HAHAHAHAHAHA sorry for laughing but Sony are soooo full of BS its unreal.

Lets look at the facts, over 17million Xbox 360's sold worldwide and PS3 have sold around 5.6million PS3's...Errr yeah Reeves.

Unless people want a blu-ray player then who knows.

Ryu.

Microsoft said they shipped 17million consoles globally, so thats an estimated 15-16million consoles actually sold whereas Sony's 5.6million figure was announced early in the summer of 2007. What followed was a global price drop, and they're now estimated to have sold around 9-10million consoles. In Europe, as the article focuses on, Sony is doing better in hardware sold than Microsoft so its not beyond them to overtake Microsoft in that region later this year.

It's the complete opposite in North America however.

WTF Ryu - PS3 has sold over 9 million - just because you might suck off M$ doesnt mean everyone else does. And wheres your 360 exclusive line up for 2008? I cant even think of one 360 exclusive coming out this year!

Great stuff Sony, although you might want to start focusing on some games too.....

I'm not trying to start ANOTHER comment war on MCV but when you're selling hardware at a loss, surely overtaking 360 in terms of sales cant be a good thing?!

And yeah, of course you're 'very happy with the performance of PS3 in the UK' its because we pay the most for it and you make the most profit out of us by ripping us off.

Microsoft and Nintendo are just as bad but this statement is coming from company who have stopped me importing PSP games from Japan but are yet to release the games I'm after themselves.

Why dont you just *** off!!

The 360 is relying heavily on the states.

In Europe (as the article states - and this has been said for a while through numerous sources) the ps3 is outselling the 360.

The states is very different but the key to all of this is that there are more consoles sales (all of the them combined) in Europe (PAL) than in any other territory making this far more important.

Id the ps3 were to over take the 360 (which is only performing well in the UK in PAL) then the ps3 would have the lead on it in 2 out o***ey territories. Currently even the Wii isn't ahead in the states which isn't a big suprise as you'd expect the Americans to go for an American console in the same way the Japaneese won't go for an American console

http://vgchartz.com/

@ Ryu. Sorry noob. Get your facts right
360 total sales = 16.64M
PS3 total sales =9.43M

Sales statistics showed the 360 and PS3 on the same plateau.. until recently. The PS3 curve is steadily rising over the 360.
http://vgchartz.co...h.php

Furthermore, if you look at only Europe sales, you'll see the PS3 curve is way ahead of the 360 curve and a summer estimate looks right on schedule.

Not to fuel a smal war here but just to name a few exclusives that are likely to come out this year.

1:Banjo-Kazooie
2:Too Human
3:Ninja Gaiden 2
4:Splinter Cell Conviction (Although a small chance of coming to PS3)
5:Fable 2
6:Halo Wars

As well as this Microsoft said they were to name 3 suprise titles this year too. However thses could just be total **** like PDZ.

It's also important to point out that the 360 isn't even on the map in Japan. Plus with blu-ray winning the format war and the PS3 being the only future proof BR player (since BR 2.0 is coming), sales will very soon approach the 360 in the states as well. I'm not sure it'll be as soon in the US, but with HD tvs proliferating quickly, people will be looking for the best value on players to exploid their new sets.

Sorry would like to point out I can spell even if I don’t proof read and my ability to touch-type obviously isn’t as good as I think it is. :P (Small has 2 ll's and surprise just isn’t spelt the way I typed it lol)

Anyway 360 does outsell PS3 in the US but then MS is an American company as is Sony a Japanese company so theirs sells better over there. Europe has no console manufactures so no matter who is selling more over here in Europe we will always get shafted. Eg release dates and price. So frankly I couldn’t care less who sells more or less as long as a flow of games keeps coming which for my 360 at least they do. No dig intended. I don’t have a PS3 for the simple reason I can’t afford one, it has no games I want that I can’t get on my 360 and I have no need for Blu-Ray at this current time. I would also like to point out I don’t have a HD-Drive add-on either I use my games console for GAMES!

It has more games and exclusives, it has games that once belonged to the PS platform, has the best online, best selection of online content, best controller, best interface, all games are live aware so total interactivity with friends even when watching movies!

Overall the 360 has the most potential the PS3 is trailing behind.

If you want exclusives that are likely to come out this year...
Killzone 2
Gran Turismo 5
Metal Gear Solid 4
Little Big Planet
Devil May Cry 4

to name a few...

@Aaron, bet you're loving the news of Frontlines: Fuel of War being cancelled for PS3 along with Haze being delayed til next year ;-)

Oh, and as for Xbox 360 exclusives this year, let me help you by listing some (obviously aside from Frontlines: Fuel of War!):
Halo Wars
Too Human
Alan Wake
Splinter Cell: Conviction
Fable 2
Ninja Gaiden II

And lets not forget the first of two downloadable episodes for GTA IV

Care to fight fire with fire?

Amazing that SCEE recognise the customer loyalty in the UK and yet still kick us in the teeth every time over store content, unstable servers and broken promises without apology or compensation. Yes Iam refering to Singstargate. In my opinion SCEE do not communicate at all with customers. They are a pathetic joke no matter how many they sell.

@Annonymous dude who listed PS3 exclusives

Get your facts straight. Devil May Cry 4 is out on 360 too :-P

I think what Sony have forgot is that the rise in sales is probably down to the fact that most people where buying the 60 gig version, before you couldn't get a BC PS3.

ummm sony has no sold over 8 million i dont know where your getting your facts.

Regarding the apparent millions of 360's sold, does that includes all the replacement units for the ones suffering the rings of death? Or is it first time sales to the customers.

There's a big difference in definition between the two measures.

you guys are forgetting 1 thing, microsoft can afford to do a price drop this year. there is no way sony can

If Sony has reduced the price of the console as they say, then they can afford to drop it. It should be offset by increases in revenue from game and BD sales.

Traditionally consoles have been sold at or near a loss and the money made from games.

Unless PS3 can get exclusive rights to Halo 4 they don't stand a chance against Xbox. The 360 has too many good games. They don't make money off selling the consoles. They make it off the games.

I sold my Xbox360 in November 2007 and bought my 60GB PS3 not far after. The 360 was a great stop gap where I was able to play 1st generation games for not a huge amount of money. Always knowing that one day I would own a shiny PS3 and be able to play Metal Gear Solid, Gran Turismo and Little Big Planet PS3 titles, bluray movies and FREE online gaming. Thankyou Sony.

are you kidding me?

with a 33% return on 360's (talk about high quality), they're so far in the red, they're not going to make it up with another price drop. Besides, they have to start looking at a Blu Ray add on. But seeing that you're entering Year 3 of the xbox360, It's almost time for Microsoft to put out a new console and discontinue games for the 360.

Little Big Planet, Killzone 2, Resistance 2, Final Fantasy XIII, FF XIII Verses, Gran Turismo, Haze, Blu Ray, FREE ONLINE PLAY, Home.

the 360 can't compete.

Resistance 2 will have a 60-man multi-player. Eat your heart out.

The price has Dropped and now people who went out and got a wii or and a 360 can now also afford the PS3 BUT the sales of games ratio/attachment is still the highest on the 360, Evident by the EA push as they always kiss the *** of the leading console and on the point of exclusive games do some home work before you post as the 360 has some nice ones as dose the PS3 and more will be announced during the year. NO one knows who will win the war but come December 08 a nice little picture should start to emerge

Everybody trying to change the subject.

The fact of the matter is the PS3 is making sales. With the PSP and PS2 to back it up, Sony is moving. They are beating the 360 one region at a time.

Btw, where is Microsoft's handheld game? (besides playing "Pocket pool")

I sold my Xbox360 in November 2007 and bought my 60GB PS3 not far after. The 360 was a great stop gap where I was able to play 1st generation games for not a huge amount of money. Always knowing that one day I would own a shiny PS3 and be able to play Metal Gear Solid, Gran Turismo and Little Big Planet PS3 titles, bluray movies and FREE online gaming. Thankyou Sony.

Sony has its victory. By putting bluray in the ps3 it will win the HD war. then once everybody upgrades their dvd player to match their HDTVs they will buy a bluray player or the ps3. then sony is making money on bluray movie sales and bluray game sales. they can lose money for the first 3 years on ps3 hardware because they will end up selling tens of millions more after 3 years. look at the ps2. so the hardware may even out but sony will dominate because it has the HD game/movie market

ps3 is way bttr and home makes ****box live look a joke!!! ps3 has way more exclusives such as mgs4 gt5 littlebigplanet uncharted motorstorm resistance f1 warhawk tekkan6 bluray movies which is killing hd disc sorry ****box and did i mention how gd home is????

that GA*BUSA is a garbage box 360 fanboy and garbage box 360 is the least selling console in the world. mark all the comments of that GARBAGE BOT as SPAM

why is that TARD posting here

the xbox is not a system that is intended to make money it is a system that is made to extend the windows dominance into the living room. they want to attract new users and build brand loyalty and video games is a way to do that. microsoft has already lost about 6 billion dollars to video games, with no intention of making it back.

PS3 exclusives this year

MGS4
FF13
White Knight Story
GT5
Resistance 2
Killzone 2
Haze
LBP
HEAVY RAIN
LA NOIRE
8 DAYS
GETAWAY
Team ICO exclusive
MOtorstorm 2

do i go on

x360 has nothing in 2008

NG2---that will flop in Japan and europe

MGS4 ,FF13 and KZ2 will sell more than all of xbox 360 releases of 2008

x360 is fit for only one place --repair shop

LONG LIVE THE "WII" AND "360".

