Sorry Sony fans, Xbox 360 beat out PS3 (as usual) in July
WinInfo | at | by Mike
You may have heard rumors of the past week that Sony's lagging PlayStation 3 (PS3) was experiencing and unexpected renaissance, with Sony expected to announce this past week that the PS3 had actually outsold the Xbox 360 for the first time in July. Well, Sony did make a bunch of PS3 announcements this week, but a sales jump wasn't one of them. What's funny about this is that it was Sony that started the sales rumors: The company revealed that it expected July's numbers to show that the PS3 had come out ahead of the Xbox 360. That didn't happen: NPD reported that 170,000 Xbox 360s were sold in July, compared to 159,000 for the PS3. (Market leader Nintendo continued to surge with 425,000 Wii consoles sold in July.) To be fair to Sony, PS3 sales are up, however, just not enough to unseat #2 Microsoft. But let's get real here: Halo 3 is coming. And when that happens, all bets are off.