorporated SCEI Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. ) announced today that 5 million units of its next generation PlayStation game console See video game console. have been produced and shipped worldwide. Of those received in North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. , 1.2 million have been sold into the retail channel. All five million PlayStation game consoles were produced at Sony's Kisarazu facilities, located in Chiba, Japan. This phenomenal figure is a testament to the tremendous market response worldwide to PlayStation's innovative hardware and software. PlayStation sales continue to grow in each region. "Consumers have embraced the PlayStation around the world," says Terry Tokunaka, president, SCEI. "The five million mark reflects that acceptance and we anticipate continued demand through 1996 and beyond." PlayStation game console shipments by region: Japan (Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.) - 2.7 million North America (SCEA SCEA Sony Computer Entertainment America SCEA Sun Certified Enterprise Architect SCEA South Carolina Education Association SCEA Silicon Valley Chinese Engineers Association SCEA Society of Cost Estimating and Analysis SCEA Southeast Center for Education in the Arts ) - 1.3 million Europe (Sony Computer Entertainment Europe) - 1 million Sony Computer Entertainment America, a division of Sony Interactive Entertainment, Inc., is based in Foster City, Calif. The company markets the PlayStation game console for distribution in North America, publishes software for the PlayStation game console for the North American North American named after North America. North American blastomycosis see North American blastomycosis. North American cattle tick see boophilusannulatus. market, and manages the U.S. third party licensing program. Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc. is a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America Sony Corporation of America (SCA) is the United States subsidiary of Japan's Sony Corporation. It is based in Inglewood, California. It is the umbrella company under which all Sony companies operate in the United States. Subsidiaries
CONTACT: Sony Computer Entertainment America Andrea Vassallo, 415/655-8000 or Fleishman-Hillard, Inc. Samantha Sackin, 213/629-4974 |
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