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ChartTrack:"PS3 has been outselling 360 for the last four weeks in UK"

ChartTrack has also revealed that the Sony console has been outselling 360 for the last month. "It has been outselling 360 for the last four weeks in the UK, but they were neck and neck over the Christmas period, weeks 49-52," said ChartTrack director Dorian Bloch.

PStriple7035917d ago

Sony and the ps3 are on track, and it's hard for some people to take in, but i always knew it was a great console

sonarus5917d ago

hmmm quite suprising considering vgchrtz has been saying otherwise. Oh well great job for ps3. things look to be getting worse for ps3

ThaGeNeCySt5917d ago

VGchartz can not be trusted.

Packet5917d ago

"VGchartz can not be trusted."

There is nothing 'unreliable' in the vgchartz numbers. The numbers the site puts out are essentially a combination of two things:

1) 360 sales numbers that are as high as current worldwide shipment totals allow and still retain some degree of plausibility

2) PS3 sales numbers that are as low as current worldwide shipment totals allow and still retain some degree of plausibility

Everything else is just details of trying to keep up the appearance that the fanboys running the site are making calls to retailers all over the world.

TheTwelve5917d ago

The UK was the last bastion of hope for the 360 over PS3 outside of America.

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sonarus5917d ago

lol meant to say things look to be getting better

beoulve5917d ago

Just as I thought the VGchartz can be trusted, now this came in.
I think VGChartz can only provide estimates from previous data. Once they got official number, they will readjust their trend estimates hence we got this overcounting and under track. PS3 is the #1 victims because it's trend is pretty unstable unlike Wii. XBOX 360 moving toward declining trend but occasionally having spike sometime. So estimates doesn't really mean much now. What do you expect for something that is totally free. They pay for the bandwidth and provide you free global data which requires lot of resource to track. You can already smell something fishy there.

zambrota5917d ago

whats even worse is the fact that their weekly UK sales data for the ps3 is wrong too.

I think Vg is also wrong on German sales of x360. Media control said that around 150 000 x360s were sold between nov 2005 to dec 2006. around 56000 x360s were sold in Germany in 2007 vs 309000 ps3s (total).

I request Vgchartz to update their numbers

However it is proved again that Vg cannot be trusted

cmrbe5917d ago

it is great news for the PS3

Lifendz5917d ago

this is before the AAA hyped games are out. Just wait until MGS 4, GT5, LBP, Killzone are on the shelves. Sony probably won't sell Wii like numbers anytime soon, but 360 will lose it's spot at #2.

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yeh5917d ago

This one should probably fail approval, and let my one that actually links to a good source be approved.

Vip3r5917d ago

This is your one and it has been approved. Or am I missing something here?

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Aaron_V6675917d ago

Great news for Sony. Now all MS have left is the US and Sony should go all out to win over there.

jwatt5917d ago

The ps3 has been building alot of momentum but they still have to work hard in America. I think rumble, Home, Mgs4 and Gta4 should help the ps3.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=...

abuze5917d ago

Are you the one making those videos? I like them alot good job!

Who sings that song?

I think i fell in love again..

SmokeyMcBear5917d ago

dear oh dear... thats not what vgcharts says.. the resident bible on hardware sales.. this could get interesting.

fenderputty5917d ago

VG isn't accurate and should never be taken as written in stone. Still ... it serves as a good point of reference. It at least had the PS3 showing gains on the 360 and getting rather close. It's good news to hear that it's acutally outsold the 360 though.

XBOX 3605917d ago

This means VGChartz is wrong again about their under tracked PS3 sales numbers

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Ar Tonelico Qoga: Knell Of Ar Ciel Retro Review – Love Conquers All

Gary Green said: You’ll be forgiven if you haven’t heard of the Ar Tonelico trilogy. The previous two games arrived so late in the PS2’s life-cycle that they simply went unnoticed. While most were tinkering with their shiny new PS3s, Ar Tonelico: Melody of Elemia and Ar Tonelico II: Melody of Metafalica were being ‘returned to sender’ by your local Game stores. Luckily, you won’t need to have played them to understand and appreciate this third and final chapter, Qoga (pronounced k-yoga) tells the story of a racial war between humans and Reyvateils, a breed of biologically produced female cyborgs capable of reproduction, while still having a digital mind.

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Giga_Gaia1h ago

Oh my god. I kinda wish this would get a remaster on PS5, it would be awesome. One of my favorite games on PS3.

That and 3D Dot Game Heroes. It's a shame that some stuff is stuck on PS3.

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Pacific Rim Pinball comes to Pinball FX

This could be fun as they make great tables. Go big or go extinct. Prime your senses for a neural handshake and step into the cockpit of a Jaeger. It is on you to cancel the apocalypse when Pacific Rim Pinball comes to Pinball FX on May 16.

