With all these new customers they are getting its ever more reason to sort out the online community. Come on Sony, release the in-game XMB, Home and fix the slow PSN store. The rest of the system is awesome : )

So if the PS3 outsells the 360 next month they cannot use the shortage excuse can they?

@jicaley

Yesterday the store looked good. No more problems while loading the images. It looked great. Except for the organization in the EU store, because it still sucks.

Worst thing with the stores are the different content. I just wanna get Shivering Isle for Oblivion without having to buy the game again (buying the GOTY edition). But I cannot buy anything on my US account since the billing info on my credit card is inside the EU, so I cannot use it on the US account.

I really hope those PSN cards will work world-wide. How am I gonna buy stuff from the US store otherwise?

@ Staticneuron

PS3 has outsold Xbox 360 every single month in 2008. Shortage excuse from Microsoft is pure bullsh't! xD

lets wait until all of the exclusives start pouring in. then we will see who sells more and @ staticneuron they will have another excuse by then, it will go something like this "because of all of the 360's breaking we have not been able to make any new ones"

Wow.  I just can't see how someone could get a 360.  I had one.  What do people see in that machine?  Well I guess they don't find out what I know until they buy it, so I take that back and I guess price really IS everything.  Those poor people.

360 did have a shortage but its due to them saving consoles for gta4 release, now we will see what happens. my prediction is 360 and ps3 will be close on hardwre but we all got to face it that 360 is alot stronger in game sales.

ps3 has to do well this year and by september reduce the price a bit to get more people in during the holiday seson......although they wud of done well with MGS4 as thats a system seller without a doubt but sony needs to catch up wid xbox in total sales to have a chance in winnng this generation of consoles......(wii dont count) but im a big sony fan nearley everything in my house is sony:P technology wise sooo come on sony!!!!! 

how many ps3's were sold worlwide at the end of march?, did sony reach thies 11million goal?

"...PS3 sold 257,000 units for the month of March 2008; edged out slightly by the Xbox 360, which shifted 262,000 units during the same period."

I find it funny they used the word shifted. As in they juggled units around to make it seem like they sold more. Sony really needs to bring back the upper tier model. I know a lot of people who are ready to buy a PS3 but don't want the 40 gig model.

whaaaaaaattttt!!! this is jiberish i know if i didint have a ps3 already i would be waiting on the bundle to come out GTA4 and MGS4 so this doesnt really mean anything because in preorders the ps3 has already sold more than the 360 for those months so thisa means nothing...

Sony really needs to get it's acto together and start competing with the Wii. They should invest more heavily in first-party so that the games get released earlier.

Great to see the high PSN user number.

360 has had a price cut tho so that explains it

257,000 ain't a bad figure,especially considering the fact that so many playstation most wanted games were pushed back.

@azad_champ -

I don't think you want that. I own a wii and to be honest I see no value in the system. Sure, if I had kids or a family it would be great however currently their 3rd party games are for the most part horrible (outside of no more heros) and on top of that they don't even support HD resolutions. Which btw, a wii on a 42 inch LCD tv without the ability to hit at least 720P looks AWFUL.

I plan to pick up a 360 Elite in the next few months but for reliability sake, I'm only buying the platform exclusives for it (Halo, GeOW, Dead Rising, etc.)  Everything else I buy for my PS3, GTA IV included.

ps3s will sell even more when their exclusives start poping up on the news for being the most spectactular games ever created, now thats media attention, with the slight price drop ofcourse

If you got a ps3 then your on the right track. If you bought a xbox in the mix then you are losing money. I don't really see what is so big about xbox. It only has helno(halo is what u call it) and that game isn't all that, the only only reason it was so good cause the media blew it up and everyone talked about it.

psn id: I95SOUTH<--- King of all kings

Next month MS won't have an excuse for lower sales

WTF? PS3 is still not outselling Xbox 360? I thought they were supposed to be double Xbox 360 sales so they can catch up a bit. Maybe Sony should cut the price again.

Good job, Sony. Let's just hope they outsell the 360 next month.

ps3 selling more thant x box did when it was released, it had over a year head start theirfor it has over a year worth of sales but its catching up mighty quickly so you really cant comepare them now but compare them from their individual release dates, also wii is ahead beccause its a cheap famlily fun console heck i even picked 1 up cause it was so cheap...i was alos dissapointed because marios not the same anymore