Fact of the matter is this, despite the following:
1) Starting with a very high price tag
2) Coming to the market a year later than it's competitors
3) Costing more than the Xbox 360 for it's entire time on the market
4) Receiving the lesser quality version of games in almost all cross platform titles
5) Having a lower fault rate (less people forced to purchase new machines)
6) Having very few decent games for it's first two years on the market
7) Being virtually hated by most media, news and gaming news outlets across the US for first year to the market
8) Launching in a less stable economical climate

Despite all of that, it's clear that the PlayStation 3 will fairly soon overtake the Xbox 360 in both shipped and sold units.
Despite all of that, if you shift the launch dates so they match, and compare units sold, side by side over the same time frame, the Xbox 360 has always been behind in worldwide sales, with the gap growing each year.

Sure you can say "buhu, but the ps3 is still behind", and technically you'll be right, but then you have to realize that less than 2 million units ahead in a full year more on sale, isn't anything to be gloating about.

15m moves but most of peole own 2 and some people 3 so this is not impressive and explain the lack of support for Move.

Kinect is at 20m alone most people only own 1.

Yet impressive Ps3 numbers, will Reach 80m easilly.

you are absolutely right but please give a little respect also to ms:

the first xbox was not very successful, 360 is

sony ruled the console-market with ps1 and ps2 like no other before and have a *great* fanbase

without ms noone knows what the market now would be (read: what games we would play now)

without ms there would most probably no ps+

after all, sony is not dominating as it was before but it is still performing great in the competition.

it doesnt matter to sony if one person bought 7 million of those moves by himself, its still a sale. and its not like either kinect and move are doing great software numbers, just look at fable and sorcery

Well of course, in that regard they've done very well, i'm just tired of seeing the same old argument about sales/shipped when neither console is that good anymore, and performance wise we're long overdue for a new platform, until then i'll be making most of my purchases on PC

Don't forget to include free online gaming. :)

Huge achievement for what many were calling the next dreamcast. Reaching it faster than their main competitor and still going strong. Move is a surprise also, surely move games sell better than VGC has them at if there are 15 million controls out there, even if that's 2 per person 7.5 million people surely buy at least a game or two.

15M PSmove and 20M Kinect really seem fake to me. Don't see many people interested in motion sensors anymore.

Congrats Sony Now give the Vita a serious push

thats fantastic news. the ps3 has done amazing considering the terrible start it had.