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The xbox will outsell it, but to suddenly go stating that it'll blow it out of the water because you're one or two weeks further.... It's not as if it's blowing the ps3 out of the water now. |
Well, the 360 does blow it out of the water in the USA. A 2:1 sales ratio for the full October month is nothing to ignore.
October was no accident and no fluke. The effect of the price cut was pretty dramatic. The price cut was done in late september and dramatically pushed the sales of the 360 for that month. It continued in full force in October getting the 360 to outsell the PS3 by a 2:1 ratio. November started with the huge blockbuster of GOW2 and now the NXE is released to rave reviews to pile on top of the low price.
The same dramatic effect of the price cut was noticed in "Others" as were the 360 moved from a distant 3rd to a consistant second for 10 weeks running. And even in Japan the 360 really holding its own after writing the market off already.
So there is no "suddenly" here. There is a consistent observable trend, rooted is solid foundations, that is lasting long enough to be considered as the new market behavior.
Prediction made on 11/1/2008:
Q4 2008: 27M xbox LTD, 20M PS3 LTD . 2009 sales: 11M xbox, 9M PS3
