Xbox 360 fans, you may want to brace yourselves for the upcoming storm. According to Tose, a Japanese video game developer whose works includes the Legend of Starfy series, the total number of PlayStation 3s sold has exceeded the Xbox 360’s by one million units. Who would’ve been able to foreseen that with Sony’s early struggles?
The statistics were revealed at the Kyoto Cross Media Experience by Famitsu.
Global sales of each major console to date (lifetime):
PlayStation 2: 120,000,000
PlayStation: 102,000,000
Wii: 74,000,000
NES: 63,000,000
SNES: 49,000,000
PlayStation 3: 42,000,000
Xbox 360: 41,000,000
N64: 33,000,000
Megadrive: 34,000,000
Xbox: 24,000,000
GameCube: 22,000,000
Atari 2600: 14,000,000
DreamCast: 11,000,000
PC Engine: 10,000,000
Sega Saturn: 8,700,000
3DO: 2,000,000
PONG: 10,000
[source: Famitsu]