June 3rd 2011 8:11 am PT

The PS3 is the number one console in Europe and other countries. Worldwide PS3 has sold more then the Xbox 360

The graph shows the PS2 had a near identical up kick in it’s year 5 also.  Anyone know what caused that?

Any stats to back that up?

54 million 360′s worldwide
50 million PS3′s worldwide

Your numbers are off Steph

It shows how Kinect added value to Xbox 360 and how Move was the biggest fail since EyeToy.

Only Reason PS3 is doing good is because of  Blu Ray if didnt have that I would trade mine in

It makes me mad how microsoft’s twists everything to make themselves look better. This chart is not even close to being 100% accurate. First off, how the fuck is the xbox selling the same as the ps2 for its first 5 years!? That makes no fucking sense,at all. The ps2 is the best selling console ever so how  the hell does the xbox get close & even beat it on its 6 year I dont even… and then second of all, you’re ignoring the whole damn picture. The xbox is selling more than the ps3 ONLY in the US & just by a little bit, third of all if you count worldwide numbers the ps3 fucking DOMINATES the xbox, in japan the xbox only sells 2,000 units every week, ps3 sells 10 times that amount. & in europe, the ps3 sells TWICE as much as the xbox so fuck you majornelson & fuck you microsoft.

It just shows how Kinect added value to Xbox 360 and how Move was the biggest flop since EyeToy.

Major Nelson should have included in the stats: Number of credit card info stolen from Xbox Live: zero.

A quick google search will tell you that that the second statement is false…

These are great stats, but 1 thing the ps3 has an edge over the 360 is Quality & Games. And that is something the xbox360 and Microsoft will never achieve, you can pull off record breaking numbers, that dosen’t change the fact that the console is a pos and is slowing down in the exclusive department. Where are the games Microsoft? Are you only Kinect focused, casual focused? Forgot who the people where who actually supported you from day 1?

I cannot wait to see what you have in store for us at e3, im not expecting much , but i’ll be surprised if you can show us at least 2 new exclusive Ip’s.

Like i said before, pull of numbers, it dosen’t matter because what matters are the games, and they aren’t coming in on the 360 system. The ps3 is dethroning the 360 in terms of games and Quality built system.

Might i add, there is actually an official ps blog, something Microsoft is too cheap to invest in. Sorry Major but all you are doing right now is flaming and making yourself look like a Moron.

According to VGChartz:-Xbox 360 has 54.0M sales worldwide sales.-PS3 has 50.6M worldwide sales.These
of course, are not 100% accurate but VGchartz is the only one out there
making a legitimate attempt to obtain accurate numbers. Although, they
are usually a month behind.We can, of course, assume that Larry’s numbers are slightly more up to date.VGchartz also offers numbers for individual regions:America: Xbox = 31.8M, PS3 = 19.8MEurope: Xbox = 20.7M, PS3 = 24.2MJapan:  Xbox = 1.5M, PS3 = 6.7M

there are a few markets where the Playstation brand has always been strong (France,…) but I would have to see some proof of your claims. In the US the xbox is the clear winner, but even though in europe the fight is more even, think i have yet to see any proof that sony has sold more than M$

there are a few markets where the Playstation brand has always been strong (France,…) but I would have to see some proof of your claims. In the US the xbox is the clear winner, but even though in europe the fight is more even, think i have yet to see any proof that sony has sold more than M$

I have one hope, and that is that the rest of Europe, so not only the UK but France, Belgium, Germany, Netherlands,… get some new features too. It’s not impossible to give us last FM for example, we miss SO much because we don’t live in the US, while Europe is still one of your biggest markets.

I have one hope, and that is that the rest of Europe, so not only the UK but France, Belgium, Germany, Netherlands,… get some new features too. It’s not impossible to give us last FM for example, we miss SO much because we don’t live in the US, while Europe is still one of your biggest markets.

yeah, the graph does seem to have been made, in order to show one angle of the truth…

yeah, the graph does seem to have been made, in order to show one angle of the truth…

A.  Stay classy with the swearing.
B.  Learn to read graphs… This isn’t a continuous graph, it’s a graph of sales EACH YEAR… the PS2 was way ahead of the XBOX… I don’t know what you’re looking at, but clearly you are confused.

Again, stay classy, champ.

A.  Stay classy with the swearing.
B.  Learn to read graphs… This isn’t a continuous graph, it’s a graph of sales EACH YEAR… the PS2 was way ahead of the XBOX… I don’t know what you’re looking at, but clearly you are confused.

