I say that because they beat Sony in April and March. Yes I know Sony won January and February. But I seriously thought MS would have got May because neither system really put out a system seller in May.

But congrats to Sony.

I wish they MS or Sony do something about the Wii. I mean, I love seeing Nintendo thrive after being roughed up the last two console generations, But geez,

Edit @ guy below me- Yeah, I have no doubt that Metal Gear will give Sony a sure win in June. Only a madman would question that. Heck MGS might have some impact that spills into July as well

So now, on the day MGS4 is released, NPD reports PS3 sold more than 360 in May,

Certainly not me!

dudes that wii is a monster, i bought my first one in may lol.

Ps3 Rules

Japan is OURS, Europe is OURS and America is NEXT! SWINE- you are paying for your sins! Judgment Day is just the beginning!

Rest in Peace, FLOPbox 360- November 22nd 2005- June 12th 2008.

MWAH-HA-HA-HA!!!

.... if this is true, whick it prolly is but you know... wait for the offical release of the numbers to be 100%

Why is there a pic of PS3? the Wii and DS killed all platforms lol. The rest of the platforms are somewhat close you'd have to think who really won this battle the console companies with their console sales or the fact software sales will be the bigger factor in the end.

since MGS4 was right around the corner, numbers are pretty low.

how any of you can still sit there and say the Wii is a fad or isn't compeating with the 360 or PS3. In a sense I guess you are right because it isn't compeating with them, its crushing them. I expected more from both Sony and MS. I expect a price drop soon for both consoles because they have to do something to try and compete with the Wii.

Hobokin New Jersey?:)

XD ps3 outsold 360 in May when mgs4 wasn't even out. The june NDP will be very interesting. PS3 may now outsell 360 every single month in the US down the road. When gears2 hits the ps3 will counter with resistance 2; granted that gears 2 is more popular, but it may not push the 360 sales pass the ps3.

how did this get approved?

Good, now just imagine June :)

This proves the shortages excuse was Bullsh*t.

June 12 2008 is my favorite day this year.

20000+ lead.....GTA IV may have sold more on the 360, but it definitely moved more consoles for the PS3

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xbots what are you going to say now

Compared to the Wii both ps3 and 360 are not really doing that well. They need to drop the price if they want the big figures.

it links to a forum post and doesn't say what the numbers are for...worldwide, US, Switzerland? who knows. I mean it's great to be a fanboy but at least have some integrity.

@SmokeyMcBear

Yes, after googling it I did surmise that it is for the USA and the numbers are valid. However, a forum post being approved that is not oficially from a dev or producer or other important gaming rep is against the guidelines of N4G. That is my point.

MS response: There's shortages of 360 apparently.

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makes sense, for $50 more, with the ps3 you get a blu-ray player.
the 360 better have that price drop soon...
and intro a blu-ray sku and that "newton" controller already dammit!

coming from a 360 owner/supporter, ps3 sales are gonna skyrocket in june, especially with the MGS4 bundle and walmart/best buy ps3 sales.

I'm guess I'm supossed to listen to MS and the excuse of "we have shortages" again right?

And for the record, The two previous months when the 360 outsold the ps3, they were much smaller margins.

yes I know the PS3 is dead.
/sarcasm

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The best console is of course still leading in sales by a massive margin. Yes ps3 and 360 are fighting for table scraps. OMG MY CONSOLE SOLD 30k MORE THAN YOUR CONSOLE THIS MONTH!! yeehaw.

Wait! Wasn't the PS3 supposed to sell less than the 360 in May because VGChartz said the PS3 was gonna sell more than the 360?! I mean, that was what Bladestar's 'logic' was based on....

lol

Curious to see how June will turn out :p

anyone notice vgcharts for comparison, its a joke

Wii 1,130,000 11,891,587
DS 631,210 23,023,287
360 303,684 11,599,497
PS3 297,664 4,943,560
PSP 274,714 12,723,531
PS2 151,441 48,092,668
GBA 962 41,469,766

Something doesn't seem right. Didn't Take-Two announce last week that they sold 8.5 million copies of GTA4? If you look at the numbers of GTA's sold for this month and last month, it only adds up to about 4 million. Where the hell is the other 4.5 million coming from? Theres no way GTA sold that many copies in Europe. Sounds like Take-Two is pulling numbers out their asses.

good god, look at Wii sales
ohh wow, if this keep up, it will beat PS2. But I don't think they can outsell PS2 because 1-2 more year you will see Wii 2 since Wii already helped them made mad money and reached the end of it's technology.

