Sony’s PlayStation 3 outsold Nintendo’s Wii in Japan last week, figures from local market watcher Media Create show.

Some 55,924 PS3s were purchased in the week ending 11 November, compared to 34,456 Wiis and just 5817 Xbox 360s. Clearly, the Halo 3 effect and Microsoft’s price cut have done their work.

That’s a marked change from the previous week, to 4 November, when the 360 outsold the PS3 17,673 to 17,434.

So while the 360’s sales fell by more than two-thirds, week on week, PS3 purchases increased by a massive 220.8 per cent.

The real winner in the Japanese console arena, however, was Nintendo’s DS, which was purchased by 78,884 punters. The PSP was second in the chart, having notched up sales of 58,964 units - only 3000 more than the third-placed PS3.

Whatever happened to open-source projects being released according to development readiness, rather than an arbitrary release schedule?

Mozilla seems to have forgotten this, with The New York Times reporting that the upcoming Firefox 3.0 set to ship with only 20 percent of its remaining 700 “blocker” (serious enough to justify postponing a release) bugs resolved before it ships.

Of course, Mozilla has already fixed over 11,000 bugs, according to Mozilla developer Asa Dotzler. Even so, that doesn’t answer the apparent fact that the Firefox development community is planning to ship a product before a wide range of known blocker bugs are resolved.