New PlayStation 3 SKUs boost sales 178 per cent

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W29 said:
Its going stay high for this holiday season and drop. I still don't see why the PS3 will overtake the 360. Its still unbeliveable. The PS3 needs more than 12 weeks to overtake the 360. So as long as units are selling and they are close to the PS3. I see no chance in hell the PS3 is going to catch up. And plus those are simply hardcore gamers that couldn't and didn't want the simple at launch due to the price, that got the system now. We don't even know if the mainstream jumped upboard. But don't think this holiday season that the 40GB is selling the 60GB could be doing some work too.

No, the PS3 won't catch up with the total European sales any time soon.  The 360 is currently on 3.2m sold in Europe with the PS3 on 1.35m sold in Europe, so the PS3 is around 1.85m behind the 360 in sales.

All the PS3 can do this holiday season in Europe is make sure that it keeps up with the 360 sales wise.  As it should do better once a few of the bigger games appear early next year.  Once thing to note though, is that the PS3 has sold the same number of PS3's in Europe in 6 months as the 360 in Europe in 11 months.