Very true..

Nice month, MS.

Now, maintain it.

Keep the games coming.

Microsoft and Nintendo deserve a pat in the back

Why do the majority of the post in this one sound like utter denial?

Maybe if you fanboys were buying actual games for the system instead of spouting about "wait for 2008" Things would look good for Sony. When you "big guns" for 2007 Uncharted in Rachet can't even sale as exclusives on one console......somthing is wrong with that picture. The NPD sales are available for you all to see the trend that has been on going. We heard the same thing this whole year wait until the end of 07.......NOW wait until 08 right okay.

Xbox is now without major exculsives. They played their hand. Sony? They're just getting started. It happened the same way with the PS2. Sony has the skill. Microsoft the money. That's why this battles been so drawn out but, in the end, brain always defeats brawn.

To see the PS3 fans talk about "wait until 08." Dudes, you been waiting for 2 years already, doesn't that get a little tiring? I mean, Home is delayed, games are still coming out on 360 first and looking better (Orange Box), and super-hyped games like Lair turned out to be a turd instead. If you wanted to point out that the 360 had a year head start, okay, fine. But even so, by now the waiting is getting ridiculous....

MS has not issued another price-cut so who knows what will happen the first to $200. Imagine that with GTA 4? Which is a system seller.

Anyhow as long as the 360 continues to sell and do well, sony will get better but its FACT, MS is just not going to stop coming out with games and reacting to sony strategy. Xbox fans will also continue to to buy games and content.

Developers will take notice as the Software sales are off the charts and the boxes continue to sell.

That's all it will take and we will see Xbox 720.

As far as sony they have catching up to do, but I know wait.. wait, wait, but wait, MS is not waiting for sony.

It had a slight margin only due to a price decrease, only due to a price decrease. Shall I repeat?

many people who are undecided jump on a price decrease, this will level out before christmas even. Xbox 360 wins over PS3 in WorldWide sales and especially in NA.

The ps3 has a tiny temporary jump in sales, so calm down it will decline back into it's cave very soon. The Xbox 360 is currently at around 14 million, the PS3 is at around 6.0 million and the Wii close to Xbox 360 numbers and by the years end I'll say the Wii and Xbox 360 will both hover around 16 million and the PS3 at around 6.8 million. These are well educated guess on all but are showing to be very true.

The funny thing about this all is that the PS2 is still killing your pathetic PS3. Sony may never stop selling the ps2 w/the ps3 sucking so bad. You know why ps3 fans don't buy games? They can't afford to after all that was spent on that console.

Dec. 31st 2007 Xbox 360 16 million consoles sold!!!!!!

thats sad.

ok, only hit disagree IF microsoft has any game next year that is on the same level of halo sales wise. i challenge you.

thats really sad if you guys ask me. idc if microsoft had 100 tripple AAA titles next year. they will get overshawdowed by PROVEN FRANCHISES THAT PEOPLE ALREADY KNOW.

SCENERIO: kid walks in store and sees gta4 and then sees some other game that he heard was good. but he KNOWS he loves gta series.
im pretty sure, he's going to go with grandtheft auto and maybe check out the other game later.

people have to realize that next year, sony is running by with a mountain of proven franchises and they each sell to different audiences, so its not just a bunch of fps's, or racers for instance which means it will sell systems to a different crowd each game.

EDIT: HAAHHAHAHAHHHAHA @ DISAGREES. no matter how good of a game they release, it will never get as much attention as halo 3 did. so you guys are saying microsoft has a game bigger then halo 3 next year???......haahhahhaahah please...................FLATT ER ME

(sits back and gets ready to enjoy the show)

http://www.ps3forums.com/sh...

Check it out guys. With the gains the PS3 made in Europe and Japan, the PS3 and 360 are actually about tied for the month of November...

and im not looking at just 2 weeks, im looking at the whole month. and im also looking at the bigger picture. which is the 360 will have no chance next year without a title like halo. and im not talking about kicking ass all year against something that was 600 dollars, im talking about NOW(SINCE THATS WHAT ALL YOU 360 FANBOYS TALK ABOUT)

its ok GAMESBLOW. im taking away 3 bubbles from DAYTONA NOW. and im giving you 3 bubbles.

by the end of Jan08 the 360 will slow in sales and with the release of Omega Dawn and GT Prolouge the PS3 will continue to sell at this rate well into 08.

WW sales by the end of 08 will have PS3 up by millions and even in NA!

mark my words

concerned about SALES SALES SALES, We are gamers we should be concerned about GAMES GAMES GAMES.

