HappySqurriel on 03 August 2007
| MikeB said: @ 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. |
Except, of course, by the time the PS3 is ready to take over the position of the PS2 the Wii will have beaten it to the punch ... The PS3 could literally have Pixar level graphics and super-computer physics simulations in a game in realtime and people will not buy it if it is $300 and only has a couple of games released for it in a month.
Sony doesn't need to outperform the XBox 360 eventually to gain second place, it needs to outperform the Wii now. Arguing over the sales of the PS3 against the XBox 360 is like getting into a pissing competition into the wind, you're in a competition where you are going to lose regardless on whether you win.
