Combined sales of PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 hardware are up 28% for the month and 21% year to date.

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Beyond the always quixotic Nintendo, both the Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 launched to a suite of hardware and software problems.

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This is a company that launched three different major hardware iterations of the PlayStation 3, so anything could happen.

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The new hardware won't support games made for the existing PlayStation 3, however.

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Over the same period, overall Blu-ray hardware sales (no word on if this includes the PlayStation 3 or not) were down 27 percent and software sales down 5 percent.

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