360 HW Outselling PS3 Worldwide

With the recent release of the new slim and the huge momentum from Kinect the 360 has had a massive boost of sales even with huge shortages, and with the boost from the US alone (due to the slim releasing later for the rest of the world) the 360 has broken significantly outpaced the PS3 a trend which will likely continue.

[Jamie Foxx]

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[Xwow2008]

is that ps3 is outselling x360 hardware worldwide for almost all weeks in 2010(according to vgchartz)..but when a 1 week the 360 outsell ps3 a 360fanboy submit the news on n4g.

Note:most of the 360 slim owners are already have 360s...see the software sales:
Wii 2,006,111 (-15%) 492,037,923 (6.83)
PS3 1,405,326 (-12%) 250,351,723 (7.06)
X360 1,269,051 (-16%) 359,965,659 (8.91)
DS 1,189,524 (-1%) 559,100,991 (4.27)
PSP 434,301 (-16%) 162,624,990 (2.77)
PS2 173,899 (-5%)

[Xwow2008]

1 last thing...its interesting that vgchartz news got approved, so we can now submit vgchatrz news every week when the ps3 outsell 360?^^

[FlatulentGhost]

"but when a 1 week the 360 outsell ps3"

Uh, no.

vgchartz is a site run by a 20 something year old Xbox fan who sits at home and types fake numbers into his computer and uploads them to his crappy little website.

vgchartz was started after the kid was repeatedly caught posting fake sales numbers on the neogaf forums. He eventually got perma-banned from the forums over his idiotic attempts at making Xbox 360 sales look better than they actually were. So he started his pathetic little fanboy site so he could spread his fake sales number lies.

Even with the little Xbox fan at vgchartz using SHIPPED numbers for Microsoft and SOLD for Sony and Nintendo he still can't inflate 360 sales enough to keep the Microsoft numbers above Sony. Even more embarrassing is the PS3 is still 100 dollars more expensive.

Reporting SHIPPED instead of SOLD numbers
100-200 dollars cheaper
Millions and millions of replacement Xbox 360s from the RRoD
And rushing a console out a year to year and a half early

And this is the best Microsoft can do. LOL

[ChronoJoe]

VGC corrects any of its data with NPD stats, but mostly very, very accurate. Some of you have no idea what you're talking about and simply look for any excuse to shrug it off.

But yeah, a sales boost is expected at the launch of a new system. It's not anywhere near as large as the sales boost the slim offered (it boosted sales by 1000%) and we'll have to see how these sales are sustained.

I doubt it'll last very long, as is a lot of current owners are gradually replacing there old 360s with the new ones.

[Wrathman]

vgchartz= worst piece of industry guess work..i think patcher runs this site.

but i have add..to all the ps3 fanboys claiming its current 360 owners rebuying...did you forget the ps3 slim?or does fanboy logic state that only new customers bought that?

jezzz its only vgchartz..i wouldnt even claim that as a source and you say im an xbox fanboy!

[rlm42]

@Xwow2008 The thing is that this is news because it's showing the shift in momentum.. So what is your problem with this being a news article?

Stop being a blatant fanboy and accept this as news as something DIFFERENT is now happening with hardware sales.

[DelbertGrady]

If "we" can constantly approve articles about 360 games being leaked onto torrents(never any news about Wii/PC/PSP/DS games) I don't see why this can't be posted.

Hell, this is the most factual piece of journalism I've ever read compared to some of what the hiphopgamer comes up with.

[theKiller]

for the first time in a long time world wide!!

and that is to be expected!! 360 just introduced a slim version!! and many people think that it is more reliable than the fat one!!

assuming the numbers are close to correctness but we all know how correct VGCHARTZ is.

and God knows the best.

peace.

[stiggs]

"And this is the best Microsoft can do. LOL"

You sound just as pathetic as the person that you described in your post.

[Conloles]

If the facts were the other way around no one would be saying Meh around here.

[DaTruth]

Again VGChartz disappears when it's favourable for the PS3 only to return in one day when 360 gets good sales!

Now, when sales go back to normal, VGChartz is again being approved with good PS3 sales and PS3 owners have the audacity to comment on sales, we will hear the same, "Now teh VGChartz iz correct" from 360 fanboys!

[beans]

Why is it when ever PS3 is selling better worldwide you guys are praising it but now(since the shoe is on the other foot) it doesn't matter blah blah blah? Sounds like you guys are having serious double standard issues.

OT-With 360 and Ps3 starting to generate momentum I wonder just how long it will last and if they could somehow give Nintendo a true run for the money this holiday.

[lh_swe]

Since both consoles are selling strong and will continue to sell strong due to their very strong future line-ups (both hardware & software), especially when we are talking about a market share with such little difference (taking mostly yearly market share into account).

There have been no verifiable evidence that one of the two consoles are in any way doomed nor destined to outperform the other by significant margins as any strong move be it in marketing, exclusive games or hardware peripherals will always push the competition to match or surpass that initial move thus a conclusive end to the "race" cannot be established until the actual "race" is actually over.

Now undoubtedly one could argue from a pure mathematical stand point pitting exclusives and their respective scores against each other, hardware and their respective pro's and con's against each other and assign each feature a score of importance/value/usage and pit those against each other but then we completely ignore the individual and their own needs and preferences which would just be redundant as we are not a collective consciousness but an individual one. I think it's also important to learn to respect those individual preferences as they hold NO bearing on important real world issues.

[Delive]

I agree that some of the PS3 slim purchases were original replacements, but we all know that many were refusing to buy a PS3 because of the price (and lack of quality games). I would say far more PS3 slim owners are new buyers than replacements because of the coupled price drop. With the 360 slim, there is no price drop with that model, only the discontinued models. Everyone I know that owns a new 360 slim took advantage of the gamestop trade in program of the older 360s. One guy even traded in 2 360s to get 1 360 slim. So, yes, they both received boost from the slim models, but different kinds of boosts.

[SonyPS360]

They did the exact same thing when the Ps3 first started to gain ground too.

Quit whining and calling other people fanboys, you hypocrite.

[Christopher]

The new 360 will outsell for a good month or two.

[Gothdom]

Sales spike are to be expected, but I doubt the 360 will have long run with it's S model.

[ASSASSYN 36o]

People have been hating on Vgchartz news for years on this site and as soon as it has high ps3 numbers it becomes a credible source of system sells. But, when 360 sells overtake ps3 all hell breaks loose aginsts the site and it's 20 something year old operator.

[EvilBlackCat]

so lets say that

PS3 outsell Xbox360

or

Xbox360 outsell PS3...

What do you win or earn because of that?

Seriously ANSWER THE QUESTION

this goes for everybody

i really wanna know what you guys win with that

THIS SHIT IS SO RIDICULOUS

THIS GOES FOR EVERYBODY IN THIS SITE

Xbotx, Droids and whatever the name they have for wii fanboys

[killershadow117]

because then you have to say that about the PS3 slim too. So you could argue that the PS3 was outselling the Xbox because of the slim, but now that they are on an even playing field again, vgchartz will be more accurate now.

[Hideo_Kojima]

Oh come on Xwow2008...

N4G can't be this corrupt.

Are you telling me when the PS3 was outsold for the majority of 2009 and in the first week the PS3 Slim was released it started selling more people didn't post that on the news?

Enough with the double standards it makes me feel sick.

[Solidus187-SCMilk]

I dont take VG charts numbers for fact, as I know they are estimates.

