As part of its investor presentation last night, Nintendo revealed that Sony’s PS3 has taken control of the European hardware market since the turn of the year.

Its data suggests that Sony has enjoyed weekly continental sales of between 100,00 and 50,000 units.
3DS is next in line with sales between 50,000 and 30,000 per week and Xbox 360 just behind, although Microsoft’s machine was selling far stronger until week six.

It’s a different story in Japan where 3DS is selling anything between 120,000 and 65,000 units per week – a decent performance considering the time of year. PS3 remains to sell strongly, too, peaking at nearly 70,000 unit sales in week nine.

In the US the Xbox 360 has maintained its now customary dominance, with PS3 the second best selling platform and 3DS the third. 

Probably something to do with the fact that the markets for Wii and 360 are completely saturated. Practically everyone who would want one already owns one. PS3 on the other hand has a lot of catching up to do!

Wasn't Sony always ahead of Microsoft in Europe?

The only real news here is that they've now overtaken The Wii to become market leader.

How s the XBOX360 saturated n Europe?

NOTE: My eyboard s stll fuced!!!!

Wasn't Sony always ahead of Microsoft in Europe?

Isn't there only like a 2-3 million difference in userbase between PS3 & Xbox? Even if you were to combine sales of both machines, they still haven't reached PS2 levels yet.

Assmung you ever get one that is.

The Vita's only just outselling the original DS in Europe.

So it's selling like crap in Europe and in Japan. Any idea how the US have took to it?

Assmung you ever get one that is.

PlayStation Vita really is a fantastic machine, & the games that are out for it are extremely good, but there hasn't been anything of interest since launch. And I'm not being funny, but nobody gives a strawberry float about Resistance, so I can't see that making much difference.