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Microsoft’s Surface and Xbox hardware revenues take a big hit in Q3

Microsoft just posted the third quarter of its 2024 fiscal financial results. The software maker made $61.9 billion in revenue and a net income of $21.9 billion during Q3. Revenue is up 17 percent, and net income has increased by 20 percent.

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darthv721d 4h ago

Xbox content + services up 62% while hardware down 31%... seems about right with the way they tout you don't need the hardware to play. People can play on their phones or smart tv or other means. I don't hardly play on my consoles directly since getting devices like the logitech g-cloud and ps portal. Which is to also say I have been playing more digital than physical because of these devices.

solideagle15h ago

you should apply in MS PR team buddy, I think you will do a great job in my humble opinion :)

Sonic188113h ago

I thought darthv72 and Obscure_Observer already work for Microsoft 🤔

dveio12h ago

MS: "Xbox services and content without AB up 1%, with AB up 62%. Hardware down 31%. In total a loss of 350 mill."

darthv72: "Seems about right."

MS: "Excuse m ..."

darthv72: "I don't hardly play on my consoles directly."

MS:

Lightning777h ago

What he said was facts. How he plays games is no concern of you. Don't get too mad about it.

Cacabunga15h ago

I can tell people like you are an absolute minority..

If service is up means their fans and fanboys accepted this model and subscribed to it. The near future you will see a big decline because the service is saturated.

darthv721h ago

to you it may seem like the minority... but your bubble is shrinking because more and more are following suit. convenience is a hell of a drug and its also why physical sales only amount to 30% of overall game sales. times are changing, you either get with them or you get left behind.

shinoff218314h ago

But that's been ms for years. When things aren't going their way they try to change the way things are said. For instance console sales are down, they stop telling how many sold instead telling us how many hours spent in halo or headshots. So it makes sense console sales down just say people are playing on more devices then previous. What they won't say is how many xbox players jumped ship to ps5.

Cacabunga13h ago

Hardware sales are so bad that Sony and Nintendo are blowing the sales off the water with their hardware.

If Xbox are losers, others aren’t..
Xbox already tried everything with Xbox live then subscriptions went down so much that they had to find something else. Their fans subscribed then reached saturation rather quickly.

Hardware and exclusive games is where it’s at! Keep gamers excited, announce decent software and people will support you

itsmebryan9h ago

@shin
Well keep it simple Sony 's operating income is down 26% and Microsoft's is up 32%. No MS spin there, just facts. 😉
Cheers

S2Killinit1h ago

MS is after diminishing consoles as a medium. They want to destroy this market because they couldnt win. MS’s vision is to dissolve console gaming.

romulus238h ago

Odd that a company that touts you dont need the hardware to play is already touting another console in the works.

darthv727h ago

They are not reliant on the HW but still want to maintain a presence (no matter how small) is a good thing. It shows commitment to the craft. It reminds me of SNK and how they made games for their own hardware (Neo Geo) while also making them for others because they knew there was a market to do so. They knew they would sell more to others but also sell to their own niche fan base.

TheEroica1h ago(Edited 1h ago)

Perfectly reasonable post down voted by insecure corporation friendly folk.... But not gamers. Real gamer want accessibility and ease of acquisition for all.... Company shills are the only ones still telling us that hardware locking people from games is good for us.

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purple10118h ago

Xbox hardware revenue tanks to lowest point of Xbox Series generation

Profchaos17h ago

I'm not surprised surface is struggling they aren't relevant anymore

DOMination-7h ago

In the last two years they've started exiting the consumer market altogether. All of the newest Surface products are business models only. They can't seem to work out what they want to do with it.

XBManiac16h ago

Too expensive hardware when others offer the same or more for less? Good work, Green Team.

SimpleDad16h ago(Edited 16h ago)

"Despite some early successes for Xbox games on rival platforms, Xbox hardware is down by a massive 31 percent this quarter."
"Without Activision Blizzard, Microsoft’s overall gaming revenue would have actually declined this quarter."
"Xbox content and services would have only been up a single percent without Activision Blizzard..."
"It looks like next quarter is going to be a similar story for gaming at Microsoft, too."

That is crazy... so A/B/K is carrying the whole Xbox gaming.
Oh and Microsoft will be fine. Windows, Office and Cloud are growing with each pc purchase.

purple10116h ago

Activision: "we gonna need a bigger rucksack/backpack please"

Microsoft: "why's that"

Activision: "to carry yo' weak ass'

Profchaos15h ago(Edited 15h ago)

Top brass have also wanted to start seeing returns on the 100 billion they have put into various Xbox related moves so seeing more multiplatform games is highly likely especially from abk

It's basically saying that PlayStation is the reason Xbox is afloat right now thinks to Ps5 versions of COD

Kornholic14h ago

So basically PS and PC gamers' money is keeping Xbox on life support.

MrDead7h ago

The only growth MS will get out of the console industry is if it supports it's rivals platforms. Xbox is a pointless machine now. I can see them on a big push for live next, and they won't give up on trying to buy Steam.

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