But it is funny to see everyone say vg charts are unreliable now. But when Vg chartz showed slow Alan wake sales it was taken as fact instantly(we still dont have may npd numbers to see how AW did in NA, LOL).

If you want to know exactly how the new 360 did, you will have to wait till the JUNE NPD comes out. The MAY NPD isnt out yet ether, it was delayed.

[fuckitimout]

if it's not in anyway lucrative them? Console 'wars' are stupid

[JD_Shadow]

Of course it could be more because of the newness of the whole thing. That and the whole "MS counts ALL consoles being given out as sales" business that could be true (over-saturation, as I am wondering with why the Wii sales were beginning to fall, is somehow not affecting the 360 when it should be starting at this point). This might happen for a short while, so that isn't such a big deal. The big deal will be if the streak continues. That and VGChartz HAS seemed to always inflated the 360's sales, and it's been accused of doing so for years. The argument doesn't go away, so there has to be SOME truth to it.

We do care about sales, though, because the devs who use the data as a sign of trends to determine what to give exclusive perks for do care (trends and what people are buying). Of course, that being said, there is also a sort of thing as overstating the sales as the only way to determine quality. I don't think any amount of sales will stop people from thinking that disc space and system limitations are going to be issues.

To me, I think that if this is true, it'll be very short term. Most of these don't last for long before things return to where they were. Usually it takes a mistake from the people who have the momentum to make a change like this continue.

[bjornbear]

the point is:

PS3 sales : no one cares because we know it sells

360 sales: instantly posted on N4G once it over takes PS3

big deal, its N4G the 360 refugee camp is constantly festered with disease so they need a good news once in a while =)

either way, congrats to the new 360, glad it helped with momentum (lets face it, 360 was loosing it a bit)

[Anon1974]

Not that I don't believe that 360's took a bump as they blow out the old stock for cheap, but this link doesn't actually take you to a news article. Is this some kind of joke?

Secondly, why does VGchartz show only 35.49 million PS3's? Sony reported 35.43 million PS3's sold at the end of Dec, 2009. Does Vgchartz expect us to believe the PS3 has only sold 60,000 consoles in the past six months?

[Dee_91]

WII and DS are also outselling ps3 too....
did you get that ? lol

[somerandomdude]

How did this article get approved without editing?
"the 360 has broken significantly outpaced the PS3 a trend which will likely continue"
Where is this comment even coming from, it's not on the web page given? I do not see any facts backing up that the trend might continue, it seems to come from nowhere?

The sales aren't even that far apart in worldwide sales, vgchartz might not even have full information, this could easily change the results.

[Heisenberg]

This looks like it was written by a slower than average 5 year old with ADD. Learn how to construct a coherent sentence before submitting news. You must have read over it before you submitted it, right? The education system has failed you pal.... Were you just like: "This doesn't quite make sense, it's just a long run on sentence with no punctuation, some words in the wrong places, some words that simply don't even belong in it, but people may get the general gist of it, so fuck it I'll just leave this nonsense as is and submit it."

[Anon1974]

I forgot that Sony switched from reporting consoles shipped to consoles sold after the end of fiscal 2006. The number that had at the end of 2006's fiscal year was 5.5 million shipped, but it was 3.61 million units sold.

That took means their worldwide total at their year end last March was 35.95 million.

Still, VGchartz's numbers are way off from the official numbers, even if it's not as much as I had originally thought. They only claim there's 35.5 million PS3's sold now when Sony said there was 35.95 sold as of last March. Does VG still expect us to believe no PS3's were sold the last 3 months?

[edgeofblade]

A wise man once said "There are lies, damned lies, and statistics."

Look, I'm surprised EITHER side of this argument has anything more than an pack upright drinking straws to stand on.

But especially liked this little quote: "most of the 360 slim owners are already have 360s"

Do you have any evidence that that's the case? Or that PS3 owners weren't buying up PS3 Slims any more than 360 owners were buying 360-Ses? Pot, meet Kettle.

[Jazz4108]

It will be the first of many charts reporting it.

[soxfan2005]

Funny how you've disappeared for the past 9 months while VGChartz showed PS3 outselling 360.

Suddenly, 360 is back on top, and out of the woodwork you crawl with your ridiculous conspiracy theories.

Just an amazing coincidence I guess.

[beardpapa]

well vgchartz needs to make a living somehow...

[Aquanox]

IT's probably too early to call a difference but it seems that the Xbox 360 has earned a lot of steam since E3 and I wouldn't be surprised if this trend continues and gets stronger in Holiday's season with Kinect.

[homer]

You obviously do not know what you are talking about. Vgchartz is not run by xbots. Its community is way more focused on nintendo and sony.Majority of its users are against microsoft (meaning they do not own their console and do not care about it.)They do not track shipped data over sold for anything. There are multiple threads about shipped vs sold( so many that if you start one about this topic, it gets locked /you get banned) where people complain about the numbers not being correct because way more were shipped. Albeit, they may not be the most accurate, but they are the best at presenting the data.

[MR LOOKINGBILL]

Never take VGCHARTZ numbers seriously they're never accurate ...just a bunch of made up numbers.

[MasterX]

Note:most of the ps3 slim owners already had the old ps3

[Drac]

The only place where 360 outsold the PS3 was the US, not really a good start for a new slim version of the console.

[No Way]

So, I find it funny Jamie Foxx says, vgchartz eh.
But, then read what xwow says, it's hilarious, ha.

So, Jamie Foxx, VGChartz is only 'good' when PS3 says more, huh?

[BX81]

Sweetie don't get worked up because you don't see sh%t of the profit!

[Rainstorm81]

Now half will embrace Vgchartz again and the other half will renounce it again.

Its fun to watch flip flopping on N4G.

[FlatulentGhost]

Oh god shut up.

No one but diehard Xbox fans still cling to vgchartz fake sales numbers.

There is no 'flip flopping' retard.

[nickjkl]

vgchartz sales numbers arent fake they might be out dated some times but their not fake

[angel_from_above6986]

flip flopping 101

resolution only matters- except red dead redemption
disk space matters- only in final fuck up 13

wifi mattered when the 360 didnt have it
now the tables turned.........play behind last gen text chat hahah i did that shit on dreamcast.......

but but ps3 is soooooooooo much better!!! eh beterz!

web browser that sucks! but but but teh live dont have that sorry ass shit!!! but but but but teh!!!

last but not least achievements suck!!!!! its just your e-penis!!!!!!!

sony says trophies....now its all great

[SonyPS360]

Vgchartz is only relevant if it shows data favoring the Ps3.

Now suddenly it's biased the moment another console is reported to be selling better, even if it's just for one week.

Gotta love the fanboys calling "fanboy" on this article.

[Redlogic]

when I saw this article up on the site, I knew exactly how the comments would read before I even read them. Fanboys arguing over the same ol $hit...who cares? I wish people could just be happy the either system is selling well. The xbox should see a nice sales boost from all this media hype and momentum. I can see it selling strong for at least 2 or 3 more months and I say good for them.

PS. Gears 3 with dedicated servers?!? Count me in!!

[tinybigman]

those that worship sales extremely happy for the 360 selling well last week. now they can sleep better at night knowing their world won't come to an end.

oh and please don't act like the US equals the world. this well only lead to people calling us arrogant and all sort of names again.

you know I've come to the conclusion that those who live for sales either a) have stock in said companies, or b) need these sales to validate their existence.

and before people come at me with the you're a fanboy just know that i own all 3 systems with great games. i have no problem admitting i support all 3.

[Jdoki]

I suspect it's b)!

