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Forums - Sales Discussion - The PS3/Xbox 360 Holiday Sales Gap Thread! (Updated: January 11th) - ADJUSTMENTS! Last week is UP!, PS3 and X360 basically back to where the table began, PS3 1.5 million sold more then X360 in 2012

Turkish said:
Is this the first time since 2009 PS3 gets in the lead?

No. PS3 was also in the lead throughout last year. It even ended up winning(according to VgChartz data)
This year the PS3 lead pre-holidays is even bigger. There is only 1 big bundle this year for 360 and that is Halo 4.(Last year they had Modern Warfare 3 and gears 3)

PS3 will easily win the year in both VgChartz data and official shipment numbers.



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man-bear-pig said:
Tagehgbged.

By the end of the year the X360 will be 1.3m units higher than the PS3...meaning the total gap will be ~3m.

Last year the Ps3 sold over 310,000 more than the xbox360 and so far in 2012 the difference between how much the Ps3 has been outselling the 360 is flat compared to how much it outsold it in 2011 at this point in time, so some how you expect the xbox360 in the last 8 weeks of the year will outsell the Ps3 by 2.9 million, 1.6 million more than it did last year??....... Yeah good luck with that prediction.



cookingyourmama said:
man-bear-pig said:
Tagehgbged.

By the end of the year the X360 will be 1.3m units higher than the PS3...meaning the total gap will be ~3m.

Last year the Ps3 sold over 310,000 more than the xbox360 and so far in 2012 the difference between how much the Ps3 has been outselling the 360 is flat compared to how much it outsold it in 2011 at this point in time, so some how you expect the xbox360 in last 8 weeks of the year will outsell the Ps3 by 1.6 million more than it did last year??....... Yeah good luck with that prediction.


No...I mean the gap in Gilgameshes chart will be 1.3m and the lifetime total gap will be like 3 million



VGKing said:
Turkish said:
Is this the first time since 2009 PS3 gets in the lead?

No. PS3 was also in the lead throughout last year. It even ended up winning(according to VgChartz data)
This year the PS3 lead pre-holidays is even bigger. There is only 1 big bundle this year for 360 and that is Halo 4.(Last year they had Modern Warfare 3 and gears 3)

PS3 will easily win the year in both VgChartz data and official shipment numbers.

But it won't take 2nd. 360 just has to hold out one more year :)



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man-bear-pig said:
cookingyourmama said:
man-bear-pig said:
Tagehgbged.

By the end of the year the X360 will be 1.3m units higher than the PS3...meaning the total gap will be ~3m.

Last year the Ps3 sold over 310,000 more than the xbox360 and so far in 2012 the difference between how much the Ps3 has been outselling the 360 is flat compared to how much it outsold it in 2011 at this point in time, so some how you expect the xbox360 in last 8 weeks of the year will outsell the Ps3 by 1.6 million more than it did last year??....... Yeah good luck with that prediction.


No...I mean the gap in Gilgameshes chart will be 1.3m and the lifetime total gap will be like 3 million

Ok fair enough, that's far more plausible :)



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sales2099 said:
VGKing said:
Turkish said:
Is this the first time since 2009 PS3 gets in the lead?

No. PS3 was also in the lead throughout last year. It even ended up winning(according to VgChartz data)
This year the PS3 lead pre-holidays is even bigger. There is only 1 big bundle this year for 360 and that is Halo 4.(Last year they had Modern Warfare 3 and gears 3)

PS3 will easily win the year in both VgChartz data and official shipment numbers.

But it won't take 2nd. 360 just has to hold out one more year :)

There is NO magical cut off point for when a console stops selling, it sells until the last console is purchased and that determines who finishes in what position.



sales2099 said:
VGKing said:
Turkish said:
Is this the first time since 2009 PS3 gets in the lead?

No. PS3 was also in the lead throughout last year. It even ended up winning(according to VgChartz data)
This year the PS3 lead pre-holidays is even bigger. There is only 1 big bundle this year for 360 and that is Halo 4.(Last year they had Modern Warfare 3 and gears 3)

PS3 will easily win the year in both VgChartz data and official shipment numbers.

But it won't take 2nd. 360 just has to hold out one more year :)

Don't know why but your comment gave me the creeps.
I never said PS3 would take 2nd any time soon. I belive it will eventually, but the 3 next-gen consoles would be out by then.



cookingyourmama said:
sales2099 said:
VGKing said:
Turkish said:
Is this the first time since 2009 PS3 gets in the lead?

No. PS3 was also in the lead throughout last year. It even ended up winning(according to VgChartz data)
This year the PS3 lead pre-holidays is even bigger. There is only 1 big bundle this year for 360 and that is Halo 4.(Last year they had Modern Warfare 3 and gears 3)

PS3 will easily win the year in both VgChartz data and official shipment numbers.

But it won't take 2nd. 360 just has to hold out one more year :)

There is NO magical cut off point for when a console stops selling, it sells until the last console is purchased and that determines who finishes in what position.

Theres the window of relevance, A.K.A when the generation is the most recent one....when the spotlight is on you.

After the WiiU releases, we are technically into the next gen. 360 fans can technically say they won the HD console wars for the gen. But I personally am going to do this the fun way.....wait until all 3 have released next gen hardware before declaring any sort of victory.Thats the cut off point.

Because when the spotlight is off Wii/PS3/360 and shifts to WiiU/PS4/720, is it really worth celebrating any victory from last gen? Celebrating taking not 1st, but 2nd.......7 years after release.........and only when the next models have released.

You can celebrate that if you want, but that looks like lowered standards and a hollow victory at best. PS3 has exactly one year to achieve any kind of victory that matters.

No point celebrating a racing victory when the race allready ended. Your just running extra laps while the people allready left the stadium to watch the next race unfold



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VGKing said:
sales2099 said:
VGKing said:
Turkish said:
Is this the first time since 2009 PS3 gets in the lead?

No. PS3 was also in the lead throughout last year. It even ended up winning(according to VgChartz data)
This year the PS3 lead pre-holidays is even bigger. There is only 1 big bundle this year for 360 and that is Halo 4.(Last year they had Modern Warfare 3 and gears 3)

PS3 will easily win the year in both VgChartz data and official shipment numbers.

But it won't take 2nd. 360 just has to hold out one more year :)

Don't know why but your comment gave me the creeps.
I never said PS3 would take 2nd any time soon. I belive it will eventually, but the 3 next-gen consoles would be out by then.

Oh. Nm. Carry on good sir.



Xbox: Best hardware, Game Pass best value, best BC, more 1st party genres and multiplayer titles. 

 

VGKing said:
Turkish said:
Is this the first time since 2009 PS3 gets in the lead?

No. PS3 was also in the lead throughout last year. It even ended up winning(according to VgChartz data)
This year the PS3 lead pre-holidays is even bigger. There is only 1 big bundle this year for 360 and that is Halo 4.(Last year they had Modern Warfare 3 and gears 3)

PS3 will easily win the year in both VgChartz data and official shipment numbers.

Uhm, did PS3 win last year in holiday sales? I thought 360 beat them in that last quarter.

 

And NO CoD bundle??? What????