Microsoft: We’re beating PS3 in Europe

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amirnetz said:

ZenfoldorVGI said:
Is this true? I mean, it's a little hard to believe that MS is outselling Sony 2:1 in that continent.

Careful here - Microsoft did not say that. They said they were generally outselling Sony and in some countries (UK for a while, and last week in Italy) they doubled the PS3 sales.

That said, I think overall it is very impressive. The level of details provided means that it is based on hard data on the local sales in each country. It shows that Microsoft is either dominant #2 or at least in a tight race in almost every European region.

Sony will likely hold to its YTD lead in "Others" because of it good momentum at the first 8 months of the year. However, things reversed dramatically in September, Microsoft pulled ahead in Europe and is not looking back. So expect the hard-core Sony fans to continue to dismiss this development and mention that Sony is still the YTD leader. But both them and the rest of us know that this is immaterial. What's important is the current consistant pace of sales and here the 360 is cleaning them out.

 

By your logic earlier in the year the only think important would have been PS3 outselling 360 in Others and how Sony wouldn't be looking back, etc.  I find it strange you can accept MS managing to reverse a trend but then declare emphatically that everything else is now immaterial.

Do you really think Sony won't respond in some way?  And MS counter respond?  You can't simply draw a line in the sand in Others and go 'that's it, game over'.  Sony is ahead YTD but MS has grabbed back the momentum for the moment.  It's very unlikely that this state of affairs will remain unchanged.