Again, stay classy, champ.

yeah, the rest of europe (portugal in my case) has no special services offered, which is a big minus. we don’t even have access to indie-community games, let alone netflix/lovefilm

You aren’t reading the graph correctly. The line representing the PS2 in the first few years is much steeper than the Xbox 360. It’s just obscured by the purple Wii line right on top of it.

Also, the PS2 is the best selling console of all time in terms of total sales. This plot is showing the rate of sale. not the total sales. As you can see from the graph, about 40% PS2 sales were after the 5 year price drop. (Which causes the rise at 5 years)

Wow, someone definetely let the trolls in this time.

Im sure if Sony wasted 500M they would get the same results as Kinect. But Sony plays their cards smart and offers something for every game from Casuals to Hardcore. Unlike Kinect where it just offers to 1 specific region of gamers, the move supports games like Resident evil ,killzone and on top of that even supports those stupid casual games everybody gets bored of.

What does ‘normalized’ mean in this context?

Wouldn’t histograms be better for this data, so they don’t imply continuity between points?

Yeah, I agree. Give us Last.FM and a VidZone-like app (in Zune e.g.) and we’re set.
Plus I really think MS should reconsider their subscription models. I mean, paying for Gold (multiplayer) is fine, but paying for Netflix and Hulu Plus on top is not funny. It should be usable by Silver (Xbox Free) members. Anything that has an additional sub should be for every console user, not just Gold members, keeping free stuff like Facebook and Twitter Gold exclusive I could live with, so you just pay once for everything.

“Microsoft has now sold 55 million Xbox 360 consoles across 38 countries and sales are accelerating.”
Does that include all of the second/ third..etc purchases due to a broken console?

How great would it be if as Microsoft is giving one of these barchart presentations, a “c-c-c-c-combo breaker” comes on from the Killer Instinct game and it gets announced! =)  Come on Major, Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat have both done impressively well and Killer Instinct is one fighter that would be “Only on Xbox.”

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Obviously, it’s not like they only count the first one you buy. A unit sold is a unit sold (profit).

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Wikipedia says that as of March 2011 Xbox 360 has 53.6 Million units sold worldwide and PS3 is at 50 million.  The sources used by Wikipedia are reportings from Microsoft and Sony.  Look up “Console Wars” on wikipedia to see this info.

Possibly the slim PS2 release?

Possibly the slim PS2 release?

As a guess, its either because it hit a price point ($150US?) or some hard hitting games released (ie, GT4 and GTA:SA for two)

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I totally agree. If Xbox had Blu-ray it would be no. 1 everywhere

Yeah I can’t believe there are so many Sony fanboys that read Major Nelson’s page.

Also, it says that the source of the numbers for the graph are from the NPD, so I don’t think Larry twisted those numbers around at all.

first of all:

Learn how to read graphs

Second of all:

Try to fail with class. Talking like a butthurt fanboy doesn’t help, it just makes you look stupid.

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I’ve been waiting for Killer Instinct since part 2 came out.. also
that’s where my name came from, to tribute Killer Instinct, my favorite
fighting game ever (Ninja=Jago – Combo= Breaker/Character).

I remember there was a rumor last year about Killer Instinct’s music
being leaked, yet no other thing has been said about the game. With
rumors talking about Rare having a showing of a game other than Kinect
Sports 2, I’m just dying to hear the words “Killer Instinct 3, coming
exclusively to the Xbox 360 later this year, being better with Kinect”

One can dream right? I’ve been doing it for the past 10 years or so.

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Quality?  Sony?  That had better have been sarcasm in light of recent news invovling their PSN and other services (which define the gaming experience and cut down whatever else you might try to cite in their unreasonable defense.)
 
And as for exclusives, on what evidence do you base yourself on?  Sales of Halo Reach versus Killzone 2?  Pre-orders of GOW3 versus Resistance 3?  Where do you get off making claims of “Dethroning” when at every turn the 360 is outcompeting the PS3 (at the critics and at retail) and still taking greater, and greater sections of the PS2′s once robust line-up of exclusives (are GTA 4 and FFXIII that far removed from your short attention span that you can’t see what they represent?  Sony’s loss, and Microsoft’s great gain as their direct competitor.  And this isn’t idle flaming, just look at the data if your mind is still grounded in fact as opposed to fiction.)

