PS3 Outsells Xbox 360 by 4 Million
- Categories: Games, News
- Date: Aug 1, 2010 23:21 JST
- Tags: Controllers, Marketing, Microsoft, PS3, Sony, Technology, Xbox 360
The PS3 has outsold the Xbox 360 by nearly 50% over the past year, and is projected to overtake the total sales of the Xbox in 2011.
The PS3 is said to have sold 14.3 million units over the past year, compared to 10.3 million for the Xbox 360.
Assuming the miraculous performance of Kinect does not reverse this trend (or Move does not accentuate it), total sales of the PS3 are projected to exceed those of the Xbox 360 in the first half of 2011.
Depending on the success of the motion controller rip-offs, the bitterly contested crown of second-place loser in the console market may yet change hands – Nintendo’s position remains completely unassailable however.
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So much hatred.
*Super Turbo Sad Face AN Hero*
Personally, it pleases me. But then again, I feed off hate and destruction.
God DAMN. SK's editors are as retarded as it's users.
This place is only good for its Anime, Manga, and H sections. Everyone already knows this. I think people only come here to practice flaming.
Well, I expected this. MS only cared about profit, not really their system, which caused a huge amount of RRoD problems and now ridiculous overheating problems with the slim model. Many of my friends also got tired of their Xbox 360's, so they sold it and their games to buy a PS3. Never regretted their choice since.
Though I would still get the system, despite its crappy quality. Gears 3 and ME2 won't come out on PS3, my PC is of horrible gaming quality, so the only choice i have is spend a small amount on getting a 360.
Sales used to be a big debatable battle against the PS3 from Wii and 360 owners, but when things started to look more positive, the fanboys kinda died down a little and the argument against the PS3 turned into appreciation from all sides. Of course there are still hardcore fanboys who will never appreciate anything good that comes from the PS3 (or 360 and Wii). Just check those people at Youtube, they make videos about how the console fails, yet forget the shortcomings of their own supported consoles.
SONY!
sucks donkey dick
I give all the credit to that new commercial host guy. That guy is hilarious.
YOU RRoD 360 BETA TESTERS FAGS SURE GOT TOLD.
Take English lessons, you sound like you're in preschool.
Why do they even mention Kinect, both Move and Kinect will be failures. A few tards with more money than brains will buy it, realize how shitty they are and throw them in the closet next to the SuperScope, Menacer, Activator, Power Glove, Power Pad, Zapper, Light Phaser, and every other failed add-on controller accessory.
Yes because we all know add-on controllers like the Wii-fit board failed.
10million and counting bro.
I recently bought a PS3 after only having a 360 for the past 2,5 years. And I got to say that I'm disappointed. With all the ps3 fanboys saying that the 360 sucks, RRoD, etc I was expecting a better console.
But truth be told, the PS3 lacks in areas that the 360 excells in, and vice versa. Neither of the consoles are bad, and it should be the exclusive titles that decides which one you buy (or both).
Then again, after selling my old 360 and buying the 360 slim I have to say that the 360 is more silent (it actually is) and the controllers are still more comfortable than the outdated PS3 controllers.
Did you get a fat or slim PS3, flasksis? I'm curious about the noise level of both systems, especially the slim ones.
Also I agree with Mr.Bitches, the 360 controller's D-pad bites. The only thing I personally tried that sucks almost as much is the GameCube controller's D-pad. The Wii remote has a better one.
@ChaosAngelZero: Since I bought my PS3 just a few weeks ago it's most certainly a slim :P
Noise levels are pretty equal between the two consoles. At startup the 360 is a bit noisier, most of the noise coming from the HDD spinning. But after playing both consoles for say an hour or so, the PS3 is a bit noisier as the fan is blowing harder, and the 360's new fan is really quiet even when going on maximum speed.
Thanks for the info.
My friend has a slim and I have the OG fatty, the Slim is quiet to the point that you don't notice it.
Really? I think the Wiimote dpad sucks equally as much. Goddamn midget sized dpad.
I have the original fat 60 gig PS3 and that thing is loud as a jackhammer, but the Slims are actually extremely quiet. Also, I have to disagree with the 360's controller being more comfortable. The only thing that the 360's controller feels more comfortable with is shooters. Everything else is in favor of the PS3 especially if you have a Dualshock3. Also, the 360 might have the worst D-pad of any controller ever.
