PS3 'Steadily Increasing' Market Share Across the Globe

IndustryGamers writes: Research and Markets has released a new report on the growth trends of video consumer devices, including gaming consoles. From a geographical standpoint, the report found that Sony's PS3 is doing a good job increasing its global footprint.

"The PS3 is dominant in Japan and Korea, and as of June 2008, has begun to outsell the Xbox 360 in Europe. It is also steadily increasing its market share in all other regions across the globe, including in the North American market," the report said, while noting that the Xbox 360 still sells more than the PS3 in North America, and consequently, 360 sales still beat PS3 in total worldwide sales.

Even so, PS3 sales have been surging (44% over the holidays) and SCEA senior vice president of Marketing and PlayStation Network, Peter Dille, recently insisted that PS3 will eventually overtake Xbox 360.

[PimpHandHappy]

Microsoft "steadily replacing" 360's around the globe

[The_Beast]

:)

[reintype]

What a load of crap!

NA and UK are the only places where the 360 leads. Everywhere else its the PS3. Not to mention, that after the Sony dropped the Slim, the 360 won only one month in NA, NOV. albeit with the help of MW2 and banned 360's.

[Mr_Bun]

I assume they mean 'total sales to date'...not just for the year.
There is no denying that the PS3 is outpacing the 360.

[TheDudeAbides]

PS3 will outsell 360 by the day next gen console is out

[deadreckoning666]

Reintype, who the hell cares who passes who! ALL consoles are doing very well considering the economy we are in. If you REALLY are passionate about the games industry, why not support all 3 next gen-consoles in order to help keep the industry going.

[sikbeta]

Good For Sony, now they need to break even, so it'll More Money to Invest in More Amazing Games, cuz that's the whole Point IMO

I'm waiting for Eight Days and The Getaway Sequel

Gamers FTW!!!

[GiantEnemyCrab]

reintype: Provide some factual evidence to that.. I always here it but I can't seem to find anyone who can prove that without using spotty VGChartz..

TBH I don't there is a source who can.

[ico92]

"....... and UK are the only places where the 360 leads."

yah until GT5 comes and conqures all of europe.

[CWMR]

-"NA and UK are the only places where the 360 leads"

Yeah, I'd like to see you provide some evidence for that claim.

This report was clearly talking about recent worldwide sales, not overall installed bases.-

[Maddens Raiders]

I don't appreciate the logic that you're using. It pretty much diffuses any likelihood of "manufactured debates" ^^^::looks @1.5:: *cough* and we all know how much fun that can be. >_>

[captain-obvious]

TEH DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMZ
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lol

[morganfell]

Reliable figures come from each company's financial reports.

And remember, Sony doesn't alter their numbers every time Microsoft announces sales figures. Sony doesn't need to worry.

The figures have been posted here on N4G. The final quarter for the year isn't available but analysts expect Sony to continue the lead over the period ending in March. Be big boys and look the stories up. Nintendo leads, followed by Sony, then Microsoft.

[nycredude]

deadreckoning

Last I check there were only 2 next gen console, albeit one of which is borderline.

[Saaking]

It's the fourth year of the PS3 and BOTH PS consoles before lit on fire in their fourth year. It was the year they took off and destroyed everything else. It seems that the PS3 is on it's way to do just that. Especially with such HUGE games as GT5 and GOW.

[Shadow Flare]

Is the borderline one the wii?

J/K, we all know you're talking about the Winzip 360

[morganfell]

Just remember, it isn't the 4th year of the PS3 in Europe...yet.

[jaysquared]

Yes the PS3 is increasing its marketshare but the bigger picture is Sony is going to be losing market share this generation while M$ and Ninty gained compared to last gen. The PS2 is has now probably sold 160 million and I highly doubt the PS3 will sell even half of that! M$ with the original Xbox sold 25 million and is currenlty up to 35 million with the 360s.. Gamecube sold 20 million last gen and with the wii it has sold more than 70 million! Winner of this Gen is ninty while 2nd place is still up for grabs but even if the PS3 comes in 2nd it has still been a disappointment compared to the PS2! While M$ should be happy that they have increased their total console sold..

[onanie]

"the report said, while noting that the Xbox 360 still sells more than the PS3 in North America, and consequently, 360 sales still beat PS3 in total worldwide sales..."

