Gamasutra: XBOX360 ahead of PS3 Slim

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Carl on 16 September 2010

Cool.

What would they look like for Japan? Europe?

Worldwide?

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Legend11 on 16 September 2010

Impressive...

Now that the anvil (Xbox 360s) is in place we only have to wait just a bit longer for the hammer (Kinect) to really make an impact in sales.

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c0rd on 16 September 2010

Carl2291 said:

Cool.

What would they look like for Japan? Europe?

Worldwide?

From VGC, here you are:

Total Others	PS3	360
First 4 weeks	180%	219%
4 weeks	95%	92%

Japan	PS3 (YoY)	360 (YoY)
First 4 weeks	825%	115%
4 weeks	465%	26%
4 weeks	53%	-66%

Worldwide (launch aligned for 360)

	PS3 (slim / last)	PS3 YoY	360 (slim / last)	360 YoY
First 4 weeks	1,429,991 / 468,419	205%	1,165,110 / 419,451	178%
4 weeks	1,032,659 / 535,518	93%	841,540 / 426,523	97%

It's already been said, but the YoY comparisons are pretty useless - particularly because of the uneven timing (PS3 slim launching closer to holidays). Still, in raw numbers, the 360 slim is holding up nearly as well as the PS3 slim's, which seems insane considering the PS3 came with a $100 price drop.

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themanwithnoname on 17 September 2010

Kantor said:

Problems with this comparison:

1) August 2009 was not the PS3 Slim's first month.

2) NPD figures do not cover the entire world.

Having said that, the 360S has had a much greater impact on hardware sales than many (including myself) had expected, so well done to Microsoft for making quite a genius business decision.

Why do you guys choose to ignore that the 360 didn't get a price cut? Not that I didn't point this out in my first post in this thread, so I'm not surprised in the slightest, but still, be fair on both sides.

themanwithnoname's law: As an America's sales or NPD thread grows longer, the probabilty of the comment "America = World" [sarcasticly] being made approaches 1.

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kopstudent89 on 17 September 2010

themanwithnoname said:

Kantor said:

Problems with this comparison:

1) August 2009 was not the PS3 Slim's first month.

2) NPD figures do not cover the entire world.

Having said that, the 360S has had a much greater impact on hardware sales than many (including myself) had expected, so well done to Microsoft for making quite a genius business decision.

Why do you guys choose to ignore that the 360 didn't get a price cut? Not that I didn't point this out in my first post in this thread, so I'm not surprised in the slightest, but still, be fair on both sides.

No you are right, but a bad analysis is a bad analysis. I think the 360 has done exceptionally well, and it still has halo reach week kinect. Big year for microsoft

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Kantor on 17 September 2010

themanwithnoname said:

Kantor said:

Problems with this comparison:

1) August 2009 was not the PS3 Slim's first month.

2) NPD figures do not cover the entire world.

Having said that, the 360S has had a much greater impact on hardware sales than many (including myself) had expected, so well done to Microsoft for making quite a genius business decision.

Why do you guys choose to ignore that the 360 didn't get a price cut? Not that I didn't point this out in my first post in this thread, so I'm not surprised in the slightest, but still, be fair on both sides.

The 360 had already hit the golden price. The Slim put a viable version of the console at that golden price, and rejuvenated the brand's image. That did more than any price cut ever could.

I wasn't ignoring it. The 360 just didn't need any justification for not selling more than the huge numbers it has already managed.

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