Aside from the shitty dpad, I prefer the 360 controller, thou either one is fine by me. BTW, the PS3 triggers suck equally hard.
@flaskis: Yeah, I also wonder about the revised D-pad. Last I heard, they bundled a green controller which featured that D-pad with some copies of World Soccer Winning Eleven 2009 (now Pro Evolution Soccer), but nothing about using it in all the others.
Perhaps they just replaced it on all new controllers without any announcements or something, but who knows.
Well, the 360 slim's controller still has that faulty D-pad, so I'm suspecting the whole thing was scrapped.
Thank you, finally someone that agrees. Whenever I say that those triggers just suck, some ps3 fanboy says "no, they work fine. I prefer these over the 360 triggers!".
Btw, what happened to the "revised d-pad" that Microsoft talked about some years ago?
Oh, and I've sometimes managed to press up/down when I also pressed on right/left on the PS3 d-pad. Even if it's four different buttons in appearance, it's still one big button.
Cut Japan out of the equation, and the 360 destroys the ps3 in total sales.
And that's why we love Japan :)
If you will allow to cut off Japan, then cut off America for the 360 and 50-60% of 360 sales are gone.
The PS3 only sold about 4-6 million in Japan. It's not very dependent on one country alone like the 360.
How is this news? Console wars are so pointless.
The 360 doesn't have a single game on it I want to buy that I couldn't get on the PS3 as well.
Microsoft has never had a ton of exclusives to it's systems that I've ever wanted to play, so I'll never get a 360, unless I really want Reach, and if that's PC then screw that noise.
Now I just need the PS3 and Wii >.>
Hope you enjoy your inferior ports of Red Dead Redemption, GTAIV, Bayonetta, Fallout 3 and everything using Unreal Engine. Because that's what you get, buying the PS3 versions.
While I'd normally support the Anon above me, this is a perfectly good reason to choose the PS3 over the 360. While the ports may be "inferior", the fact that you don't want any games which are exclusive to the 360 means it makes sense to buy a PS3.
Unless, of course, you don't want any games which are exclusive to the PS3 either, in which case, it's 360 for the price and superior ports.
I'm pretty certain we are pretty much past the point where news like this really means anything. Am I wrong?
Alot of people bought the xbox already so yeah the PS3 is gonna outsell it. Though the PS3 is great theres not many good games for it so it might loose that popularity with the kinect out
well i dont think the hundreds of millions of people who have bought xbox360 over the past 6 years are in need of buying another one.
there is more people owning a xbox360 then ps3. period.
This was inevitable since day one.
I'm not surprised.
It's what they get for shitting on JRPG fans.
Also the graphics are terrible. I bought a new graphics card for half the price of my xbox and it blows the 360 out of the water.
It doesn't really matter that they've outsold them, because Sony just recently started to actually GAIN PROFIT from the system. Xbox/Microsoft is still doing far better despite the PS3 outselling the xbox 360. Now that's saying something.
Yup, nearly 4 years til they stopped bleeding money. If not for the state of the global economy, Sony's Playstation devision would have to seriously be in jeopardy, as Sony is not a company which likes to keep around those who do not turn a profit or break even. But, because of how bad the market is, this generation of consoles is going to last at least another 3 years, maybe even 4.
Oh yeah there's also the Playstation Eye the successor of Eyetoy for PS3. Granted Kinect is being marketed a hundred times better I don't see Kinect being a big success.
Ha isn't kinect just like the eyetoy for the PS2
Dammit. If only we had enough money for all 3 consoles and PC gaming...
I own all three plus pc. I got the 360 when it came out, and I recently got the ps3. I gave the ps3 a fair chance, but I just liked the xbox's performance over all. I mean yeah the Ps3 has some cool features on it, but it just doesn't compare. Ps3 like the wii is aimed for more casual gamers, while xbox on the other hand is aimed for hardcore gamers like the pc, who are serious about it. the online for the ps3 sucks compared to 360. Ps3 I say is better for single player type games. 360 FTW in my books. But I will say this though, kinect is just gonna hurt the 360 more. Microsoft is just trying too hard now. Just stick with what we have and work our way through it.
