Xbox 360 has been out for 3 years and has sold 28 million = 9.33 million per year.

PS3 has been out for 2 years and has sold 20 million = 10 million per year.

So which console is selling more??? Figure it out…………….

http://www.vgchartz.com/

Wii – 7.72M Japan
Wii – 21.36M America
Wii – 17.14M Others
Wii Total – 46.21M

X360 – 0.90M Japan
X360 – 16.03M America
X360 – 10.90M Others
X360 Total – 27.82M

PS3 – 2.79M Japan
PS3 – 7.64M America
PS3 – 9.41M Others
PS3 Total – 19.84M

Sooo…. Wii – #1 in Japan, #1 in the US, #1 in “Others”.

X360 – #3 in Japan, #2 in the US, #2 in “Others”.

PS3 – #2 in Japan, #3 in the US, #3 in “Others”.

Overall – Wii #1.

X360 #2, 18.39 million out of first place.

PS3 #3, 7.98 million out of 2nd place, 26.37 million out of first place.

700K difference > 30K difference

Then look at the WORLDWIDE sales figures, which is more, 10 million per year or 9.33 million per year??? YOU do the math.

Of those 26 months the Wii has been the #1 selling machine 23 times and the #2 selling machine 3 times. It has never slipped to 3rd place.

The Xbox 360 has been the #1 selling machine 3 times (the first two months the Wii came out and the month Halo 3 came out), the #2 selling machine 18 times and the #3 selling machine 5 times.

The PS3 on the other hand has NEVER been the #1 selling machine, it’s been the #2 selling machine just 5 times and has been the #3 selling machine 21 out of 26 months.

Month Wii X360 PS3
November-06 476,000 511,000 197,000
December-06 604,200 1,100,000 490,700
January-07 436,000 294,000 244,000
February-07 335,000 228,000 127,000
March-07 259,000 199,000 130,000
April-07 360,000 174,000 82,000
May-07 338,000 155,000 82,000
June-07 381,800 198,400 98,500
July-07 425,000 170,000 159,000
August-07 403,600 276,700 130,600
September-07 501,000 527,800 119,400
October-07 519,000 366,000 121,000
November-07 981,000 770,000 466,000
December-07 1,350,000 1,260,000 797,600
January-08 274,000 230,000 269,000
February-08 432,000 254,600 280,800
March-08 721,000 262,000 257,000
April-08 714,200 188,000 187,100
May-08 675,100 186,600 208,700
June-08 666,700 219,800 405,500
July-08 555,000 205,000 225,000
August-08 453,000 195,200 185,400
September-08 667,000 347,200 232,400
October-08 803,000 371,000 190,000
November-08 2,040,000 836,000 378,000
December-08 2,150,000 1,440,000 726,000

FACT – the Gamecube sold roughly 24 million (Not more) units in it’s ENTIRE lifetime.

FACT – the PS3 has sold 20 million units in it’s first 2 years (Or one quarter of it’s lifetime).

FACT – in order for the PS3 to be the next Gamecube it would have to sell a maximum of 500,000 units per year WORLDWIDE for the rest of it’s life!

FACT – you’d have to suffer from mental retardation to believe that’s what’s gonna happen.

I’m glad i could clear that up.

Also, for the 360 fanboys here wanting to compare numbers – chew on theese:

The 360 has sold 28 million in 3 years = 9.33 million per year.

The PS3 has sold 20 million in 2 years = 10 million per year.

In 3 years the PS3 will have sold an expected 30 million units – that’s MORE than what the 360 managed. So which console looks like the “Next Gamecube”??? Number’s really don’t lie………………

Also, don’t even get me started on Japaneese hardware sales……the 360 is the cheapest console on the market and still only holds single – digit market share??? It can’t sell 1 million units in THREE YEARS??? What the heck is wrong with it???

Next Gamecube? The Gamecube performed MUCH better than the 360…….the 360 should be called the “Next Dreamcast”.

Since you’re using VGchartz, check out the week to week sales from launch for the PS3 vs the original Xbox in America! Also, I decided to throw in GC just for fun… But remember, this is just for America. As you know, America does not [somehow] count for the rest of the world…

http://vgchartz.com/hwlaunch.php?cons1=XB&reg1=America&cons2=PS3&reg2=America&cons3=GC&reg3=America&weeks=120

BURN! I so went there!

I like this version much better than the one I read on this other site last night. Your flamesuit is quite robust, sir.

I think part of the problem with this generation is the excess of pundits. There are much too many people speculating and spinning numbers that it is rather hard to see what is truly going on.

But the bottomline is, that the Wii and the 360 are peaking at the moment, while the PS3 is just starting to gain steam (but for how long is really up to how soon Sony decides to permit a pricecut).

IMO, the PS3 launched a year too early. It only created a distraction in the market, and developers simply weren’t ready to take advantage of the hardware. I realize that would have had problems of its own (letting MS and Nin run wild without Sony’s check for an additional year), but they may have at least been able to avoid all the scrutiny, and a poor introduction.

But at the end of the day, the hardware has so much untapped potential, and it is much to early to call this a loss for them.

So let me say this, because me too I love to say something irrelevant. Globally, the X360 is much more like the gamecube then the ps3, and here the chart to back this up :

http://vgchartz.com/hwlaunch.php?cons1=GC&reg1=All&cons2=PS3&reg2=All&cons3=X360&reg3=All&weeks=156

Now move along, nothing to see here.

Sony, like Microsoft, has one big advantage over other would-be console sellers: they have many avenues for income. Nintendo could never afford to take a two-year console loss on a product line but Sony has its hands in so many markets this is just the price of doing business for them.

Really, if they were to drop the PS3 it wouldn’t be their games division making that decision, it would be the board getting sick of seeing negative losses on their balance sheets. And, that should only happen if the company itself was in a bad situation or the board didn’t have the vision for the game industry anymore.

Right now, I don’t see that happening. If Sony gets itself into trouble with its other streams of revenue than perhaps that would change. But, I don’t know about you, I still buy Sony equipment outside of gaming.