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Forums - Sales Discussion - IGN: Why PlayStation 3 Will Outsell Xbox 360

Yeah I agree, it'll eventually overtake the X360, next year is a possibility, nowhere near a dead cert though. Depends how both parties play their cards, as this holiday will demonstrate.



 

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Well nobody can say he's wrong, it was all fact. Kind of pointless but fact nonetheless.



ethomaz said:
Mad55 said:
really? i mean getting second place when another race starts doesnt mean much.

Well... Sony is just growing in market share before the new generation start... for now this is the best they can do after the previous huge profitable last generation.

Microsoft is just profiting now before the new generation because the they need profit now after the huge loses in previous generation.

Seems fine to me... both company's goal.

Wrong. Sony didn't have huge profits last generation, Nintendo beat them and Sony has managed to wipe nearly all PS1/PS2 profits away.

Xbox losses are bad, but Microsoft have officially written them off, so no they're not aiming to recover them, they obviously just want a steady stream of profit in this division.



 

There was a movie called Rocky that came out in the 70's, I think. Sylvester Stallone played this Itallian guy thay went up against boxing's heavyweight champ. Nobody expected Rocky to win. It all climaxed in an epic battle in the middle of the ring.

In the end, the reigning champ won, but barely. You would think Rocky would have been destroyed but he held his own. It was a loss for Rocky but a moral victory, too.

Man, I loved that movie.



Seece said:
ethomaz said:
Mad55 said:
really? i mean getting second place when another race starts doesnt mean much.

Well... Sony is just growing in market share before the new generation start... for now this is the best they can do after the previous huge profitable last generation.

Microsoft is just profiting now before the new generation because the they need profit now after the huge loses in previous generation.

Seems fine to me... both company's goal.

Wrong. Sony didn't have huge profits last generation, Nintendo beat them and Sony has managed to wipe nearly all PS1/PS2 profits away.

Xbox losses are bad, but Microsoft have officially written them off, so no they're not aiming to recover them, they obviously just want a steady stream of profit in this division.

What source states that Sony didn't make huge profits from the PS2, and states that the Gamecube made more profit? Although you may well be correct, I find this hard to believe, especially when you take software and software royalties into account. 

And I don't believe you can 'write off' a loss, althought I'm not qualified to say so.



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S____M____C____C said:
Seece said:
ethomaz said:
Mad55 said:
really? i mean getting second place when another race starts doesnt mean much.

Well... Sony is just growing in market share before the new generation start... for now this is the best they can do after the previous huge profitable last generation.

Microsoft is just profiting now before the new generation because the they need profit now after the huge loses in previous generation.

Seems fine to me... both company's goal.

Wrong. Sony didn't have huge profits last generation, Nintendo beat them and Sony has managed to wipe nearly all PS1/PS2 profits away.

Xbox losses are bad, but Microsoft have officially written them off, so no they're not aiming to recover them, they obviously just want a steady stream of profit in this division.

What source states that Sony didn't make huge profits from the PS2, and states that the Gamecube made more profit? Although you may well be correct, I find this hard to believe, especially when you take software and software royalties into account. 

And I don't believe you can 'write off' a loss, althought I'm not qualified to say so.

Their financials?? The Gamecube era saw Nintendo pass 1B profit twice and come close to it twice (fical years), Sony never passed 1B profit through the PS2 generation, and most years were closer to 500M than 1B. Again talking fiscal years here.

And I believe MS did write it off, as an investment or something, I don't know will have to look it up.



 

dunno about that, i think at the end of this year the gap will be back at about 3million, then the ps3 should outsell the xbox by about one million or less next year and then after that who knows,



Bet reminder: I bet with Tboned51 that Splatoon won't reach the 1 million shipped mark by the end of 2015. I win if he loses and I lose if I lost.

d21lewis said:
There was a movie called Rocky that came out in the 70's, I think. Sylvester Stallone played this Itallian guy thay went up against boxing's heavyweight champ. Nobody expected Rocky to win. It all climaxed in an epic battle in the middle of the ring.

In the end, the reigning champ won, but barely. You would think Rocky would have been destroyed but he held his own. It was a loss for Rocky but a moral victory, too.

Man, I loved that movie.

clever



Seece said:
S____M____C____C said:
Seece said:
ethomaz said:
Mad55 said:
really? i mean getting second place when another race starts doesnt mean much.

Well... Sony is just growing in market share before the new generation start... for now this is the best they can do after the previous huge profitable last generation.

Microsoft is just profiting now before the new generation because the they need profit now after the huge loses in previous generation.

Seems fine to me... both company's goal.

Wrong. Sony didn't have huge profits last generation, Nintendo beat them and Sony has managed to wipe nearly all PS1/PS2 profits away.

Xbox losses are bad, but Microsoft have officially written them off, so no they're not aiming to recover them, they obviously just want a steady stream of profit in this division.

What source states that Sony didn't make huge profits from the PS2, and states that the Gamecube made more profit? Although you may well be correct, I find this hard to believe, especially when you take software and software royalties into account. 

And I don't believe you can 'write off' a loss, althought I'm not qualified to say so.

Their financials?? The Gamecube era saw Nintendo pass 1B profit twice and come close to it twice (fical years), Sony never passed 1B profit through the PS2 generation, and most years were closer to 500M than 1B. Again talking fiscal years here.

And I believe MS did write it off, as an investment or something, I don't know will have to look it up.

MS didnt write off anything. A loss in a particular division just offsets profits in another.  XYZ company makes 1 million in 1 portion of business and loses 500K in another portion of the business means the XYZ only made 500K and they pay taxes on the 500K.



Its libraries that sell systems not a single game.

I blame Kevin Butler



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