Sony: November NPD numbers exceeded our expectations

VGArabia: Now with NPD numbers for November are up, each of the console manufacturers will reply in accordance to these numbers sooner or later. Jack Tretton, the CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment of America has responded in accordance to November NPD numbers and expressed his excitement for the next year.

[Xeoset]

;)

[ultimolu]

And we're still pumping out some amazing first party games, unlike the competition. They have to rely on multiplatform games and so-called exclusives that can be also found on a PC.

=D

[The Killer]

year 2008
month November

360 sales PS3 sales
836,000 378,000

year 2009
month November

360 sales PS3 sales
819k 710K

[The Killer]

year 2008
month November

360 sales PS3 sales
836k 378k

year 2009
month November

360 sales PS3 sales
819k 710K

so as u can see the 360 sales decreased from last year's november 17K while the ps3 increased by 332k

lets put it in other words so the bot understand it

in november 2008 the difference was 458K in 360's favor and now the difference is 109k in favor of 360 see?? from 458k lead over ps3 to only 109k!!

this means 360 is losing ground very fast in its last foothold which remains in favor of 360! the entire world already in ps3 hands!!

[Arnon]

Yes, yes we know. Both consoles did good, but I guarantee you that Sony probably expected to outsell the 360. There's no way they thought that their numbers would shrink the closer they got to the holidays. I mean... there's just no way rofl.

[PlayStation X]

ps3 probably outsold 360 worldwide tho =/

usa
360 = 819k
ps3 = 710K

jap
ps3 47K
360 3K

so the gaps 60K and the 360 is dying in europe so...

you do the maths =/

[Beast_Master]

I just want to thank all the x-bots for destroying gaming! By choosing to buy an unreliable, non HD, pay to play system, next generation that will be the standard. Crappy consoles and pay-to-play online for everyone!! HOW can 800K+ People be so F**ing dumb!!!

[JasonPC360PS3Wii]

HAHA But but teh slim... bubbles bro that was funny.

[belal]

they where only 100k behind the 360, and thats on a microsoft area.

sony is doing great in all territories. just wait and see, by the end of next year ps3 install base will be like 45- 50 50 million :) the 360 is doing ok i guess, but it still struggles in japan and europe wich is ps3 area.

[Xeoset]

The UK is the second largest territory in the world when it comes to gaming.
The UK is part of Europe.
The UK are all over the Xbox 360.

This alone evens out the Dutch, Swedish and Spanish charts. The rest is give and take for both.

Sales charts do not lie :)

[lociefer]

take note GreenTurd, thats how you adress your console's success

[Pennywise]

UK is only a part of EU. PS3 outsold the 360 WW by over 400k units. How can you spin that? You can't.

[OmarJA-N4G]

Agree with Belal, good job Sony keep the momentum... :)

Bubbles to lociefer LOL!

[ultimolu]

Yep, I agree.

Wow, good going Xeoset. You're the first 360 fan in a PS3 article!

[ozps3]

has every one forgotten the million xb360 that were banned just after cod mw2 was released? I wonder how much that boosted 360 sales??

[Pennywise]

ozps3, SHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH HHH. Let them bask in their false victory.

You know what cracks me up... No one has mentioned that the 1mil consoles banned are getting a healthy % of those users re-purchasing, but it knocked 1 million consoles off of the 360's small lead.

[DasBunker]

@Above

Stop making sense guys... not funny..

good thing now that the NPD numbers are here we can forget about how the PS3 has the best games on metacritic this year and focus on how much sony sucks on teh zales!..

[Rampant]

Tired of waiting now...

[The Happy Baby]

Those are some low expectations. I would have expected to move ATLEAST 1 million. They werent bad numbers---but this as a pretty important shopping month, and black friday is one of the biggest shopping days of the year. I guess December will be the month PS3 comes out on top, right?

@locifer: Being that this is a "war" between the the 360 and PS3, I don't think it would be fitting for the LOSING console to tell the WINNING console how to celebrate its success.

@pennywise: I seriously doubt there were 1 mil banned consoles. But in the event that there were, do you guys not remember all the BS sony fanboy articles that talked about switching to the PS3 b/c MS banned thier console or erased their gamerscore? You really think those people would have gone back to a 360, when they could start fresh with a "does everything" PS3? If so, that just shows you how strong the 360 really is.

