Now that class is back in session and the overwhelm of “Back to School” sales has ground to a halt, the Christmas shopping season is already shifting into gear. Sony has gotten a jump start on the holiday by cutting a hundred dollars from the price tag of its PlayStation 3. The cut, and the advertising barrage than accompanied it, boosted PS3 sales by three hundred percent in the last three weeks of August alone, with revenue process up by 140 percent. That figure is lower than the unit-sales figure because of the price drop, and still remarkable due to that fact.
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