I gauge success on how much fun I have playing the games each console provides, not on sales.

[tinybigman]

i completely agree with your post. if i judged the success on sales alone I'd only own a wii. but fortunately i judge them on the great games I've played for each system.

hence the owning of all 3 consoles in my case.

[Rainstorm81]

Thats the only problem with some of the n4g community sometimes, fanboys think you cant enjoy everything in gaming.

You must be caught up in some kind of fictional console war. Hey console wars are for executives and people who need justification in thier purchases.

I understand having a preference (as do i)....but damn

[R0me]

worldwide? Yes if US = world
headline is just wrong.

[gcolley]

as long as i dont end up with another gamecube i couldn't give a sh1t about sales. most of the games i enjoy are multiplats.

[OmarJA-N4G]

I thought VGChartz was irrelevant, what happened?

Nobody bothered submitting it when the PS3 was outselling the 360.

Well assuming it's true the 360 obviously is struggling outside the U.S. & can't keep up even with the new model.

The new 360 Slim is barely effective & will only give it a slight boost in the U.S. alone temporarily.

[shocky16]

VGChartz numbers are posted here EVERY week dude.

[Ju]

He's right though. While the overall numbers push the 360 over the PS3 - but still below the Wii - it is the US only which contributed to these numbers. Neither Japan nor Europe saw the 360 overtaking either. That makes me think the 360S wasn't released there yet, or it simply had no impact.

[thewhoopimen]

I'd like to know where this article you "linked" contains the following passage:

"....the 360 has significantly outpaced the PS3 a trend which will likely continue "

The summary is highly misleading and suggests VGChartz came to this conclusion via a one month data analysis, which they did not. I believe Zir0 knowingly falsified information in his summary and should be banned from having submission privileges.

[Chris399]

note that the PS3 is outselling the 360 in software for the week. So, using common sense, what we have here is old owners repurchasing the system.

That said, Vgchartz is only accurate based on a 2-3% sample base, whereas NPD is upwards of 60%. Keep that in mind when referencing the site.

http://www.gamasutra.com/ph...

As of 2007, NPD DOES track Walmart, btw. So let's stop that chain of misinformation please:

http://www.reuters.com/arti...

If you like to play sales, you should probably wait for the NPD (I like to play GAMES, personally). And whoever posted this article did so duplicitously, as there isn't an actual article, just a link to Vgchartz and a fabricated paragraph. Pretty sure that's against N4G posting guidelines.

[vhero]

How can something not released in the EU outsell the PS3? I don't get it?? It's not even out here yet.. Also that link only shows games..

[lelo2play]

Humm... vchartz... they make up their numbers. Does not mean the X360 did not outsell the PS3, but i take vchartz numbers with a grain of salt.

[ProjectVulcan]

ANYONE here who didnt think that launching new hardware means a short sharp uptake in sales? Course it will. Sustained sales is what matters to these companies, will this slim trigger a few months of continuous sales lead for 360? That is the question. I dont believe so.

[bobdog626]

The New 360 is taking control and Halo Reach is just around the corner not counting kinect.This looks Really Bad at this Point for Sony.GT5 is not Enough to Stop Halo this time.I hope Socom is Ready by then or this is going to Hurt sonys sells alot.

[TheGrimReaper]

Maybe Halo Reach will sell more than GT5. Halo 3 didn't stop Sony, Halo ODST didn't stop Sony and neither will Halo Reach stop Sony.
I'd say the major problems are on Microsofts side. Think about this: last Halo from Bungie and Gears 3 is the last game of the series which has to be exclusive (if Epic and MS don't make a new deal).
I think GT5 shifts more PS3s than Halo Reach shifts 360s IMO.

[AC130-Gunship]

Don Mattrick made comments regarding the new Xbox 360's price point going into the holiday season. Clearly M$ has unleashed the hype train early to stave off the PS3 sales momentum. The Kinect add-on is aimed at the casual market (of which most already own a Wii), so that leaves the hardcore gaming market. So if the choice this holiday season is between the "sleek" version of the Xbox or PS3 exclusive like God of War 3, Uncharted 2, Grand Turismo 5, Little Big Planet 2, Killzone 3, MLB 10: The Show, Demon Souls, Journey, Flower, Fat Princess and many others.

I pick exclusives

[PCnPS3Gamer]

whatever unfortunately my fellow north americans are stupid sheep....who are attracted to shiny things with out dated tech.....*cough* dvd tray with no locking.....ps3 still is the better buy whether or not people realize it....

1.blu ray drive (slot loading)
2.internal power supply
3.proven reliability
4.over 21 first party exclusives
5.new ips every year
6hdd interchangeable not proprietary
7.hdmi 1.3
8.bluetooth
9.better 3d
10.free online
11.50gb games aka no multi disks ever or disc content limitations, free dlc on disc
12.sony move has real games not just games on rails and casual petting games
13.has Uncharted 1,2, gow3, gt5, infamous killzone 2, 3, motorstorm, little big planet, twisted metal, exclusive content for all Ea multiplat games not timed.

whether or not consumers realize the ps3 is the better hardware or not doesnt make it inferior face it majority of consumers are oblivious and buy into fads..aka the 360 and its rrod...

imo as long as japan still buys the ps3 over the 360 thats all that matters cause we can all agree the japanese only buy the best.well the wii is an exception lol but im sure move will change that a bit ...

[SaberEdge]

Just because you like it better does not make it better. Other people have different opinions. Not everybody has the same needs or wants, so assuming everybody wants the same features as you is asinine.

I could just as easily say that you are the stupid sheep buying into the Playstation fad just because it was more popular last generation. But I won't do that because I have a PS3 that I love and I recognize that different people like different things.

Arrogant people like you who think their opinion is the only valid one are the people this country could do without.

[PCnPS3Gamer]

whatever man. yeah your totally right who needs a blu ray player, dvd is fine. theyre the same fucking price. people are morons for choosing the 360, only reason most buy the 360 is cause all theyre friends have it aka sheep.. so stfu you know im right....ps3 is better piece of technology. the 360 is getting so outdated with its dvd drive...its showing so bad and its only gunna get worse...its simple developers want to make bigger games but dont want to make multi discs so they will choose the ps3 , unless ms bribes them...and then gamers lose when we have to pay for dlc aat launch and get gimped games. i dont know about you but i wish my multiplats had just as much content as my ps3 exclusives....be gamer buy the ps3 or be a sheep and buy the 360 and screw everyone over, including yourself...the 360 should just die like hddvd....its just holding this gaming generation back with its last gen hardware....cant argue with facts so dont even bother

[commodore64]

Two factors say it's not:

1. Vgchartz isn't always judged to be reliable. (unless it's seen to be posting good ps3 news)
2. It's only one week.

For this to be considered a new trend, we need more data.
After two months of consistent outperformance we might be able to say that 360 is once again outselling the ps3.
Kinda like the proven declining Ps3 momentum in Japan. http://n4g.com/comments/red...

An established trend with accurate numbers, as in the link above, would be more convincing. Of course, if this IS a new trend then those numbers will evidently be forthcoming in the next few months.

