PS3 Outsells Xbox 360 by 4 Million

w/e my only regret in not owning an xbox is l4d 1 n 2.

o and also the castlevania game i mean WTF castlevania was spawned from Nintendo and SOTN was spawned from Sony and the last great one which was aria of sorrow was on the gameboy advance. WTF all the good characters are put into a shit box 360 exclusive. I ****ing bought all of these previous games and it is not being put in any of the consoles they were originally made for, that is BULL****.

LOL, yeah take that JAPANESE xbox 360 fanboys!!! As these sales figures are for JAPAN and NOT the USA. ROFL!! I can't believe how far the Editors / writers of this site are crawling up Sony's ass.

Seriously, the USA figures for June / July have Microsoft Up against the PS3 because of their new xbox 360 "S" So I don't know where these writers are getting their news sources from (probably their own asses) but make sure you actually do the research before crawling anymore into Sony's ass ok?

P.S.
All Sony Fanboys are completely forgetting about what is coming out in September: Halo Reach. This will make sales of the xbox 360 go up at least 300% AGAIN like it did with the launch of Halo 3.

Relying on Halo reach is is a bad idea. It will certainly be bought by all the halo 3 and ODST owners, generating plenty of software sales, but i doubt it will get many new customers. New customers who've heard of the game probably wouldn't want to start on the 5ht-6th halo release.

Anon 01:40 The sale figures are for world wide, idiot.

360 never was in second place in Japan. It was dead last.

01:40

Like 02:00 said, this isn't about Japan - it's about the worldwide sales figures. According to Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_game_consoles#Worldwide), Xbox 360 has had 41.7 million units sold, while the corresponding figure for PS3 is 38.1 million.

Fuck Halo Reach, give me my goddamn Gears of War 3!

Fuck Gears of War, I'll be playing Halo:Reach

@Ghost Dog: This time the Bungie guys are changing the game mechanics a whole lot, even ODST featured many differences from 3, so there's really no reason for not picking up Reach. Besides, if the plot is really all that important (but, seriously, lol@fps plot lol), that one's gonna be a sequel.

Regardless, it seems to me the Halo franchise is slowly running outta gas, so...

...Halo:Reach, ANOTHER prequel spinoff BOUND to be underwhelming in comparison to the originals.

*Note: I actually thought some of the Halo games where good, Combat Evolved for instance, but prequels are guaranteed crap made only to sell to fanboys and drug addicts. I can't name a single prequel better than the original. If you can name one, please enlighten me.

Anon 1:23 Castlevania was on MSX before the NES cartridge was made. MSX is a Microsoft Japan system.

It's a bit odd that Microsoft haven't made any attempt to use their 8-bit gaming heritage to endear themselves to current Japanese gamers. The MSX also boasted early games in franchises such as Metal Gear, Gradius, Parodius (Konami loved the MSX), Bomberman, Final Fantasy, Dragon Quest, Puyo Puyo and Gradius.

The most complete version of SOTN is the Sega Saturn one, and the game is said to have started development on the Sega 32X, before it was apparent that the 32X wasn't commercially viable.

The best prequel than the original game is..... SNAKKKEEE EATERRR. the birth of a legendary soldier :D seriously a combination of james bond 1960's film, crazy boss fights, stealth(not just hiding on walls or in the shadows but blending on the environment now that's the true stealth) crazy easter eggs, online play(even though it's already shut down) a climatic final battle what more do you want? not to mention you get to eat Snakes and other edible's as well:) not that's how you make a masterpiece game :D

good to see ps3 overtaking the 360. i hear people saying sony won't overtake the 360 by the end of this gen yet we're barely halfway through. now if sony made another mgs4 deal with kojima productions like i don't know zone of the enders 3? :D japan will probably buy at least a million day one :) i would probably buy 3 copies of it :D

Halo is for 15yo cocksuckers. Gears owns that piece of shit.

i hate every halo sense combat evolved, but from my understanding reach is taking place in the part of the halo universe where the "halo has a great story" comes from.

and this being a real halo "sequel" and not just a new multiplayer maps and mode (little brother got odst, they gave him a fucking disc for halo 3 multiplayer, what fucking shit is this?) i can say with some certainty, that this will move consoles again, and will possibly be the best one of the series.

again, i hated all halos beyond the first

Halo's plot is pointless, the only people who play it, play it for multiplayer and act like fucking idiots, while doing so.

Even Bungie and MS know, which is why OSDT and Reach are primarily multiplayer driven games.

i think multiplayer in reach will be big, but at the same time its like writing off cod mw 1 (not 2) as being multiplayer only when it had a fairly great story to it.

and i cant deny the fucking retards who play those games. thats why i when i do play an fps i turn the mic off and mute chat.

there is one more thing i want to address, a fps story could be something like the story of one soldier, the story of the combat, the politics, many things beyond they shot us lets fire back. if this game even has a hint more story than that it could be pretty good.

