Microsoft is in last place, as clearly out of their 52m a vast proportion (40%+) are RROD failures and users rebuying consoles that are quiet and reliable.Active consoles I would guess Xbox360 has about 40m globally, Playstation3 48m or so…Of course Microsoft will continue to play with numbers, withold information, channel stuff and all sorts of other tricks to fool the idiots that are too thick to work it out.Sony have SOLD 50m PS3. Microsoft have SHIPPED 52m Xbox360….When Sony say sold, then refer to sold to consumers, when Microsoft say sold, they mean sold to retailers, when they say shipped, they mean shipped from on a slow-boat from doumen.

@ MarkG123Typical response from a Sony sheep. You guys still can't accept the fact that you are no longer the top dog. Very sad really.

Honestly, I don't think anyone would question that a large number of the launch units currently included in the sales numbers are no longer functional, but that a large number of launch PS3's not only work, but also have more features than the newer models that came later, would they? IGN stated every single launch unit they had died. Every single one. Every reviewer said their personal launch 360 died. Dead as a doornail.You can't argue there isn't some marketshare inflation from the fact that people went out and bought new 360's to replace the ones that failed before the warranty extension was put into place. It took MS at least a year to hone up to their shoddy QA…

Yes, that's why multiplatform games sell so much better on a PS3, not…….If everyone is just replacing their xboxs due to failures, then why does all the multiplatform games sell better on the 360? Is everyone buying multiple copies for the dead xbox's?

Could it be that people bought the PS3 and use it mainly as a blu-ray player, rather than a games machine? So maybe the PS3 has much lower failure rates, but how many PS3 owners actually game on the PS3? Here's a hint, all the people I know that own PS3's also own 360's, and when they buy a new title for their consoles, it goes on the 360, not the PS3. The PS3 acts as a multimedia blu-ray player most of the time.

Whats funny is xbox fans are arguing about how many console have been sold xbox has sold 53 million fair enough sony has sold 50 million but whats been out longer xbox point proven

k patterson can u stop chatting bull im on no ones side im pointing out the facts and what moron would buy a console to play blu ray when there are cheaper ones. thats how i no your full of shit i hate people like you that make up false facts and lies just to try and win an argument

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