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Forums - Sales Discussion - PS3 vs XBOX360 yearly sales from 2005 to 2009 (well so far in 2009)

 Year PlayStation 3 XBOX360 Difference
2005 not launched 1,175,117  XBOX 360 +1,175,117
2006 1,232,323 6,726,182 XBOX360 +5,493,859
2007 7,586,002 7,830,726 XBOX360 +244,724
2008 9,835,903 10,721,440 XBOX360 +885,537
2009 (upto NOV 21) 8,386,771 7,204,792 PS3 +1,181,979
TOTAL 27,040,999
 33,658,257 XBOX360 +6,617,258


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Questions - (My answers in brackets)

2008 - Highest year of XBOX 360 ? 2009 won't reach 2008 levels ? (2008 > 2009)

Will the PS3 outsell XBOX360 for the first time based on yearly sales figures in 2009 ? (YES)

What will be the gap by the end of 2009 ? (5.65 million)



Yes 2008 was the x360 best year
Yes, this is the first time PS3 will outsell x360 yearly. If 2010 will repeat this scenario, depends on a price cut from Sony( will it happen?) and the success of Natal.
My bet is 5mln.



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I think 2010 will swing back to 360. After PS3's massive seachange this year, they'll do a similar "360 slim" and steep pricedrop ($199 Elite, $149 Arcade) to coincide/bundle with Natal next fall.

I think we'll likely see pricecuts again next fall for PS3 and Wii too, but not $100 drops. Sony can't afford to eat it and Nintendo just won't eat it.



What i think is really amazing, that if you would put those numbers next to each other in terms of Year 1, Year 2, Year 3 from launch, you would see the PS3 clearly outselling the XBOX every single year. So its in what perspective you would see the sales of each (PS3 and XBOX360).

And with upcoming weeks towards christmas, with the newspost saying around 500k in US alone this week. I think the PS3 got a good chance of outselling the record year of the XBOX360 in year 4.

The table then would be:


 Year PlayStation 3 XBOX360 Difference
1 1,232,323 1,175,117  PS3 + 57,206
2 7,586,002 6,726,182 PS3 + 859,820
3 9,835,903 7,830,726 PS3 + 2,005,177
4 (not over for PS3) 8,386,771 10,721,440 Not counted since year is not over.
5   7,204,792 Not counted
TOTAL  
  PS3 + 2,922,203

 



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And some people say that 360 having a 1 year start isnt important



MagicalJoker said:
What i think is really amazing, that if you would put those numbers next to each other in terms of Year 1, Year 2, Year 3 from launch, you would see the PS3 clearly outselling the XBOX every single year.

Launch aligned can be misleading though.  Generally platforms that launch later tend to benefit from competitive technological advances and a maturing developer environment that they wouldn't have enjoyed otherwise.  If 360 had launched in late 2006, it would've had an HD-DVD drive and far more games upfront.  If PS3 had launched in late 2005, it'd have probably had to go with DVD and seen less than half the games it had it's first year.  Trying to divorce a platform's performance from the actual context of the year it was in just doesn't work.



Aligning console sales from their launches is ridiculous and unfair. The only way to compare them is when they are competing head to head in weekly sales.



@ Jarrod. I agree with you. Thats why i said it depends in what perspective you see the sales :)

I think both consoles do pretty good. Only it does not show as such cause the WII overshadows everything in sales.

XBOX360 does much better then expected at the beginning of this generation. Comparing to the original xbox. Congrats to them for that. And i am sure if it was not for the RROD, they would be doing a lot better (specially in Europe, in US i am not too sure). But then if it wasnt for the RROD they could not have launched that early. And their year headstart would not been there.

PS3 does a lot worse then expected at the beginning. But they put up a great comeback. And do pretty good lately.



numonex said:
Aligning console sales from their launches is ridiculous and unfair. The only way to compare them is when they are competing head to head in weekly sales.


i agree, i think it better to compare whats happening now then what happened in the past.