PS3 outsold 360 by 4 million in past 12 months

PSUNI: So with the announcement of Sony’s latest financial results came an update on the console sales race. As reported in a previous story, the gap between the PS3 and Xbox 360 is now only 3.6 million units. But how did the PS3 achieve it? We’d thought we’d update our comparison to Microsoft’s financial year.

[R2D2]

That was the most insane thing I have ever seen. Those gunssssssssssss.

[rroded]

Microsoft’s Fiscal Year Ended June 30 2010

——- Q1 — Q2 — Q3 — Q4 — FY — LTD

360: 2.1 — 5.2 — 1.5 — 1.5 — 10.3 —- 41.7

PS3: 3.2 — 6.5 — 2.2 —- 2.4 —- 14.3 —- 38.1

Wii: 3.5 — 11.3 — 3.5 — ? — 18.3 —- 70.9

amazed they made the esrbs ratings ;)

[demonddel]

you know Microsoft and Sony fiscal yr. runs at different times right so the comparisons is not accurate

[rhood022]

@demon

Yeah. Sony's ends March 31st. Not really fair to them that MS gets 3 more months in their FY to report numbers.

[demonddel]

@rhood022 so you saying Microsoft gets 15 months in its fiscal year or you meant they started 3 months earlier and it ended 3 months before Sony ended theirs just wanna know

[duplissi]

how is it not accurate to compare?

do they not both account for 1 year of sales? do they not both include the same years holiday?....

[drewboy704]

They shouldn't match up correctly since theoretically the holiday season should be in different Quarters but it doesn't matter since the point of the article was that the PS3 outsold the 360 in the 2010 fiscal year.

[Anon1974]

The quarters displayed up there are from June 30/09 to June 30/10 for each company. It's the last 12 months reported. Microsoft and Sony's fiscal years don't end at the same time, Sony's ends the quarter before Microsoft but the dates line up.

For example, the last quarter posted for the 360 was 1.5 million and was from April - June of 2010. That was Q4 for Microsoft. Sony's April - June figure is reflected in the 2.4 million figure, but is actually Q1 for them. The article isn't looking at what quarter or what fiscal year, it's just showing the facts from June 09 to June 10.

[theKiller]

1+1= 2 right? or maybe something else?

the article showed the sales of both consoles during the last 12 months. what each company have from dates of fiscal year or from when they make the yearly report is not the issue here!! it doesnt matter. the report doesnt count fiscal years for each company!!

u bringing the fiscal year for the companies is like saying 1+1= 1 or something like that!!

admit it it, 360 losing ground very fast!! soon ps3 will be the second in this generation and first for the next gen consoles!! 360 will remain last as usual!! so the competition would be with ps3 and wii. and with PS Move on the horizon, it will be a fierce battle while 360 out of the equation.

[sikbeta]

When GT5 comes out, sales will be huge, a total madness, GT5 bundle will push millions, GT franchise is The System Seller in every generation...

[princejb134]

holy shit wii is at 70 million

[vsr]

GT5!

[Chubear]

I swear I never thought the casual base would keep on supporting nintendo to the point where it surpasses the original nintendo console in the 80s. I had thought the best it'd do is N64 numbers but the causal market has proven to be a solid market here to stay thus I guess the reason for the push of Move and Natal

I was totally wrong back in 2006. I totally underestimated the new casual market trend.

[RonRico]

the push 4 shite games i guess. I used to love nin but why the heck would someone buy one now?

[sikbeta]

@vsr

Totally, the Gran Turismo Franchise is THE System Seller, GT5+Bundles sales will be HUGE, it's going to be an amazing season for Sony...

[vhero]

What I want to know is who are still buying Wiis?? I thought everybody had one already? Also when I go in stores I never see them being sold in UK over the PS3 or 360.. They selling ridiculous amounts in Japan to build into giant Mechas or something?

[commodore64]

Quite honestly, I was expecting so much more from Sony.

4 million?
is that it?

the last twelve months have seen the ps3:
- reduced in price by $100.
- re-released with new skus and hdds
- privy to universal UC2, GOW3 hype and praise.

the last twelve months have seen the 360 with:
- no major sku revisions
- no price drops
- no Halo, poor AW reception.

yet, the gap was only closed by 4 mill? ... uh.. what?
Mark my words, this was Sony's chance to square MS away for good.
However, they were not able to accomplish this.

Now, MS has re-established its sales momentum with the 360s sku release and the kinect pre-sales are booming http://n4g.com/news/573682/...

Fact is, Sony had their chance and they blew it.
We all know it.

4 million units caught up are good.
But not good enough, I'm afraid.

[Dance]

duplicate stories

[Millionaire]

You have a strange fetish I gotta say...

[DaBadGuy]

Hello? Twins? It's not strange at all. I'm not one to turn my nose up at a couple of hot twins.

[Johnny Rotten]

so does this mean you have a short-term memory and duplicates are only foreplay?

[BryanBegins]

Does it work with every duplicated stories? Or only those about sales? Cause sales are the MOST important things to true gamers... lol

[Boody-Bandit]

It's only duplicate sales stories that don't favor his betrothed that get him hot and bothered.