The excuses have got to stop somewhere. Next Month, the 360 will beat the PS3 in sales. And you know what? I'd like to hear a different excuse this time. Forget that there was 1mil consoles banned. Forget that "bots" only care about sales. Forget that MW2 boosted sales. Forget that RRoD caused people to buy a new 360. Lets hear something new.

[Panthers]

If people could stop comparing and see that the PS3 sold 700K in one month, they would see that is great. The 360 did great too.

[raztad]

Funny stuff, Vgarabia seems MS PR guy, look at this closing comment

"For the record, there were 710,400 PS3s sold in November compared to 819,500 Xbox 360s. Also, Uncharted 2 wasn’t one of the top ten sellers of November. Nevertheless, it was one of the best months for Sony’s PS3."

They needed to do Greenberg's work spining the whole positive fashion with uncalled information.

[Pennywise]

Happy Baby, I guess ignorance is bliss.

If I altered my console where I had a huge game collection and a big friends list, I would want to have that same console in my house if I got banned.

And BTW... The PS3 beat the 360 worldwide.

[KingME]

You PS3 fanboys are a trip. When Sony boasted about their 440k sold on black friday, you guys were talking more sh!t than a toilet. Now the NPD numbers are out and I think every possible spin available has been used; from banned consoles to geographic regions, and when you don't feel that this is working you revert to name calling like greenturd, etc. And that's just to go along with you constant bashing and the 360 and it's fans. (I know that goes both ways, but you guys are 5 times worse.)

You guys are an angry bunch, if amazing that you even get to have fun on your PS3, you seem to spend more time worrying about who sold the most consoles. I guess the most annoying thing is your inability to give credit when it's due coupled with you inability to concede a loss every now and then.

Lastly, I personally could tolerate you guys much better (Not that you give a sh!t) if you could just shut up sometimes and be graceful when you do come out on top. Here is how you appear to me, when you win you won't shut up about it, when you lose all you do is point fingers and make excuses. And you simple take bubbles from people to prevent then from debating with you.

Just a bit annoying, but I don't expect you to see it.

[JokesOnYou]

All the sony extremists are screaming the ps3 outsold 360 worldwide, didn't they all scream the same thing all November about the US, lol I guess they must still be going off of Sept or Oct #'s right after the redesign ps3 slim was launched with a price cut? What about November?, yeah ps3 has Japan, thats it, but 360 numbers have always outdone ps3 numbers over the holidays in the UK= (part of Europe) loves 360 and its the biggest territory in Europe, we don't have any Nov sales data from Europe, 360 is most likely selling alot better in the UK than ps3 and at least close in most other parts of Europe so overall its easily possible 360 sold more WW, either way these sony extremmists dont have a clue what worldwide sales are, they all make up shiii as they go....NO links with creditable data to support their hot wind.

"I wouldn't expect MW2 to sell better on the PS3 though. Killzone 2 is a much better offering, and the 360 install base is higher in North America." -DJ

lmfao, uh and MW2 also sold better on the ps3 than KZ2 did, and UC2 and every other ps3 game, so your logic doesn't make any sense, lol yeah 360 install base is always higher in NA when ps3 can't match 360's software sales, but when 360 hardware sales are discussed the same fanboys say there aren't that many working 360's.

Here let me try this new random trick:

360 outsold ps3 worldwide by 543,210 consoles. Thats a fact, I have proof but I'm not going to reveal my sources.

JOY

[Lifendz]

1: MS' numbers. They didn't outsell Sony 3-1 or 2-1, but they did move more units. Very surprising only because you'd expect a company with guys like Aaron Greenberg speaking for it to boast about that. Especially since they've done nothing but boast about numbers and disparage the competition almost every time they have a mic in front of them. And not to spin the news but shouldn't MS always move more units than Sony when MS has a sku that's 100 bucks cheaper?

2: Uncharted 2 falling out of the software top 10. I hate when people use themselves as a barometer for sales, but literally everyone I know that owns a PS3 owns that game. I know the game is doing well, but I was expecting a bonafide blockbuster. Especially the way they were pushing it. I guess the U.S. is 360 territory. I'm sure world wide it'll do exactly what Naughty Dog is expecting.

3: Assassin's Creed was marketed for PS3 ala MOW2 was marketed for 360 and still moved almost double on 360. I guess the generation is set and certain games are now associated with certain platforms.

What didn't surprise me was MOW2's success. I'm having a blast with it. That game has really hit home with the 360 base. Great great numbers. Kudos to Wii owners for picking up New Super Mario Bros. Played it last night with 2 buds and it was laugh out loud funny.

