NEW YORK (Reuters)- Sony Corp's PlayStation 3 video game console and its portable cousin, the PSP, are selling faster than expected and are poised to meet full - year sales targets even if the current economic crisis
hurts holiday demand, Sony said on Wednesday.
The
demand woes are essentially tied to three main factors: Across the industry, retailers still had to unload food shipments from the fourth quarter, resulting in some delayed ordering at the start of 2017; executives also blamed a delay in tax refunds for
hurting consumer
demand during the quarter; and then there was a shift in the timing for Easter — the
holiday landed in March for 2016 but April this year.