Xbox 360 could hit 28 Million at years end if it follows last years trends

[Squilliam]

mrstickball said:

Squill -

For comparison, though, the Playstation 3 didn't outsell the X360 during Holiday 2007 nearly as well as what the X360 is now, so the margin will be much more disaserous than the PS3/X360 comparison earlier in 08.

Here are the damning numbers:

VGChartz Hardware data for the period 03rd Nov 2007 to 05th Jan 2008:

Console	PS3	X360
Total	3,677,497	3,463,988

Versus:

VGChartz Hardware data for the period 01st Nov 2008 to 06th Dec 2008:

Console	PS3	X360
Total	1,568,051	2,682,708

Last year, the PS3 led by a scant 210,000 units in Nov-Dec, but posted a nice 600,000 lead in Jan-Mar. One should expect the margin to be vastly in favor of the X360 in Jan-Mar 2009. I should raise my predictions to a 100,000 unit lead per week, and over 350,000/mo.

I just edited my post changing 400k to 210k to reflect these numbers. Its interesting that we both wrote pretty similar posts at the same time, you just type faster!

But WOW, those are pretty damning numbers right there. Could we be looking at a lead of 10,000,000 before the start of the financial year if Sony doesn't make deep cuts to the price of the PS3? I can almost see the PS3 dropping below 20% market share worldwide considering the Wii is currently ripping apart sales records left/right and center and the Xbox 360 is currently holding its own market share steady at 30%.