Playstation 3 outsells XBOX 360 in January

[MicrotechXP]

For the first time in a long time the Playstation 3 outsold the XBOX 360 in units sold in the month of January 2008. gaming-ms-nintendo-sony
The PS3 sold 269,000 units against 230,000 for XBOX 360. However, both units was beaten by the Nintendo Wii which had 274,000 units.
Microsoft has said that shortage of machines may have impacted the numbers. “Our retailers are telling us that Xbox 360 is selling as fast as they can restock,” “but due to this high demand, Xbox 360 is experiencing temporary shortages. We are working as quickly as we can to replenish inventory.”
If you compare spending the winner was the XBOX 360 with 297 million followed by 244 million on Wii and $219 million on PS3. $159 million was spent on Xbox 360 games alone in January compared to $131 million on Wii and $80 million for PS3.
To date an estimated 17.7 million XBOX 360’s has been sold, an estimated 10.4 million PS3’s and more than 20 million Wii consoles.

News Source: MicroTechXP

[Hazirak]

Shortage of Xbox 360s or not, I'll be highly surprised if this is the last time this happens. It might've been a flop in the beginning, but the PS3 has a couple big things going for it now. First of all, that price drop that everyone's been waiting for, but more importantly blu-ray is finally catching on. While the former is what many people (including myself) have been waiting for, the latter will give it staying power while everyone else continues to sell their games on DVD.

[enraged]

It's probably because everyone got their 360's beforehand.

[imaran]

ps3 also won in christmas season sales (global, not sure on the US totals)

[Spartan Erik]

Enraged is right, this is only because there are so many 360 owners that sales are decreasing overall. Majority of people don't own a PS3!

The real news is that the Wii may soon beat TOTAL sales of 360s

[kkenny]

ps3 also won in christmas season sales (global, not sure on the US totals)

Correction, the Wii beat PS3 in global, and in US.

I think the shortages was the reason why my friend tried to buy an XBox at our local Electronics store, and they said they were sold out -.-

[Sohail]

That's good news for me :D.

[Xemnas]

I'm not really affected yet, I don't intend to buy a PS3 until Kingdom Hearts 3 eventually is released for it (though I have heard rumblings of it coming out on Wii; I'd kill myself if that happened).

[imaran]

Correction, the Wii beat PS3 in global, and in US.

I think the shortages was the reason why my friend tried to buy an XBox at our local Electronics store, and they said they were sold out -.-

Sorry, I meant PS3 vs 360, I wasn't including Wii. My apologies.

Wii has outsold everything for consoles, but not for game sales. Their game sales have been pretty bad outside of mario from the reports I've seen. Mario has been Wii's saving grace.

Wii shouldn't really even be considered with ps3/360 as it is a completely different type of console. It's sales can't continue as they are for too long. I see it having a good 2-3 year run but after that it will go the way of the gamecube (which I still love mine, but you hardly heard anything after Metroid Prime).

[Browser]

Thats good news, lets hope that the gamers open there eye's again and see how much 360 sucks(although i like it),
also the wii is trashing the competition, ps3 and 360 are hopeless, i hate you wii