Again, glad to see all three companies do well. Competition amongst them can only be a good thing for the consumer. Happy Holidays!

[Ju]

"The UK is the second largest territory in the world when it comes to gaming. "

And yet, it only accounts for about 20% of European game sales (which is still big for one country).

BTW: Even in the UK PS3 beats the 360, now.

I am still wondering about the NPD numbers, though. The general consensus is/was the PS3 outsold the 360 over the Black Friday weekend by about 100k-190k (give or take), and yet, the NPD reports November results with the 360 outselling the PS3 by 100K. So, outside the Blackfriday the 360 caught up more then 200K ??? When did that happen ? In the one day with the MW2 bundle or what? Am I the only one who thinks that sounds fishy ? (especially, because the number for the remaining 3 week must have been above 500K). Maybe I am just paranoid.

[alaa]

Those are facts.

[vhero]

They got their sales without bannings too.

[Darkshader]

I totally agree that SONY did very well this november. And their selling their SKU system for $300 compared to their competitor who are giving away $100 discounts and 6 bundle games at BEST BUY on thanksgiving day. I would not brag about a 100K lead if i know that MS selling their SKU at the cheapest price.

And peple who says that why should we discussed the 1Million banned XBOX owners. Hello! Common sense ... i'll do the math for you. Lets not think about millions .. lets do it by a small numbers for example 10. You have 10 friends who got banned. Do you think out of those 10 people they won't purchase another XBOX 360 and missed playing Modern Warfare 2? Don't kid your self. Atleast 3 people in my OPIONION would purchase an XBOX 360 for it.

[The Happy Baby]

More excuses? Seriously? I dont think this ARTICLE was about worldwide sales. This article was talking about sales in North America. And if you want to play the excuses game, the Wii is beating BOTH the 360 and PS3 to date---but its beating the PS3 harder. See how that works?

And my point in switching to PS3, you obviously didnt get. A huge library of games and a bunch of friends?Well, it seems like the console that "does everything" is having a hard time topping that. I mean think about it, the PS3 has all these advantages, way more "lots of games and a big friends list"--and yet?
Like I said, lets hear some new excuses. Ive heard this all before.

@silva(below): be a good boy and be quiet, okay kiddo? The adults are talking.

[silvacrest]

unless you work for sony and no there business plan stfu

[MrJack]

I live in the UK, and I can tell you that is going to change fast.

The slim has had an immense effect, everyone I know has been waiting for the PS3 drop in price and now it's affordable they are flooding off the shelves.

In the last few months probably about 10 friends have bought PS3's, two have bought 360's, and one of them was because he was banned from live.

Don't be shocked if the PS3 begins to dominate the 360 in the UK soon.

[Perjoss]

so lets see, what did we learn, both consoles doing really well? very good, carry on.

[raztad]

@alaa

I know. However no one was asking for them and while they are at it why not to publish Nintendo numbers, or the whole NPD?. That is an article about Sonys take on NPD and how many xbox were sold is totally irrelevant for Sony as business.

[zeeshan]

So basically, now Arabian video game websites are going to talk about US? Why? I mean, really, if anything, they should be telling us how well PS3/X360/Wii are doing in Middle East!? Though, there is nothing wrong with that but i'd like to know how other the big 3 are doing in other parts of the world. I am glad to see all three companies posting some fantastic numbers!

[beardpapa]

so YOU are telling me that IF YOU owned 10+ games on the 360, and IF I were MS and I banned you for being a bad bad baby ... you wouldn't want to get a new 360 to play your 10+ games and be a good baby to enjoy a hit game like MW2 with your friends on Live?

sorry buddy but that's some crazy spin of your's and sadly people were calling fanboys idiots for thinking those 1 mil users will switch to PS3, and now with the NPD sales coming out you're supporting those same idiots.

And if you seriously doubt those 1 mil were banned, go read the news.

[raztad]

@baby

If you read previuos threads here in N4G (when the banning actually happened) you'll see xfans arguing how those banned gamers would, most probably, end up getting another xbox. Live, game collection or just diehard fans of the xbox. Whatever the reason there was no so much hope on they migrating to the PS3.

Obviously at least some got a PS3, but in any case that million is on another console already so you cant expect any more sales increase due to them.

[Gothdom]

What I think they mean by exceeding expectations is that they sold alot more than Nov 08.

http://vgsales.wikia.com/wi...

