Wait a minute, that's 18.7 million PSP games SOLD in the UK, and yet VGCHARTZ number is 12 million for the whole OTHERS region...

Interesting

PS3 has SOLD MUCH MORE Software than 360 in the UK in a comparative timeframe!

 Well it not that surprising. Ireland's (ROI) population is about 4-5 million, compared to UK which is what, about 60-70 odd million?

Which comparative timeframe are you looking at.... the X360s first year was only 1.5 months.... the PS3 launched in March remember.

Even then

in year 2 PS3 almost had DOUBLE the SW sales despite being launched 3 months into the year

Year 3....it is more

I don't think you understand that time of ownership means a lot for game purchasing.... the X360 started off with more limited supply, and in it's first 2 "years" only really had 13.5 months of time to sell.

The PS3 had enormous supply for the PAL launch, so all those people that bought it early have had more time to buy more games.... in total 21 months for comparisons sake.

More time in total means more hardware sales, which means more games... more time also means more games per console.... then the early buyers situation (PS3 launhed to over double 360s launch) means that the skew of users is more concentrated at launch, which means that those people have had even more time to buy more games.


The PS3 has everything going for it in that comparison..... and in addition to that (which is not making any difference to the fairness in reality) the PS3 did actually sell more than the X360 even in the same time frame... never mind when you give the PS3 a 7-8 month advantage.

Check this: http://vgchartz.com/hwlaunch.php?cons1=Wii&reg1=UK&cons2=PS3&reg2=UK&cons3=X360&reg3=UK&weeks=156

The software table for the first two years of the two consoles includes just 900k X360s and only 1 real (good supply) Christmas period
The software table for the first two years of the PS3 includes almost 1,900k PS3s... over double, mostly because of the extra months, but also because of 2 well supplied Christmasses as well as a well supplied launch... and also partly because the PS3 has in fact sold better over it's early period than the X360 did.

*wipes tear*

@TWRo0

I understand all of that

but coupled with PS3's highest price for a major console launch

I am still surprised it sold that well in its first year & sold enough software....despite also being advertised as a blu-ray player

PS3 did not have everything going for it....it had tons of bad press in that year too

Bad press doesn't make much difference to the mainstream because the vast majority of gaming press is only seen by the select few.... if it did make a difference the Wii would not have taken off, because it had bad press for it's first year, although later in that year it started getting some snippets of good press ouside of gaming journalism, but it still even now gets bad gaming press. Especially in the UK.

Time is the main factor here, so yes the PS3 did well to sell that software, but no it did not do significantly better than the X360.