Despite the nay-saying from watchers, not to mention the vitriol of rival console makers and Microsoft, Sony's console has now shifted a respectable one-million systems in PAL regions. The figure was reached 10 weeks after the system went on sale, on March 23rd, and means that the PS3 is so far selling faster than the and the in the region.

While the PAL and subsequently high price have been much-criticised, software figures are also healthy in and Australasia, with proving the top-seller on 600,000 copies and a close second on 500,000 sales. Quite whether the resurgence of the console in PAL regions is enough to make up for the outselling the system 5-to-1 in is unknown, though execs will no doubt be pleased to have passed the milestone so quickly.

"We came into the [PAL market] with more games, and perhaps we lived up to the expectations in Europe in a way that perhaps we didn't in Japan," CEO Sir Howard Stringer recently stated after the console hit 800,000 sales. The PS3 sold 165,000 units in its first two days on sale in the alone - record only beaten by the PSP.

More PS3 news as we get it.

By Luke Guttridge