PS3 sales only 6 months behind xbox360

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Cueil said:

Viper1 said:

DrDread said:

I was just looking at the weekly hardware sales charts :

http://vgchartz.com/hwcomps.php?weekly=1

... and It was pointed out to me today that the current units sold of PS3s worlwide are about 18.8 million. Xbox360 hit 18.8 million almost exactly six months ago. So I suppose you can say PS3 sales are only 6 months behind the XBox360, however, PS3 came out more then a year after the XBox360 did.

Does this stand to reason that PS3 has closed the gap in the lead XBox had in sales by half since they have been out? Is it also looking like PS3 will overtake the XBox within a year or two at this rate?

PS3 was outselling XBox for a long while until recently, the last few months, which might be attributed to the XBox price drop (The Drive hack probably helped to). I feel XBox will continue to outsell until probably next year when the PS3 will most likely have it's own big price drop, but do you think XBox will drop price again?. Are the prices going to go any lower then $200 for the next gen systems anytime soon? PS2 still sell for over $100

I give you full marks for bringing a new angle to this long stnading debate.  While flawed, it's at least a unique perspective.

 

To truly see the gap, we shall look at the sale gap at PS3 and today.

PS3 launch Nov 2006 - 5,274,069
Gap as of current sales - 7,674,943

 

As you can see, the gap has actually expanded by 2,400,874 in the X360's favor.

 

 

 

I was thinking the same thing... that's the kind of spin even Sony PR can't pull out of their butts... someone should get hired

 

But when you combine the fact that PS3 is $200 more expensinve it just becomes one of those: