Game Informer posted the numbers of console sales and surprisingly, the PS3 had less than 200,000 units. The Wii’s launch was more than a success, but in a bold move – the 360 sold more than both of them. That’s the benefit of a console that doesn’t have the launch pains – surely PS3 would sell out everywhere if they could just make more of them. Here’s a clip:

On the console side, the data reveals 197,000 PlayStation 3 consoles were sold, which is more than half of the promised 400,000 consoles Sony had plan to ship, which backs the news that Sony only shipped 200,000 consoles at launch. Nintendo more than doubled the PS3 numbers and sold 476,000 Wiis. However Microsoft came out on top selling through 511,000 Xbox 360 consoles.

JG

For helping Doug Elliot sell his PS3 on eBay, he’s buying me the Burger King games as a little thank you gift. Wired just posted their reviews of the games – so now I’m really excited.

Big Bumpin’ puts you behind the padded wheel of an amusement park bumper car. Several different arenas feature such family-friendly enhancements as saw blades and trap doors, and you compete against other bumper drivers in competitions ranging from a soccerlike game to a destruction derby.

This title has “party game” spray-painted all over it: It’s not much to look at when sitting and playing by yourself, but it’s a good game to pull out when some friends of varying skill with a controller come over and want to have some fun, or if your online clan is looking for a change of pace. One good evening of bumping each other off should justify the four bucks easily.

JG

My friend scored a Playstation 3 and we immediately put it on eBay. Stick it to the Sony faithful! Sorry, that was my Xbox 360 love rearing up …

JG

UPDATE: Sold in 16 minutes!

You know how I feel. My friend Tony bought a 360 this weekend just to play the game. And Wired likes it, too. Here’s a clip:

And the game really is awesome. Indeed, it is staggeringly, derangedly so. I popped Gears of War into my Xbox 360 and sat in a cybernetic haze for three straight hours, emerging with my stomach in fist-size knots, so emotionally and cognitively depleted that I had to consult the instructions on the side of the box before I was able to cook a bag of microwave popcorn — which, come to think of it, was my only meal for the rest of the evening because I had to go back and play until I collapsed.

Normally, I am the first guy to complain about the lack of creativity in today’s games. I’ve argued many times that games are being held back by publishers who refuse to experiment — and insist on sticking to the same five or six numbingly familiar genres. Shouldn’t we be breaking ground with risky new forms of play? Do we really need yet another first-person shooter?

Well, Gears of War convinces me that jeez, maybe we do. That’s because creativity does not come only from a daring, new art form or weird new genre. It also comes from a dog-eared, well-worn genre that is proven to work — and is constantly tweaked by artists who love it.

JG

So I’ve got quite a bit of time on my hands this weekend in recovery and all. I’ve been watching lots of football and playing a fair share of Xbox 360.

And now I can do both at the same time.

Check out this picture above – the TV is a year old, and I just figured out a picture-by-picture trick it can do. It splits my screen into 3/5 and 2/5- the larger side for football in HD and volume, the smaller for Xbox 360 in HD.

Now if I just had a robot to bring me cold drinks … shoot.

JG

So there’s a big “format” debate in the post-DVD world, and I think I may have stumbled on the ultimate solution.

Sony’s PS3 comes with a Blu-Ray DVD player, and the Xbox 360 has a $199 add-on player that allows you to play HD-DVD movies on your high definition screens. So who will win the format war? Sony lost years ago in the VHS vs. Beta-max debate, for history’s sake. And both of the format’s stand-alone players (with no game console) are priced out of the average person’s price range – for now. Probably nearing $1,000 to play a disc with a super hi-res copy of the movie and a few extras.

The solution? Download your movie directly in HD. Forget either disc format. Forget discs.

Tonight I’ll be watching Poseidon, my first digital download HD movie – downloaded in 720p on my 360′s hard drive. 4.5 gigs, took a couple hours to download … and once the service expands to offer every release, offers even higher quality at faster speeds, I just can’t imagine why I would rent another disc again.

This is going to make discs a thing of the past. Full review after the show.

JG

As of today, my Xbox 360 can play and download HD movies – which meanes they land in better resolution than a standard DVD and I don’t have to put on clothes to go to Blockbuster or worry about kids scratching a rental disc. All this in the time it takes me to get a soda and nuke some popcorn, give or take. Microsoft today launched a whole new side of the 360 – it can do TV shows, music videos, demos, even whole games … shoot, it can do pretty much anything except get me some Ruffles and French Onion dip.

Which sound so nice right about now.

And now I read that the promotion with Burger King has started … they’ve got $3.99 Xbox 360 mini-games for sale at the resturants … how great is that?

JG