This year 710,400 minus 08's 378,000 = an increase of 332,400.

I think it's great. As for MS, they might have sold less from 08, but not by that much (-16,500). They're maintaining their numbers.

Happy baby: as much as you don't want to, the PS3 is here to stay.

[The Happy Baby]

If the PS3 has EVERYTHING and does EVERYTHING, and the multiplats looks BETTER on it and the exclusives ARE THE BEST LOOKING GAMES TO DATE-----why wouldnt someone switch from an inferior console?

The people who were banned were prolly banned for modded console, meaning they didnt pay for those games and prolly liked to cheat/glitch in thier online gameplay(meaning they prolly didnt have alot of friends who wanted to play with them anyways). Also, they would have had to buy a new live subscription(at best 50$ for the year). Why spend the money on a new console, and buying all your fave games legitamately and having to pay for online gaming--when you can get a superior console that makes the games better(exclusive or not) and has free online play?

Either way its a loss for Sony. You have 2 answers: The 360 is just that strong of a force, that people will go back to it. OR There were more new people that wanted a 360 than a ps3.

POINT: Its doesnt matter what the answer is, its still not in Sonys favor. Getting beat in anything, no matter what company you are, is never a good thing. Stop trying to spin it, like it is. Enough with the excuses.

You guys make Happy Baby, unhappy with all the run-around.

[sikbeta]

xboyz really feel the need to get so defensive, they're ruling this entire site because xbox 360 sold more on November, they for some reason understood that a Sony PR said they won something on November but no one was claiming anything

[alaa]

It was not my intention to bash Sony, but when you report a story like this, you have to put numbers in order to let the readers understand what is going on. Also, I don't have to add Nintendo numbers, because of two reasons: 1. Nintendo is out of calculations
2. The real sales battle is between the HD consoles the PS3 and Xbox 360.

[MNicholas]

Since the PS3's price cut, it has sold 2 Million more than the 360. That's a difference of 2 Million more in just 3.5 months!

[beardpapa]

A lot of people in the nub-modding community don't just tell themselves "Hey.. I think I'll go buy a 360 and mod it since I hear my friends do it."

Chances are they'll brick it. There's a higher probability that people who mod their system probably already had a 360 to begin with, had the games to play, had Live, and decided to one day mod their system or get a new one to mod to start playing new games on it. Besides ... there was a mod to allow the system to play on Live. But more or less it stopped working whenever we got a system update.

With more than 28 million sold and only 1 million banned, that's a small niche market of naughty 360 owners. It's unreasonable to think that a majority of those 1 million started off on the 360 with zero legitimate games, and went on a whim to spend $299 to potentially brick their new baby.

You can also put into perspective that if they

When I first got a Core as a gift and then a Premium as my second 360, i treated them both with care. Even when I had games like Rumbling Roses, I didn't think to mod my 360 because I knew I would either brick it or be caught one day. I learned that the hard way w/ a modded PS2 slim. Thought it'd be as easy as the DC.

But hey, I don't really care who wins. Nintendo is looking fine up there and I don't like them one bit. Games are great but accessories. You gotta get rid of a kidney to get the ultimate experience. $60 for a wiimote + nunchuks? I know my gf was hesitant getting her nephew Mario Party & Mario Kart + 3 other controllers and wheels for Xmas. If MS wins great. If Sony wins that's fine too. I just hope they don't bend us over later and give it to us hard when they start getting a bigger market share of things. Afterall, we're their blind ignorant supporters.

[rockleex]

I agree with you.

I was expecting Sony to move AT LEAST 50 million in November alone.

Epic fail by Sony. *shakes head*

/sarcasm

[alaa]

It was a stellar month for both.

[Panthers]

LOL at your disagrees. Fanboys are funny.

[ravinash]

Yeah, Sony and MS both had a terrible month.

[alaa]

Yes, I don't know why the users of N4G disagrees with me regarding this comment.

[dale1]

well 9 million sold in the usa and 27 million sold to date of last press comment,thats 18 million between the rest of europe and asia putting it well ahead of the 360 in those countrys.usa is still there toughest challange but the eu and japan are seeing a big gap growing where the ps3 is concerned.10 million microsoft said they sold total last month for europe which we all know they include asia and just about every country as there data.son,ys catching up 100,000 units difference between 360 and ps3 for november isn,t much when you add just the japanese sales of the last two weeks.if sony starts winning more months of sales on the 360 in america like the two months before its going to be hard for ms to come back.