[n4gno]

"but i have add..to all the ps3 fanboys claiming its current 360 owners rebuying...did you forget the ps3 slim?or does fanboy logic state that only new customers bought that? "

It was really different, price was a problem for a lot a people, and they wanted a ps3 since the beginning, here, nobody now is dreaming about a xbox when you can have better (ps3), only fans wanting a new garanty, and some sheep are buying that (and the difference for a first week, with a ps3 hard to find in us, is really small...in 2 weeks, the ps3 will dominate again worlwide, like always since the beginning.

for the vgchartz subject, everybody knows that they are always under for the sony numbers, and the contrary for the others, but that give us a kind of idea of the worldwide chartz (funny too see that the only news from vgchartz this years, is for a short momentum for the xbox....each month, logic would be to here "xbox is doomed", like it was the case for sony 2006/2007, but no....propaganda continue)

[MNicholas]

everywhere but the USA.

900% more in Japan
70% more in EMEAA (Europe, Middle East, etc...)

Quite simply, last week, the 360 experienced a huge jump in the USA.

Since there's no accompanying jump in software sales or degradation in sales of competing hardware, it seems to be simply a result of the "fat" 360 liquidation sales.

There's no discernible increase in actual demand for the product. It's simply that greater affordability results in higher sales volume.

2010 cumulative hardware Sales as of last week.

Wii 6.6M (100% more than 360)
PS3 4.4M (33% more than 360)
X360 3.3M

[The Lazy One]

The 360S isn't out anywhere else yet. Why would anyone even buy a 360 anywhere else right now when in a week or two they'll have either a new redesigned system for the same price, or vastly cheaper old systems?

And cumulative sales barely matter at all till the holiday. Sales from September to December make the whole rest of the year look like a giant circle jerk.

[Ju]

"And cumulative sales barely matter at all till the holiday"

That's why I think MS screwed up big time with the "S" release.

a) it got not general price reduction - that is, a visible price tag with all (!) prices reduced across SKUs
b) only the Elite got an "S" model. Arcade is likely to follow. But that means, the "S" won't have that big of an impact.
c) It's too early. To have a massive impact, this would need to be released later, closer to the holidays (MS might reserve that spot for Natal, err, Kinect).

We don't even know if those numbers are "S" sales, or fire sales of current stock. There are quite some low price offers around with current models.

The sales spike is expected. But not as high as it could be, IMO.

[MNicholas]

The fact is that those cumulative sales reflect how the 360 has been consistently outsold for a very long time, holiday season included.

2009 holiday season (September through December):

PS3: 7.7M
360: 5.6M

Last 12 Months:

PS3: 13.7M
360: 10.1M

The one week sales jump in the US is because of the massive discounts on the older units due to liquidation of old stock.

It's mostly existing 360 owners buying their 2nd or 3rd 360 (for extra room or as out-of-warranty replacement) and others buying it for later gifting. That's why there's been no accompanying increase in software sales.

[Biggest]

This is completely not true. In my world the PS3 is outselling the Wii and 360 combined. By my count PS3 is up 3 - 1 against the other guys. They're up 5 - 1 if we're considering handhelds. In my world, which is the only one that matters to be honest, Sony is always winning! Unless of course the 3DS turns out to be that good. And if the new 360 is actually reliable and less than $299 for their top of the line (not paying $299 for a DVD player). My world has spoken!

[The Lazy One]

Call us when you wake up.

[MazzingerZ]

well...congratulations...I guess... :S

[pixelsword]

"360 HW Outselling PS3 Worldwide..."

... For a week.

[SaberEdge]

How do you know it will only be for a week? Oh that's right, you don't.

[pixelsword]

Boy, don't you know who I iz?

[Pika-pie]

Will be alot of people upgrading to the slim.. I know il be doing the same once it hits the UK. Doubt it has anything to do with Kinect

[morkendo]

ARE YOU SERIOUS???

enough said

[jerethdagryphon]

any how its another case of upgrade fever, new shiny xbox lets trade in our oldo nes and buy it .. i was in a shop today and no less then 10 people asked for trade in values towards the new xbox

[Socrates]

I've noticed a very peculiar behavior of some fanboys. The times the PS3 started to close the gap they act like it is permanent momentum, but when the 360 widens the gap they act like it is just a very temporary thing.

This whole generation there have been times the 360 widened the gap and there have been times the PS3 narrowed the gap. It just goes back and forth depending on price cuts, new hardware revisions, big games and other things that happen with each console.

After the PS3 got a big price cut and a hardware revision we saw a big upswing in its sales and it began to close the gap on the 360. Now the 360 has lowered the price on the Arcade model, come out with a new version of the 360 with more features for the same price and has Halo Reach and Kinect soon to release, so now we will see an upswing in the 360s sales and a re-widening of the gap.

[FanboyPunisher]

They don't understand that just like the ps3 slim, the 360 slim will make older consoles cheaper and more people can buy off lowest price or newest unit. Hahahahahhah what do you guys have now???

I love how every Sony fanboy is circle jerking eachother in dis-support of a website they use to troll all the time. They are upset and desperate by the look of all the comments, I remember seeing tons of links to vg charts so you guys can troll and use you Sony corrupted moderators to keep the Sony love juices flowing

[rroded]

DS 253,938 (+16%) 130,847,675
Wii 179,258 (-8%) 72,074,499
X360 163,907 (+91%) 40,391,841
PS3 119,466 (-3%) 35,483,791
PSP 79,014 (-23%) 58,658,850
PS2 31,381 (-3%) 136,400,534

[FlatulentGhost]

After five years of making up his idiotic fake sales numbers, the little 20 year old Xbox fan who runs vgchartz still thinks that by typing out random numbers to a single digit of precision he is making his fanboy garbage look 'real'.

[vhero]

We all knew for a short while the new 360 would outsell the ps3 anyways especially in the US does this mean it will do it after the shine of the new console wears off?? Only time will tell..

[bobdog626]

Micro don't need to out sell the PS3 .All they need to do is Break Even to Win.Time has Told us again and again who the Winner is this Gen .Why won't you Wake Up and Get a Grip on life.Its over Dude

[Statix]

First of all, the console wars are technically over and the Wii has already won if it's based on console unit sales alone. I think a bigger, much more important determinate in a console's degree of success is in its software sales (albeit, the 360 might still win in this regard in the long run), considering that the 360's hardware numbers will be so inflated by people replacing their RROD broken Xboxes multiple times -- and now w/ existing 360 owners trading in their systems for the new "Slim" to Gamestop -- when it's all said and done.

Secondly, who says the Xbox will continue to break even with the PS3 in the long term, after the temporary price cuts on fat 360's and the Gamestop "360 Slim" trade-in offers have expired? They might not, and hardware sales might return to the same levels as they were before in a couple months or more. Not to mention the PS3 will get boosts of its own when it either drops its price again, or it introduces a new Slim model redesign (yes, I mean a REAL Slim model).

[Statix]

Nice little bump for the Xbox because of the introduction of the new "Slim" model, but it's not that impressive of a jump. Considering that a huge portion of the jump in America-region sales is likely due to either existing 360 owners trading their old models in (Gamestop having an offer for people to trade in their old 360 for the Slim), and/or stores getting rid of that old 360 stock w/ temporary $50 price cuts.

In all honesty, I don't see how a glossier version of an old console, priced at $299, is significantly going to boost sales that much in the long term just by itself. Nice little boost for this week for the 360, but sales will drop significantly in the long run.

[Newtype]

360 owners rebuying. Most likely this will be short lived though.

[bobdog626]

Theres a lot of PS3 owners buying 360 also.Halo Reach is going to Kick Sony so Hard this Gen they will feel it all the way until Next Gen.Halo Reach will be Bigger then any Game Sony can Muster this Gen.With Kinect and a New Xbox its Game over for Sony

[adamx]

man your so full of crap I can smell you from here. GT5 will own that halo game.

