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Mortal Kombat: Kollection heading to PS2Microsoft’s Aaron Greenberg has said that he expects Sony’s PlayStation 3 to have outsold the Xbox 360 in February, in what he labels as a “hollow victory” for the rival platform holder.
The Xbox 360 Group Product Manager told next-gen.biz, “Our expectation is that because of our shortages at retail during February, we will sell less than PS3.”
“That’s not a surprise to us. I don’t know what Sony’s reaction will be to that, but it will definitely be a bit of a hollow victory. The competition sure didn’t show up [in February].”
Despite this, Greenberg noted that the Xbox 360 has outsold the PS3 by as much as two-to-one “every single month” when the console has been in stock.
Full US NPD hardware figures are expected later today.
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Go PS3! Not a total shocker. 2008 will be a great year for PS3
yep, just like microsoft to come out with an excuse.
and you used the wrong spelling for hollow in the first paragraph, "hallow" means to make holy
I wonder what MS's excuse will be for the rest of the year?
If it has out sold it 2 to 1 every month, How did the PS3 get to 10 million 4 months faster...Whatever. I won't even make anymore comments until the PS3 over takes it...just like I did with Blu vs HD-DVD
hmm 2-1 then how be it that PS3 is on 11mill and 360 is on 16mill? 360 would need atleats 22mill
Loool.
Not every day you see Microsoft actually admit PS3 sold more. Xbox 360 has outsold PS3 as much as 2-1 every single month? My Ar$e!
February = http://vgchartz.com/hwtable.php?cons%5B%5D=PS3&cons%5B%5D=X360®%5B%5D=Total&start=39453&end=39481
January = http://vgchartz.com/hwtable.php?cons%5B%5D=PS3&cons%5B%5D=X360®%5B%5D=Total&start=39453&end=39481
December = http://vgchartz.com/hwtable.php?cons%5B%5D=PS3&cons%5B%5D=X360®%5B%5D=Total&start=39418&end=39446
Yeah that Ps3 is closing in on that hardware leaad faster and faster. So do you guys think PS3 will take lead this year?
@6 good find
@3 M$ is good at making excuses.
Seems to me M$ and Bill Gate$ have been in the news a lot lately. This sounds like just a simple PR stunt to show that M$ CAN (even though they can't) be humble. They probably don't even know what the word means.
So Micro$oft for 2 months have had hardware shortages, and that is the reason the PS3 has outsold them! *cough* bull@% *cough*
So I guess I will go on record and say the reason the 360 has sold more in the past is due to "shortages" of the PS3. Oh I realize there are plenty in the stores, and I realize its wasn't very hard to find them, but if MS can do it, so can I.
Microsofts excuse for March: still shortages
april excuse: ummmm.... we were playing gta4 and not giving a darn about our costumers.
may excuse: it was a little hazy this month
june excuse: metal gear solid 4 is so F^&*ing awesome!
july excuse: no comment
august excuse: you know we ummm werent prepared...
september: ummmm... yeah about that. we kinda forgot about our customers.
october excuse: no comment
november excuse: do i even have to say why?
december excuse: all the ps3 games are so f%&$ing awesome! i cant stop playing them.
The Xbox 360 has been experiening "shortages"... right. It looks as if Microsoft is trying to do what Nintendo has been accused of doing... holding back console production just to keep demand for it high.
Well, I can't say that I'm entirely happy because it seems as though the PS3 only outsold the Xbox 360 because of console shortages, but a win's a win.
X360 has been in a shortage but in a few months that will change then we can see, in april they said they will have a full inventery and will out sell ps3 so we w8 and see
"hollow victory" my rear end, dont give the public that product shortage bs. Every store in my area has xbox 360 in stock.
Yet PS3 sold more than 360 last year? lol......?
Lol, awefully full of himself eh? I've see stats on sales and the PS3 is selling MUCH quicker than the 360 did in the same amount of time. Move over microsoft, or Sony's going to run your sorry a$s over.
hollow victory? they're being pounded in every other region other than US, what hollow victory is this guy talking about?
If the X360 outsold the PS3 every month of 2007 then how come MS said in jan 07 that they sold 10 million consoles and on Jan 08 17 million, this mean they sold 7 million on 07 while the PS3 sold 8.5 million on 07. The truth is either MS is liying now or were liying then, which ever they prefer. As of why did the PS3 outsold the X360 last month? time will tell... time will tell.
psn id: gingo.... lol i wonder what his excuse will be when ps3 outsells them every other month
We'll see the real numbers than when the "shortages" are over
When 360 was outselling PS3 2:1 ws when the PS3 was selling half as what they are selling now, not because there are 360 shortages and the 360 should be selling 100% more a month. 360 numbers haven't been double what they are now month after month. Everytime sales are down both Microsoft and Nintendo blame console shortages.
I wonder what king of shortage he's referring to,the shortage of stock or the shortage of demand;)