[SilverSlug]

The fact that anyone would say otherwise is stupid. Microsoft did the brilliant idea of having Modern Warfare 2 exclusive ads, obviously that is what take them to the top by 100,000units (In all honesty, probably why they sold half of what they sold)

I don't see why anyone will be disappointed with what the consoles did.2% down for MS, but still they made up for it by selling 4 million copies of Modern Warfare 2 and lets be honest, if it wasn't for MW2 launch, PS3 would have beat them pretty hard.

[Pennywise]

I agree the MW2 ads were a good sales idea, but I think the 1mil worth of bans also played a HUGE part in sales. They coordinated the bans with the month of MW2. Smooth move. Dirty, but smooth.

[DJ]

I wouldn't expect MW2 to sell better on the PS3 though. Killzone 2 is a much better offering, and the 360 install base is higher in North America.

[raztad]

Everybody knew those 1m banned would get another xbox, thats the only possible outcome, most of them are Live junkies.

The PS3 is doing really good and the demand will increase proportional to the interest for BD. why to get a console + standalone BD when you can have both for less?

[GiantEnemyCrab]

Yes, maybe if you guys keep saying 1mil it will actually turn to truth instead of being the heaping pile of BS that it is. I know it makes for a great spin.

Here is the article where MS said it was not 1mil banned and that the number was exagerrated..

http://venturebeat.com/2009...

Whitten said: "We didn't release the number [of one-million banned modders]. I cannot explain to you why people would think it was a million people. It wasn't a million people. Check the veracity of that claim. It was one news source."

Yes, the one news source you same ol troll/fanboys keep going to as some credible source. Unless you have another.. Feel free to post it.

[rob6021]

so maybe they didn't ban all the way to a million, but the other article suggests is was close to a million. Notice your guy doesn't say that a million isn't even close, he just says there wasn't a million. That's all he says. Go ahead and believe it's some small number, what we do know points to the contrary. In fact the way he said it, It could be over a million and he wouldn't be lying. He just said it wasn't a million exactly.

[immortal84]

But I'm disappointed that UC 2 wasn't one of the top ten sellers of November. Anyway, good job Naughty Dog.

[gamingisnotacrime]

developers will be more pumped for producing AAA games because the install base for both consoles keeps getting bigger and bigger.

PS: just bought my Elite bundle at $245 in Sams Club, is nice to have a Jasper

[zoks310]

But even better world wide. Haters will try and down play an 88% lift YOY but you can't, not when everybody else is falling YOY.
Sony went up against a $199, and $299 Xbox360, an Xbox360 Elite MW2 bundle, and finally a $99 Xbox360 at Wall-Mart, and Sony still managed to keep up on their competitors by selling 700k PS3 in a region some claim Sony have lost.

[mriono]

your explanation is full of fail and excuses. I agree with everyone this was a good month for all systems, ut my problem is this whole YOY comparison.....when you have more systems to sale than the comp you better show improvement, at this point the 360 had a full year to start off, everyone knows someone or has a wii, and the ps3 has been playing catch up. That is not a bad thing, but its logical math that they are about the only company of the 3 with the price drop who will probably see sales up, those who were on the fence cause of price can now get off.

Its funny everyone wants to bring up the $100 deal walmart was offering, REMINDER: NPD DOES NOT INCLUDE WALMART!!!!! spin it how you want, but 360's were selling out of walmarts with that deal, imagine the lead they would have posted in November NPD if that deal was actually apart of these numbers.

[calis]

"but 360's were selling out of walmarts with that deal, imagine the lead they would have posted in November NPD if that deal was actually apart of these numbers."

Obviously since you work for Microsoft or Walmart you can actually prove this...right?

Talking about spin.

[mriono]

"Obviously since you work for Microsoft or Walmart you can actually prove this...right?"

wasn't it reported? Let me see if I can find the press release and come back. I don't need to add spin it is what it is. I really don't care which system outsells which as far as NPD goes, Sony nor M$ pays me anything to sit on the internet and argue on their behalf hence i have all systems. i enjoy gaming period, but I personally know my walmart (yes i know this is just one instance calm down ppl) was sold out, and i know plenty of people who got banned and went with the wlmart option it was the cheapest way to get back online

[calis]

Didn't the Sony guy also say there were PS3 shortages?

[spunnups]

I don't think at this point that Sony cares what the numbers for the other consoles are. I know if I were them I wouldn't either. When your system is $100+ more than the competitions cheapest substitution product, you're selling to different people at that price point.