[Sunny_D]

Isn't that what you said for Halo 3? HAHAHA. Fail. If a Master Chief game doesn't impact them, then what makes you think a prequel that Bungie doesn't even seem to praise at all (and would rather praise their MULTIPLATFORM game for the 360 and PS3) going to hurt?

[Omega4]

Will be interesting to see if this gets approved considering how much credibility vgchartz got when the PS3 slim was released.

As for the 360, being able to outsell the PS3 WW with just US sales kinda destroys the argument that US doesn't equal the world lol. The 360 obviously doesn't need to sell extremely well in the rest of the world to win WW. And with the aracade slim round the corner and WW slim releases MS will be having a massive summer when console sells are usually really low.

[Rainstorm81]

actually US still doesnt equal the world.

US = MS gold mine

@ below

so US equals the world is better logic???.... -_-

[Arnon]

Uh... ok.

That's some mighty fine logic, there. :/

[fryday]

The slim is sold out in germany (Amazon) for weeks now, every time they open new pre-oders they are away immediately

[DigitalAnalog]

I laughed. If I remember correctly, no PS3 fan bought into VGchartz even with the positive sales outlook.

-End statement

[Ju]

"kinda destroys the argument that US doesn't equal the world"

Wow, that is a kinda interesting line right here.

Anyway, well, it was expected that the 360S will have an impact.

But still, comparing current PS3 numbers to last week show almost 0 change. Which makes me believe, those 360S sales are indeed re-buys; not (just) new customers.

What's more, those numbers are not high enough. Compare these to the PS3 slim, and the numbers are, aeh, really slim.

To be effective, MS would need to sell about 1M a month before it'll drop off again, means, they need to average about 250K per week for at least a month; with usually a peek in the first week (so it's not 4x250). So, if they "only" make 160K in the first week, I would be surprised if they can hold 250K for the remaining 3 weeks. US will drop again, EU will raise since it isn't released there yet. But I doubt they'll reach the 1M mark in 4 weeks, the time it will take to level out again on previous margins...

[rekof]

360 owners rebuying in hope the shit actually works this time,..this will be short lived,..

[Newtype]

Will be pissed when they find out there's no more 3 year warranty.

[fatalred alarm]

Get your head out of your ass, the service microsoft gave me was always top notch, yes my console broke down twice while giving it great care, but i got it replaced for NO COSTS at all unlike sony who asks your little $$$ when they repair your ps3. Microsoft has done exactly what they wanted to this gen, make their brand more popular.

To proof i tried liking sony...
I sold my ps3 1 month ago because i hated the controller... Fatarlred_alarm that's my psn.. look it up if you don't believe me.

[DaTruth]

My PS3 put in 3 and a half years and 1000's of hours before it broke down, I wouldn't expect them to fix it for free after having already subsidized $250 of my purchase!

[artsaber]

If you bought and sold a PS3 because you didn't like the controller, then you are a PURE Idiot. I guess you didn't like it when you had to use that very same layout to play the PS and PS2, right? Have you ever heard of a XCM Cross Battle Adapter? Google it so you can acknowledge what an idiotic mistake you made. Trust me, you'll want the DualShock3 around when you have to play StreetFighter or something, the 360's D-Pad is atrocious, it is criminal to gaming.

But Fatal you win moron of the decade award if the reasons you claim, is the REAL reason you SOLD your PS3. One of the best entertainment devices per dollar in history. You got rid of a gaming console that is a HD Bluray player and media center capable that is web enabled. You'd have us believe that you sold what games you had(yeah right) all for a LOSS because you were too dumb to buy this for $35? http://cgi.ebay.com/XCM-Cro...

The loss you took through buying and reselling had to be more than the cost of this item. This demonstrates an Unbelievable, unprecedented amount of stupidity, typical 360 fan. I hope you are lying and created an account from a friend's PS3... tell the truth and save face.

[fatalred alarm]

I bought my ps3 with killzone 2 for 290? less? because my brother works in the local store and gets a 15% discount. sold it for 255.
boehoe, a computer loses much more value in a 6 month period than a ps3 and u don't see me crying about that do you?

And yes i sold it because of the controller, and yes there are more reasons ( i already spend enough money on my OTHER console for example ).
And yes, i know about those controllers, but why waste money on those when everyone could make them by thereselves.

As i said, microsoft already won this console war by eating away 20 million or so sony fans.

[SilverSlug]

Not real. They are always off. Good job though :)

[SilverSlug]

VGchartz makes up numbers:
http://www.gamasutra.com/ph...

Wait for Mediacrate and NPD. This is nonsense. I suggest people report it, misinformation is what is wrong with this industry.

[ULTIMATE_REVENGE]

Everything this gen is selling like crap O.K!!

[Counter Strike]

NOT.

[labwarrior]

Imagine what that one will push during holiday

Kinect + Halo Reach + Fable 3 make 2010 one of the best years in gaming for me

Add XBLA titles like Dust Elysian Tale and Limbo and the 360 lineup is beyond stunning

Also Alan Wake and Mass Effect 2 will be huge games for those that buy a new 360 too, and of course the vast game library before 2010 too

Amazing news for 360

[KwietStorm_BLM]

Haha youre everywhere aren't you

[Snakefist30]

Then go play with ur kinect the ultimate cool and hands free control with JUSTIN CHEATER I mean Breiber hv fun playing with him and sing with him.lol

[edhe]

The hate given on this actually fairly factual comment is astounding.

[Ju]

uh, gotta troll here a bit, lol.

AW bombed hard. And even with those HW numbers, the PS3 managed to outsell 360S combined SW sales globally.

I wouldn't have to high expectations, that 360S sales lead to higher SW sales. As of now, that is not the case (which again makes be believe, those consoles are re-buys).

[Colonel-Killzone]

I think a lot of previous owners are buying this I know a couple people who is doing that. And whether or not you like it of course they are attracting new consumers.

[Newtype]

The guys with the launch version of the 360 with no HDMI. Kinda sad though, will be finding out that it's not much of an upgrade. Still HDMI 1.2, battery pack, and proprietary hard drive.

Wireless...is neat..

[Jdoki]

I thought about an upgrade - for maybe a second.

I still have a launch 360 - no HDMI, tiny hard drive, noisy disc drive etc. And I'm on my third replacement and am now well out of warranty.

But then I checked my Gamercard and realised I hadn't actually used my 360 since Feb 2009!!, so no point upgrading to something I never use any more.

[JayD-1K]

i'm in the same boat. i turned it on to update it and that's it. i got MW2 in the hopes of playing with some friends but, that didn't work out to well.

oh, i did turn it on just to prove the wife wrong, " you never turn that thing on, why don't you just sell it!" a launch 360 with no HDMI would get me about 5$ on ebay. lol and it's my second...don't play it enough to kill it!

[Socrates]

You guys are so funny. If you haven't had a reason to turn on your 360 then you are nothing but fanboys. There have been tons of great games to play on the 360.

I myself play my 360 more than my PS3, but I'm not a big enough fanboy to say I haven't turned on my PS3. I played God of War 3 this year on my PS3 and it was great. That said, I played Alan Wake, Mass Effect 2, Splinter Cell Conviction and Red Dead Redemption on my 360.

[Jdoki]

@socrates

That's rubbish. I have been a multi-console and PC gamer every generation.

Yeah, I played Mass Effect 2 as well, on PC.

I have Red Dead Redemption in my stack of unplayed games... for my PS3.

