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Forums - Sales Discussion - Throwing Down the Guantlet... putting my VG Chartz $ where my mouth is!

saicho on 11 September 2009

what if your account has negative amount of VG monie after 30 weeks, does that mean we will need to pay you if we win the bet?

Please define it before I can take your bet.



MikeB predicts that the PS3 will sell about 140 million units by the end of 2016 and triple the amount of 360s in the long run.

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DaSimkin on 11 September 2009
saicho said:
what if your account has negative amount of VG monie after 30 weeks, does that mean we will need to pay you if we win the bet?

Please define it before I can take your bet.

I will guarantee that my VG Chartz money between now and then will be higher than it is now. (Ie, i won't spend it on anything).

 



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XanderZane on 11 September 2009
DaSimkin said:
ioi said:
I'll bet real money if you want

$100 USD ?

or 5 oz of silver?

 


I'll bet you $5. With the economy the way it is, I can't see anyone betting large amounts of money. So what's today's date? Sept 11. So by March 11th 2012, if the PS3 hasn't surpassed the XBox 360, you lose. I don't think they can do it, but we'll see. I do expect M$ will do another price cut next year and eventually release a Slim model.



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Pineapple on 11 September 2009

30 weeks? Thirty weeks?

Before anything - I'll take your bet. 

You can have as much of my VG£ as the mods please giving you. And I won't take any of yours if you lose.

 

As for the next part, why I bet this, I'll tell you later, as I don't have time now. A hint, though - you're betting that the Ps3 will sell faster than any console has, ever.

 



zexen_lowe on 11 September 2009
DaSimkin said:
zexen_lowe said:

Sure, I'll take it. Bet: 360 will win

Sadly, with the amount of posters that'll take it, I'd get some cents at most. Let alone that no one will transfer the money

 

Still, I'm up for the bet

Actually, you are the only person to actually take up the bet.  I will have all your vg monies in a few short months!

Or if all these nay sayers are right, you will have all of mine.

Good luck!

 

Excellent. Then it's set. Not that I need your money (what's VG$1.2K to me?), but I'll enjoy seeing you with $0.00 or less.




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Zuhyc on 11 September 2009
Pineapple said:

30 weeks? Thirty weeks?

Before anything - I'll take your bet. 

You can have as much of my VG£ as the mods please giving you. And I won't take any of yours if you lose.

 

As for the next part, why I bet this, I'll tell you later, as I don't have time now. A hint, though - you're betting that the Ps3 will sell faster than any console has, ever.

 

Didn't the Wii outsell the 360 in about half a year with a similar gap?



TWRoO on 11 September 2009

Lol... that's easy.

I bet X360 will win.

Also I am going to reccomend you retake whatever Maths qualifications you have so far... Logic is more of a personal skill, but if there is a good way to improve that, then do that too.



TWRoO on 11 September 2009
Zuhyc said:
Pineapple said:

30 weeks? Thirty weeks?

Before anything - I'll take your bet. 

You can have as much of my VG£ as the mods please giving you. And I won't take any of yours if you lose.

 

As for the next part, why I bet this, I'll tell you later, as I don't have time now. A hint, though - you're betting that the Ps3 will sell faster than any console has, ever.

 

Didn't the Wii outsell the 360 in about half a year with a similar gap?

It took the Wii 40 weeks to overcome a 5.6 million gap.... this feat is approximately double the amazing feat the Wii managed. (multiply 5.6 by 3/4 = 4.2 million for 30 weeks)

Add to that the X360 was selling between 60-80k worldwide, whereas this time it is selling about double that... means the feat needs to be doubled again.

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Or to put it another way, the PS3 needs to outsell the X360 by 260,000 consoles per week average, the slim launch week it just managed ~390K... it will probably be already below 260k advantage the following week.



Zuhyc on 11 September 2009
TWRoO said:
Zuhyc said:
Pineapple said:

30 weeks? Thirty weeks?

Before anything - I'll take your bet. 

You can have as much of my VG£ as the mods please giving you. And I won't take any of yours if you lose.

 

As for the next part, why I bet this, I'll tell you later, as I don't have time now. A hint, though - you're betting that the Ps3 will sell faster than any console has, ever.

 

Didn't the Wii outsell the 360 in about half a year with a similar gap?

It took the Wii 40 weeks to overcome a 5.6 million gap.

Oops, that's quite a bit more than half a year



ph4nt on 11 September 2009
TWRoO said:
Zuhyc said:
Pineapple said:

30 weeks? Thirty weeks?

Before anything - I'll take your bet. 

You can have as much of my VG£ as the mods please giving you. And I won't take any of yours if you lose.

 

As for the next part, why I bet this, I'll tell you later, as I don't have time now. A hint, though - you're betting that the Ps3 will sell faster than any console has, ever.

 

Didn't the Wii outsell the 360 in about half a year with a similar gap?

It took the Wii 40 weeks to overcome a 5.6 million gap.

and Wii is the fastest selling system ever made.

So...PS3 needs to pull a miracle.