Microsoft should save everyone the trouble and start Twittering.

Is it really that suprising?

Street Fighter IV sold 9% more copies on the 360 (446k) than the PS3 (403k).
This is in a market with about 22 million 360s and about 8 million PS3s.

MS seems too be getting even more childish. You have a cheap console in the middle of a economic crisis and while I'm glad people have an alternative during these hard times thats really the only appeal of their console, the thing has issues up the wazu that I think should be addressed during these speeches ( you know like why are the things still rrod'ing, when are you gonna stop treating silver members like crap, a few devs are saying dvd is at its limits and thats it for the 360 , all these things are kinda too important to be ignoring)instead of doing this. I doubt everyone would be so tolerant of this if everyone wasn't so strapped for cash.

Instead of answering said questions there taking pot shots at sony with predictions that have little or no chance of happening. this kind of BS is part of the reason the gaming industry receives so little respect.

I know this will sound obvious, but what do you expect a company to say? "Yes, we think right now our rival offers a better service than we do. They will sell more games than we will."

MS are a business and a business does well not to compliment or praise it's competitors. You're not going to get Sony, Microsoft or Nintendo openly admit any weakness or the strenghts of the other companies.

I don't even know what to say... I guess it just makes me sad

Ali D: no one is expecting that at all. Its a matter of them using every opportunity as a soap box to announce how much "better" they are than the competition, which is rather tiresome.

Microsoft is lying.

@FWipple, Probably, because in Japan the PS3 version sold 312,000 and 360 sold 79,000 *at launch

too bad it's true...RE5 will probably sell better but FF13 i doubt it. It comes out a year earlier for ps3 in japan.

Ugh this is ridiculous, I thought this industry was with professionals.

What I don't understand is, if Sony is really in such an awful position this generation and doesn't have a snowball's chance in hell of overtaking the Xbox 360's lead (says M$ and Xbot fanboys), why waste the time taking potshots at the competition?

@Hiltz

Reggie knows what he is doing.

I donno, seems like MS is right but, only if they continue to throw money at the problem. Madden they hold tourneys and shell out heavy dough, GTA threw dough at content, I mean of course they sold a little bit better. I don't know what their going to throw money at next.

And in other news, i think i recently heard that Wii fit has out sold Halo 3 XD

@c45h:

I have to admit. I did buy some games for my 360. And I fear downloading more arcade games because I refuse to buy a larger HDD to store them. One would actually say that I have a decent library of 360 games. But yet the PS3 has lately become my console of choice because I fear that my 360 will RROD on me at seemingly any random moment.

Just the thought of having to send my 360 in for repairs once again irritates me greatly. I wish I could shove the comments they had on little slips when I first got it, right back in their face. The papers thanked me for "investing" in an Xbox 360. All that jazz about continued entertainment just didn't add up. Games were nice. I wished the 360 had an HDMI port, back when I got mine. When the new 360's started coming out with built in HDMI ports, even on the version I bought, I have to admit that I felt slighted. I felt like I "invested" too soon, and just received a notice from Microsoft telling me to "buy a new 360 or get over it".

And when my 360 RROD'd on me, I sent it in. Though they refused to tell me what went wrong with it, or if they were going to upgrade it in any way. To this day, I still wish that I could pay a small fee to get a swapout with a new 360 that has the HDMI port built in. As truly, there is a difference between a direct digital connection and an adaptor.

I just don't know what's going on with this generations consoles. I expected various versions of my handhelds, but not my consoles man. That builds up in cost awfully fast.

I dont know why everyone thinks Sony and Microsoft reps are acting moronic by slinging back and forth like this. There in COMPETITION!!

Than gamer blog communities act all uppity about it when their the ones that eat this up.

@Dennen

See, I never had a problem with my 360 and the dreaded red rings. All 3 just simply refused to play anything one day, usually 1-3 months outside of warranty. Call me crazy but when I purchase a system, I expect it to last longer than a year. I used to have buyers remorse from my PS3 since i've used it to play more PS2 games than anything else, but you can't argue with quality hardware.

"Reading all this lately has me wondering when the last time Sony did something like this was."

Your wish is my command.

@c45h: If I could have bought *your* PS3, I would never have bought a 360. But since Sony literally couldn't kill off BWC fast enough (and long before a model hit $400), I decided to expand my gaming horizons and try all those Xbox 1 franchises that I shunned on the cheap and save a few hundred bucks. Sucks that happened to you though.

Jim gets the best trolls. not one person has gotten upset and started hating...yet. is the hardcore fanboy era over? did kz2 do that?

i don't even care anymore about what sony or microsoft say but i notice nintendo has not counted their blessings and they have the only right to. i think they know they may be #1 now but eventually will fall out over the long time. sony had their turn at #1 for 2 generations, until microsoft can even be #1 (and not just in america) they need to make a good console and actually win the generation war. 2nd place isn't a win. neither is 3rd or 4th.

@Qraze: Considering that "winning" means your best-selling products are WiiFit and WiiPlay, I don't think too many of us really care if our console of choice is "losing."

And obviously this will drastically affect everyone's enjoyment of the game, I know I won't be able to sleep right knowing that a game available to more people will sell more on the console I don't own.

Why can't these companies think of us? :(

Resi 5 maybe. FF13 no way Microsoft.

Also,


Should probably add FF13 to the list.