I'd agree with you, although it looks like Sony finally realized this and is working on actual multiplayer gaming instead of garbage timewasters like LittleBigPlanet and Home. Killzone 2 lacked cooperative MP but I guess they won't make the same mistake with the third one, Uncharted 2 already featured a pretty solid MP, and now they're also bringing Twisted Metal back.
There's also MAG, but dunno if, barring the absurd number of possible simultaneous players, it's actually any good or if it feels more like a "MMOFPS".
Japan doesn't matter anymore. Sales in Western regions now count more than Japan's anemicv market. X-Box 360 is still ahead of PS3 there.
DISCLAIMER: I am not a X-box fanboy. I think both consoles are shit.
I truly hate fagit box 360, i wander why do people still by that pease of shit. I know its because thet rely strongly on there trinity engine, without that the console will literally fall apart. Did u ever wonder why it and the PS3 were the same size and yet it still carried that BIG ASS A/C power pack...hmm I wonder?... the PS3 size on the other hand is built inside with a good size fan and yet you all call it inferior... tell me now what killed the GC and XBOX? Was it the PS2 and its Emotion Engine can Butt Fairies hmm tell me Dick Puddin lovers. Back to the PS3, compare any 360 games PS3 exclusives and non exclusives and give me an answer please anc thank you. Im not done yet. You already know why its easyer put games on the 360... correct the Trinity Engine, the PS3 dosen't have an engine and look at how powerful its graphics are imagine how it be if Sony brought a new type of engine to the PS3... think of how much trouble Microsoft be in... PURE DESTRUTION to the XBOX 360. Im a proud PS3 owner and my PSN is Gohan723 hit me up up when you want to hear some real shit boys. also a Wii, DSi, PC, and PSP I quote myself "IM NOT AN XBOX FAN, IM PLAYSTATION MAN!!!" PEASE im out. and lm BLACK yes black what of it.
Sales are global. The Japanese page this article used relied on a western source. The Japanese market isn't even mentioned anywhere, nor would it make sense.
WRONG! It's Japan only, doubt me? Checkout http://vgchartz.com/ and see for yourself. Next time keep your mouth shut, if you don't know shit. Dumb fucks like you are the ones who claimed their old PS2 was more powerful than the GC and xbox1. Dumb fucks like you killed the Dreamcast.
worldwide:
Wii 72.9
360 41.5
PS3 36.2
Japan:
Wii 10.5
360 1.4
PS3 5.4
USA:
Wii 34.2
360 24
PS3 14.4
wow great anon vs anon :p
You're using total sales. This article is only about sales over the past 12 months. You make me laugh, retard.
Videogames are serious business- LoL.
lol u mad? check this what this article links to before you blurt nonsense like a dimwit.
http://livedoor.2.blogimg.jp/jin115/imgs/a/6/a600db8a.jpg
You would be surprised ;)
There are lots of game released in japan language only. And the amount of jpn release is huge on any console.
I agree. For example, Halo 3 Japan edition. And Fable 2 Japan edition. And Gears of War Japan edition. All of those games are in Japan language only.
Sales in Japan for Halo 3 and Fable 2 were less than both U.S. and Europe. Japan sales of Gears of War were horrible.
Gee, I wonder why sales are slowing. Could it be that everyone who wants an XBox already has one?
Well put good sir.
yea most people are on their 2nd or 3rd xbox by now....
Go suck it up X-Box users cause you suck shit with your garbage! Microsoft losers!
awww too poor to afford more than one console? too emo for xbl? i weep for your loss. bwahahaha
As an "X-Box user", how should I care whether or not the PS3 is outselling the 360? It's not like it affects me in any way.
Oh, don't be too hard on yourself. Stop living in self denial, and just admit it! Just let it all out. It's okay to cry. :)
Denial of what? "Oh no, now I can't... oh, it's still there."
ps3 360 are bothe garbage, PC is the way to go in terms of performance and abilities. take that PS3 and 360 fagboys/girls lol
Yeah, I'm gonna drop $1000 on a bad-ass gaming console that has a less usable lifespan than a console.