It sounds like "industrygamers" misinterpreted the report, since selling more in the US does not, in any manner, equal selling more worldwide. Nevertheless, it does give hilarity to the fact that some (a random internet blog site is not immune) still hold the unimaginably ignorant view that US = world.

jaysquared, how could Sony have lost marketshare with the PS3 if it started at 0% anyway. Try to think a little.

[jaysquared]

"jaysquared, how could Sony have lost marketshare with the PS3 if it started at 0% anyway. Try to think a little"

I was comparing the PS2 install base to the current install base of the PS3.. Try to read a little.. thanks..

[rockleex]

With over 100 million PS3 units sold.

Will Microsoft even get close to that?

[onanie]

This generation hasn't ended, and PS3 started at 0% marketshare and has since gained on the 360, so when has Sony ever lost marketshare with the PS3?

The comparison to its predecessor (PS2) is artificial, since all new consoles had to start from 0% marketshare. It is idiotic to take a random snapshot of PS3's early years and say it hasn't got the same marketshare as the PS2. See where I am going?

[alphakennybody]

Something that fanboys tend to forget is, yes those number are overall since launch but how many of those should we crunch out due to malfunction on all three sides I'm sure out of those 39 million 360 sold quite a number of those are dead consoles Although I expect less from the 35million ps3 and 60 million wii its the same, some of those numbers are dead consoles.

[divideby0]

so many are just in complete denial about what you commented upon.
GameStop and BB counts every 360 sold as a sale, they do NOT lessen their sales numbers by the numbers of 360s returned.
So they got me down for 3 360s and 2 were returned.
MS #s are inflated by ~ 25% which is the nominally failure rate for the 360....what do you expect from a company who openely lied about the failure rate...."failure rates are within industry standards", sounds just like "I didnt have sex with that girl"..LMAO

[Anon1974]

When a dead 360 goes back, research has shown that consumers deal with the point of purchase first, manufacturer warranty second.

Retailers don't report back to Microsoft how many consoles are returned. They have their own internal mechanics and insurance to cover those. All Microsoft sees is another 360 going out the door to replenish stock.

Taking that into consideration we know that Microsoft's 360 sales data doesn't represent actual working 360's out in the wild. Given the early 33% failure rates for the first couple of years and even conservatively estimating a 5% failure rate after that, even if 3/4 of those failed 360's went through Microsoft we're still talking about Microsoft's total number of 360's being out by millions.

And we see evidence of this fact every time a company like EA or Ubisoft reports revenue. If Microsoft really had almost 20% more of an installed base over the PS3, why is PS3 revenue often the same if not better than the 360? Obviously there's a disconnect between software revenue and install base. If Microsoft really had 15%-20% more consoles on the market, shouldn't this be reflected in the console revenue for company's like EA?

[djfullshred]

The high failure rate of 360's is in turn helping Sony sell PS3's. I was in an electronics mega store the other day, and couldn't help notice a salesperson mentioning the 360 failure rate to an undecided couple. They ended up buying a PS3.

[Unicron]

Do I win a prize or something when/if the PS3 passes the 360 in WW sales? Are both consoles not a success? Are both not going to be around until the end of this generation?

I love how the media and fanboys stir up this wonderful "finish line" for their MIGHTY war... race... thing.

[spektical]

all consoles are doing well... sony is almost going to start making profits on the ps3. Games are pouring out, so i dont see a problem. except fanboys like to be fanboys

[TheDudeAbides]

fanboys are like footabll fans, do you want the other team to have bigger profits and budget to rule next season?

[mastiffchild]

They're nothing like football fans. Fanboys don't support their local console, support the same manufacturer their family has for generations or follow their console all over the continent offering their support vocally and in perrson, do they?

I see the analogy but it just irks me a little when we compare a bit of E-peen waving to a totally different level of commitment. I feel ill for a week every time my team loses but because "winning" is so subjective in the fanboy world it doesn't compare on this score either-how can it when the confrontations between rival factions are played out in online anonymity.

And, seriously, being so in thrall to a faceless corporation like MS or Sony who never share their success with us is so pointless it's amazing to me. I understand preference(I prefer the PS3 if push came to shove but like all three pretty equally in the main)and could see why someone might prefer the gung ho way of MS, the history of Ninty or the forward thiking risk taking of Sony. I can get, like myself, if you prefer the exclusive line up or controller for one platform.

