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Microsoft got off to a flyer this console generation, with a delayed PS3 launch and a joke machine from Nintendo handing it the serious home market for a few easy years. But PS3 has finally, inevitably, edged into the lead on a global basis.
Figures released by analyst IDC claim that as of December 2012, total PS3 shipments hit 77 million units around the world, with Sony’s box finally edging ahead of Microsoft’s 76 million Xbox 360 sales.
It’s not a clear win, though. In the enormous US market, Xbox 360 has always been ahead and is stretching its lead every month. Just last night, Microsoft was celebrating its 24th consecutive month of outselling the PS3 in the US, with Sony’s global sales lead coming from better performances in Japan and parts of Europe. [CVG]
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YAAAAAAAAY!
1. Inbuilt Blu-ray player.
2. Inbuilt Wi-Fi adapter.
3. No online subscription.
I believe the new XBox has a built in WiFi adapter, but yes! Superior console, IMO. Going to miss XrossMediaBar, it’s so intuitive.
4. Shit gamepad.
5. Slow to download game patches (compared to xbox360).
6. The laughable installation process after downloading a game/demo.
7. Annoying interface that’s barely changed.
8. Sony.
P.S. My xbox 360 has built in wi-fi, as do all made in the last few years. I own both consoles but the PS3 is just my blu-ray player now.
Superior gamepad, game patches don’t take long at all, is the installation process that bad? Recent updates have made it better… And the user interface is vastly superior to the XBox, which is basically just adverts. Everywhere.
PS3′s UI is stale, was great when it was released but has barely evolved, just like the inferior gamepad. Compared to an xbox the experience of updating and installing games/demos really is a joke that took way too long to even slightly improves. Plus PS Move has to be the biggest joke ever. Less decent exclusives haven’t helped either, especially this christmas which was laughable.
See my reply to your other comment, the UI is simple, all I care about for a UI is shortest steps to get to what I want, and that’s quicker on PS3. XBox might look better, but PS3 is easier to use, and much quicker. The gamepad is so superior on XBox – there’s no extra weight, just what you need. You do have a point about updates, but remember, XBox had a year-2 years over the PS3 to sort out their online system. PS Move is a joke, but Kinect isn’t much better. The only exclusive I’ve ever cared about on either platform was Gran Turismo, sorry.
I bought the PS Move and I’m happy with it for 3 reasons: Tumble, Top Darts and Time Crisis. Killzone 3 with the PS Move sharpshooter is a hoot to play as well. So if the Move is a joke, then what level of hilarity is the Kinect? “Better with Kinect” usually means “We used the microphones on the expensive camera thingy rather than the headset so you feel justified in purchasing it”. Although on NYE there was a kinect involved, and drunk people playing fruit ninja or hole in the wall was a giggle…
Another advantage to PS3 is I don’t need a subscription for basic online features that are free on everything else (online gaming, facebook, iplayer, etc) or to use another subscription based service like Netflix.
I guess the Xbox does have better backwards compatibility and cross game chat, but I’ve never understood the desire for that on the PS3. I’d find it distracting playing one game while chatting to someone who’s playing a different game. As for the controllers, it’s all personal preference as to which is better. I’ll use either controller and not really care. They’re both as good as eachother.
I’m not a massive fan of kinect either but at least it doesn’t look like a glow in the dark dildo
It vibrates too…
Ah yes kinect, I remember when I first used mine on my Playstation 2, now wait that was Playstation EyeToy where Microsoft stole the idea from…Dont get me wrong, Ive had a PS3 and 360 from day one, i prefer my PS3, microsoft havent ever really done anything origional, Kinect is basically Sonys Eye Toy…
Ah, I forogot about 3 rings of Devil!
The Xbox has inbuilt Wifi too…
I switched to PS3 2 years ago.
Now way id pay for such a gash online service where nobody speaks! All the youtube gamer vids are PC or XBOX!
PS3 will always be a boys toy, XBOX 360 is a gamers console!
Nobody speaks? I beg to differ, daily Modern Warfare 3 game lobbies say different story
XBOX Live is just adolescent gobshite yanks giving a running commentary on what they’re doing.
They’re both toys, running ancient hardware and games purchases are outrageously expensive.
If you want to be classified as a real ‘gamer’ you play PC, it’s simple.
(PS3 is the better console though)
They also had a year head start and a cheaper console.
And lost of the sales for Xbox would be down to people buying 2nd ones
True.
ah some sweet old fashioned fanboyism – I remember the days before Apple hit it big when it was Xbox vs Playstation, they were REAL arguments!