[4cough]

They might actually pass the 360 out before MS release a new console. 5/6 years to do it, not bad Sony, not bad.

[GeoramA]

u mad?

Sony's about to pass MS, even with the year headstart the 360 got in the US and the 16 month headstart they got in Europe.

MS fu*ked up badly.

[Wildarmsjecht]

MS dun goof'd.

[Information Minister]

Careful! They might back-trace you.

[Wildarmsjecht]

Like the internet, is serious business. Consequences everywhere.

[acky1]

how is 40million+ consoles sold 'fucking up badly'. They did great to get a look in on the playstation 2 market. Sony lost their massive lead from last-gen but I bet you don't think Sony messed up?

What is with all the ps3 fanboys on here?

[raztad]

If Sony has "lost" some market in any case is because the Wii. 41m xboxes is not that far from the original xbox userbase, when the console was dropped. However it is clear xbox2 is doing better this time, and has been able to keep up against the PS3.

[strickers]

The original Xbox didn't make 30 I thought

[HeyImWiiTARDED]

M$=fail, even with a year head start. Halo franchise= overrated hype, the only reason people play it because there is nothing to play on Xbox.

[ranmafandude]

but i can find that on the pc and ps3.

[scofios]

@4cough
Don't cry you will get to play one halo game before ms rushes out another console , to be one year ahead of the competation again, and drop your beloved 360 like they did with there previous failure xbox1 .

[Belasco]

Why does everyone cry about the year head start? Is there a rule that MS MUST launch the same exact day as Sony? If you ran MS's game division, what would you have done?

[BlackTar187]

I think the year head start is only significant when people say but it hasn't sold as much. And lately that year head start lead is what is keeping it in 2ND place.

But its all ridiculous anyways who cares.

[LordMarius]

Lots of crying going on in here

[RememberThe357]

http://www.youtube.com/watc...
http://www.youtube.com/watc...
http://www.youtube.com/watc...

This should help :)

[hybridtheory12]

Microsoft still counts shipped units whats the real gap?

[RageAgainstTheMShine]

good point!

they will never reveal true sales numbers they will take down to their graves ....

this is how they do it... gray, gray, gray

poor M$ their products have no appeal... :(

[gunnerforlife]

look at Q2 for the Wii :/
WTF is that thing on steroids or something loool

[Ilikegames76]

Wii is still selling well. But Wii just suffered a loss in revenues based on the reports a few days earlier here.

[kraden]

Stop playing with the DAMN numbers of sales!!!! and get some games!! damn fanboys...

[Unicron]

Yup. Modnation and Alan Wake suffer, UC2 and ME2 don't do nearly as well as they deserve... but people love to argue about how amazing their exclusives are.

Then no one buys them. Ah fanboys. Message boards and sales arguments...

[Convas]

Gotta love em aye? If I had more money, I'd be a ghost on the interwebs. Sometimes, I wonder which the "Gamers" on this site play more, Sales and Graphics or Games.

[Nugundam0079]

I was pissed about Alan Wake-no one bought it XD

[darkziosj]

fanboys are fanboys they don't even play games they rage at everything

[anonymouse111335]

I give this 2 hours if not less to be on the front page.

[gfunkera10]

The war............its over. [face_rose]

[Shield]

YAWN!

[ShadowJetX]

Does anyone else give a damn about console sale numbers?

I got my PS3 2 years ago, does that matter?

Does the fact that I'm an old spice man matter?

Does the fact that when your an old spice man anything can happen matter?

When did console sales actually start to matter?

[Why o why]

http://n4g.com/news/573045/...

this applies to everybody.....sales should NEVER be more important than the games EVER

[RyuCloudStrife]

and you should NEVER open ur mouth, or click your fingers to type EVER!!! lol

[DaBadGuy]

Welcome to N4G! Is this your first visit? Because here, it's not about the games, it's about sales! SALES! SALES! SALES!

[bviperz]

Which is why you have to give credit to Sony for giving us awesome exclusives. MS on the other hand is slacking.

[rhood022]

Now that this story is out there, expect MS to announce that the 360 has hit 45 million. I'm gonna say that they'll announce it Gamescom, which is mid-August.

And no one will question how they went from 41.7 as of the end of their fiscal year (June 30th) to 45 million in less than 2 months.

[Allowen]

Wow , that I DID NOT KNOW !

So if Sony could reduce the gap bettewn PS3Xxbox360 in 4M in just one fiscal year then if they keep this AWESOME GOOD WORK they will take the second place before march of 2012.

[Agent-86]

I'm a PC gamer, but I wanted to pick up a console to have access to games unavailable on the PC. These are the reasons I choose the PS3 slim when it came out last year:

EXCLUSIVES: The PS3 lineup is just better and across more genres. Most of the 360 exclusives are also on PC and the games that are truly exclusive, like Halo, I'm just not interested in since PC FPS's are so much better (imho).

FREE ONLINE: As a PC gamer, I'm long used to having my online gaming free. Before you argue Live cross game chat, we PC gamers have already had it for ages with TeamSpeak, Ventrillo, and now Skype (all free, by the way). In fact, with my PC and PS3 connected to the same LCD HDTV, my friends and I have the ability to cross-platform chat.

