Microsoft optimistic as Xbox 360 has record Euro month; Sony claims overall lead

I don't care what Sony are saying at this point.

1) Alongside the rumoured price-cut, the rumour also included news of an Uncharted 2 gameplay trailer being shown internally, and a GoWIII gameplay trailer being shown internally.

2) The same day, a low tier SCEE eployee confirmed the information on NeoGaf. He also says most of the information will be released to the public soon too.

3) The next day, Jaffe talked about being shown a GoWIII gameplay trailer, confirming that it's being shown internally.

4) The day after, it's leaked that SCEE is emailing all its employees, reminding them that they're under an NDA.

5) Shortly after point 4, the low tier SCEE eployee edits his posts on NeoGaf to delete his confirmation, presumably because of the email.

6) A few weeks later, an Uncharted 2 teaser is shown, confirming that the game is at a point where they're ready to start showing it to people.

7) It is also revealed that an Uncharted 2 gameplay trailer and a GoWIII gameplay trailer will be shown to the public on Dec. 14th, thereby confirming the employee's prediction that it'd be released to the public.

8) The employee also gave details about what the two gameplay trailers had in them. If, on the 14th, the trailers are shown, and have the same content, we can happily confirm, once and for all, that the leak is true.

at this point if Sony wants to keep its price cuts a secret, then they just need to shut up. to date every PS3 price-cut (or comparable sku-reshuffling) was preceded by a "No plans for a price cut" from Sony.

as for these sales comparisons, well, i'll leave that to Sony and Microsoft, since that's way more important to them than me. all i care about is knowing when WKC, inFamous, GOW3, Heavenly Rain and Alan Wake will ship in the US.

Is it just me or is it the SCEE division that constantly seems to talk too much?

Glad to know that I can enjoy both systems while MS and Sony duke it out. Bring out the better game and I'll buy it.

However, any of my friends that ask what system to get I have to be honest. If they have the system set up, want HD movies and don't play games I steer them towards the PS3. If they want games and go online for competition, the 360 gets my recommendation.

Ya, I know there is Netflix but not in Canada. Call me old fashioned, but I like to own a physical copy of whatever movie I purchase. Love my blurays and PS3.

instead of writing a lengthy fanboy-esque tainted comment I feel that it would be better that I should write that I am based in the UK, I own 2 PS3's a shed load of blurays an even bigger shed load of PS3 games and I h8 the 360.

just so there is no confuision on my stance.

Huh? 300k units ahead? Hate to say it but in any practical terms that sounds like a tie to me.

You know, I was thinking, A PS3 price-cut at this point is really moot.

I mean IF they are doing it, it doesn't look like they will until after Christmas season. If there's anything that I have learned from my work, is January on-wards is a good time for incentives, but regardless, sales are TERRIBLE. In fact, I am seeing now, that a lot of the manufacturers that I deal with on a daily basis are beginning to shift their incentive programs and move them up to December as opposed to January because of the weak economy.

So if they are going to do a price-reduction anyways, why not do it before Christmas in order to curb some of the 360 sales while the getting is still good? In January, a price-drop or not, they will in no way be moving as many consoles as they would be in December...

To most people, the lower prices of the 360 is almost a no-brainer.

As for me, well I have kissed my PS3 days goodbye, after my 60GB PS3's Blu-ray drive died, two days out of warranty and they wanted to charge $180 to repair...

FINALLY sold it on eBay with 5 games and 3 Blu-rays for a cool price of $427.25. I'm still wondering why the bids went so high considering it was broken... hope the winner read carefully (it was in the title).

I payed a lot more for my PS3 than they are going for now, and still think it was a wise investment. They improve the online with every update. Plus you don't have to worry about a bunch of little shithead kids messin up your online experience. I also have a xbox collecting dust. All of the exclusives coming out for PS3 are what i'm interested in, i haven't gotten any of the xbox exclusives. One think sony could do to lower cost is come out with one witout a wireless network card, one that can't access home (when it comes out) without a subscription. Then sell it for 300 bucks for the cheap people out there who don't understand why the PS3 is more expensive.

I've been back and forth over which console to get, I wasn't going to get either until they both got really much cheaper (around £130 with 1 or two games + controller), and I have to say 360 has reached that first, 360 is also at their height games wise and community wise now and for a while longer.

It may be also for the same reason as being out longer and reaching peak game releases but it seems to me the same version of games are actually cheaper on 360 than PS3?? That's certainly the impression I got checking the shelves in one game shop. So that would also clinch it for me - games are expensive-same game cheaper on one system go for that.

So they would seem the best choice.

However I really believe PS3 is potentially the more powerful machine (along with the massive disk space) and we're waiting for the software to come, remember PS3 is a year behind- and I believe that software will come in 2009 and start to come a lot more after 2009 at which point 360 will be lagging.

On the same games for both consoles issue it does seem the games are programmed more for 360 and therefore the PS3 suffers for it. They need games which ONLY the PS3 is capable of.

The other factor is more of my friends have 360 so it would be more worthwhile Now to get it, that's the community issue and advantage 360 has because it's been out longer. PS3 should eventually get that, but of course they need to sell more now to reach that then.

So do I buy for now or buy for the future?

"Microsoft optimistic as Xbox 360 has record Euro month"

because the same people are buying 360's 2, maybe even 3 times....

sony is still talking out of its ass huh.

Lol the ps3 is such shit

I really love my ps3, I am a big pc gamer so it would seem the 360 is a nice transition but i was thinking, what would i really play on the 360?

I'm not interested in..Fable 2, Halo 3 would get old, Gears of War 2 could keep my interest but for how long?

I mean, we have uncharted, little big planet, mgs4, heavenly sword, ratchet and clank, resistance 2, socom,motorstorm,etc. Seems like we're just getting more and more unique games and the PSN isn't packed full of so much garbage.

Plus, we have actual wi-fi, add that 100 dollars to the purchase of your 360 and the battery packs, xbox live, etc and its more than a ps3 cost.

I dont want to come of as a fanboy but i thought thru the purchase carefully and the ps3 is just a greater value with so much variety and the hardware is really good quality.

So, go out there and buy it!

That picture makes me think of the Left 4 Dead AI Director.

Remember folks that Sony counts units shipped to Africa as part of Europe.

Good for Sony and all. But here in America it gets continuously trounced by the 360. And we know what territory matters the most. :D

i know a few people who have bought new 360's because of the rrod, whether under warranty or not... so install base numbers surely are not as high as m$ claims.

Hey everybody, you should check out this crazy Gears of War 2 video I found on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Plhjrx3zTFg&feature=related

It is a video of a crazy problem this guy is having with Gears of War 2 and the NXE update...

Is anyone else having this problem?

American's export numeracy as if it grew on trees. We don't have room for that crap here.

Of course the Xbox360 does well here. It totally explains why the better built and original xbox did not sell as well.

Essentially, MS and Sony are in a slap fight right now.

Every Now an then I pop in to Joystiq and pop back out. I read a variety of blogs now, because this cycle never ends here. Back at E3 it was Nintendo's turn where it just got bashed and bashed and bashed. I warned that this would happen and sony fans were getting exploited then and would be used later, now the boomerang effect.

Now it is a holiday season and it is back to PS3 getting kicked around. And just to make sure it stays on the PS3 the wii is not conveniently "not a game console" cause it doesn't have a the "core" games. But seems to me one console in particular doesn't get the same harsh light put on to it.

WAIT WAIT WAIT! BEFORE YOU ATTACK ME! Gears OF war2 IS like the Most KICK ASS THING EVER!.......

NINJA VANISH! *runs the hell out of room*