The line ups show PS3 is bringing radioactive heat in 08 and 360 does have counters for alot of these coming titles but definitely not all.

Free PSN's game downloads are showing that sonys free network is superior. (i.e. Warhawk, Tekken 5 DR Online, GT5 prologue)

Wii looks like its stumbling in 08.

Expect a $50 ps3 price cut in spring along with Homes release and alot of great games coming around that time as well.

Wii and 360 are ahead but in for some serious competition. We seen 360 lose its lead. Wii know wii's longevity is in question though.

MS needs to make XBL free IMO if they expect to win this gen.

People will be Jumping In, Playing Beyond, and "Wii would like to play" (lol) for ALL of 2008...only a FOOL would count out any 1 of these consoles in '08...game on...fanboys stink...you smell something? lol

Xbox 360 - all major titles expected already out
- had a launch that was just as crummy as PS3s, sales figures are about the same for the same time frame, WITHOUT next gen competition at the time
- people would buy less xbox360 if they knew about the 33% failure rate, MS didn't exactly print "caution this console has a 33% failure rate" label on it. If people knew they wouldn't buy it, as much.
- 3 year warranty to compensate is very nice :)
PS3
- expensive as f&*k at first, more affordable now
- some nice games, Uncharted, Ratchet and Sigma among others
- poor launch
- very low failure rate, and free online, FREE online
- generally better hardware, meant for longitivity
People, stop your bi*ching. If you want to play shooters get and xbox, if u want unique titles like ratchet and uncharted, get ps3. If your worried about the RROD, don't buy an xbox, but spreading the news may save some people alot of trouble. The point it, PS3 has been around for a year, and already it's doing a damn good job catching up. The Wii is a sad sad toy, sure it's fun if you're between the age of 7 and 17, it's cheap, it's family friendly, it's a perfectly disguised flop box for casual gamers, only it's not flopping, but rather owning the ^$%$ out of the market, which just goes to say that price point is the major determinant in any economics market...WHO KNEW? Sony saying that people will buy a $600 dollar just because it says SONY, was stupid and arrogant, but to be fair they are offering the better machine. The other thing is a lot of people don't know the differences between the consoles (online, wi-fi, blu ray, etc etc). My prediction, 2008 will be a good year for PS3, it won't catch up to x360 but xbox fanboys will shut up about the system failing. Wii sales will stagger, and PS3 sales will increase steadily. Xbox 360 will continue to thrive, RROD or not, it has a large install base, and decent games coming. Who will be the true victor, I don't think it matters. If you want your respective console to do well, go encourage your friends or buy some games yourself. But for crying out loud, I have to read through about 20 posts before I can find a decent opinion with some facts to back up his (or her) statement. Cheers :)

Kotaku SUCKS.

GameSpot SUCKS.

Destructoid SUCKS.

And so on....................

yet its true 360 has barely outsold ps3 worldwide for the month of November, why disagree? just because tonad/nasim/shmee says ps3 is outselling the 360 by 200k worldwide doesn't make it true, sure I know he'll keep saying it but you notice he offers no creditable source/links for all the numbers he gives. Fact is micro has exceeded all expectations this gen and you just got to give credit where credit is due, even more so to Nintendo, 'cause NOBODY saw them coming.

JOY

When 466K PS3 were sold in November, it also meant that 466K top notch 1080P Blu-ray players were sold. With the standalone BD players counted, it meant that 500K+ BD players had been poured into the market in November alone. It must send chill down to somebody's spine.

New Sony fanboy line, "PS3 beat the xbox 360 worldwide"... lol... how is that a good thing for developers... many developers don't even release their games in more than 1-2 regions... some games are not even translate it.

So, if the xbox 360 is able to dominate in the UK, US, Canada and other english speaking country.. what do you think Developers are going to think.. knowing that they can make 1 game... and milk it for the largers regions... instead dig into 100 countries... sell 5K copies of their games in Germany... 10K in Japan... 7K in Spain... etc... LOL.. having to spend money an resources translating the games... The US alone is worth 100 of these coutries... and you can tell in terms of attach rate and game sells... look at the game sells fo the countries you speak of... more hardware is being sold.. these people don't even buy games... even in Japan the PS3 sells more hardware than games...

