“Statistics published by top game developer Tose show that with 42 million the total number of PS3s sold globally have exceeded the Xbox 360 by a million units.

The statistics come by way of a presentation by Tose (a prolific Kyoto-based game developer best known for not being known, as their games as usually credited exclusively to the company outsourcing the work to them, most often Nintendo) at the Kyoto Cross Media Experience 2010, published by Famitsu.”

• Wii: 74,000,000
• PlayStation 3: 42,000,000
• Xbox 360: 41,000,000

Source:  http://www.famitsu.com/news/201011/08035343.html

Rumor has it that 343 Studios, the new studio that will be handling the Halo series after Bungie jumped ship, is testing their Halo 4 engine at gaming trade shows.   As you can see from the video, Halo 4 will most likely be Kinect exclusive to help boost the sales of their $149.99 webcam.  The graphics seem to be a step down from Halo: Reach (which was already a step down from Halo 2.5) but hopefully what the game lacks in graphics will be made up for in full body interactive game play.

As a side note, we realize SDF has promised a Halo: Reach review, but unfortunately the frame rate was so bad the reviewer fell ill from motion sickness.  We’ll keep you updated on the reviewer’s health status should they continue on to bring our readers a fair and objective viewpoint.  Remember, no matter how many Xbox 360 slims we get sent, we will never compromise our reviews.

In what looks to be a massive (some would say fatal) blow to the Xbox 360, EA announced at Gamescom 2010 that Mass Effect 2 would be coming to the Playstation 3 on January 2011.

Expect the port fully utilize the power of the PS3 which means better textures, faster loading and a more fluid frame rate than the 360 version.

Controller free gaming at it’s finest.

Killzone 3D (PS3 exclusive)

Mortal Kombat 3D (PS3 exclusive)

Kinect for Xbox 360

Kinectimals (360 exclusive)

The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword

360 Slim

Nintendo 3DS

Star Wars Kinect (360 exclusive)

On a side note:  SDF will be covering E3 with the usual unbiased, unfiltered coverage throughout the rest of the week.  Expect videos, impressions and more to be posted in the coming days.

Buyer beware.

Unless Natal Kinect has the ability to warp space and time it’s safe to say that many of the ‘live demos’ shown at Microsoft’s conference were indeed faked.

Overall SDF’s unbiased impressions of the MS conference were of boredom and disappointment.   Between the downgraded visuals of Gears of War 3 and Halo: Reach, to their Wii-too Kinect demos we can’t say we are confident in the 360′s future.   Perhaps next time they attempt to ‘revolutionize’ the gaming industry they shouldn’t copy games that were released in 2006.    Embarrassing MS.

This is an example of how you’d order a movie off Netflix.     Pin point precision.

Hopefully this will be unveiled at E3.