RRoD stopped being an issue when MS released the Jasper revision, around September 08. The failure rate went from a little above 30% to 10%, dead even with the failure rate on PS3.

Coincidentally, the failure rate on the Wii is only 5% and a lot of major computer brands have failure rates much higher than 10%, but no one bitches about them. Acer's notebooks have a failure rate of 30% and Dell's is around 24%, iirc. Apple is very high too, at 17%. And as I said, I don't see people ragging on Apple for their failure rates.

17% and 54% as some Gamespot.com articles have stated is a big difference especially when the company in question knew about the fact that it cut corners to save money.

As for the PS3 gaining ground I'm not surprised add the fact that the PS3 hasn't been hacked which means all of the money from games will actually go to the company unlike the X-box 360 which has massive piracy which made for most of the X-box 360 console sale anyways.

I guess they either went through time and got the blueprints for the more spiffy gears or the armaments designers at Bungee just wanted them to look bad-ass and made their armor and weapon design more complex and detailed...

But I really don't care about the armor and weapons...I'm just waiting for some rule34 images and maybe a few Japanese hentai pictures to pop in after a week or two...

One of my favorite Halo hentai pictures was Loli-Cortana with a grunt fapping in the background...

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Video Games, Anime, Movies...

It's all about Hentai in the end for me...

Actually, ODST takes place during Halo 2. Not that continuity of weapons in a game really matters much.

I saw that and still thought sale numbers as huge as that should be mentioned.

I wonder about the next gen Nintendo. When will it come and how powerful will it be? A console as powerful as Xbox or PS3 that can run the old Wii titles could very well prove to be a killer.

Computing Power means nothing. It's how game developers do their games that matters. You can have pretty graphics but crappy gameplay.

...it's the cheapest console that anyone could afford and it's more family oriented.

not surprising cost less = sell more.

Nintendo markets to casual gamers plus they didn't go into HDTV which I am guessing a lot of people still own SDTV's.They offer a few DLC games which Nintendo made popular back in the days which are 8 bit games to 16 bit games a lot of people bought it.

Oh yeah, Artafact why didn't you mention that Sony offer the second episode of Gundam Unicorn on Playstation Network or bring up DC Online will come on the PS3?

"Computing Power means nothing. It's how game developers do their games that matters. You can have pretty graphics but crappy gameplay."

OR you can have both, as evidenced by most 3rd party Wii and DS titles.

but you would imagine if those 47.1 million units sold was the result of recursive RRoD you would wonder if its true

@ anon 3:39 95% of wii games are crap graphic and gameplay wise, how can you say "OR you can have both, as evidenced by most 3rd party Wii and DS titles."??

I guess I could have phrased that better, as that's EXACTLY what I meant, that nearly every 3rd party Wii and DS title has shit graphics and sloppy gameplay.

PS3 - $299
Xbox 360 - $299
Wii - $199

You're an idiot.

@Jeedwi: Actually the 360 is at $199 (Arcade SKU, now S console 4GB SKU). It even hit that pricepoint before the Wii.

I was pricing decent models. You can also get a cheaper Wii. But who's gonna buy an arcade 360? Or an unbundled wii? Serious.

But to pretend it's a 5 to 1 price gap is preposterous. Bad analogy is all I'm sayin'.

Show me this cheaper Wii. It was 250, now it's 200 and that's it.

Black Wii for 169.99

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Oh that's funny, when you load it up, it says 199.99! And a special temporary sale prices do not count. If it did, the 360 would only be a hundred bucks. You're an idiot.

No it's just we got starcraft 2 to keep us busy >_> No really guys it's a hoot :) can't wait for D3!

I am also a PC gamer because of the graphics failure that is the consoles, however I still you an xbox 360 for those games that are good and don't come out right away for PC: IE Alan Wake, Halo, Etc.

I approve of this thread :D

and you seem to forget two numbers, 13 & 14
I don't agree with the previous anon but ff is a bad example to use.

Final Fantasy has sucked dicks since FFX-2 was released. Anyone who continues to believe this series to be great is either an idiot or a delusional fanboy. As I said, for the last 5-7 years Jap devs have produced a lot of crap titles. And for the record, Squaresoft went downhill AFTER FFVI(III-US).

Why the fuck would I be an idiot for liking the FF after FFX-2?

I love FF because it has proven itself to me.
I love FF because it has impressed me enough times already.
I'm not abandoning one of my favorite series simply because "they haven't been as great as the older ones"
It has proven itself enough times already.
You make it sounds like we should like games and squeeze all the good stuff from it until there is no more and abandon it.

And for the record,I still love SquareEnix.
They still make beautiful games.

And I won't accept an internet troll to call me an idiot for liking something you don't

You can love it but never ever say that the FF13 and FF14 have saved the PS3

WOW >= FF14
FF13 and MGS4 might as well be called Movie games ^^.

