Following the NPD results for the April reporting period, which showed that just 82,000 PS3s were sold in the U.S. for the month, Sony Computer Entertainment America reacted to its recent performance. The company blamed its poor PS3 sales on a relative lack of compelling software, but the good news (as revealed at Sony’s recent Gamers Day) is that plenty of titles are on the way this year, including 15 exclusive games.

“PS3 did see a dip in sales in April that we attribute mostly to a lack of new software in the market,” Dave Karraker, SCEA’s Sr. Director, Corporate Communications, said in a prepared statement sent to GameDaily BIZ. “For the remainder of this fiscal year, we expect a flood of new games for PS3 totalling more than 100 titles across all genres, including Heavenly Sword, Lair, Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune, Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction, LittleBigPlanet and many more. We feel strongly that this robust library will help drive hardware sales in the upcoming months.”

In total, during the month of April SCEA generated $271 million in sales, Karraker said. He noted that this was “buoyed in part by the addition of the PS3 platform… as well as the strong performance of the PSP at retail, which saw more than a 25% increase on an average weekly basis from March to April, selling 183K units.”

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