What UI cannot get is why anyone would pursue their fanboyism to the point it's got to now where it's hurting gamers and helping the industry rip us off. In fact the closest analogy between football fans and fanboys is the way both football and gaming rips off the people who support them pretty nastily. Sadly, football fans loyAalty is their achilles heel while gamers should just be gamers as dividing ourselvves has made it easy for the industry to play us whenever they like knowingthe fanboys will spin or fight over each subject to the detriment of the whole gaming communiy getting a fair deal or standing up for each other.

Fanboys shouldn't feel how they do and don't commit in the same league of emotion to what football fans do.

[spektical]

^^
yes gamers should be gamers, and appreciate the games handed down. The absurd amount of fanboys actually helps the companies out more, because they will downplay the opponents. Everyone is subject to a preferred console, but lets not let that get in the way of letting the developers, companies get the best of us , the consumers.

[GiantEnemyCrab]

Umm.. ALL consoles are steadily increasing their market share...

[shadow2797]

Market share is a percentage. What you've stated is a mathematical impossibility.

[cayal]

Market Share is just a % of Total.

All shares HAVE to equal 100%. Therefore all cannot increase.

[mrv321]

If market share is equal to people with console it is feasable to see all console increase market share. But if market share is and I believe this is the correct definition is the amount of people with x platform it is impossiple for ALL the platforms to see a rise in market share UNLESS people buy more than one console.

[randomwiz]

like all others have said before me, market share is the number of consoles you have/total consoles sold.
SO:
If there were 25m wii's, 15m 360's, and 10m ps3's, Nintendo would have a 50% market share, Microsoft - 30%, Sony - 20%
now lets say one year later, there are 40m wii's, 30m 360's, and 30m ps3's, market share would be: Nintendo - 40%, Microsoft - 30%, Sony - 30%.

[onanie]

There is a reason for the word share in "marketshare". It is a share of the collective pie, and cannot be greater than 100%. As such, what crab suggested is indeed mathematically impossible. Indeed, if anything, the 360 has lost a great deal of marketshare among next generation hardware since it started at 100% when it first released.

[TheDudeAbides]

shadow2797, pwned the guy

[Consoldtobots]

it's not hard to pwn people who think this whole console war about which one is technically the better machine (PS3 of course) all comes down to people's preference. There's no reasoning with logic like that.

[SourGrapes]

I live in the UK and most of my friends have PS3's, and most of my little brothers friends have PS3s. I think it's about even here... could be wrong though. To be honest i don't really care, I own both the 360 and the PS3 and as long as great exclusives and multiplatform games are coming out i couldn't give two poos about sales figures. Does it affect any of us? No...

[Gimped Hardware]

though more and more of my friends are buying the PS3 as a decent blu-ray player for their bedrooms.......a sell is still a sell regardless anyways.

To really maximise market penetration the PS3 simply has to have some heavy hitters this year in it's software line-up and i'm seeing a lack of those at the moment.........

[cliffbo]

naaaa, the 360 is still outselling the PS3 in the UK. however, in Europe overall the PS3 is outselling the 360 and of course in Japan it's beating it easily. in America, the 360 only just beats the PS3 which is why week after week the PS3 outsells the 360 worldwide.

[onanie]

Cliffbo, a sensible comment. Well, it is simply what the data shows, so I am not sure how any sane person could have disagreed with your comment.

[frankymv]

PS3 is on a roll

[Troll_Police]

How is this possible? The PS3 was supposed to be DOOOOOOOMED.

[CWMR]

-It's you fools who interpreted every little piece of negative PS3 news as a "PS3 is doomed article", when in reality 99% of them were never saying the PS3 was doomed.

Most rational people knew that the PS3 would hang in there and have some degree of success. Whether it will ever catch up to the 360 is another question, but the PS3 is doing well enough for itself.-

[spektical]

no, i remember the TIMES and the Wall Street Journal, specifically saying that the PS3 is doomed... dont downplay facts, If wall street said this, then it must've been very well portrayed at the time. You should know WSJ has incredible power, and persuasion, seeing as WALL STREET is a major contributer to the control of economic prowess.

