360 only sold 0.1m more than PS3 in Q1 fiscal-2009

The Xbox 360 only sold 0.1 million more units than the PS3 during the first quarter of fiscal 2009-10.

Since all three platform holders have reported their financial statistics for the three month period ending June 30th, we can now get a better idea at how each of the company's consoles have performed.

In the first quarter of the 2009-10 fiscal year, from April to June 2009, the Nintendo Wii sold 2.2 million units worldwide, with the Xbox 360 behind at 1.2 million and the PlayStation 3 at 1.1 million.

Although it's odd to tout that the PS3 wasn't that far behind the Xbox 360 during the quarter, it's surely relevant for those who toot the horn that the Xbox 360 is beating the PS3 with a stick.

Microsoft's console only sold approximately 100,000 more units than Sony's PS3 (since the numbers are rounded to the nearest 0.1, the difference could be as little as 20,000 units) and though neither have had a great quarter, the differing price points for the consoles might raise some questions for Microsoft.

The PS3 might be selling slower than the original Xbox in the US, but worldwide, like 2008, Sony's console is about on par, in this quarter at least.

Although the Nintendo Wii led, the company saw a decline in sales and therefore profits compared to a year earlier, which you can read about here.

We can also look at the lifetime to date sales for each of the console's since their launch, where the Nintendo Wii leads the Xbox 360 by 21.2 million units and the Xbox 360 leads the PS3 by 7.6 million units.*

[UPDATE] - There was a slight error with our PS3 lifetime to date shipped numbers, which we've now corrected.

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Lifetime to Date Hardware Sales Worldwide

Nintendo Wii - 52.6 million

Xbox 360 - 31.4 million

PlayStation 3 - 23.8 million

Q1 2009-10 Hardware Sales Worldwide

Nintendo Wii - 2.2 million

Xbox 360 - 1.2 million

PlayStation 3 - 1.1 million

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Source: Individual Company Reports - Sony, Nintendo, Microsoft.

*Numbers should be presumed to be shipped.