[gumgum99]

No, I think its because Sony has been humbled by their progress. Just because they don't call out on the competition, like Microsoft, doesn't mean they have given up.

[MajestieBeast]

Lol the Uk is the second biggest territory for gaming what did you smoke buddy i knew 360 fanboys werent smart but you take the crown. That explains why sony has a lead over 360 in europe cause the uk sales dwarf europe...

[mint royale]

What?

He said the UK is the second biggest country for videogame sales which it is...

[Ju]

..and like I said above, its about 20% of the European market (actually Germany and France are pretty close followers by numbers, but still smaller). So, UK alone dwarfs nothing.

[ultimolu]

They did really well. This is a lot better than last year.

[Sevir04]

http://www.ps3blog.net/2009...

[free3sixty]

wow the more expensive console sold more compared to the cheaper 299 USD slim.. and the slim was even bundled with sonys biggest games like the droids mentioned before: KZ2 and inFamous!

The droids also mentioned that the PS3 was the best offer and cheapest on black friday. They mentioned that nobody wanted the 360 because even a arcade console costs 250 USD with live + wireless lan adapter (you know that everybody needs that to play live) = 320 USD.

Great to see that 80% of the sales were elite sales so the price was at around 400 USD.

Looks like the cheapest console right now (SLIM) still cant take some ground in NA.

And hey.. the droids also mention in EVERY topic that the POS3 is outselling the 360 worldwide by 20-30l per week = ~100k per month and they say that the 360 is doomed because of this 100k... but NOW they say that 100k isnt that much, lol??

So you confirm that with 100k each month, sony would need 5 years to be on paar with 360 sales.

Sry droids, but the PS3 will stay where it is.. on 3rd place with AAA (3 A) 3rd place games.

[ultimolu]

Keep the FUD coming! Really now.
No one cares about your little rant.

[PLAYstar]

You can talk about the sales whenever you want, because Sony don't give rat about you. They're profiting and that is what counts! They profit, we get more exclusives! So what being the 3rd place? DO U get to play more games than us? EVER play your games relax without worrying that your console could brick any moment? GUESS NOT!

BTW what makes you think that those are new buyers? When it comes to Xbox360 there are no guarantee...

[Hudahudahuda]

lol the more I think about it the more I laugh, Sony and MS are fighting like 2 homeless guys over a peice of turkey leg while Nintendo blew everyone out of the water...oh and they make profit on every machine sold to boot.

[DJ]

Nintendo's making hardly any money off their network service, while Xbox Live and PlayStation Network are making a killing. And PS3 and 360 still make a lot of money off of game sales. True, the PS3 is about to the surpass the 360's install base, and already sells more software (worldwide). But the 360 is no slouch either.

[free3sixty]

i think you are so desperate like your avatar.. you made BIG eyes when you saw the numbers.

[ultimolu]

Desperate for what? Lmfao, you're the one that's desperate. You want the 360 to win sooo badly that you do dramatic flips when the 360 just manages to outsell the PS3.

In the words of Dante from DMC4: Whatever you say kid.

[electricshadow]

Good for Sony. Keep it coming.

[Consoldtobots]

that he with the biggest sales spike for a single month has more to worry about.

[ReBurn]

Does that mean that PS3 slim's launch success is the reason they're in third place in NPD console sales this month? I'm not understanding your comment.

[Consoldtobots]

no it means that the slim has consistently sold well (averaging about half a mil a month) making a sales spike of 200K+ consoles not as significant as the console who saw a spike of 600k+ consoles. In other words you have to be selling significantly less than your competitor to see such a huge spike. Many of use are pretty certain that is due to MS banning a million consoles right before MW2 released but of course the fanboys who have been alienated from their usual sales trolling will hear nothing of that because this is like crack for a crackwhore who has been fiending for the last couple of months. Nothing in the universe will separate her from that pipe and nothing in the universe will separate MS fanboys from "teh salezzz".

[gumgum99]

Indeed, they have. Things will only get better from here.

[Mr_Universe]

"Sony: November NPD numbers exceeded our expectations"

So they expected the Xbox 360 to surpass them in sales LESS than they actually did? o_O

[cereal_killa]

No they're talking about there own sales sure they care about beating the competition but that's only a small part of there business plan there goal is to continue selling PS3 to people and make money.