[UnwanteDreamz]

Thats all he does. For the past week I have read comment after comment from this guy trying to smack down the fankids when it is painfully obvious he is one of them.

You bunch of "fools" someone comes out and says "the PS3 is doomed" and you think they mean "the PS3 is doomed".

What a f**kin idiot. Try again bud.

[Pistolero]

Just because a couple of people questioned the viability of the ps3 does not mean that the whole world thought the ps3 was doomed the way ps3 fans try to portray it....think about it...there were also articles questioning the viability of the 360 at certain points...but I don't see 360 fans throwing a tantrum and acting like the whole world is against the 360.

[onanie]

Despite overwhelming evidence otherwise, there were still a disproportionate amount of "PS3 doomed" articles compared to those "360 doomed" articles - hence, the magnitude of response from PS3 users. Perhaps you need a reality check, pisterella.

[DarkSniper]

This is certainly news that Dark Sniper has seen coming since November 17, 2006. When PlayStation®3 was released, it was known that it would provide nothing but the best in terms of gaming content, video playback and overall entertainment value.

With it's award winning hardware under the hood, it's easy to understand why America loves PlayStation®3, Europe loves PlayStation®3 and Japan loves PlayStation®3. The interior design of the PS3 punishes the competition. Leaving other consoles such as Xbox 360 left in the dust to choke on Sony's tailpipe.

This is just the beginning Microslaves. For you, 2010 is your rapture, and your armageddon. There's no avoiding the inevitable. Your console will be extinct and PlayStation®3 will surpass you in total worldwide sales.

Your best bet is to jump out early while you still have a chance. Furthermore, it's best to abandon your 360 now because Sony Snipers will not accept you once you attempt the same immature garbage you clowns have behaved on Xbox Live.

$niper

[Gimped Hardware]

@DaftSniper "The interior design of the PS3 punishes the competition."

You mean with it's graphics chip that is very much inferioir to the 360's?
OR do you mean it's lack of shareable RAM?
Maybe you mean in reference to it's well documented bottleneck issues?
Or Perhaps you are describing its hard to work with archtecture and slow read Blu'Ray drive?

The 360 outclasses the PS3 in almost every single way - from it's controller down to it's award winning LIVE service and through beyond to it's unparalled AAA exclusives.

The only thing the PS3 has going for it is it's ability to play Blu'Ray movies.

Xbox360 - jump in, play more, stay in.

[CWMR]

-Hmm..is this Saaking or darkride66's second account? You Sony employees really have no shame, posting FUD and outright lies in an effort to further your company's ambitions.

The PS3 is in last place, so people clearly do not love it more than the Wii or Xbox 360.

I will make a bet with you DarkSniper: the PS3 will not catch up to the 360 before next generation. It might get close to catching up or it might even momentarily catch up, but then the 360 will just pull away again. That is my prediction and my bet with you.

Edit: Ok, so Saaking and darkride66 are his second accounts. I got it backwards, so what. lol

Anyway, it has taken the PS3 over 3 years to merely close the gap by about a million or so. I fail to see how the PS3's recent sales boost is guaranteed to be sustainable. Even if it is, it will still take several years to catch up. And that is assuming the 360 doesn't do anything to surge ahead at any point. It might eventually catch up, or it might not. But I can tell you one thing, if it does surpass the 360 it won't be by much. Any way you look at it, the Playstation brand has lost a ton of console market share, at the same time the Xbox brand has gained a ton of market share.-
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[Darkeyes]

^^^^^ LOL you don't know DarkSniper!!!!! He is one of the oldest N4G users.. Saaking and Darkride are newer lol. He does that for fun too bad you butthurt bots always take things way to seriously.

"PS3 will not catch 360"... Lol get ready to lose. Besides, the PS3 has caught up even after a year late launch (year and half in Europe).... Just wait sometime lol PS3 is always gonna go up in Japan and it's already beaten the 360 in Europe... What do you have NA lol PS3 isn't doing bad there either.... Every year, PS3 adds in a million more consoles in Japan and Europe each and as the price decreases, it's gonna add more (PS3 is at PS2s launch price whereas 360 is 200$).... Maybe if M$ chickens out next year, then 360 has a chance of winning by 1-2 million, but if there is no Nextbox by 2012, then I am willing to bet my account that PS3 will outsell.. Lol Japan itself will take care of that.