In my opinion the last decent 360 games were Gears 2 and Fable 2. Alan Wake doesn't appeal (may pick it up when it's budget), and Splinter Cell has never been my thing (did play it a fair bit on my Xbox, but I sucked at it).

The only game coming on 360 that I was excited about was Fable 3... But now that it's going to PC I'll probably wait.

What I am is a gamer, and MS is not currently catering to my gaming tastes. So just because your opinion is that there have been a ton of decent games on the 360, and I don't, doesn't make me a fanboy.

Btw, at the moment I'm playing on the Wii more than my PS3, but have a larger PS3 game collection - so does that make me a Nintendo or Playstation fanboy??? Or am I just a fanvoy cus I don't like the same console you do!?

[JayD-1K]

If some of the games that came out for the 360 also came out for the PS3, (which is my system of choice)i would get on the PS3.
i use HOME for my party system so i don't feel like i'm missing out on any thing....plus you know, i still have my 360.
but i guess i'm a fanboy because i prefer the PS3.

@Jdoki- well said! i have all four platforms, the Wife lover her Wii and i'm just now getting back into the PC scene. i just got a Steam account! lol Game on my friend!

[emil1]

there is no hope for x360. ps3 is selling faster:

in first 3.5 years ps3 has sold 35.7 million units
in first 3.5 years x360 has sold 30 million units.

[badkolo]

and there where 100 million and more sony fans versus how many xbox ones.

sony would have doubled that 35 if it was priced below 600 bucks.

everyone expected the ps3 to sell extremly well becuase it was sony, no one expected the 360 to do well.

so the fact that the 360 did 30 in 3.5 years is a site to behold and its clearly doing well.

[SilverSlug]

pricing.

360 was like 200 dollars cheaper. Sony's fault, but also a big reason for 360's uprising.

[XactGamer]

Thats true badkolo there are like 130 million PS2 owners. Where are they this gen? They all own Wii's that's where they are. Some of the hardcore went with the 360 which is why the Xbox install base is a little bigger this time around. Personally I feel that all the systems are doing just great. I think the PS3 has longer legs than the 360 do to Blu-ray but it may (MAY) not be enough to take them out of last. If/when the PS4 and Xbox 3 come out I might look into console gaming again but for now PC is where it's at.

[edhe]

An astounding achievement from the company in 3rd place last gen.

For the company that was ~80m units into first place - a pretty terrible failure.

If you remove the platform prejudiced Japanese from the sales - how does that work emil?

[Treyb3yond]

This article is based on fanboy maths....real maths don't do any good.

[Socrates]

Why stop your analysis at 3.5 years? Oh I know, because that was when things were at their most favorable for the PS3.

Why not look at the fact that the 360 is something like 5 million consoles ahead and is now widening the gap?

And all that considering the fact that last generation the Playstation 2 had like 3 times the market share as the Xbox.

[ozstar]

Kinect momentum? HAH

Dropped out of top 25 Amazon after about 7 days, way to go momentum!!!

[Xwow2008]

has a problem...because its strange when the hardware was in the top 10 but the software for it is barely selling...i just saw 1 game(Kinect sport) on the 50 spot..but now there is no games in the top 100.

Are ppl buying Kinect just for the interface!?

[Kahvipannu]

I might, but I'll wait for the real price. But if I buy Kinect, I doubt I buy any games from first wave, except maybe the dance game. But for that, I might wait for reviews too.

[edhe]

It's just pre-orders bud.

[XactGamer]

http://www.amazon.com/compu...

[JEDI WOLVERINE]

Will it matter to me if the 360 ends up selling 40 million consoles and the PS3 treble that......aslong as MS pump out AAA titles like Gears n Halo etc then no, not really.

Will it matter if the PS3 ends up selling 40 million consoles and the 360 treble that......aslong as Sony pump out AAA titles like Uncharted n GT etc then no, not really.

Does one console selling more than another really prove it's superiority in anyway?..........

Dreamcast/Saturn both got beaten massively by competition but would anyone argue that they were poor consoles devoid of an awesome gaming experience?

Play games not sales :D

[Jdoki]

Some people will always nail their allegiances to a particular mast, and use whatever data they can bend or manipulate to justify their allegiance.

It's bizarre that people care so deeply about sales, when it impacts their hobby so little.

[Gue1]

the lemmings on gamespot are at full force today cus of this sales data. Saying that now it'll be impossible for the PS3 to catch up cus the X360's selling like hot cakes and with Halo and GeoW3 MS's now unstoppable! Oh and that GT5's gonna flop cus of Halo and the PS3 is going to be remembered as a failure.

So much lulz today on the SW forums...

[KwietStorm_BLM]

GT5 will flop because of Halo lol. I guess the banana industry should also quit, now that we can put pepperoni on pizza?

[Kahvipannu]

GT won't flop, atleast I believe it will be best selling game for PS3 to date, and same will go for H:R for x0. They really don't eat eachothers sales, different platforms, different market groups.

[Master of Unlocking]

Yet another pro-M$ article based on "VaguelyGuessed Chartz" sales numbers! Color me surprised!

[LCS_Furious_Dre]

Its not even possible for the 360 to outsell the PS3.

[DigitalAnalog]

Unless of course the retailers has reported a lot of PS3 shortages.

-End statement

[Tony-A]

I said this before and I'll say it again.

Take a look at the 360 Slim's opening week. Now look at the PS3 Slim's opening week. PS3 Slim had a much bigger sales week, surpassing 1mil. The 360 Slim just barely broke 100,000 worlwide....

I knew it would get approved as soon as I saw the numbers on VG. I wonder if they failed to mention how the new 360 failed to do anything for EU and Japan. Japan actually bought less 360s than they have been buying this whole year when the new 360 came out.

[bjornbear]

you are clearly being ironic and passing yourself as a hyper-PS3 fanboy to add to proof that this site is full of them.

doing that alone is pathetic.

[stonecold1]

europe ps3 is ahead and the ps3 is out selling 360 in australia new zealand

[GigaGaia]

The PS3 is still making a joke of the 360 in japan, so their little boost in US is nothing.

[edhe]

So you live in Japan then?

[N4PS3Fanboys]

Little boost in the US? A 160% boost is little? The 360 outsold the PS3 with 130,000 units versus 50,000 for the PS3. The gap in America is about 80,000 units, versus the gap in Japan, which is a miniscule 15,000 units. And the new model hasn't even been released in Europe yet, so just imagine how much the 360 will be outselling the PS3 by in the coming weeks.

The gap is now being closed. By the end of the year, it will probably be back up to almost a 6 million unit gap.

[deno]

I wouldn't brag about japan so much, they are a tiny economy. Japan is about one size of an American state.

[DaTruth]

Japan is the second biggest economy in the world. The only state coming close is California in 5th place behind 3.China and 4.Germany!

That was pretty fail!

[greatjimbo78]

You have no idea what you're on about do you. Japan has the second largest GDP in the world. This is conclusive on all counts, IMF, world bank etc.

[Pillville]

I guess that means Antarctica has one of the biggest economies. We better check their sales data and see how things are going.

[greatjimbo78]

^ Wait....What?

[greatjimbo78]

Now I've had a little afternoon nap, I get it now. Sorry.

[dizzleK]

i guess shortages are only "phony" or "manufactured" when sony has them...../s

edit-do the 360 supporters on this site have to be such absolute dicks? i have a 360, i play it alot and i've been able to praise 360 games without being an absolute douche about it. yet you wonder why you were all driven away....