[Mr_Universe]

Ya i agree with that, but that just means that they had low expectations then. In the position that they are in, i am pretty damn sure they would have thought their sales would have surpassed that what the 360 sold.

I mean come on, new Slim on the market with games like UC2 released last month along with MW2 compared to what the 360 had.

I think that the whole industry thought that the PS3 was going to outsell the 360. And the PS3 sold 100K less than the 360 which lets be honest here is nothing. So for Sony to say that their expectations were exceeded is them either selling themselves short of what they are capable of doing, OR them doing damage control by saying they didn't expect to actually sell as much as they did.

[PStu'rd]

Low expectations FTW! So funny to see how MS demoralized sony, the once dominating force of the gaming industry. Now they are content with a ''not so bad'' 3rd place lol. They should just stick to their ''playstation family'' PR spin and forget about naming individual products...........will make them look less petty.

Cant say it wasnt expected. All one has to do is take a peak @ the comment section of this site and realize most Sfags are still far away from video game stores and still insecurely defending their product day and night. Who the hell would want to join such a pathetic community?

360 = the gamers choice

[lh_swe]

Yearly sales (figure that one out ;) )

[khushand]

Didn't Microsoft just ban 1 million 360's I am pretty sure that those 800,00 that htey sold in nov were people just rebuying there consoles that were banned. and yet if you combine media create and npd the ps3 outsold the 360. it was a good tactic for microsoft to ban the consoles so they can stay in the game.

[Malebaria]

Kudos Sony,keep the constant AAA games coming!

[Wrathman]

and going just as quick.

killzone 2.5 years to make.2 months to forget.epic success

[bjornbear]

I certainly didn't, and obviously neither did the thousands of players filling the games in online MP.

If you are going to troll, do it well next time.

[silvacrest]

the fact that he is a troll probably means this was his best shot

[Wrathman]

you sony gimps are hilarious.last nite you were all 'omg xbox sold more than sony in NA'.now your all 'world wide sales we beat xbox'.but i havent seen any figures for europe.then your like 'we out sold xbox by 46k in japan'.big whoop.1 game in this months japan sales chart.so technically all sony is selling japan is a blu-ray player.

seriously grasping at straws.very sad and desperate. bit of advice..get your money back on them crystal balls your all using.coz them balls are broken.

excuses excuses excuses

[Ldubbz]

no complaints on how the PS3 did, definite YoY increase, though they still trail 360 in total sales this year by 500K, so looks like MS has won the battle for NA this year.

But more importantly, the PSP. PSP went DOWN in YoY sales, big time. And this is with the release of the PSP Go; but its not like they stopped selling the 3000. DId the Go actually HURT the PSP's sales?! Thats just ludicrous. PSP Go is an even worse product roll out than the PS3 was, and thats saying something.

I think we should all start applying at Sony, there should be some free spots there soon...lol

[silvacrest]

"so looks like MS has won the battle for NA this year"

i dont think either of the console makers care about that, yes the USA is a big market but the rest of the world is bigger and more important

i agree with everything else you said

[TheTruth2009]

I'm sure they realized something after this month's NPD. Because it's a larger problem than everyone knows.

They can NEVER win North America. It's over.

They slimmed the console.
They dropped the price to $299.
They released exclusive franchises.
They ramped up marketing to amazing levels.

And LOST.

And Microsoft has:
An inevitable slimming down of XBOX360 upcoming.
A minimum of two price drops.
Heavy marketing campaign.

Not to mention the MONSTER franchises in the short term:
Project Natal
Halo:Reach
Gears of War 3

They gave it a run, but fell millions of consoles short. It's over.
And they can't believe they got outsold in America.
The largest gaming market.
In the biggest month of the year.
When Microsoft released JACK this year.
It HAS to be disheartening.

Microsoft XBOX360 has supplanted Playstation as the Gaming Name of Choice for the TRUE gamer.
OFFICIALLY.
At least for THIS generation.

The console war is over.

Good luck with the Playstation 4. I bet that it won't release at $599 this time. :-)

[lh_swe]

I somewhat enjoy reading your posts they are of some comedic value however please make them shorter I am sure you can state your point in about 3 words: "NO ONE CARES" :)

[Funky Town_TX]

All of you

[silvacrest]

year to date sales are up more then 100% for the ps3

how can that be spun?

[Sevir04]

he simply talked about his platforms performance in the USA, not once hating or downplaying anyone. GREENTURD where were you when you were outsold in September and October. You suddenly and surprisingly outsell your competition by 119,100 and you come flying out of your cave with your mouth wide open? lol!!! Much like the xbox 360 fanboy followers. ^^

[Neo604]

MS is to beat Sony equal shoddy console.