Think about it: With the PS2, you could play great games for over 10 years! Think what kind of games you could play on a state-of-the-art 10-year-old PC today? Yeah, even Plants Vs. Zombies would choke a 10-year-old PC.
PC gaming may be better, but it's a HELL of a lot more expensive, even if you pirate your games.
PCs greatest strength and weakness is the power of it, power enables wonderful things, but encourages crappy programming, making the lifespan short.
Yeah it is but compatible shit is shit! Trying playing game then game freezes.....loser!
That's because PCs are also Microsoft products! Windoze sucks just as much as the 360. BSOD... RROD... no thanks! PS3 RULZ
PC games never froze on me since I have Windows XP. They either run, or not run (by "not run" I also count games that'll load but are completely unplayable or require that I set them to something like 640×480 when they're supposed to run at 1280×720 or above).
Problems when running PC games often stem from faulty drivers, which are mostly nVIDIA and ATi's fault.
lolfag, pcs arent microshit products,only windows, if you dont like it then use linux or get a mac
douchebag
funny how most pc games are first released on a game console several months before.
Such games are usually so bad that they are not even worth pirating. Indies, mods, PC exclusives. For example I am enjoying my real time strategies on my PC everyday. Try that console fag.
I would buy a PS3 if they brought back the ability to play PS2 games on them. Since they don't I will stick with my Xbox 360 instead.
Yeah, I'd only want one for the ps2 games. I'll stick to my pcsx2 and xbla for now.
It's sad, when someone can do a better job building an emulator from reverse-engineering a piece of hardware than the original designers can do emulating it.
Thou I'm sure the real issue comes down to Sony not wanting to place funds on 'old tech', when they've been hemorrhaging cash for such a long time.
Why? Does the 360 play PS2 games?
Shh, don't tell anyone, Anon... >_>
lol
PS3 will not overtake Xbox 360. At least not while this generation is still relevant.
PS3 sold more than before due to a price cut and a new model. Now 360 has had a price cut and a new model. After that comes a bundle with Kinect. Then dropped price. There are many tricks ahead, and Sony will try to follow using Move and price reductions, but they are still extremely sensitive on the latter.
When 360 and PS3 came out, there was a 7-8 million gap in install base. Now - four years later - that gap is around 5 million. But that 5 million gap is increasing once again due to increased demand for the new 360 model.
If PS3 were to overtake 360 within four years, the 360 would have to stop selling completely.
Then again, HD- and 3D-movies are coming stronger in to the market, PS3 has support for both ( thanks to blueray ). So that may be a selling point, ofc it's got nothing to do with PS3 as a gaming console.
Well, high definition movies are available for the Xbox 360, in the United States at least, through that streaming service, Netflix. Not to mention it should be capable of playing movie files through a Media Center setup.
I'm not sure about 3D movies. I guess the appropriate stream should be made available, have the right TV set and HDMI cables, and that should be it, dunno 'bout additional requirements (perhaps a higher bitrate, therefore needing more bandwidth if you're watching a stream instead of a locally stored file).
By the way, I'd assume Microsoft isn't all that excited about the whole 3D thing because one of the main beneficiaries of the technology is, of all people, Sony itself. PS3 is pushing 3D games in order to sell their 3D HDTVs, just like they did with the Blu-ray Discs, it's only good for them. Microsoft has no need for it, and what may fly at movie theaters may not necessarily do so at home theaters, at least not right now. See also the 1080p games fiasco: almost no games run at true, native 1920×1080p60 resolution, the systems don't have enough horsepower.
You have been able to rent HD movies and other HD content over XBL long before Netflix. Netflix was just incorporated because it's a flat-rate service, as opposed to a pay-per-view service.
We're already 5 years into this generation, 4 more years and the new systems will either already be out or be close to being out. At that point, it won't matter if Sony did catch up or best them. Too little, too late.
Honestly, I'm shocked that this generation of consoles has lasted this long, without any hints of replacements in the distance. Thou I'm sure that is only because of the global state of the economy.