[thewhoopimen]

There is no "article" that even exists on this story alluding to:

With the recent release of the new slim and the huge momentum from Kinect the 360 has had a massive boost of sales even with huge shortages, and with the boost from the US alone (due to the slim releasing later for the rest of the world) the 360 has broken significantly outpaced the PS3 a trend which will likely continue

This is literally crap pulled out of Zir0's ass with no data analysis to back up this forecast.

This needs to be reported and the submitter banned from posting privileges

[PSjesus]

Realize the new one is the same old failing Shate-that he already had 4 of em-,the sail well down again unless there is a new surprise from MS.

[dagreylion]

Where's the news at, this has been a long neverending argument. This one sells more than this one or that one. Who gives a shit PLAY GAMES

[jneul]

yeah but the figured will be based on shipped sales not sold for x360, so in reality there may be lots of x360's out there waiting to be sold, I will laugh if vgchartz has made a huge mistak 129,000 for just the US seems a bit too much to be honest.
My friend wants a new x60s I'm gonna convince him not to bother and to buy a ps3 instead and i'm going to be using features and games released and coming this year as huge reasons, i'm pretty sure his x360 has been gathering dust for a long time now, so it's time to get the console that actually has games coming for it.

[00000000000000000001]

If you don't own a 360 you either really stupid, blind or can't afford one!

[matey]

M8 i own the number 1 selling console Wii but to be honest when it comes to 360/ps3 i would back Sony every time they are second to nintendo for originality and had almost as many exclusives until microsoft got the wallet out that distgusted me and Sony lost GTA being there biggest and MH3 being the second but that went to wii and wasnt as bad for sony in the west but all the games Microsoft stole from Sony got me mad because the uniqueness for Sony was gone but ps3 is a better console than 360 all day long Wii/PS3 are the 2 consoles to beat PS3/Wii came out 1 and a half years after 360 so its unfair in a sales point of view but PS3 has sold better in the same time span so PS3 is going to smoke the 360 and gain abit of ground on Wii i hope Wii is number 1, PS3 is number 2,360 is a JOKE and Microsoft should have never entered the gaming arena because with money they messed it up FULL STOP.

[Xwow2008]

an intelligent person if u ask me^^

[Parapraxis]

If you don't own a DS you either really stupid, blind or can't afford one!

[jujulolo]

The hate against vgchartz when xbox outsell ps3....
Don't pannic, that doesn't mean that your PS3 is dead....

[Treyb3yond]

360 fans seem to have spent the first 3 years of the PS3's shelf life claiming "it's dead"

[rlm42]

@jujulolo I know right, their precious PS3/Sony brand gets threatened and they start with all the hate, excuses and trolling.

[thewhoopimen]

funny how you xboyers need to "make Up" and article in order to prove something these days. Lol. I am not disputing the VGChartz numbers, but that submitting an analysis that isn't even real? That's stooping so low, you might as well as be eating your own crap.

[Treyb3yond]

Bullshit!!

[Ninjamonkey82]

Theres alwaysa small spike in the market when a new console comes. People will wise up till it soon and it will be back to normal.

[Garnett]

If VGChartz numbers are Fake, and the person who runs it (ioi)is an Xbox fanboy, then i guess so is the NPD, because they have the same numbers.

The Site is anything BUT xbox 360 fanboys, 90% of the site is ran by PS fanboys, and hell even a few people from Playstation work there, Where do you think Sony got the hole "It only does everything" from? VGchartz...

[blazBlue]

I guess gaming is screwed now?

Play games, not sales. -_-

[wissam]

Soccer moms are really one the fire.

[Ace_Man_6]

Of course 360's hardware is going to outsell PS3's coz the hardware breaks all the time!

[gnothe1]

now guys are saying, the people who's buying xbox slims already have a 360 so those sales shouldnt count, well.... what do you guys think happen when the PS3 slim came out, Gamestop was flooded with older PS3's because were trading in their old one for the slim, i guess those sales shouldnt count either!! come one people. just give MS its credit, sony didnt come out a destroy the xbox like everybody thought, an with the slim an kinetic, things just got alittle harder!!

[Hazmat13]

eh who cares?? back to Fallout3. lol

[chidori666]

vg chatz numbers is not reliable

mgs4 numbers of vg chatz= 4.0 m

konami numbers= 4.8

uc2 numbers vg chatz= 3.3

uc2 numbers of sony= 3.5 m

so not give hits for site.

[Garnett]

Shipped=/sold.

Shipped is what the game developers ship to retailers to be sold.

Sold is what people buy.

Anyone who thinks VGchartz is ran by an Xbox fanboy, go and look at how many negative articles there are on the site, its almost as bad as N4G (except VGchartz over ban people, hell i got banned for saying "The cows are ready for milking")

[midgard227]

yeah and b4 the new 360 ps3 was outselling 360 for what a year and a half???

[redsquad]

Yay, great news for 360 owners.... You have SALES to boast about again!!!

[ReBurn]

VGChartz is a funny thing. People will praise it to support their position on one hand, and then blaspheme it on the other when it doesn't suit their needs.

Does it really matter whether PS3 or 360 is selling the most at this point? Both are already successful. Both are moving games. Neither are catching Nintendo. So does it really matter who is winning the race for second place?

[Dorwrath]

vgchartz:

PS3 sales higher it's quoted as fact by PS3 Fanboys
360 sales higher, figures are incorrect.

and Visa Versa.

Who honestly cares about this crap. In any case fanboys of both sides. The Wii has whooped all that has come before it.

[bigjclassic]

this isnt going to end well.

[nirvana_sky]

http://vgchartz.com/
outsell in US, others still dominated by PS3..

[KratosGod3]

yeahhh! fanboys keep giving ur a*ss to M$.
u guys are doing extremely well

[Lykon]

I'd love to see the ps3 outsell the 360 and be number one , and i believe that will probably be the case at some piont in the not too distant future. The competition is probably really good for us gamers at the end of the day apart from money being wasted on silly timed exclusives and the occasional poorly implemented DLC strategy (you know like when content should be part of the initial release anyway) But for multi format owners and for single 360 owners I genuinly wish them a whole load of fun and pleasure from thier 360's. maybe one day i'll pick up a 360 myself but I'm more interested in the 3d nintendo handheld at the moment. I don't really have enough time to play all the great games on ps3 as it is (and i have a lot of time for gaming)

the sun is out, lets all be freinds :)

[playnation]

ok.. you have a very big nose now vgchartz...

[hoops]

Why does anyone care about console sales unless they OWN the company

[ManiacMansion]

how do the PS3 fanboys even KNOW that the PS3 is outselling the xbox 360 worldwide??

Where do you get your info from?? i bet its VGC.

Only because the PS3 is outsleling the 360 by small 100k every month (means 3 years to be on par with 360 sales)??

Fact is, VGC is as near as Media Create or NPD in Numbers... only idiots deny this fact.. called PS3 Fanboys:)

[hoops]

Oh man this is going to get ugly

[SonyPS360]

That if it isn't reporting positively for the Ps3 then it's suddenly 'biased' and 'run by 360 fanboys'?

[hoops]

its n4g.com of course!!!! lol

[Lykon]

i agree and i am a ps3 fanboy....but I also remember when this site was over run with hate for the ps3 and every single ps3 news article was over run by rabid 360 fan boys. It seems to go from one extreme to the other ...oh well...some of the news is interesting...and thier are many members of this site who are more into gaming than pr for thier respective consoles..plus the arguments can be enetertaining.

