Xbox 360 sales top 8 million in Europe

Nice work Microsoft!

WoooHoooo Coopdeville69 comments are right on the button. Way to go Microsoft, I Cann't wait until Microsoft makes Sony go back to just making games. Kinda like something Sony did to Sega during the consol wars in the 90s.

I'm happy with my 360 even if it got the RROD twice I plan on getting an elite soon. Great job Microsoft!

I love my microsoft x-box 360!!! I love it! I love it! I love it!!!! Yeah!!!!

I actually sold my ps3 recently.It was collecting dust and all the multi-plat games I bought for the 360. I do sorta regret it mainly because of all the good movie releases lately on blu-ray.I am trying to decide on whether I should buy another one or just go with a cheaper stand-alone blu-ray player. I purchased the ps3 for exclusives like MGS4,but after finishing that game,the ps3 lost its luster for me.After seeing the trailers for GOW3,I wish I would have refrained from getting rid of it.

love my 360, love the fact its selling loads in Europe, but hate M$ fanboys, thats why I own a PS3 and Wii as well

congrats microsoft!

I myself love what Microsoft has done for online console gaming, it's so easy to join up with other people, either to chat with friends on headsets while I'm playing my own games, or to link up online with friends, and just managing parties and adding new friends and contacting them is so simple I haven't really given it much thought but the other day my roommate and I tried playing Mario Kart (Wii) with my roommate's sister and her husband online... it was a huge pain in the ass, it's not like XBL where you register friends and that's that, you have to register your friends for each and every game, by the time we were playing online I felt that entire effort just to play was a huge waste of my time

@djmillard2 lol thats an exaggeration. congrats to M$ though

and all but one of my 5 friends with an 360 has got a rrod. and the friend that hasn't gotten the rrod never ever plays it, hes always playing his brothers ps3.

I have both ps3 and xbox360 .Soon ps3 will be ahead of the gaming and entertaming system

@Coopdeville69 if you already own a movie then dont buy it again, you can buy the new movies on blu-ray smart one. i wanted a 360 but got ripped off and never got one(some guy in canada) then i got a ps3 and am soo glad i did there are so many great games out and coming out, and i couldnt get M games and thats all the xbox exclusives are rated. and i can play half the xbox exlusives on pc, so i win now that i can get M games. and they changed the controller once, and i needed an extra controller anyways. and at the time i was buying a console it was the $450 elite or the $400 ps3, i actually paid for a elite but yeah got ripped off, and even now the elite is only lowered equal to 400 40gb ps3.

I was confussed this holiday between xbox360 and ps3 , but i got the 360 because with the 400$ i would spend for the ps3 i can get both The xbox 360 Pro , Gears of War 2 and Burnout:Paradise !

People that import and have their microsoft RRoD will buy another console. People that hacks and buys pirated games will buy another consoles too. As people that lost their warranty for any other reason. And there are people that bought another for home while the other were in repair and kept both, one in each room. MJK1 has a point. I have a PS3 and was the smartest choice i have done. The exclusives, blu-ray, Free PSN and the fact that i would import (due to price where i live) .

guy 1: OH NO ITS GODZILLA!!!!!!!!!!!! guy 2: NO ITS EVEN WORSE!!! ITS THE WII!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm very thankful that M$ manned up and payed for the crappy hardware they keep sending out, I'm on my 4th 360 since they first started coming out. This happens pretty much on a yearly basis for me so far, and this is just from average use as I dont really have all that much time to play games and/or movies. RRoD warranties for the win!

@ Copedeville69 I'm with you on that one, I've always bought every console out there SNES, Playstation 1&2, Xbox, Dreamcast, Gamecube....The 360 has pretty much all the games I want to play and didn't leave me a good reason to also get the PS3.

mjk 1... no i know most of my friends have bought 1 me and my brother bought our own, my friend's friend's bought some.. none have had a problem with one..

Since the time of the original Playstation I was hooked and thought nothing could ever be better then Sony. Again I bought a PS2 and loved it and still have one today. As the saying goes things change. I didn't really want a X Box 360, but I just could not wait another year for PS3 to come out. As it turns out I am happy with the 360. Sure it cant play Blue Ray movies. But I already have hundreds of DVD's. Why do I want to pay $20 dollars more for the same movie I already own. All it come down to for me is the gaming experience. With so many games to choose from for 360 (and the fact Microsoft has the best online gaming experience) it is the best gaming console. Sorry PS3 your timing, high cost, and the fact you jerked people around with changing the controller too many times did you in.

Dragonrider617 only an idiot would buy another 360 after RRoD since it's fully covered by warranty (shipping included) I had 2 RRoD shipped fixed and returned in less then 10 days. The second time around they even changed the DVD player which was getting old and not working properly....again FREE OF CHARGE ;)

more sales = more appeal for developers to make games for this console.GREAT NEWS for 360 owners.

mjk 1 is sooooo right!

There also going to announce there new games at the Consumer Electronic Show!!

mjk, you obviously have not read any knews at all in the past year so I will say this to you. RRoD is covered by an extended warranty, so people are not buying new xboxes because their old ones died (if you are you must be like mjk).

This will more than likely be the story in America as well. Sony didn't have a lot of offer software wise that was any better than what MS was offering as well. So it makes sense to buy the cheaper console in tough economic times that has the same games with just as many options that the PS3 does aside from Blu-Ray. I still say that the PS3 would be doing a hell of a lot better if they didn't remove the Emotion Engine.

I think the success of the X-Box 360 has to do with price and appeal. Microsoft made sure to price the 360 competitively by keeping production costs low, while Sony priced the PS3 high because of high production costs. Also the PS3 doesn't have more appeal, because many who buy consoles already have things like DVD's, Internet, and all the other stuff the PS3 does. I think unfortunately the PS3 will end up being viewed as ultimately a unfortunate failure compared to its competition.

It appears that Microsoft's news is the Ying to Sony's Yang today.

XBOX 360 is WAY better than the original XBOX. Who ta thought Microsoft were capable of achieving such enormous success.

Good for Microsoft. 8 million is a good accomplishment for Europe.

nice to see such growth in a territory dominated by Sony for years. Let's hope this momentum keeps up and going.

lets go xbox 360

100 percent year-over-year sales growth : o Well there goes the bad economy excuse right out the window.