Squilliam on 08 October 2008
| Millennium said: The 360's sales are indeed increasing year-over-year, but the PS3's sales figures are increasing faster. The 360 price drop seems to be producing the usual pattern that the HD consoles have had surrounding price drops and big releases (a two-week boost followed by a crash and burn), so it is unlikely that the price drop can be counted on to produce a significant permanent sales boost. Fortunately, the 360's inability to produce lasting sales boosts seems to hold just as true for the PS3. But if that continues, then the race will go to whoever is selling faster without the boosts, and right now that's the PS3. It will take time, since a price cut won't permanently increase either console's rate of sales, but given long enough it looks inevitable unless something VERY impressive happens. |
How can the Xbox 360 have both increasing sales "year over year" and yet be "unable to produce lasting sales boosts"
I can't tell which paragraph won the argument, maybe if the person who wrote the 1st paragraph were to answer the 2nd then it would make sense. 
Tease.