Yes.. keep talking about all those small fracture countries as if they were more imporant than the US, UK, Canada etc..... lol.. they are not for developers... and I am not even going to say... the fact the income in these countries may allow them to buy the console.. but not many games... again.. not as much as the US, UK and other english speaking countries.

i am from hongkong and we love japanese product
enough said
don't try to speak for other ethnicity or culture
thank you

At this time in it's lifecycle the PS3 should sell better. 360 is in it's 2nd year, already has a much larger install base and is still outselling the PS3 like crazy. I don't think the PS3 will ever catch up. Sony fans are usually wrong with their predictions. Anyone remember "2007 will be teh year for teh PS3 OMGZ xbots!"?

The software sales are the most amusing. Where are the so called AAA games for the PS3? Uncharted? Ratchet? What do you think the developers are thinking when they see these numbers? Ubisoft? Activision?

I just really dont understand Sony fans? why the blind loyalty?
there are over 10 AAA (rated higher than 9 on metacritic) and only TWO on PS3, and those two are multi-plat. IF you guys are truly gamers, stop bashing the 360 like little kids and accept the truth. The 360 has the much better games at this point.
And in 2008, we all know MGS and KZ are coming out, but do you guys think the exec's at M$ are idiots? They have that HALO project by Peter jackson coming out, GTA4 with exclusive content, Ninja Gaiden 2, and Gears of war 2. Those are four AAA blockbuster proven franshices that will help sell MILLIONS.....and not too mention the inevitable price drop.

M$ can easily take the games out of the premium and drop it to $299 and drop the arcade the $199...THE PROVEN SWEET SPOT!!!

c'mon guys, i'm not dissing the PS3, but the people at M$ are smart guys and they know what they are doing. They only thing I believe that could really boost the PS3 is if Hd-DVD dropped out of the format war tomorrow, but thats not gonna happen anytime soon, so PS3 is going to have a very very difficult time playing catch-up to 360 next year.

US sales idiots. Did you know they sell more american cars in america.

Global sales chaps not blind loyalty.

FACT: PS3 is out selling the 360 globally now. European sales are 200k over and APAC about 150k balance this out and the PS3 has a 50k global monthly lead. 360 is outselling in the UK but add all the France, Spain and the rest up and ps3 is outselling.

MS are now messing up. The silver account onslaught is one example as burnout is available for all on PS3. The amazing movie service is a joke as most of there base have no or a 20gig drive. Looking at my standard set last night i could get one movie on my prem and at 5.1gig its no going to be a good HD cut. And the fair trade guys on there back about pushing live and not mentioning the £40 pa.

All change

what sonyfanboys fail to see is that this is the holiday season where people are shopping for x-mas gifts. in saying that of course the ps3 sales is going to get a boost.but the ps3 should have sold much much more in nov. i mean with the price drop and R&C,uncharted. the same games sonyfanboy have been promoting since being announced. yet it only sold 417k for the month. thats sad. again it should have sold on par with the 360. i expected the ps3 to sell like 500k to 650k. what a disappointment.but all that aside. the question will remain can ps3 keep these sale into next year. i mean with KZ2 and LBP coming out in sept. leaving the next three month with nothing to get people excited about buying a ps3 until MGS4 comes out in april or june. i don't see the ps3 maintaining those numbers until june of next year. maybe

i will back microsoft fans up.. cause the wii and xbox360 are killing the ps3...numbers says it all.....and 360 games are starting to sell as much if not more then sony in japan on first week sales... and sony fans want to wait till 08, oops 09 for what....another price drop, games.. as if microsoft and nintendo will lend them a hand by not releasing games and dropping their prices as well....how some people think...i just dont get it

SSBB, GTA4, MGS4, KZ2, Mario Kart Wii, Fallout3 are going to be the biggest games and will probably over shadow anything else. (sorry forgot GT5) and those games will sale plenty of copies and consoles.
Demand for Wii wil be consistant threw 2008 with some MAJOR games coming (MKWii, SSBB, FFCC:CB, NMH, ACWii etc.) Demand for PS3 will be HUGE as well (dont need to name games becuz we already know), But where's M$?? I hope they dont think a bunch of ports (PC and PS3) are going to keep them in the race.

Just don't mention worldwide sales to them. They might slap you with a cease-and-desist order. =P

If Sony didn't force feed Blu-Ray to their customers, they may actually be in this generation. They took a very big risk on BR and may end up losing because of it. They are practically giving their consoles away and still they sit on the same shelves. The PSN service pales in comparison to Live, their titles are inferior and their users are even worse. So what, they sold 466K consoles. MS sold 700K and has been chugging out consoles for months. The 360 is stronger than ever.