After years of third-stringing it, Sony’s beleaguered PS3 may finally be rallying, according to sales data cited on Sony’s US PlayStation blog. The company’s American division reports year-over-year October hardware sales lifted nearly 70 percent, and says its online PlayStation storefront clinched record revenues, with downloads up 60 percent over the same period last year.
SCEA claims some 650 million pieces of content have been downloaded worldwide, though–just weighing in here–that’s really more of a talking point figure, since it mixes ‘free’ with ‘paid-for’ content. It’s one of these ‘dazzling’ numbers arrived at by jackhammering a slab of data into the tiniest possible fragments, a bit like claiming the PSP Go has ‘16,000 pieces of downloadable content’–technically accurate, but mostly comprised of the 13,300 individual TV episodes available.

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