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nightsurge on 31 December 2008
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forevercloud3000 said:
nightsurge said:
forevercloud3000 said:

 

....in 07 The PS3 started outselling the 360 right before Christmas time then(Just like the 360 is now). PS3 didn't have the same game collection though, the 360's overpowered it with stuff like Mass Effect,Halo 3, etc. 2007was still hailed as The Year of the 360, even though it was being out sold by the PS3.

Why is it now that the tables have turned, this year doesn't belong to it, matter of fact everyone is trying to say the PS3 is going to fail now! How backwards is that? Complete media bias for the American company is most apparent here!

This year is still the YEAR of the PS3!

And Next year will be too!

Discuss!

The PS3 in 07 only BARELY started outselling the 360 with the last few weeks left.  The 360 this year started outselling the PS3 in September through the end of the year to end up selling more than the PS3 this year by nearly a million units.  This year was not the YEAR of the PS3 because it did not outsell the 360.  07 was the year of the 360 because the 360 still sold more units than the PS3 in that year, just as it did again in 08.  Granted, though, both years were truly the Years of the Wii as graywolf said.

NO it didnt! The PS3 started to outsell the 360 somewhere around October of 07 and continued on through the end of the year, into the next year for 8 months. I agree that 360 has outsold PS3s sales entirety of 08(barely) but no one knew that was going to happen until it did. PS3 consistently outsold 360 for quite sometime yet it got no props whatsoever for it from the media. In actuallity the media would constantly bring up months of the 360 selling better in US, even though it was still being outsold WW by PS3. The only reason the 360 has seen such a rise in sales is because of it's drastically low price. If the PS3 was around that price it would be too. Yet no one is looking at truths like that.

And if System of the Year is completely dependent on sales, then Why was the Wii not included. I heard no one hail the Wii for anything and it has outsold both consoles in both catagories.

Media always spins it into a negative light for PS3.

 

Alas, you are wrong.  The PS3 outsold the 360 not until November 10th.  And then only for 3 weeks of November, then the 4 weeks of December.  I consider a little over a month = the last few weeks of the year.

7 weeks < ~14 weeks that the 360 retook at the end of the year.

The PS3 got plenty of good press.  Almost every tech site was hailing it as the Blu-Ray player to pick.  Also, if 360 outsold the PS3 in the US, it got coverage beause most of the sites you were reading are probably based in the US.

The only reason the PS3 saw such a rise in sales end of last year and beginning was because of it's drastric price drop that made it the same price as a 360.  The 360 price cut was overdue as it had not had a single significant drop while the PS3 had already had $200 knocked off.  If the PS3 was also at $200-300, Sony would be on it's last leg attempts to discontinue the system as that price would cause them to lose multiple billions of dollars in a very short time.  No one looks at failed logic that some people think are "truths".

As to your last point.  I believe myself and at least a few others already mentioned in this thread that the Wii claimed those years.