[TheBlackSmoke]

"The PS3 is in last place, so people clearly do not love it more than the Wii or Xbox 360"

Except for the fact that the PS3 has outsold the 360 since it launched.

[The Maxx]

"Japan itself will take care of that."
- with only 4 million sold in Japan while the PS3 has been available for 3 years....no I wouldn't count on that.

@TheBlackSmoke

"Except for the fact that the PS3 has outsold the 360 since it launched."
- Congrats. The PS3 has managed to decrease the gap by 1.5 million in 3 years. WOW. Just imagine how small the gap will be in another 3 years....360 had about a 8 million lead when PS3 launched...now the lead is 6.5 million. Don't hold your breath.

Remember the 360 still has room for another price drop and a redesign, possibly a slim model to look forward too.

[PimpHandHappy]

nvm

i thought i found a game on the 360 that won a award for best looking graphics but i was wrong.

@below
depends on the site
tell the truth
WipeoutHD and MGS4 im sure took a few

was Gears 1 on the 360? OH YEA 2005 when the PS3 wasnt out... Let me rephrase the ????? what 360 game has won best graphics since the launch of the PS3!

[Pistolero]

Gears of War won awards for best graphics....how many ps3 games aside from Uncharted have won awards for best graphics?....hmmm...still waiting.

[The Maxx]

It's amazing what a little intelligence and access to the internet can accomplish.

Bioshock BEST GRAPHICS (Pre PS3 Version) - http://en.wikipedia.org/wik...

Mass Effect Awards including BEST GRAPHICS - http://masseffect.bioware.c...

Gears of War Awards including BEST GRAPHICS - http://gearsofwar.xbox.com/...

Halo 3...That's right HALO 3!!! http://en.wikipedia.org/wik...
"The Visual Effects Society awarded Bungie the "Best Real Time Visuals in a Video Game" for Halo 3."

Halo 3, Mass Effect AND Bioshock have all won BEST GRAPHICS awards since the PS3 has been launched.

LOL wow disagrees...and I even linked my sources...LOL some real delusional Sony Fanboys huh?

[TheBlackSmoke]

Sorry but you know your trying to deflect the fact i just stated. Popularity of a product is based on which product has sold more... PS3 has outsold the 360 AND at double the price therefore it is more popular and showing that people are willing to pay the extra for a PS3, that's all there is to it.

My comment has nothing to do with lifetime sales or how much the PS3 has gained, it is purely that since the PS3 has been available at market... IT HAS SOLD MORE. If 360 launched with PS3 it would of been the next dreamcast (saleswise... not even touching DC quality) and you know it.

The FACT that the year headstart has been reduced at all already reiterates my point that the PS3 is more popular...what do you not get about this statement?

[Consoldtobots]

lmao @ silly kids who think MS can engineer a 360 slim, they worked overtime for a year just to get the RROD down from 33% and now you want to raise the goal post to twice the height?? lol

[The Maxx]

You have no idea what you are talking about.

IF the 360 and PS3 launched at the same time, the 360 would still have outsold the PS3. The hamper of the PS3 at launch was it's issue. Just look at the amount of sales for the PS3 for the first few months. They were crap. Which is why Sony dropped the price after the first 6 months. Bottom line, 360 would have still outsold the PS3 in the first year.

People buy what people want. I agree. And in the 3 years the PS3 has been on the market, it has managed to only outsell the 360 by 1.5 million...IN 3 YEARS!!!!

Sorry TheBlackSmoke but you are living in a delusional world with the Sony Banner at it's helm.

[Dance]

UK and US

[digger18]

Gimped Hardware, please learn something before you type!!

The PS3 can use most of it's ram for graphics. Exclusive PS3 games use the Cell and GPU for graphics, which in turn uses the faster 3.2ghz ram as well as the slower 700mhz ram, while the 360 only has the slow 700mhz ram. Thats one of the reasons why PS3 exclusives will always be way ahead of the 360's.

So, please stop trolling the PS3 only threads fanboy!

[CWMR]

-Bzz! Wrong! There is a major performance hit for the GPU to use the system memory. You also forget that the 360 has extra 10MB of extremely fast EDRAM.