[bjornbear]

=3

[rawd]

The best part is, all the Xbots are so proud of NPD sales, for what. It's not like they get any of that money. McDonalds isn't giving you a raise this year. You are still left with Halo and no games.

PS3 in 3rd place. True HD gaming... more games, PSN exclusives and Bluray movies that I can even keep up with. Enjoy unwrapping and playing sales figures over the holidays

Pixeljunk Shooter f@cking OWNS

[Zishyfish]

Considering the economic atmosphere, I was surprised by the sheer amount every console was able to sell, especially the Playstation 2!

[ezcex]

should be more like this...

Sony: Microsoft's November NPD numbers exceeded our expectations

[Silly gameAr]

Where are you guys coming from?

[ps34ever]

The ps3 is in Fist place too me.

[Mo0eY]

That's all that matters, bro. Bubs+ to you.

[-x.Red.x-]

poor bots striving for that 100K difference
not to worry bots

im sure MS will drop the price of the 360 to $59.99 on jan to outsell the ps3 by 100,001 consoles

its okay ill buy one so i can use it for a heater next chrismas

[W-k]

wow not bad the ps3 has come along way seance last year its amazing and only just over 100k behind the 360, are these numbers world wide or just in the US ?,ha ha the ps2 still puttering along ;].
WOW the Wii is really kicking a$$ and the ds,i even want a Nintendo for the new super Mario bros wii ,i hate the name why did they name it wii i Google'd it and it told me it stands for Wireless inter-interface,The Nintendo Wireless inter-interface one long name.not sure if its true tho.

[silvacrest]

this is NPD so its USA only

[ezcex]

NPD is just North America.
Someone correct me if I'm wrong.

[cmrbe]

Stay that way Sony.

[Mo0eY]

It's time to start copying and pasting this whenever bots come in here to brag about NPD numbers (aka US-ONLY NUMBERS):

Microsoft bans one million people RIGHT BEFORE the biggest holiday game goes on sale. Coincidence? Hardly. Microsoft reeks of desperation - they tried to combat PS3's price cut with one of their own, but the NPD numbers showed what that did. So what do the brilliant, greedy minds at M$ do? "Hey guys, let's ban the pirate userbase right before MW2 is released." "BRILLIANT!" And so it was said, and so it was done.

I'm sure nearly 1 out of every 4 bots went out and bought another Xbox 360 because they can't live without their online best friends because they have no real life. Get real, bots.

[Pirateogta]

Is your keyboard all wet from your tears?

[Mo0eY]

Is your keyboard wet from all that fapping you did once they released the NPD numbers?

[firetaw]

i was beginning to worry where you guys went this entire month. it was very quiet in N4G without you guys. you guys must have been sweeting bullets with all the momentum the ps3 was having this month.yet your back and welcome back. we missed you >:P it only took a small confidence boost from inflated sales to bring you back in the console war again. but what will happen when ps3 starts outselling 360. are you guys going to stick around and talk crap like good old time or are you gonna run out of things to say?

cant wait to see what happends. FLAM ON
and for the guys who are tired about the flam wars and complain about it. if you cant Stan the heat, get out of the sun.

[GiantEnemyCrab]

I can "stand" the heat but I can't stand your grammar and spelling.

Jesus, go buy a dictionary if you want to insult 360 gamers on this site and not come across as an even bigger idiot.

Maybe 360 owners are playing games? Lord knows they bought enough of them in November.

[Cernunnos]

zzzOMG!! Because USA = THE WORLD!!!!
Right? Right?? RIGHT?????!!!!

[harpua]

so i guess sales is the only triple A game bots care about?

[baodeus]

hum i wonder why x360 fanboy aren't on here.....

Cause:
1. N4G is sony land, all the bubble rape is killing them off.
2. They are a little bit smarter, don't want to talk big talk just to get slam back in their face every time like the Sony fanboy (how do u guy keep doing it is beyond me).

MS:
PR did all the talking but lacking performance

Sony:
Fanboy did all the talking but don't support sony console or games

See, why don't we all can become multi-console owner, this way, non of this spin, NPD, or the WAR thing would matter. Game is where it is at and I guess most of u on N4G don't really play games.

[NYC_Gamer]

360 is almost finished look at how the ps3 sales are on the rise..