PS3 Surpasses X360 in Europe, 12-million Sold Worldwide
Update: Sony has stated that, as of today, there are 12 million PlayStation 3s sold worldwide. - Arnold K. Well, the PlayStation 3's reign over the Xbox 360 continues. While it looked like a rough road ahead for Sony earlier on, the PlayStation 3 is now the next-gen leader in two out of the three prime regions. Today, at the PlayStation Day media event in London, David Reeves, the CEO of SCEE, has announced that the PlayStation 3 has toppled the Xbox 360's sales in Europe.
See Full ImageThat's right, there are now more PS3 owners in the hands of gamers, than there are Xbox 360s. "We have sold more PlayStation 3s throughout Europe than the Xbox 360, even though they launched 14 months before us," he said. What's important about this is that at this pace, the PlayStation 3 is well on its way to overtaking the Xbox 360's global sales, as well.
North America is the only major territory Sony has to compete against Microsoft, and with recent hardware sales seeing the PlayStation 3 outselling or tying the Xbox 360, Microsoft has a lot to worry about. While we don't know exactly how many PlayStation 3's have been sold worldwide, we do know this: over five million PlayStation 3's have been sold in Europe. Of that five in Europe, three million PS3s are connected to the PlayStation Network. Worldwide eight million PS3s are connected to PSN, which is an indication of the PS3's sales surpassing the 10-million mark considerably.
5/6/2008 Arnold Katayev
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Ed_Wayne
Tuesday, May 06, 2008 @ 1:50:23 PM
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Until then, lets enjoy the fact that we have better exclusives than them starting just one month from now and not stopping, ever.
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Fabi
Tuesday, May 06, 2008 @ 2:49:15 PM
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All I ever knew was Playstation since '98. Everybody I knew had one. I didn't even actually see an X-Box in person until the end of it's life - when my friend came back from the Marines and was adicted to Halo 2.
Now all of a sudden, all you hear is 'X-Box 360'. Everywhere. You don't see Gamestop having midnight releases for any PS3 games. And whenever you see a multi-platform game being shown, there's always a 360 controller in the person's hand.
Examples: X-Play, GameTrailers.com
I can't wait until the Playstation brand becomes the household name it used to be.
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Ed_Wayne
Tuesday, May 06, 2008 @ 9:04:29 PM
I don't know how the 360 got so popular either.
All I know is, Gears of War came out and then PS3 launched and all you heard was PS3 sucks, PS3 sucks. Gears of War is awesome. Here comes Halo 3.
Following that news, about 12 million people ran out and bought 360's.
Anyway, I can't wait for FFXIII, God of War 3 and Team ICOs next game.
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Dustinwp
Tuesday, May 06, 2008 @ 3:33:36 PM
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ArnoldK PSXE [Administrator]
Tuesday, May 06, 2008 @ 3:56:01 PM
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Schmitty
Tuesday, May 06, 2008 @ 5:08:49 PM
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ThePoetRazel
Tuesday, May 06, 2008 @ 5:33:50 PM
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btw, Wikipedia has it as 13 million. lol
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Fabi
Tuesday, May 06, 2008 @ 9:23:14 PM
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Even more impressive.
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ArnoldK PSXE [Administrator]
Tuesday, May 06, 2008 @ 10:42:29 PM
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Jdogtoocool
Friday, May 09, 2008 @ 2:17:16 PM
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Warukyure [Power User]
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Tuesday, May 06, 2008 @ 1:12:20 PM