The 360 also has a more powerful GPU and is faster at reading information off the disc.

As far as the CPUs, both CPUs have some advantages over the other. The 360's CPU has more general purpose computing power, while the SPEs are better at streaming floating point calculations.
Overall the Cell CPU in the PS3 might have a little more peak power for certain kinds of calculations, but even that has obstacles. As John Carmack puts it:
“If you were doing a whole lot of simulation, you can in theory get more performance out of the Cell processor than out of the two other dual-thread processors on the 360, but that’s a big ‘in theory’,”

So it seems the PS3 is superior in ‘theory’ only and the Xbox 360 is superior when it comes to real world development, which makes sense considering Carmack isn’t the first developer to complain about the PS3's architecture.

Any computer architecture is only as good as it is in practicality. Theoretical performance is meaningless. There are no style points here. Computer engineering is not an art, it is a science based in practicality (the definition of technology). Get the job done, or you are useless.

For most developers the 360 simply gets the job done better and with far less effort.-

[The Maxx]

Not sure why you have so many disagrees. You are 100% right while digger18 doesn't know what he's talking about.

Too bad that even when you try to educate the ignorant, they just plug their ears, close their eyes and keep clicking on the disagree button.

The information is out there kids...please use it.

[wikia]

The fact is that the theory is already been proven since the release of Uncharted 1. With UC2 we've seen the 100% use of the cell and look UC2 is the most graphically impressive console game so far. Heck its being compared to Crysis. Yeah Carmack isn't the 1st dev to complain about the cell but he didn't groan and moan about it and give up like valve. He is doing all he can to make the Ps3 version look as good as its 360 and PC counterparts. Oh you seem to forget the fact the cell is one of the few cpus that can handle advanced graphics calculations in which the RSX can offload some of its work and can dedicate itself to other tasks which in theory(not anymore..) can do massive calculations that can match or pass the 360s gpu under capable coders (Sonys first party studios). Yeah under the right hands the cell is a very powerful tool to use and as devs become used to the cell you will start to see better multiplats and much better exclusives.

[Pistolero]

Uncharted 2 was compared to Crysis only by delusional ps3 fanboys...in the real world Crysis is far beyond what we see in Uncharted 2...in reality Uncharted 2 looks barely better than Gears of War 2...and I mean barely to the point of being debatable....besides, one or two games is not enough to prove anything...all those inferior multiplats prove something though...they indicate that the ps3 is not very easy to get good performance out of.

A couple developers overcoming the ps3's limitations to create a couple great looking games does not mean that those limits disappear for other developers....not all developers are going to spend that much effort to work around issues in the ps3's architecture at great expense to themselves and their publisher's investment.

I also wanted to say that from what I have read on beyond3d and other sites the 360's CPU can also be used to offload certain graphics related process from the GPU....it is a myth that only the Cell can do this.

[wikia]

lol
http://kineticninja.blogspo...
This UC1 and it rapes gears 2 in terms of graphics.Now imagine UC2
All those inferior multiplats *cough* Dragon Age origins.
Yeah, not very easy to put out good performance cuz certainly theres no capable devs out there who can code for the ps3. right?
sure the 360 can offload gpu calculations to its cpu but is it as advanced as the ps3's high bandwidth inteface with the rsx and the cell? So your saying that no dev is willing to spend resources to developing on the Ps3? EA does, the devs of ninja gaiden sigma 2 are (sorry can't remember) and a few others, they are very willing to spend more time on the cell.

[PLAYSTATIONGENRATION]

In a lot of Metro Atlanta ...At gamestop and a lot of walmarts

[40cal]

My local GameStop has no Wiis or PS3s in stock. Put my money on Red Dead Redemption today - Bet that.

[PLAYSTATIONGENRATION]

Season is here...Time to pump up the economy

[galmi]

How many times do I hve to tell pple, SATURATION!!!!!!!!! when a console reaches saturation point, its sale will definately drop unless there is a huge price drop or software to assist sales, its the same for ps3, they didnt sell toowell at first being that it was expensive, but mow with reduces cost its expected to sell, throw in some ips and slaes hike, as for 360, its more or less reached the saturation stage, so a decline is expected. Remember when you had no money to buy a ps3, well now you can n so everyone can afford one now, so all of this crap about rising sales is just crap, of course its expected, regardless, what pple are still missing is the fact that software still sells better on the 360 than the ps3

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[Consoldtobots]

ultimately that's what it's alllllll about, these idiots have machevellian marketing down to an art form but in the end reality always bites them in the ass.