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Normalized: consoles are put on the same starting point to compare equivalent year sales.

Line graphs show trends better.

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Don’t discourage him too much.  Where else would I get such a good laugh?

So what’s the “other angle of the truth?”

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Curiously, haven’t heard a peep from Wii fanboys.  

55 million sold as of when? today, yesterday, the end of may when exactly?

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Sadly Xbox Live Indie Games is STILL not released in finland. What a Hinderance.

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Only problem for me with the Xbox is that Netflix sucks on it. It does for me, anyway. Constant hiccups where it brings up an incredibly jarring black screen saying “adjusting for changes in the network”. Then 10 to 15 minutes later it happens again. It’s unwatchable. I’m sure if I had uber FiOS internet I’d be fine, but I don’t. Meanwhile my iPad 2 streams Netflix flawlessly in HD to my TV (via HDMI adapter). Now it’s true that it does so by using more compression, but that’s because it is scaling to my internet connection, and it’s a ton better then the constant hiccups I get with the Xbox. All the Xbox needs to do is scale better for lower bandwidth internet connections. Just as the iPad 2 does.

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whats up with avator kinect and whan it coming

Looks like your internet sucks. Noob 

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Hey Major Nelson….How is Japan treating ya in sales….oops…

Ok, US sales aren’t impressive when you pin them against the world. I’m sorry, but bad journalist using these titles for BS isn’t impressive either. 

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Crunc, I don’t have FiOS or “blazing fast” internet but netflix HD works fine for me. Maybe you should call your ISP and see if they can do something on their end? I have multiple Netflix devices and out of all of them my 360 is my favorite. It’s a great feature but obviously only when it works well.

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well… its selling well, but maybe not as crushingly well as the Major would want us to believe. Sony is closing down, but I think the 360 is holding its ground

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Major Nelson, I am a big Xbox fan, but I would like to see some kind of retrospective on the red ring of death fiasco and how that has impacted revenue. I would also like to see the final word on what ended up causing it all and how they fixed it.

I think an honest discussion of the matter would do a lot to strengthen the Xbox brand that much more. I am personally curious because of my background in finance and economics. 

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Well  at least Microsoft  are doing something right

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xbox360 is the best

xbox360 is the best

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No dreamcast?

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i think i Achievements and gamerscores and i awards are going to be posted up on
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And it only took until year four until you made a working console. Cheers.

What I notice is this console has extensive life left, that being said I want a next-gen console now. Hopefully Fall of 2012 for MS.

Also, congrats to Nintendo on the Wii 2 and welcome to the current-gen.

Yeah, I somehow have a feeling they are going to keep that under wraps. What I have a problem with is in a way it just made MS more money. I have bought two 360′s and will probably buy a slimmy by the end of the year.

The average consumer has no interest in learning why earlier generational products suffered failure.

To suggest discussing said issues “strengthens” the brand–when the brand is Microsoft–is utterly laughable.

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That you would buy another console in the fact of the products then defects said a hell’ve lot about the brand, more so than any spokesperson having an earnest discussion.

Doubly important, how’s Japan handling the constant embarrassment that is Sony’s entertainment division?

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Do you have a problem parsing information?

“Microsoft has **now** [i.e., as of present date] sold 55 million Xbox 360 consoles across 38 countries and sales are accelerating.”

“Is slowing down in the exclusive department.”

Gamers of modern generation consoles no longer care about third-party exclusives, and rightfully so. Today’s gaming Interest has pointedly shifted to “shared participation,” a la the “Live” experience—something neither Sony nor Wii can lay claim to besting.
 
Further, third-party “exclusives” are decidedly anti-inclusive and is a trend gamers should decry at every turn. One should not have to own five different consoles merely to play a *third-party* (prohibitive) title.
The rest of your nonsensical diatribe doesn’t merit response.

I demand you stop making sense at once!

^_~

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Last I checked, the Xbox 360 was running a 10% gain Year-Over-Year in sales in the EMEAA market, against losses that Sony and Nintendo were running.  That being said, up until the Wii pricecut, Nintendo had a substantial loss in business percentage wise.  Sony still was tops in sales but its sales loss was equal to Microsoft’s sales gain.

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Better than it was treating Nintendo.  At one point, Wii sales were near Xbox 360 territory with weekly sales under 10,000 units, and coming in only 7,000 units more sold than the Xbox 360.  Nevertheless, the Xbox 360 sales in Japan are the most consistent.  Where as both Sony and Nintendo have seen major percentage losses in sales.

