Some Xbox 360 snippets from this week. First, Microsoft is organising an Xbox Live 'festival' tortuously named Xtival, featuring exclusive downloads, competitions and other stuff - all for us lucky Europeans. Gold Xbox Live membership will be free to all Xbox 360 owners during the duration of the event from November 23-26. More info from the official site closer to the time.
Meanwhile, Joystiq has been comparing the latest console and software sales figures to come up with ratios for each platform. Here are the stats:
Xbox 360: hardware to software ratio: 6.59 (hardware total sold = 6.8 million; software total sold = 44.8 million)
PlayStation 3: hardware to software ratio: 3.58 (hardware total sold = 1.9 million; software total sold = 6.8 million)
Wii: hardware to software ratio: 3.44 (hardware total sold = 4.5 million; software total sold = 15.5 million)
As you can see, Xbox 360 is way ahead thanks to a much wider selection of titles and a highly committed (okay then, 'hardcore') user base. Plus, it's been on the shelves for longer so users have had time to build up a collection. Wii and PS3 achieve similar figures, though as Joystiq points out, the Wii's figure includes sales of Wii Play which is bundled free when you buy an additional controller. If this title were discounted, the ratio would drop to around three games per system.