[stonecold1]

here in australia and new zealand thought to let you guys know

[morkendo]

in power and graphics why do developers dumb down ps3 version of each game?? is it to save 360 azz? or is it becuz dev. dont know how to ultilize ps3 cell power yet?? or either sony and microsoft behind closed doors agreed keep graphics level the same?? if thats the case ps3 should never been 600.00 from begining and competed with 360 at 350.00
by now slim ps3 would been a great match @ 199.00 against 199.00 360

[TehCell]

lol I guess sales are starting to matter.

Fact: By the time PS3 even TOUCHES the 360 mark, the current gen ends.
This is very true, I feel sorry for all those who deny it.

PS3 will NOT win THIS gen. Ever. Nope, nope, nope.......

"lololoz ps3 is not doomed lololo say bye to teh 'ps3 doomed' artcles"
Sure man, PS3 isnt doomed. It wont loose. But it wont win.
It will always be 3rd place console lolololololololololoLOLololo

I win.

[Pistolero]

You bet sales matter to these guys....just watch, if the ps3 ever passes the 360 we will hear more sales talk from the ps3 camp than we ever heard from the 360 camp....I mean, how many times do we hear about how Gran Turismo has outsold Forza?....the fact is, when ps3 games do sell the ps3 fanboys are just as apt to hype up sales as the 360 fanboys are...maybe more so.

[Absolut_Turkey]

The Xbox 360 is great and all. But technologically speaking, the Xbox pails in comparison to the PS3. Here's a FEW reasons why:

-You can install and run Linux on a PS3. Not on the Xbox.
-The PS3's "Cell Processor" is a powerhouse. ANY programmer will attest to that.
-The Xbox has a fail rate of over 50%. Plus it produces more heat and noise during operation compared to the PS3.
-The PS3 can play Blu-Ray DVDs, and capable of playing 3-D movies and games.

@Tehcell
"PS3 will NOT win THIS gen"??? The Xbox isn't even in Playstation's league. At least, not from a technological standpoint.

[TehCell]

Turkey,
-some of us are hardcore gamers, so we dont care about linux. We have windows or mac. Enjoy your casual system.
-Cell is old supercomputer chip from 70s.
-Who cares about failure rates. You can get a new one FREE. Unlike sony... u get ylod and either pay 100 bucks for repairs or buy new one.
-Um. I could buy cheap blueray player on 3d TV. As I said, enjoy your overpriced casual system. Any cheap laptop can most of what PS3 can do.

I dont care for technology. I am a gamer. I only game for fun, not for "oh man oh man i gotz good tech good tech lololoz"
Have fun with your casual box, for the 3rd time.

[ironmonkey]

lol kid really how old are you? and u win what?
still in high school i assume?
tehcell is name only a kid would come up with

[djfullshred]

LOL teh cell. Are you one of those kids that thinks you are "hard" if you use a certain brand of plastic box to play games, and those that use a different plastic box makes them "casual"?

I have to laugh at this new generation of so called "hardcore gamers". Sorry, but that just sounds silly. All video games are TOYS. ;-)

[Consoldtobots]

"PS3 will NOT win THIS gen. Ever. Nope, nope, nope....... "

denial is not just a river in egypt huh? fanboy desperation at it's finest.

[Treyb3yond]

And you thought this wouldn't happen??

Silly you!

[rambi80]

that is one sexy pic attached to this article

[iPad]

PSOne- 30million in the first 3 years
PS3- 33million in the first 3 years.

[Meryl]

although I agree with you, you do realize that figure is actually shipped figures and not sold to the customer (end user - i.e US)

[bjornbear]

are those that doubted xD of COAWRS PSTREE will sell loads...every PS does...=/

[Meryl]

I can't wait until more people in the UK finally realize the PS3 is light years better than x360, unfortunately a lot of chav's get x360's bought for them as presents, and let's face it there are loads of chav's in the UK.

[hazelamy]

don't really care, i have both so i win :)