Batman PS3 outselling Xbox 360 SKU at retail

Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment Inc.'s Batman: Arkham Asylum for Sony Corp.'s Playstation 3 is outselling the version for Microsoft Corp.'s Xbox 360 at several online retailers.

On Thurs., the Batman: Arkham Asylum PS3 SKU held a sales rank of No. 4 in Amazon.com's Video Games division, while the Xbox 360 SKU held a No. 5 rank in the same period.

Both carry a sale price of $52.99 at the retailer.

Meanwhile, Best Buy Co. Inc.'s online divisions lists the Batman: Arkham Asylum PS3 stand-alone SKU as the best-selling version of the title, followed by the Xbox 360 SKU.

Finally, Wal-Mart Stores Inc.'s online division ranks the Batman: Arkham Asylum PS3 SKU as the top-selling version, followed by the PS3 Collector's Edition SKU.

The higher sales rank follows solid demand for Sony's new Playstation 3 Slim hardware, which ranks as the No. 1 product in Amazon's games division.

The product, which includes a 120GB hard drive, carries a pre-order price of $299.99.

Batman: Arkham Asylum was released to the PS3 and Xbox 360 on Aug. 25. It will be sold in Europe and Australia on Aug. 28.

The title introduces a new FreeFlow combat system and Invisible Predator mechanic.

Villains include Harley Quinn, Bane, Killer Croc and Poison Ivy.

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The Lens of Truth is very excited to be able to put Batman to the test with a Head2Head in his new game, Batman: Arkham Asylum. We have to say, Batman surely put up a good fight on both systems, but  we are happy to say we believe Batman does better on one console. So watch the video and see for yourself.

Watching the video proves that Batman: Arkham Asylum is one of the most nicely ported games for the current consoles. Overall, the gameplay seems the same and, for the most part, if you only had one console you shouldn’t feel left out. However the Devil (or Joker) is in the details and when you nitpick this game across the platforms, it’s a close one but we believe there’s a dominant console here. This was a tough one. The biggest problem was that Batman: AA didn’t run perfectly on either system. When one system seemed to be winning, the other system countered with its own advantage. For example, while the Xbox 360 had occlusion shadows (SSAO), the PlayStation 3 had more defined self-shadows on the guards in their interrogation cutscenes.

Another issue came from the cameras as pointed out towards the end of the video. Although it seemed like both systems were rendering at the same size, the Xbox 360’s camera was zoomed in, in comparison to the PlayStation 3. This means that on the PlayStation 3, you could see your surroundings better, which helps out when you’re being attacked by multiple bad guys. A zoomed in camera may not be a big issue until you’re in close quarters and not sure where to go because you can’t see as much.

Some issues just couldn’t be explained. As seen in the video, when you zoom in on the glass in PlayStation 3, the camera generates some odd artifacting. The Xbox 360 doesn’t have this issue, and quite honestly, we haven’t seen an issue like this before. The truth is that although this seems to be an issue on only one console, it’s only an issue when you zoom in on glass.

This race was so tight, we had to go back to the video again and keep a score card per shot. To our surprise, the score card sided in favor of the PlayStation 3. The PlayStation 3 won with better mipmapping, better overall shadows, better self-shadows, a better camera view, and better light sources. It wasn’t a run away win, though. It is important to note that the Xbox 360 won for the glass issue, occlusion shadows, motion blur, and we even gave a point to Xbox 360 for having a cleaner texture on the Wayne building. The PlayStation 3 wanted the win so badly, it got exclusive with the Joker and it’s really hard to say ‘no’ to a clown. Although the exclusive Joker played no part in the video Head2Head, we have to say that for your money, you’re obviously getting more on one console, and that’s the point of the entire comparison.

	G R A P H I C S
	Although both consoles had issues, the PlayStation 3 had a few less and having a camera that shows more helps when being attacked from all angles, or if you need to find a place to hide.
	P E R F O R M A N C E
	Both consoles dropped frames and there was screen tearing. It would have been nice to see one console with neither screen tearing nor frame skipping.
	C O N T R O L
	Tie. Identical controls.
	L O A D I N G
	Tie. The PlayStation 3 has a 1 gig install that took only 3 minutes and yet one could argue that with a mandatory install, PlayStation 3 should have performed better. However the latter could counter that if the Xbox 360 had a mandatory install it should have done better…which we know is impossible since not everyone has a hard drive.
	O U T C O M E
	Although we’re pretty sure you’re gonna be happy with buying Batman: Arkham Asylum on either console, we believe the PlayStation 3 is the better game even if it wasn’t a perfect win.

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looks like the unlockables u get in home from the ps3 version might of had a impact on sales

and this moves up the ps3 to 7 games that run better compared to 13 on the 360 on LOT's site not including demos

Sure its outselling the 360 ONLINE.

I didnt even know there was a SKU.

I agree it runs better...selling better would be getting ahead of ourselves,considering there's only been 2 days of sales.

It's also been proven that Amazon is not the best place to find out future sales data