MikeB on 03 August 2007
@ FinalEvangelion
About 60k under what the Xbox 360 was doing at this point. I guess they are following almost identical sales patterns as of yet.
Are you sure about that? Aligning the launches for Japan and North America they pretty much overlap (XBox 360 performing excellent in North America, but very bad in Japan in comparison). But the European data is left out and I have the impression the PS3 does outperform the XBox 360 significantly in other parts of the world in comparison to the XBox 360.
But IMO just as important for Sony, the PS2 is still a very strong product worldwide. Even in the US the PS2 significantly outperformed the XBox 360 since its release. It's good to see the PS3 perform about as well as the XBox 360 performed in its first year, but for the second year IMO the PS3 needs to outperformed the XBox 360 significantly for the same timespan. Then later with a cheaper slimline product Sony can let the PS3 takeover from the PS2 position within the market.
