the only reason it beat the 360 was japan. if you remove Japan, the country in which Xbox simply can't compete no matter what, the end results would have been 77 million for PS3, and 82~83 million for the 360. as the PS3 sold more than 10 million units in japan, while the 360 sold less than 2.
even with Japan in the mix it only beat it by around 3 million sales.
so the PS3 was definitely, relatively to what Sony did in other generations, more of a failure than the Xbox One... which somehow made OP's list. it was a pretty big anomaly for Sony, going from being far ahead, to being almost last if it wasn't for their home turf bringing them in front of the 360.
