Which is selling better now the PS3 or the 360?
Currently, worldwide the PS3 is slightly outselling the 360. The PS3 has been, and continues to outsell the 360 in every market except the US.
Did anybody here if Sony announced anything about the PS3 at that technology show this week, CES i think it is called!
CES only just started this weekend, and typically consoles are not a high profile topic during CES. However, due to the PS3 playing a significant role in the success of the Blu-ray format, and that its capabilities make it a more central entertainment system, this has changed things quite a bit. Still, Sony did not make any major PS3 announcements so far, other than repeating some of the sales data, specifically the sale of 1.2 million PS3s between Thanksgiving and Christmas, that they had released earlier in a press release leading up to the opening of CES.
CES is the largest show of its kind and covers every conceivable consumer electronic product you can think of and then some. Despite this, and despite the relatively small market share that HD DVD & Blu-ray have in the marketplace, the hottest topic at CES this year has been on the format war between these formats... and this was before Warner Bros. dropped the bomb on HD DVD
(Notably Toshiba, NEC, and Microsoft) with their surprise announcement on their decision to exclusively back Blu-ray, leaving HD DVD with only two major film studios supporting HD DVD
(Universal and Paramount).
Obviously the fallout from this announcement last Friday has been massive. No more so than the effect it had on the HD DVD Groups' highly anticipated press conference which was scheduled for Sunday, but after the news from Warner they immediately canceled the conference.
In addition, Paramount, who was expected to announce a lengthy list of newly planned HD DVD titles has also canceled that announcement.
It was also speculated heavily these last couple months that Microsoft was going to announce a new 360 with built-in HD DVD drive, but this latest shift in the format war may very well have put the kibosh on that.
The next few weeks are going to be very interesting in regards to the future development of these HD formats.
As far as the PS3 is concerned, this is likely to boost sales even further should Blu-ray's momentum continue to grow. This is especially true when you consider the huge jump in HDTV sales, and with so many switching over to HDTVs, many consumers will be looking for products that can fully take advantage of what their TV is capable of doing, like games and movies in native HD, and not just scaled up 480p DVD.
Speaking of console sales though. It surprises me to still see some people and even main stream media reporting "abysmal" sales for the PS3, when in fact, when comparing sales from launch, as one must to get an accurate comparison, not only has the PS3 been selling just as well as the 360, but both are not that far off PS2 sales.
Now the big question is can either or both the 360 and PS3 be able to continue to closely match the sales growth of the PS2, which even today continues to sell very well and in fact has once again outsold the 360 these last couple weeks.
In addition, with games rapidly growing in size, well beyond the limitations of a DVD, the problems with multi-disc releases for consoles, and the limited number of 360 owners with significant HDD space, considering the current status of the HD DVD format, will Microsoft release a new console with a Blu-ray drive?
) so I'm glad that BR came out on top from that standpoint. I for one am not all that jazzed about the pending DD revolution, especially if MS ends up setting the rules 
... I must keep very techy company! 
