Why are people acting like the PS3 losing even more market share is A-OK?

[dharh]

HappySqurriel said:

dharh said:

I'm less concerned with regional sales than I am with WW sales. If we look at those same regional sales comparing X360, PS3, and PS2, we still see that only in america does X360 trump from launch sales. The last year has been the real trouble for PS3 where it has really fallen behind PS2, but its again still ahead of the X360. Next year will decide the true trends.

 

If you're comparing two like things it is far easier to see the relationship between them ...

The problem with the worldwide totals of the PS2 and PS3 is the massive difference in how different the "Worldwide" launches were between the two consoles. The PS2 launched in Japan far earlier than in North America and Europe, and when it finally did launch outside of Japan it remained sold out for (basically) half a year; in contrast the PS3 launched in Japan and North America at (pretty much) the same time and was released in Europe not that much later, and the PS3 was readily available in stores soon after launch in all regions. What this means is that the direct comparison has a massive bias in favour of the PS3.

Whether you're ready to accept it or not, the "True Trend" is already obvious ...

See your missing what im saying. I've already acknowledged PS3 is new tracking below PS2.  What im saying is that X360 is doing even worse.  And if you do region by region, that fact is made ever more plain except in one region, america.  In the past that might have easily made up for all the other regions put together putting PS3 in even more trouble, but that is not the case anymore, america now makes up less than half the sales.

If you want to talk about "true trend" we can state that the Wii is the only console this gen that is tracking at or above PS2 from launch sales.  Both PS3 and X360 are tracking below.

The trend im talking about is will X360 pull ahead of the PS3 or will PS3 keep ahead next year.