Yes. At least, if you take the word of Chris Lewis, the European regional vice president at Microsoft Xbox. But he would say that, wouldn't he? And Sony's PlayStation 2 passed the 100m sales mark last November, whereas Microsoft has shifted a comparatively paltry 24 million Xboxes. So is he just being optimistic? The difference is that Microsoft now has the jump on Sony. When the PlayStation 3 launches in November (in theory), the Xbox 360 will already have been on sale for a full year. "Is it PlayStation or DelayStation?" taunts Lewis, who is also scornful of Sony's insistence on using the PlayStation 3 to get its Blu-ray high-definition DVD standard into people's houses.
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