PS3 outsells Xbox 360 in May, Wii still on top

Sony eeks out another win over Microsoft's Xbox 360 console in the month of May, while Nintendo reigns supreme with Wii and DS sales.

Weapon of choice.

Weapon of choice.

NPD figures for the month of May show PlayStation 3 outsold Xbox 360. A mere 22k separated the two consoles, hardly putting a dent in Microsoft's huge lead over the battle for total sales. 208k PS3 consoles were purchased last month and 186k Xbox 360s were snatched up by gamers. To date, 19 million Xbox 360s have sold worldwide compared against 13 million PlayStation 3s.

Unsurprisingly, both consoles were obliterated by Wii at 675k. Even Nintendo DS performed better than either PS3 or Xbox 360, generating more sales than both consoles combined with 452k handhelds sold. Nintendo pushed through over a million game systems during May, which nearly doubles PS3, Xbox 360, and PSP sales combined. Counting PlayStation 2 sales and Nintendo still boasted larger sales.

Hand-in-hand with Wii and DS were solid game sales. Seven of the top ten selling games in May were on either platform. Mario Kart Wii took second place with 787k copies in a photo-finish behind the Xbox 360 version of Grand Theft Auto IV with 871k. Both the Xbox 360 and PS3 versions of GTA IV were the only games to make the list for those consoles.

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fueledsystem

with mgs4 though im sure that the ps3 sale will see a huge increase since that mgs4 bundle is selling out everywhere(got my hands on one with luck)

TheTeacher

PS3 is gonna skyrocket in sales with MGS4, but I'm sure the MS fanboys (and bigwigs) will still talk about the better GTA IV sales...

Goofball1

The Wii is unstoppable. Fastest selling console of all time...and its games are inferior as the hardware is also compared to the competition. Goes to show you that gamers in general just want fun games and something different at a cheap price. History repeating itself once again. Nintendo sold themselves to Satan this generation to get these results LOL

Bloodychess

PS3 owners still have their dignity. 360 owners...I have a feeling you'll be looking like the guy in fueled's avatar.

Se7entySe7en

TheTeacher Posted at: 06/13/08 at 12:13 PM PST PS3 is gonna skyrocket in sales with MGS4, but I'm sure the MS fanboys (and bigwigs) will still talk about the better GTA IV sales...
Any fanboy will always focus on the positives of their system and the negatives of the other. In the end they're wasting their time and energy by focusing on pointless things (like sales numbers) when they should be playing great games.

MGS4FINISHTHEFIGHT

I just got back from FINISHING THE FIGHT and saw this and well not surprised. MGS4 is the most epic game i have ever played. EVER!!!! It truely is amazing, now i know my favorit series of all time is the MGS one but seriously, i dont care who you are, if you have a PS3 BUY THIS GAME!!! The PS3 bundle with this game is selling out everywhere so you better hurry up to get one if your buy a ps3. As far as June sales numbers will go. It will obviously be MGS4 on top in software and the PS3 moving about 400,000 consoles i'm predicting. MGS4 IS EPIC!!!!!

Toneman

Looks like I'll be picking up the PS3 MGS4 bundle tonight! That and GTA4 should keep me busy for a while!

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