[SaberEdge]

This site was never overrun by 360 fanboys. Go look at old articles. As some have pointed out there were indeed PS3 fanboys back then, just not as many as now. It wasn't overrun with 360 fanboys that's for sure. It was more of a natural balance between 360 fans and PS3 fans. I wish it were that way now.

[SuperStrokey1123]

It better have sold better this week with tonnes of sales on the current stuff and the slim 360 out. If it didnt win i would laugh at it.

[Raoh]

its a spike, all the old/original owners are swapping their old hardware for new hardware..

happens every time there is a new model for each console.. new model meaning new design/internal parts not just the same model with a bigger hard drive.

[punisher99]

Doesnt really matter. The effect will be completely reversed once Gran Turismo 5 comes out.

[olLANDSHARKlo]

Why allow this type of thread, you know how the PS3 fanboys get,No games I guess to play on PS3 so they sit on N4G all day. You can always go play the kids kart racer, modnation, or how about that blockbuster Heavy rain. Boring, now I see why their on here everyday.

[MARNEY]

when ps3 owners take a break from from gaming, they can use their console web browser, to read, add submissions & reply to posts on this & many other websites as well. The convenience of having a web browser in a gaming console is fantastic... now where did i put my brazzer's membership code?...(ya, that works on the ps3 too!) 'nuff said.

[gano]

"walks in, walks out"

[Xander756]

Yeah this isn't going to last long. Fanboys should not get too excited.

[Omega Zues]

Because I have stocks. Stocks are important.

nom nom nom.

>.>

[ShiftyLookingCow]

After this E3, I am totally going to get a Wii soon. Screw the "hardcore" fanboys, they bore me to hell. Nothing fun about watching so many brains rot together.

[tiamat5]

You mean like the PS3 did when it made a slim? Wow. Can i go now? We shall see if the numbers are the same after the Move, GT5 and LBP2

[Trroy]

The VGChartz numbers are relatively accurate.

This surge was caused by the $50 price drop on the old arcade and elite models, and not directly by the new X360 S, however. $149.99 is a pretty good deal for a X360 arcade, and honestly $249.99 is a good deal for a 120GB Elite as well.

The 360 will be above the PS3 for another week or two world-wide, and then it'll drop back into normal ranges again (usually the 360 is slightly ahead of the PS3, in the US).

[ForROME]

OMG you people are sick in the head, it out sales PS3 one week and you blow up as if someone put their finger in your hole and you panic, get over it, one week, boo hoo cry me a fing river, I swear the way some of you act is like literally sick in the head

[Claudinho69]

duh they just launched a new console model..........garbage journalists...

[biggame901]

Ok, so let me get this straight. The PS3 outsells the 360 worldwide for the entire year to date and no one cares, but the 360 outsells the PS3 for one week and it's worthy of a news post. Nice logic, there. Why is this declared news? Hell, it's not even a news article. It's vgchartz, give me something more definitive.

That being said, if it's still outselling after a month or two, maybe it's worth noticing, but until then, it's just a minor blip. All of these overactions aren't worth it. It's one week. Call me when it's been a couple of months.

[adonis183]

get a f***ing life.... or go play ps3.. ya be 247 on this site

[PS360PCROCKS]

It will be this way for a few months for xbox since it's releasing in different markets over various months. But than back down to earth around August.

[N4realGMRZ]

If it didnt it would have been an embaressment!

[Neoicelord]

Who actually "Buys" Wii Sports?

[djfullshred]

lol, how funny that people obsess over weekly sales ups & downs of plastic boxes to play games on.

[mivanc]

... another PS3 vs XBOX news article ... this is a never ending battle that will never end ... pathetic ...

[silkrevolver]

...they just came out with their slim... it doesn’t take a rocket surgeon to guess that would happen. Everyone should be happy that the hardware is improved and has more features... but still... it still doesn’t have the same value as the PS3 Slim...

[Kantor]

Please explain why the PS3 has been shown to be outselling it every week since September of last year.

[air1]

why are sony fanatics always so grumpy and full of excuses.

"its only cause of the liquidation of the old consoles".

"its just the same ppl buying it over again".

a sale is a sale plain and simple..

yada yada blah..

ps3 is simply not dominating like it did last gen. i know many of you cant except it but micro took a chunk out of the sony pie and nintendo holds a bigger piece. you guys are seeing sony get broken down little by little.

[STRAIGHTASL]

360 fanboys always carea about sales, not games.

so we dont care about that 360 poop outsell ps3. ps3 is still fine and not give up that easily.

[pinkyxyz]

"for the first time in the last 12 months 360 outsells ps3 for a week"

[saimcheeda]

their numbers were too faulty and their admins consistently favored the Xbox fans over the others. This was expected any way the 360 has a new look and consumer interest is bound to be renewed, we have to wait and see if this trend continues after 2 or 3 months!

[Belasco]

If all consoles have a decent installed base and I get my games, I don't care.

[monkeymagicwin]

right now i dont care if 360 HW outselling PS3 or not.
what is important,it's just 5 months away from GT5,my favourite game.
sales dont bring u anything. for me,as gamer, quality of gameplay is really important. if i want to talk about sale, i should applied a job at xbox marketing center..haha

[roarmonster]

its a new system, it would be depressing if it didnt sell more for a tiny while.

[Prcko]

is this a little bit FAKE???!?????!?!?!?!??!?!!?!!! !!!!!!!?!??!

[Keltik82]

This mean anything, who cares? It's from a lame ass site not to mention I don't care if Xbox 360 sold more for 2 years straight the fact of the matter is PS3 just has quality, imo quality or quantity. I just really enjoy my PS3 since it Only Does Everything. Literally.

[kewlkat007]

when it came to consumer confidence in the purchase of a 360.

[bviperz]

Sales mean very little? Hmmmmm?

[JJFNIGHTS80]

Are they pulling our leg? Or are they just getting paid to just post this some kind of dumb shit on here? Cause that's impossible that New Xbox 360 slim is selling out PS3 world wide. Cause I don't give a crap cause it's not true. plus VGZChartz is always incorrect on data. You have to track from all retailers that includes GameStop, Funcoland, Wal-Mart, Target, and or any other European electronic stores. Cause it's not true. I don't even see our store that I work in even receive the new Xbox 360 SLIM model.

[Jason143]

This site always makes me laugh. The people who write these articles are hystericall. Back to monster hunter.

[Spenok]

Good for Xbox, if they can keep it up then more power to them, but with the addition of the wireless network adapter now in the new 360 i dont see the 360 getting a price drop ANY time soon at all, while PS3 can get one more or less whenever Sony wants to. Though i dont see that being likely in the near future, but if they need to its always an option. If they see there HW sales dropping, then i can imagine they would drop the price by $50 or so just to get the extra attention/sales numbers. Thats what i think anyways.

[GhostOfSparta78]

wow, 360 outselling ps3 one week. yet people still spend their hard earned money on this console. MS sure knows how to sucker people in buying another failed console. i'm no fanboy, but a owner of two previously failed 360's.

[Jab-dees-nuts]

i hear ya, i used to owend the sh!tbox back when ps3 was $600 and after all the nickle and dime, after 2 red rings and waiting over 3 months to get my 360 so i got a new one only to get another red ring! i said FVCK IT. sold my 360 for parts and got me a $600 console

[Jab-dees-nuts]

all of yous can argues about who outsells who but im sitting at home waiting for my ps3 exclusives to come late this year....on to a little trolling

Funny how crappy the 360's HARDWARE is yet the bots are rushing to the stores to get butt fvcked once again by M$

[Dannehkins]

I can't understand how this article has got so many reports and no action from the administrators. :|