PS3 beating Xbox 360 in Europe?

As part of Sony’s PlayStation Day event, which is kind of like Valentines Day, but without the requirement to impress your overly needy girlfriend, SCEE boss David Reeves has proclaimed that Sony is beating Microsoft in the European console wars.

“I am delighted to be able announce today that we have sold more PlayStation 3s throughout Europe than Xbox 360 - even though they launched sixteen months before PS3,” he said. “We are particularly proud of this as it has been achieved in a similar time frame as PlayStation 2 which retailed, if you remember, at a significantly lower price,” he said.

He went onto reveal worldwide numbers for the company, saying that 10.5 million PS3s, 34 million PSPs and 127 million PS2s are now in homes worldwide. PS3 has also apparently reached the 5 million mark in Europe alone.