PC >= to all though 0/w you can't read sankaku complex and type shit like this in ^^

You know what, for all the hype MGS4 got, I did not think it was that great. Uncharted 2 kicks the shit out of it, in graphics and cinematics, and they did not need fmv to do it either.

BluBlaze is fucking trash, just a clone of GuiltyGears and GG is so old, that it was on the PS2 AND Dreamcast.

Ninja Gaiden sucks ass, because it's far too difficult for anyone who's life does not revolve around games. Also, Ninja Gaiden debuted on xbox1, long before this generation of suck Jap titles.

Bayonetta, that's an exception to the rule. Although far too sexed up and full of useless animations. Like those photo op poses. As I said, most of the Jap games coming out in the last 5-7 years are shit.

"Western 3D hack 'n slasher"

this screams GOD OF WAR

but dont get me wrong i do not agree that japanese devs are crap.

and ninja gaiden did not originate on the XBOX you dumbass

look it up first before your mouth opens to spew idiotic garbage

The Ninja Gaiden rebirth sure as fuck did originate on xbox. No one here is talking about the old NES games, dumbass.

"BluBlaze is fucking trash, just a clone of GuiltyGears and GG is so old, that it was on the PS2 AND Dreamcast."

So Guilty Gear on Dreamcast and PlayStation 2 runs at 720p, not to mention feature the exact same character roster with the exact same movesets, the exact same designs, the exact same control setup, and the exact same backgrounds and soundtrack? Perhaps in the same way as Street Fighter III is "just a clone of" Street Fighter II, right?

Moron.

"Ninja Gaiden sucks ass, because it's far too difficult for anyone who's life does not revolve around games."

Scrub. Faggot. Grow a pair and lrn2block.

"'Western 3D hack 'n slasher'

this screams GOD OF WAR

but dont get me wrong i do not agree that japanese devs are crap."

I think of God of War as almost an exact opposite of Ninja Gaiden: instead of blocking and rolling most of the time and waiting for a chance to attack, in GoW you keep mashing the attack buttons most of the time (and keep grabbing the smaller ones for the ultimate in crowd control) and wait to roll out of the way from time to time. It gets old real fast, the one thing keeping the game(s) up are the constant appearance of new types of enemies and the Resident Evil-ish puzzles. Not bad games or anything, just not as good 3D hack 'n slashers as the Gaidens or Bayonetta.

I'm not japanese, but I have to agree whit Anon @ 5:07...
Japanese devs have done pretty much everything, from rpgs, fighting, racing, you name it, and they did it.
And what he said about the american or western devs, they all do FREAKING fps, lets face it, maybe one or two exception, but 90% of the western games are fps, crappy/mediocre shooting games that "only the typical stupid american meathead likes them" and it sucks how they feel the big shi* just because they play all day long in MW2, but you bring the topic of FFXIII or even MGS4(has happened to me) and they think you are a retarded just because like them and dont play MW2, halo or gears of wars...

Sadly, but a typical american thing from "gamers" wanna-be...

Signed... Someone from North America... :'(

Everything? I guess Tomb Raider, Price of Persia, Uncharted, GTA, Mass Effect, Nearly EVERY sports title and countless others originate from Japan then?

If you love Japan so much, move there and enjoy your generic story arcs and stereotyped cast. Because that's what exists in nearly every JRPGs, these days.

The worst offender being Star Ocean Sands of Time. loli cat-girl, gay elf, mature tit monster, traditional Japanese beauty and emo hero, all present and accounted for.

Don't know y'all, but I just have too much love for videogames to be restricted to just Japan's or USA's or Europe's great games and game designers.

I also have so much contempt for bad games, and more especifically for shit game designers and greedy game publishers, that I can't restrict it to just Japan's or USA's or Europe's shit games, game designers and publishers.

hey fuck off you stupid yank, we japanese basically single handedly created 90% of everything good in video game world from all the different developers to sony and nintendo it self,

True

what have you american created? microsoft? the xbox? what a fucking joke!

Bullshit.

all you're good for is crappy/mediocre shooting games, cod, l4d, halo, gow,fallout,bc,bioshock, all those games suck and only the typical stupid american meathead likes them.

Again, bullshit.

go stick your american flag up your ass and suck off your george bush blow up doll.

Well, I'm not american, perfect.

Also, I'm mainly playing JRPG. But Halo and Bioshock, among others, were very enjoyable game. So stop being even more retarded that the ones you criticize.

RROD units are replaced for free under warranty, with no extra sale involved. How many times do I have to say this?

"RROD units are replaced for free under warranty"
Hint: they're not lifetime warranties.

No. They are three-year warranties, but seeing as everyone's so keen to point out how they break down "in a matter of minutes", very few of these failures are outside of warranty.

So, definitely not into the millions.