SONY IS SO FAR UP ITS OWN BACKSIDE.

x360 is the least selling console in the world for the past 10 weeks

it is dead in europe and japan

www.vgchartz.com

just look at wordlwide charts

http://www.vgchart...y.php

garbage box 360 is now fully finsihed

wii to go

PS3 is the king

witness the graphical prowess of PS3

(uncharted makes anything on x360 look like a wii game)

Who cares fanboys? PS3 will sell because the same sheep who buy iPod's want one! 360 has done well because it was launched 1'st and wasn't marketed by to**ers too far up their asses like Sega's marketing managers were the last time around. Software sells to those in the know, Bulls*it sells to those that follow! Disney, you are a not the journalist you once were, try not ******* up to the corporate hand and actual research a story for a change instead of printing some PR **** for a change!
Yours, someone who saw the light and left years ago!

PS. The Disney was ironic, DinseyI Seeing as you now live in fairytale land! How long before MCV goes the way of CTW? Reporting tosh like this, not long now chap's!

For fun lets start a new war.
Everyone seems to forget the reason why consoles are manufactured, to sell software.

So let's look at the worldwide figures for the week of 19th Jan

DS 1,634,152
Wii 1,559,392
X360 1,027,542
PS2 740,898
PS3 631,172
PSP 304,035


So based on this there is one clear winner (selling double the amount of software with two consoles and 9 games in the top ten) and one clear loser (selling a lot less with three consoles)



Let the *****ing commence!

Hilarious playground comments so far. It could be funny (if it wasn't so depressing) how tribal and childish your typical console owner still seems to be.

Reeves is of course paid to put a positive spin on the Sony situation- why don't the rest of us just wait and see if he's right?

I wonder if MCV are glad they added the comment system to their site? There's rarely an insightful comment from industry insiders and mostly squabbling...

checks date.....well, its not April fools day. but what a funny joke

PS3 will have overtaken 360 in the USA by December 2008 latest.

Insider say: Green jersey in Europe already behind the PS3, green jersey in USA in sight. 'Jump around with controller system ' bringing all the littel piggies into the open for the PS3 wolf to much on over the next 3 years. No PD, don't make me laugh, PS3 cost will be one fifth of original in 6 months. Japanese girl know truth. Man right....PS3 have all the exclusives they need. SingStar man ..... he right too but Music companies greedy men!
Tomo

Oh dear, how childish this has become and yet again started by Ryu in fantasy land. I'm betting Ryu is an American, as just like his government he's always trying to start some kind of war. What makes me laugh the most is that I'm sure I've read somewhere that he has a PS3 as well as an XBox, well somehow I just don't believe it because if he did he wouldn't go around bashing it all the time, unless he just has money to burn. I wish I was in the fortunate enough position to be able to own both but I'm not as they both are great with some great games on both.

Anyway back to the topic - from my evidence Reeves is right. The XBox is only selling now in the states and as pointed out correctly above that's because it's an American company. American's seem to forget about the rest of the world being a bigger place than them, half them still think we live in the "United States of Europe" and Europe is a country. I have a UK based shop and since Xmas, we've not sold ANY XBox 360 hardware, we've sold plenty of PS3s (and more PS2s than XBoxes too). I'm not going to talk about any other console sales as that's not Reeves referred to in his orignal speech. In fact we've even had one XBox brought back that was bought in Novemeber come back in the last couple of weeks with the Red Ring. To date, ZERO PS3 returns. That sort of reliability is only good for the PS3.

Game sales too are higher on PS3. Let's not forget that many people over Xmas bought the 40gb PS3 and DON'T CARE about backward compatibility as they want PS3 games for the console - which there are plenty of now. And the average Joe on the street that doesn't read forums like this, is the sort of person that really thinks Need for Speed Underground is the best game they've ever played. They probably don't even have the PS3 hocked up online so they wouldn't know how it performs that way. The numbers speak for themselves, the PS3 is rocketing towards the sales of the XBox and considering it's not even beem out in the UK for a year, these figures are mightily, mightily impressive. We're in the process in our small store of now increasing the PS3 presence whilst shifting all the XBox to a smaller area. We're now at the stage where we are ordering more PS3 games to fill the shelves than XBox, because they are selling more.