Nope, not downplaying it...just extremely surprised.

I have a math problem:

LTDs in the USA:
PS3 - 4,450,000
Wii - 10,180,000
X360 - 10,270,000

With a 20K lead in sales each month, how long will it take for the PS3 to surpass the X360 in sales? (hint: the PS3 gains 240K each year on the X360)

we the best we own the year and the years after!!!!!!!

it won like 2 0r 3 months in 08. go ps3 go, it is dominating 08..

end of sarcasim. silly sony leg humpers

hey gaming god, remember 07? micro 12 mon. sony 0 lol

PS3 US NPD Total for the year: 1,202,600
360 US NPD Total for the year: 1,120,600

hmmm cant wait for the june npd (mgs4 lol)

i expect PS3 sales will double at most this June.

Xbot-"Screw this, I'm waiting for NPD numbers."

Happy guy whose playing MGS4-"These are NPD numbers. Your Bible."

Xbot-"But, but but but butbutbut....Gears, didily, pricedrop, doodly...oodly, googooly."

HGWPMGS4*Shakes head*-"Tsk, tsk tsk,hows a guy go so wrong, even you bible is against you. Oh well Damn this 2 minute install every 7 hours. Hopefully we wont have to install games when DD comes and we just download them all."

Its great that the PS3 is selling, but man, it ain't raping it. 360 is still selling.

cant spin this one bots HAHAHAHAAHHA 6/12 a day which will live in infamy for the bots HAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAAH LAUGH WITH ME!!!! *goes into laughing octopus mode*

nvm

way to go sony.

june will be interesting

MS needed a price cut 2 months ago, with blu ray being the official winner, the ps3 has a better perceived value by the general public
for the extra coupld a bucks, and now that some of their bigger titles are coming.

what will MS do now?

for their sake I hope they were just waiting till e3 to announce a price cut...

The PSP sold almost as much as the 360!

Is anyone else surprised vg charts was wrong with their NPD prediction?? I know I'm not.

PS3 has outsold 360 in North America for all of 2008 (3 out of 5 months) and globally as well. I wonder how June NPD is going to look.

This has been going on for 7 months now. The ps3 is outselling the 360 every month. The wii is untouchable in sales though. I don't see why people like the wii so much. I think its a flop to tell you the truth. Zero fun games to play. Besides Mario galaxy and Brawl. Yeah the wii sucks, yet everyone likes them. God I hate wiis. Maybe one day people will just notice, that the wii is just a little toy for 6 year olds to play with. The Wii has no hardcore gamer fanbase. Unless you call mario hardcore, which it is. But still. Just go play MGS4, it owns. The graphics are so good.

...Ouch, Sony destroyed the 360 there like hurricane season. As much as I'm getting a 360 and all...that's damn impressive of Sony. I know they'll keep it up because the fight's not over.

why are 360 fans mad? cuz ps3's been outselling 360 since october
???? well i own both so get over it lol. buy a ps3 too since it comes with metal gear lol and u dont gotta pay for online, wireless network adapter, charge cables, batteries,& rechargable batteries im happy with 360 and ps3 :D

wtf...

LOL @ the article picture. Shouldn't that be a picture of a Wii? Beyond beating the 360 there is nothing super impressive that makes the PS3 stand out. It got beat by the Wii in hardware and beat by the 360 in software.

Oh well, carry on.

It is amazing that in the month leading up to the biggest game the PS3 will ever have in its lifespan, it *only* outsold the 360 by 11%

11%? Did i get that right?
Can someone check my calculations?
Deary me that is woeful....

What will happen after all the MGSIV hype has died away?
It is really not looking impressive at all for the ps3.

If the PS3 outsells the 360 By this marginal amount in the US every month from now on, it will take 20 YEARS(!) to catch the 360 in the US.
Come on Sony, you need to do better!

If that's not a victory for MS then I don't know what is.

MS and Sony arent competing with Nintendo, their getting slaughtered by it, lol. It may not have the best games, but it does have the thing why we even have video games in general, Deniro!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

i have to say Nintendo owns that list with games and systems

You'll see a HUGE spike in 360 sales when Banjo, Viva Pinata and Fable 2 hit.

