Report: PS3 Catching Up With XBOX 360 Worldwide Sales

[KB24SD]

PS3 catching up with Xbox 360 shipments worldwide

Sony reported 3.7 million PS3 unit sales worldwide for Q2 of fiscal year 2011 (which ended September 30), bringing its life-to-date total to 55.5 million units and improving on its year over year Q2 sales by around 200,000. Just last month, Microsoft touted 57.6 million shipped units of the Xbox 360 worldwide, bringing Sony within sight of the vaunted number two position behind Wii (Nintendo reported 89.36 million units shipped as of October).

While Sony's document says "sales," it's difficult to tell whether that refers to sales to consumers ("sell-through") or shipments to retail ("sell-in"). Both competitors' numbers refer to shipments.

Link:

http://www.joystiq.com/2011/11/02/ps...nts-worldwide/

All Sony has to do easily pass them next year is pay the big chunk of $$$ to secure exclusive time based DLC for GTA V this time around and it will be game over and Sony can put XBOX 360 in it's rear view mirror

[xXI GaMe IXx]

[Icemage]

Does anyone care which HD console finishes where at this point? It's not like 3rd party support for the PS3 or 360 is going to evaporate overnight no matter what the sales numbers look like. A few million here or there compared to 50+ million total install base is pretty meaningless.

If anything, the Wii would be dominating everything else, if Nintendo was able to convince anyone to actually buy non-casual software for it instead of the HD consoles they also own. Fortunately for both Sony and Microsoft, they haven't, so software sales for both of the HD consoles remain fairly robust while the Wii's continue to fall off a cliff.

[Wingman1977]

Here's my prediction for this thread:

[Elandyll]

Not really any need for lockage, but there is already a thread on the same subject:

https://forum.blu-ray.com/blu-ray-ga...e-holiday.html

[Hayabusa85]

It has been closing for years. Patriotism the only reason 360 has kept a slight lead TBH