I wrote earlier today that the Playstation 3 has been on a roll as of late. With 11 months of growth, the PS3 has been outselling the Xbox 360 on a month to month basis, yet it doesn’t feel like it; it is still hard to run into people who own a Playstation 3. During a normal conversation you hear, “Alright man, I’m gonna jump on Live tonight” or “Lets play some Xbox”. Part of this is due to the cultural shift that I won’t get into, but Playstation lost that during the awful first two years it had. The other part comes in with the numbers:

Xbox 360 sits with a total of 40.77 million while the PS3 has 35.74 million. For just a difference of 5 million, it seems odd to feel this gap I spoke of, correct? As it turns out, it’s all how the numbers are broken down.

In Japan, the Xbox 360 sits at 1.34 million while the PS3 sits at 5.33 million. There is a big gap there.

In Europe, the Xbox 360 sits at 15.73 million while the PS3 sits slightly ahead at 16.19 million.

The big gap comes in the United States where the Xbox 360 sits at 23.7 million and the PS3 trials at 14.22 million.

That little state right there explains why in the US, the 360 still has a such a huge presence, even though there has been nothing going on with that console for almost 2 years now. So yes the PS3 is doing well, but in the United States, it still has a lot of work to do.

Sales numbers [Via VGChartz]