COST OF EXTRAS: I bought my PS3 before the 360s, but at the time, the 360 didn't have wifi and I needed it. MS wanted an unreasonable amount for the attachment and like they do for most of their extras (like the HDD and USB flashdrive). Also, the PS3 works with all my other PC peripherals like the Logitech G27 racing wheel and my USB headset. I didn't need anything extra for the PS3. In fact, I saved money since I needed a BluRay player as well (that also does a great job of upscaling normals DVD's).

[Nathaniel_Drake]

This is the logic which I follow as well. Unfortunate it isn't said as often.

[Trizard]

I think your logic is great and that you truly thought it true. The problem is I don;t think you can call yourself a PC gamer if you use wifi. Fast pace PC games such as Counter Strike or Star Craft are based off fast response times. Since Windows automatically restarts your connection every 60 seconds, real smooth and true gaming is almost impossible. This is all good and okay on the consoles because frankly, games aren't as fast paced (PC gamers will always crush consoles in fps's, hands down) and reflex times are slower, as well as control movement (mouse vs analog stick). You may not noticed this on your PC as casual gamer, or you might be hardcore and have disabled the protocol. But any true PC gamer uses cables because they are constant and when milliseconds matter, they add all the advantage. I can even notice the difference in a wireless mouse vs corded (different tech. but same principle). With that aside, your logic is great.

[livinwitbias]

I'm a console gamer, I own all three consoles. I stopped gaming on the PC because for everytime I needed to upgrade my PC I could have bout all three consoles all over again.

PC Games my look a bit better, but console games are more consistent, you don't need to meet a bunch of expensive requirements to play on a console.

[TheObserver]

Name one game that make you need to upgrade after Crysis because I would like to know.

Most PC posers spout BS that you need to upgrade everytime a multi-plat comes out. They think that consoles GPU gets magical upgrades and out competes top GPU in the past or present. Are you one of them?

[frostypants]

@TheObserver: "Name one game that make you need to upgrade after Crysis because I would like to know. "

You do realize that you just put a massive spotlight on PC gamings biggest problem right now: it hasn't progressed in 3 years. PC gaming used to be all about pushing boundaries graphically, but now publishers treat them like consoles. 90% of their appeal is gone.

[Reefskye]

Agreed Agent-86

I've always been a PC and a Console gamer. PS3 had a better choice for me as far as exclusives go. I had original Xbox to but never thought Halo was that great ended up swapping my original Xbox for a graphics cards lol. When it came to buying a console I choose PS3 because I could get a lot of the games I wanted to play on the Xbox on the PC, GeoW, ME1 and ME2. I would love ME on the PS3 as I have to take my dad in to account when buying games and he cant stand keyboard n mouse or sitting at a PC playing games, so when I finished a game I let him play it on his PS3. I thought it was a bit rich M$ asking for money to play P2P games when I can play dedicated on PS3 and PC for free

[tiamat5]

Look out! here comes the long essays and articles about how it doesn't matter and why Sony is going to fail. 'Sony could never out pace Microsoft'. Microsoft can't catch Nintendo and can barely fend off Sony. The gap is closing as we predicted and Sony is catching up. Told Microsoft to look out, but they never listen

[A change in the wind]

Lol, the rope is slipping 360 fanboys. It`s just a matter of time now before the console with an entire year headstart slips into last place. But lets be realistic here for a second. Did anybody actually believe that an XBOX console would beat a PLAYSTATION console? Better crack open the history books and educate yourselves, because it`s NEVER going to happen.

[Adrela]

Crack open the history books and educate ourselves? I did that and bought a 360. (: I don't know what you're talking about.

[chiwoo]

I own both systems but if the Ps3 passes the 360 even with the 360 head start that would make Microsoft look Bad and I think when grand turismo 5 releases that game might make the Ps3 itself pass the 360 this Holiday and i think Sony knows it and Microsoft but we will see.

[yippiechicken]

"if the Ps3 passes the 360 even with the 360 head start that would make Microsoft look Bad"

Look bad? Did anyone really think they would be able to hold out as long as they did? You gotta give MS a little credit keeping the PS3 from stomping the 360 out of the gate like the Wii did.

But I guess people who don't realize competition is good for the consumer don't think this way. It's great that the PS3 is catching up. It'll make them both work harder for our dollars! Isn't that a good thing?

[Shadowolf]

@Yippiechicken

Perfectly stated! The bottom line is competition is good for the consumer. If the PS3 passes the Xbox 360 in worldwide marketshare, which at this point I believe to be inevitable with Sony's upcoming line-up over 2011, that would be an unbelievable accomplishment seeing that Sony introduced the PS3 at $599 at launch. But regardless, you can't ignore the value both consoles now provide because of competition. I can make a tall list of console features both Sony and Microsoft now have in the pursuit of winning buying dollars. Without the competition we would not experience console entertainment as we do today and that's the bottom line. Neither console is absolute in the perfection department and I hope both Sony and Microsoft continue to one up each other so that my gaming experience never gets stale. Yes, I own both consoles.