Poor, poor xbots, them girls are very sad now they beloved console, the Xbug3FixMe is getting outsold in all territories. And to think what a bigmouths they were a few months ago, claiming Sony is bancrupt, PS3 is a flop and will end up last etc. ahahahahahaha poor girls, must be hard times now huh? And don't forget xbots, this is just the beginning lololol

wow the Wii is killin it. HOW? all my friends sold theirs, who still wants one? its not THAT fun. in other news, IMAGINE JUNE NPD NUMBERS FOR PS3......werd

Wasn't NG2 supposed to make 360 sell well? I am very surprised.

Wow, why does Patcher bother anymore... hes always so wrong.

money is made in the software?? dont you??

why does no one on here look at the game sales?

still not enough for Sony

Q: what now?
A: Xbots got completly owned! Now the only thing they must do is Shut the F#ck Up, because now their only territory is taken...PS3 is now outselling xbox 360 in all the world, and not consider the MGS4 lauch yet!...Poor idiots!

Its starting to get embarrassing

GTA4 is not pushing the hardware sales is becoz its for both hardcore as well as casual gamers....hardcore gamers are the once which go with the hype by system first,thn games, for casual gamers buying system quickly doesnt matter, they buy it when they c time fit for it....both ps3 and 360 are expensive plus they require an HDTV to get full outta them..and lotts casual gamers dont wanna spend alotta money just for this one game, instead they go for WII.....looking at the gta4 sales, u can clearly c tht now sales are goin down, all the harcore gamers have bought it...it would be interesting to c how much it will sell in june....but tht said now its PS3 time...they have this hardcore game for the fans of the series, plus 80gb coming in bundle with it...so it got potential to sell like crazy.....lets c how things roll next month.......

Sony still has a very large ps2 install base. It's a more common name than Microsoft in the average household. As ps3 becomes more affordable, then the more people start to transition from last gen to current gen.Unlike gamecube or xbox, ps2 is still developing new titles. I honestly think one more price drop, probaly a 100 dollars, would open the flood gates for sony.360 in japan, is dead. It's dying in Europe. America is where it would have to make it's last stand. I've owned 2 and they both broke. Now i own a ps3 and a wii. have had my ps3 for about 2 years, still running fine. Oh and Microsoft lost the HD optical disc war. Now they're system's last gen." Cough.....DVD+DL.....9gigs.... ..cough."

is it not funny how the 360 is £150 and it was the cheapest console to play gta4 out and yet it is still gettting out sold,..even the psp is giving the 360 a hard time worldwide..lol,i aint a fan boi or nothin but i just find it funny and amazing how ms had a hole year start and they are alerday struggling to outpace the ps3 even when the ps3 did not yet relase any blockbuster exlusive...haha

Time for a price cut MS...maybe at E3?

VICTORY!!!! and it will only get better next month, and the next, and the next....

LMAO at the xbots trying to say that this is cus of MGS4. This was last months figures you morons!!!

This month the PS3 will sell better than the wii thanks to MGS4!!!

Cant wait to see worldwide figures cus the PS3 is going to have outsold the 360 by way more than 20,000!!!

Xbox am FAIL!!!

I wonder how mgs4 will affect things?

For me, it does not matter who is leading in sales numbers- I own all three current gen. systems- each has something special- I think it is good for gamers to have three viable systems competing for gamers- we win. I can't stand when someone takes who is in the lead personally because last time I checked nobody is sending me money because the Wii is winning or that Sony is starting to build momentum- as long as all three systems are being supported and being pushed- we win- there is something for everyone....

BEST FUKCING GAME EVER!!!!!!

Hey PUTO Bots, you guys lonely yesterday?

Worthless I know but the best buy in Deer Park IL had 2 MGS4 bundles left at 12pm on launch day on shelf space allocated for a good 30 systems. Folks have been holding back their PS3 purchase not only for MGS4 but also for the return of 90% Backward Compatability and the desired 80GB model. (card slots 4usb ports etc). I'm sure the tax refund helped as well.

So, Sony is beating MS this year (2008) so far in console sales (by a small margin)but the 360 still leads in total consoles sales between the 2?

With Sony's biggest release to date MGS...who doubted that it would happen that way? I mean really!