Very True, 70% of my Xbox playing friends have had to buy 2 or even three consoles due to RROD!! shoddy build!
Had the original 60GB PS3 since it was released and still use it every other day, got a new Xbox s aswell, looks better than the PS3 but the OS is a fucking joke, just adverts everywhere even though I pay for the Live service I still get Ad’s on every page!
PS3 Cross Media Bar is alot faster and slicker (even if it dosn’t look as good), Plus PS3 exclusives are better – Uncharted , Resistance, GT5 to name a few.
Dont forget “The Last of Us”.
That game looks epic
Winning!
I could never get used to that horrible little ps3 controller again. Also much prefer the xbox dashboard, but im not an xbox fanboy by a long stretch.
And i wish nobody spoke on it, feckin kids never shut up on there. Should even be on COD.
Kids shouldnt be playing COD, not should. Obviously.
Kids shouldnt be playing COD…. irritating little f*cks!
irrelivent….. MS make a profit from xbox sony make a loss from PS3….
MS dont lose your details, sony do….
The xbox live service vs the sony….. dont make me laugh you get what you pay for….
The PS3 has blu-ray going for it, most people i know only use it for that and have xbox for gaming.
But the PS3 is superior… More powerful, easier to use.
Bullshit. I have both console, since day one.
He is 100% right about the power, it is more powerful, but it doesnt use all the power so basically they wasted a load of money. No game yet used 100% of PS3 and the PS4 will be out before they do. Which is why they lost so much money on PS3.
However PS3 being easier to use than Xbox???? please…..
I know on paper it is more powerful, just yet to see it. I always choose the xbox 360 version when a game is released on both due to better user experience and better pad.
Was really disappointed in 2012 by the exclusive PS3 games too.
Is that not the point to make it more powerfull than possible, they wanted a 10 year lifespan for the console.
And before anyone says XboxLive is better than PS+ they are mega wrong.
Xbox live is the same a no subscription for PS3. But if you buy the PS3 you get actual content, not just the ability to go online and buy demos.
I was given Batman Arkham City, Crysis 2, Reddead Redemption & a fuck load more games, since paying for PS+ in August.
If you like adverts everywhere go for Xbox.
I have both consoles too… The PS3 is miles easier to use, and much much more powerful. And I grew up with the PS2 pad, the XBox pad is far too heavy, an awkward shape, and why the hell does it have the left analog stick so far away?!!?!??!?!? It’s complete balls, IMO.
You obviously have either child like or deformed hands
I’m 6.7, I have massive hands
. (You know what they say about big hands… big gloves 
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Small cock?
Cant agree with you there, the xbox controller is so much better than the PS3 and more comfortable to use.
This is entirely my opinion, by the way – loads of my mates prefer the XBox, and they’re perfectly entitled to! I really don’t want this to become personal
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MS Fanboy strikes again … you could at least quote benchmarks to prove your point
Spinless dipshit strikes again. How the fuck can you benchmark someone’s personal preference between two console that they own??? If I was a fanboy as you say I would only own one of them, instead of being on my second of each console.
PS3 – For exclusives.
360 – For exclusives.
Wii/Wii U – Nope.
PC – Everything else.
This.
If I can get a game on PC vs anything else, it’s the PC every time.
The exclusives for the 360 never really grabbed my attention, and a paid for online service to me is laughable after being used to years of free online gaming on the PC.
Eurgh, console fan boys are the worst. They all sound like they’re 14.
Personally, I prefer the PS3. I find the controller is more comfortable, even though those rear triggers are dumb and I find the exclusives to be more attractive than the ones on the Xbox. I also don’t play online enough to justify paying for it.
And that Cross media bar is divine! It makes sense and looks great. It’s classy. The Xbox menu system is a bit fisher Price.
That’s interesting, I own an Xbox and Sony Blu-ray and find the cross media bar to be, frankly, dreadful. I’ve not used a PS3 for about 18 months and am assuming it’s roughly the same!
It’s such a slow and clunky experience and I can find everything on my Xbox is just a couple of buttons.
Also, every third time I turn the Blu-ray player on, it updates…
Youre doing it wrong if you cant find everything….
I didn’t say I couldn’t find everything, I know where everything is.
What I’m saying is that I don’t find the UI very intuitive or easy to use.
Try turning it on more often, then it’ll only update every 10th time :p
Or PS+ as it updates for you when its off
The Wii may be a “joke machine”, but to date it is by far the leading console in sales figures of that generation.
