PS3 Sales Up 118% Year On Year

As expected, Sony’s consolidated results for the first quarter of the fiscal year (ending March 31,2011) show the company has made a considerable profit.

The announcement (available here as a PDF and sourced via GAF) shows an operating income of $753 million with a net income of $289 million.

Worldwide unit sales show that the PS3 shifted 2.4 million units this quarter, compared with 1.1 last year.  The PSP was down, though, moving 1.2 million units compared with 1.3 last year, with the PS2 remaining the same at 1.6 million units.

In terms of software, the figures are encouraging: the PS3′s game sales are up from 14.8 million to 24.8 million units, the PSP’s up from 8.3 to 9.2 million units.  As you’d expect, the PS2′s game sales are down, from 8.5 million units to 3.4 million.

This puts the total number of PS3s sold at 38.1 million (just 3 million or so behind the Xbox 360 now) with 15 million forecasted by Sony for 2010. Total game sales are at 315.3 million units.