PlayStation 3 reaches one million sales in Europe

Sony has confirmed that the PlayStation 3 has sold over one million units in Europe and Australia.

According to SCEE sales reached one million after just nine and half weeks, quicker than the performance of both the original PlayStation and PlayStation 2.

The console was released in Europe and Australia on March 23.

Although released in Japan in November last year, the console has so far sold just under a million in the region, with 910,737 units sold, according to data from Media Create.

The last hardware sales figures released by NPD in April showed that PS3 sales had reached over 1.3 million units in North America.

According to Sony, Resistance: Fall of Man has sold 600,000 units in Europe, with MotorStorm reaching just over 500,000 sales.