I LOVE the wii. Always had the sega and nintendo consoles back from the original master system and NES, I get bored of all this ‘serious’ gamer rubbish. Since when were games meant to be serious? Oh right, they’re not. they’re GAMES! The only ‘serious’ or ‘hardcore’ side to PS and Xbox games is that they involve far more blood and guts and shooting folk which personally I can do without. Nintendo have pretty much revolutionised the gaming market in their hardware and software with the wii in the way they have been innovating for the past 30 years. Anyone that denegrates them clearly haven’t played games like super mario galaxy, or the legend of zelda, as these series have consistently proven to be some of the very best, more original, innovative, downight extraordinary games out there. We have a PS3 in the apartment. We use it for watching movies. Go figure.
Ps3 was always built to outlive the 360 so i was gunna happen eventually, Still can’t believe the ps2, 13 years and still the best selling console.
I love it how xboxers always throw in, “we’ve got xbox live”
PAHAHAHAHAA I just split another rib!!!!!!!
What the hell is going on here? I thought Gizmodo was for a more adult audience.
Both consoles are great, both have strengths and weaknesses. End of.
I’m personally looking forward to the next-gen, can imagine the PS4 to be quite expensive though……
This is a feud that will never end….it will turn grown men into children again, mainly because gayboxers, I mean xboxers will never accept they have the inferior machine!
Ha! This! too true.
I hope Apple decides to release a console just for the epic fanboy war that would erupt from it.
I hope this also! Apple TV with Apps and a controller would own the market!
I just wanted to make it clear that these figures were ‘shipments’ and NOT ‘sales’.
So, yes there are more shipped PS3′s out there, but for all we know there could be millions of PS3′s unsold in a storage unit somewhere.
It is unlikely, but unless someone knows the actual number of sales then this is all a bit pointless.
You will never know the actual sales number, but more PS3′s have been ordered and shipped than the Xbox.
Took it’s time, but for a while it was the most expensive console on the market. now it’s usually cheaper then the Xbox but with better specs (Blu Ray, 8 Controller support compared to only 4 on the Xbox, free online, you get use to whatever pad you use so I’m not getting into that bullshit, what I think better exclusive games like Uncharted 1, 2 & 3, GT5 etc…
I have both consoles (Xbox S recently bought for playing online with my fiends who have xbox) and it is a very very good console, even though it is ridden with Ad’s and you have to pay for a bloody live subscription!
But the PS3 is defiantly my choice of console for a full system, the OS is much slicker, I’m not sure why people are complaining about download speeds of the PS3, it’s pretty much the same as the Xbox and it downloads in the background!? Had all of the on demand services for years now and a browser since the start (with flash)! and it doesn’t break after a year like the older Xbox’s did!!
8 controllers? I thought the pre release model had support for 7, but then Sony reduced this to 4…. plus room left for extra devices e.g. bluetooth headsets.
Could be wrong.
Regarding controller and XMB, I’d be glad if these were passed on to PS4 unchanged.
I have had 8 Player Fifa before, defiantly not reduced it as we played 6 Player last week.
I would like the XMB on the PS4 but with a bit more zazz somehow, and proper apps and multitasking.
Cant wait for the PS4 / New Xbox, I will be getting what ever comes first as I know they will both be very good and competitive.
How is “the PS3 is more powerful” an argument? NEITHER console have really been pushed to the limits, so it’s a complete non-argument. Combine that with the fact that most of the best games are cross-platform and, well, I rest my case.
I’m slightly envious of a couple things on PS3 (LBP, Linux), and the adverts on a service I’m already paying for do piss me off, but neither console has any major advantage over the other. Seriously, the bickering makes you lot look like a bunch of kids in a playground.
oh, and bluray support is a joke. other than for my Xbox, I haven’t used an optical drive for years…
Neither console has been pushed to it’s limits? Are you out of your fucking mind?
360 runs a Tri-Core PPC processor and is coupled with what is essentially an ATi x1800 i.e. 7 generations old graphics architecture and 512mb of RAM.
PS3 essentially runs a 7 core PPC processor and is once again, coupled with what is essentially a stripped down Nvidia 7800 which goes back 6 generations and 256mb RAM. I’m not sure how optimised the code running on the processor is for most games, but I know for a fact that Killzone 3 pretty much has all cores running 100% at all times.
BOTH consoles were pushed to their limits a long time ago, it’s pretty evident when you play the same game on a console after having played it on a PC prior.
They’re both old hat and need to stop holding back development of amazing looking games.
only because asia are haterz of msft. well mainly japan. but ps3 only good for blu-ray and thats where xbox has always slacked.
I got a 360. Wish I got a ps3 instead, would’ve probably used it more.