Most console generations only last 6-7 years and the last one was only 5 years. Which is something I've always found amusing, about 'Sony's 10 year plan'. If they really had a '10 year plan', the other generations would have lasted longer. But they did not, once the new consoles came out, new 1st party games began to dry up. Simply manufacturing systems does not give them the right to claim they're got a '10 year plan', they need to do a lot more than just that.
geez, now I'm ranting to a bunch of delusional marks, what the fuck am I thinking... I need coffee.
i dont really care i only got a xbox because a) my friends had one b) cheaper and c) the jap xbox had those awsome games on it
i do plan to get a ps3 one day...one day
What Jap-region xbox console exclusives? Most of the ones that have not made it stateside already are hardly worth picking up, in the 20dollar bin.
Awesome games? Like what? Idol Master? Dream Club? Haha get lost, you fiend of society. I will never let my kids near you weeaboo lol.
You know, there's a reason why ScarredBushido mentioned the import-only titles as his third and last reason instead of the firstmost.
Idol Master and Dream C Club are awesome games for lolicons ;P So stfu
I like those games ;P
Yeah, you're just a retarded Anon for thinking Idol Master = all Japan-only release games. I suggest you get your "kids" somewhere safe before throwing yourself off a very tall building.
Heh. Whats new? Its not like everyone saw this coming or anything. Microsoft will of course still continue to milk the X-Box for all its worth, until their dying breath.
They also have the option to ax it as they did with the first one and move on to a new platform. After all, they're almost five years into this generation, that's about enough for them. I could almost bet they'll announce a 360 successor during either TGS 2011 or E3 2012 and release it on the latter's holiday season.
i think the only reason xbox outsold ps3 is because they can be hacked.
Funny because of the two consoles, only my PS3 is hacked. This is because between the two, only the PS3 will still let you play on their network with a hacked system.
Of course, being released a whole year earlier, turning into the de facto industry standard for real games, costing a hundred bucks less money at almost all times throughout both systems' lifespans, having a better and much more mature online infrastructure thanks to Microsoft's proven experience with their previous system, and boasting the superior version of almost all multiplatform games doesn't have anything to do with that, no...
Having it released a year earlier and being cheaper certainly showed... The reason the 360's sales have been so good is because everybody owns 4... 3 of them RROD'd.
Once M$ creates consoles similar to the quality of the products that Sony and Nintendo create, fanboy wars will be even.
Unless they are out of warranty, then your RRoD rapes your wallet.
So far its not a big deal there was minor sales of Xbox 360 counsels in Japan because people wanted to play Monster Hunter Frontier online.
The Wii manage to have a good increase in sales when they released Monster Hunter Tri 3 even though there was issues with the controls It manage to be a fun game.You would also be surpise that Mario Galaxy 2 manage to outsell Red Dead Redemption.
Sony is doing alright with sales because people ether want to have that whole HD3D movie and gaming experience on there PS3 or the fact that there are some games coming out soon from Sony that people want to play.
For the last fucking time:
RROD DOES NOT CREATE ADDITIONAL SALES. You send them in, you get it replaced. For free, no less. No extra sales.
I've seen more pictures of people's gaming setups having multiple Xbox 360 consoles than multiple PlayStation 3 or Wii ones (mostly from NeoGAF). It may have to do with the 360 being the only console with enough worthwhile import-only titles, and it (console)/ them (Japanese games) being region locked, so they probably have an American or European console and a Japanese one. There's no reason for that with the PS3.
Okay, maybe those for which the warranty ran out (which, by the way, doesn't account for any sales before 2008).
People banned due to pirated games probably just keep using their banned console offline, since pirated games are usually made to work that way, and few of them buy another console. Even so, this isn't a RROD-related purchase, so it's not relevant.
People with warranty that still buy another console are just idiots, and I'd like to believe that there aren't many of them, however often I'm proven wrong.
That still doesn't account for the millions that Anon 01:14 is claiming. Assuming the two consoles are otherwise equal (to help prevent fanboyism) most of the extra 360 sales come from the earlier release date and lower price.
Alot of people are known to just buy a new 360 then to send their old ones in to get repaired. Especially ones that already lost its Warranty, or ones that got banned from XBL due to playing pirated games.
Yes. Incidentally, hackability is also the reason why people still bother to buy Sony PSPs.