| freebird4 said: Align their launches eh? Yeah, that would make sense if they showed sales data per release (through 19 months) or the Wii and 360 had similar sales through their first 19 months. You want to "align" their launches but you don't want to look at any other metric?
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What metrics do you propose that are more important than "games sold over time"?
Why don't we look at "games sold this year." Even with GTA 4 for the Xbox 360 and 3 huge first party Wii releases (vs zero for the 360) we see that the Wii is only a few million units behind the 360 right now. That means the Wii might outsell the 360 third party software this year in the US.
If you include Europe and Japan, the results won't even be close. The Wii certainly sold more third party software this year than the 360.
Next year, it's all but certain that the Wii will crush the 360 in every single region, including America, and sell more third party software everywhere.
Microsoft's spin is always, "we brought in more revenue (which is irrelevant) since launch, and therefore we're doing better." That is misleading to the point of deception: how they did since launch doesn't define how they're doing today. They don't want comparisons against the PS3 over relatively short terms (ie: Year to Date) and they sure as hell don't want comparisons against the Wii Year to Date.
I have a 360. I don't hate Microsoft. They're just not doing very well.
