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The reason sony is falling behind in europe is because they write games for the USA which when ported to PAL no one wants because they hold no long term interest are to short or for the i wana cheat tards out there.

Gaming at its best for sony is on the jap playstation pity they wont port the good games over to english.

Ill stick firmly to my PC and mmorpg's www.drunkenl2.com
my 360 has 3 red lights and they wont fixor it and the wii gathers dust. Only so much arm waveing a person can do

As per matt's statistics, came across this on fark today and thought y'all might like a butchers:

http://www.nielsen.com/media/toptens_games.html

PS3 coming in 5th with only 7.7% of game time. You know it's bad when your legacy console is still whupping your current gen

wow half-life 2 is in at no.3 and halo is still in the charts

latest console sales as of January 2010:
Consoles:

Nintendo Wii: 56 Million units (as of Sept 09)
Xbox 360: 39 Million units (as of Jan 2010. unverified)
PlayStation 3: 27 Million units (as of 27 Sept 09)
PlayStation 2: 134 Million units (as of Jan 2010)

Handhelds:
Nintendo DS, Lite, DSi, DSiXL 112 Million Units (as of Dec 09)
PlayStation Portable, PSP GO: 55 Million Units (As Of Sept 09)
Apple iphone: 20 Million units (as of Oct 09)

"Dominant" console per region (NTSC-J, NTSC, PAL)
Europe: PlayStation 3
USA: Xbox 360
Japan/Asia: Nintendo Wii

Those stats are a bit pointless, it completely misses the PS3 and Wii's 2009 fall sales, and thus gives the Xbox a massive advantage over them. Also, the 360 sales look a bit hopeful, and are unverified. The same with the PSP (quite how an iPhone is defined as a gaming device, im not entirely sure).

According to VGC, the live stats are as follows:

Xbox 360 - 37.15m (27.60%)
PlayStation 3 - 32.17m (23.60%)
Nintendo Wii - 66.39m (48.80%)

PSP - 56.00m (31.00%)
DS - 124.88m (69.00%)

Leading Consoles By Region:

Europe
1. Nintendo Wii - 25.49m (46.20%)
2. PlayStation 3 - 14.96m (27.10%)
3. Xbox 360 - 14.69m (26.60%)

North America
1. Nintendo Wii - 31.10m (47.7%)
2. Xbox 360 - 21.58m (33.10%)
3. PlayStation 3 - 12.53m (19.20%)

Japan
1. Nintendo Wii - 9.80m (62.30%)
2. PlayStation 3 - 4.68m (29.80%)
3. Xbox 360 - 1.24m (7.90%)

i only took those from wikipedia, gamespot and a few other and went for the average. i couldn't find the fall sales.
as for the iphone being classified i'm mystified myself since it's a phone crossed with an ipod but it seems many people class it as a handheld console.