If Microsoft could figure out a way to “win” in Japan (i.e. sell consistently above 10,000 units per week), they would likely top world sales charts.  With sales in North America the way they are, Microsoft doesn’t actually need to sell as many units in Japan.  But it does need to sell more than 2,000 on average per week.

So far this year, Microsoft has seen sales gains in two of three terrorities, and is seeing relatively consistent (flat) sales in another.  Up until the price cut, Nintendo had seen sharp declines with significant double-digit losses.  Sony has generally seen losses, however they’re pretty consistently in the 10% or less range.  I don’t think anything higher than 15% that I’ve seen or recall.

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Wow, I am impressed by your vocabulary, but less impressed that you try to hide your ignorance behind it.

You honestly believe exclusives don’t matter? Let’s see how up in arms everyone will be if Epic Games – who, by the way, owns ALL rights to the Gears of War franchise – decides to port the entire trilogy to PS3 sometime after Gears 3 comes out for 360 (which at least one Epic exec has hinted at, by the way). Oh, I imagine there will be a LOT of complaining.

Your logic is what is nonsensical. If you have three systems and all three systems have the same games there’s no market division. Yes, the online play is a market division, but do you HONESTLY believe Nintendo and Sony are going to lag behind much longer? So what you’re saying is exclusives don’t matter because Xbox Live is better, but once Sony and Nintendo have online services equal to (or better than) Xbox Live, Microsoft will be in a world of hurt.

Exclusives DO MATTER. Would Nintendo still exist without their first- and third-party exclusives? Hell no. Would Sony still have their massive group of dedicated fans without their first- and third-party exclusives? Again, hell no. This idea that you can make every game multiplatform and retain console identity and profitability over time is a complete logical fallacy.

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Don’t really care about these numbers. Just don’t mess up Xbox Live like Sony did with PSN. They seriously need to unscrew the situation asap.

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“2.1 billion entertainment hours a month.” with that much time we could reinvent the world, or build something to get off this world.

i think this is 239,726 years.

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As good as these figures are, the majority of hardcore gamers are not interested in Kinect.  We want a console capable of playing games like Halo in full 1080p, not 640p like Halo 3.

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Either way, there’s still only 720 hours in a month..if you had everybody on xbox working on  a huge industrial project for the month, it with STILL be 720 hours. With that “2.1 billion” hour stat, they are showing it off like this: You and your friend sit there an play a game for 5 hours, there’s two of you so isn’t that 10 hours of gaming? No. It’s still only 5 hours.

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Then you have to wait for the pc version!

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Eh blame that on Bungie. The engine they were using wouldn’t support it.

Its fixed, finally. I got my 4 free games out of it. But I think they need to do something crazy with Live this year and innovate. I know there’s talk of Xbox Live Diamond which may have a tv subscription with it, but we need something awesome that’s worth us paying $60 a year for

Exclusives screw everyone out of experiencing great games. I’m all for first party exclusives, but 3rd party hurts the fans. Say someone can’t afford to own all three systems, then they can’t experience Gears of War or Uncharted or (can’t think of a good Wii 3rd party exclusive). Microsoft and Sony may publish those games, but the’yre developed by 3rd party companies. 

This is why I’m very very happy to see Konami releasing both the Metal Gear Solid HD collection and the Zone of Enders HD collection to both the PS3 and the 360. Everyone who didn’t have a PS2 back in the early 2000′s can finally experience the awesomefest that is Zone of Enders 1 and 2

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 What exactly are “Normalized” Sales? I’m looking at the data I collected and it differ from this graphic. Thanks.

Congratulations, I am happy that the Xbox 360 is doing well into it’s sixth year, but why not show how the tail of the Wii and PS3 look, are theirs upwards as well or have they not released their “normalized” sales?

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Good work, Jeff.  You just proved to Microsoft that while we may be gamers, we are not idiots.

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Maybe because the Xbox360 was launched November 2005, while the Wii and PS3 were only available from November 2006? So only the Xbox 360 has reached year 6 but Wii and PS3 have only reached year 5.

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Those numbers are very easy to explain: first, all the 3RROD consoles and second all the modded consoles that got banned, making these same people buy the same console for the 2nd or even 3rd time, just to get 3RRODs or banned once again. Still, I love my 360!

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