Going back to previous points, someone above mentioned exclusives for the PS3 in 2008. There appear to be lots and the biggest requests we get in store is people asking when GT 5 and MGS4 are coming out. These are going to be MASSIVE titles. We get lots of requests for GTA IV on both platforms as expected. And post 12 (AP) you incorrectly mocked Haze as coming out next year. Wrong - read the MCV article properly and the post that goes with it. Haze is coming out in fiscal 2008-2009 not the last quarter of 2008-2009. This could simply mean the game is coming out 2 weeks after it was originally coming out. Fiscal 2008-09 starts the beginning of April and that's when Haze will come out.

So stop all these childish attacks, I for one would like to see all the consoles sell well so I can get a lovely bonus, but if they don't, from a commercial point of view, we're only going to back the one(s) that sell or appear to be the way forward. 2 years ago that was 360, since September/October it's been the PS3 (again I'm not mentioning the OTHER consoles...). That's the situation in the UK and I'm guessing other parts of Europe are finding this out too. So read Mr Reeves article again from the top all you XBox "fan boys" and you will see that what he says isn't lies or BS, it's fact and it comes from retailers like us.

Its funny how everyone defending the PS3 keeps talking about exclusive games that are 'coming out'. What are you guys playing at the moment?

Resistance?

Motorstorm?

Its like buying a space suit now knowing that 'one day' you'll be able to go to the moon?!

PS3 fanboys are bitter becuase they have nothing to play apart from Blue Ray movies and 360 fanboys are bitter because they know the lead over PS3 will only last so long.

All this jive is ridiculous, 360, PS3 whatever, its all rubbish.
Where have all the gamers gone?

I don't think they will overtake that easily, M$ will have something up their sleve, like a price cut a couple of weeks before GTA4.

Also it's a different kettle of fish nowdays for consoles, as once it was an exclusive race, and it was easy to see SOny was the clear winner, but now developers want to maxamize profits, so they release on all systems, I think gamers don't really care to much what system it''s on aslong as they have it.

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@The Retailer, you're absolutely right, I misinterpreted the news that Haze was delayed (AGAIN!).

But I don't agree with some of your other interesting statements.

I live in the UK where I assume you do too? Two of my close friends used to have Playstations (1 & 2). Both of them bought Xbox 360s towards the end of last year and have no plans to get PS3s. In fact, out of all the people I know only a grand total of ONE has a PS3 while about TEN have Xbox 360.

Plus, I'd like you to point me at this store of yours that is selling more PS3 games then Xbox because everyone I speak to in all the game stores say the small PS3 game display (compared to the larger Xbox 360 one) is because the consoles aren't selling and neither are the games.

You say the PS3 began to be THE console in demand in September/October? The month Halo 3 launched?! You are joking, even if you don't know you are...!

That's why I said SINCE September/October - after Halo 3 hit the shelves. That is when we started to see a turnaround in sales, i.e. just before Xmas. It started slowly but then overtook. Yet another example of not reading properly before you comment.

Figures speak for themselves, but the PS3 IS in demand now (finally) and more and more are being sold. Maybe our shop is a fluke, but all I'm saying is that Reeve's claims can be backed up by our sales figures. And by what he's saying, we're not alone. That's why we plan to be ahead of the game and start backing PS3 from now more than the 360. We've Valentines day and Easter coming put soon, so we're going to push the PS3 a bit more. Don't get me wrong, we're still going to market the 360 as we still have stock, but we're simply following consumer trends.

I work as a manage of computer game store and I really haven't been selling that many PS3s recently. Probably the same amount as I've been selling 360's, as to the games 360 are selling at least 5:1. I think both machines have their good points but in my opinion I still prefer the 360 because it's got a lot more games. Nearly all the good games on the PS3 are out on 360 and at the momen there is nothing great on PS3. That doesn't mean I'm not going to buy one later in the year when some decent exclusives cme out and bluray picks up a bit more.

PS3 games are now being found in more and more stores which they weren't when the thing first came out. My local Sainsbury's now is starting doing the games as well as Tesco which had them longer. But I've now seen that my local WH Smith's are no longer doing 360 games but have some PS3 titles. Perhaps times are changing. I have neither the 360 or PS3 BTW, but I have plans to get a PS3 when Gran Turismo comes out. Again maybe it is a sign of things to come, I'll be adding to Mr Reeve's statistic, and I bet I'm not the only one. Also you only have to go into HMV and see the Blu-Ray shelf getting bigger by the week. If PS3's weren't selling, then why would HMV bother to increase their Blu-Ray shelf space? After all from what I've heard the PS3 is the most popular Blu-Ray player.

Home? That's vaporware until it comes out

Team Ico mentioned as an exclusive? They are in the process of hiring designers, and it's coming out soon? I don't think so.

This conversation is getting repetitive, let it end here and everyone agree that Sony in the long term will sell more PS3s worldwide than Microsofts Xbox 360. Ahhh see it wasn't that hard.