The months surrounding Halo 3 who doubted that the 360 would sell more than the ps3?

Why is it a war every month over which console sold the most?

We are going on 4 yrs since the Next Gen console war has been started.

What Sony fan on the planet actually thought that this deep into the war, you would be stooping to minute victories in monthly sales?

If the ps3 was to outsell the 360 for the next 2 yrs prior to the next next console war....would they ever catch up to the 360's sales total? At this rate? And who really cares the most? Sony fans or Microsoft fans?

Who would have thought that at this point in the console war that Nintendo would be selling more consoles than the 360 and the ps3?

Who would have thought that the 360 would at this point have sold more consoles than the Ps3?

Who would have thought that GTA 4 would sell 2 to 1 with more copies sold on the 360?

Who would have thought that the 360 would sell much much more copies of 3rd party games than the Wii and the ps3 combined?

When I say who would have thought....I'm talking about prior to the next gen war started, summer of 2005. If some one would have told you (sony fans) that this is how the war would look at this far into it. Would you have called them all kind of names? Honestly. I know the answer because I remember many of you prior to the 360 launch. I remember the things you said about how the 360 would do or not do. I remember you talking about what would happen once the ps3 launched.

But now the same fans are oh so happy for ever small victory in console sales monthly.

Answer these questions..... How many months has the ps3 been on the market? How many of those months did the ps3 outsell the 360? And, why do 360 games sell 2 to 1 over ps3 games with every BIG release? And why do people play their 360 way more than people play their ps3 and wii's? Lastly, do you respect what Microsoft has done this next generation with the xbox 360? After everything you said prior to the 360's launch and what has taken place since? Could you have ever imagined that the console war would be what it is today?

Can a sony fan admitt and swallow his pride and say that the 360 has done much better than they could have ever imagined?

To be honest with everyone, I actually thought the ps3 would be doing waaaaaay better than it has so far. And I thought by this time the war would be alot closer between sony and microsoft.

But why fight every month over small victories. Before you know it, their will be a new war...a new generation of consoles.

I just find this all pretty silly in the big picture of things. I love all my consoles...But I do love the 360 more due to the games.

Its looking like that old debate is obsolete.

It surprises me every time, but look at the bloody Wii go!

I have zero use for one myself, and I can't believe its still selling, but I have to give Nintendo credit where its due on this one.

Can I hear a "wii Kicks ASS!"?

Still looks like softaware devs are going to take 360 into account... Gta IV for 360 sold twice what it sold for the PS3 install base and all you want to say, game devs really care for those numbers. As far as the 360 sells good soft, devs are going to seriously take it into consideration when thinking of their next game.

Who cares about just the USA there are only 300 million people living here. not 6.5 BILLION!

man you sony fans have a short memory span.. while the 360 didn't win this month you ppl act like if it did so poorly. it's not like if it only sold 98thou like sony was doing back in 07. sony has a loong way to catch up here in AMERICA it needs to do nintendo numbers to do damage.

why cant you leg humpers just give credit when it's do microsoft is a much stronger competitor this time around. lets not forget micro came in to dethrone sony be bias all you f'n want but the chances of micro owning AMERICA is much greater then last gen, maybe not the world but you gata start somewhere.

Wow, I can't believe how much SPIN the fanboys are putting on this article. Even if the PS3 finally somehow managed to find a cure for cancer, they'd say "BUT IT SHOULD HAVE DONE IT SOONER. PS3 SUX LOL WHERE IS TEH POWER OF TEH CELL??!!1!1"

I see 360 fanboys raging because the PS3 beat them more than 20000 while the in the last 2 months, the 360 barely beat them by 5100. March and April were nothing for the PS3, since it's killing 360 worldwide.

Lifecycle comparison (month 6-18):

Wii: 19M
PS3: 9.7M
360: 6.7M

Year to date:

Wii: 8M
PS3: 4M
360: 3M

Analysis
-Wii sells twice as much as PS3.
-PS3 sells 33% more than Xbox360.
-Xbox360 continues to be dead last.

Maybe the rumored Wii-clone controller and price drop will turn things around for the Xbox360, which continues to struggle to compete.

Nintendo is back on top.

Sony is slightly behind where they want to be but well ahead of where the Xbox360 was during the same period of it's lifecycle.