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blazinhead89 on 31 December 2008
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theRepublic said:
blazinhead89 said:
theRepublic said:

Does this look like console of the year to you?

The holidays are the most important time of the year.  The Wii is up 80% year over year for the holidays.  The 360 is up 47%.  The PS3 is down 15%.

If you want to claim that as some sort of victory, go right ahead.  You would have to be delusional though.

 

Sigh, Last year PS3 came off the back of a price cut, the Economy was good, This year 360 off the back of price cut and economy gone down the shitter. for a 400$ Console to sell Half a Million in one week is some sort of victory no? I Know this is cliché, but if the PS3 was 299 it would easily have outsold 360 this year (And by a much larger margin than PS3 outsold 360 from Jan-Aug 08)

Hypothetical situations don't mean anything.  What matters is what actually happened.  The PS3 is $400, not $300.

As for the economy, it didn't seem to affect Nintendo's or Microsoft's sales much.  That's Sony's problem.

A console of the year shouldn't have these kinds of problems during the holiday.  It shouldn't be outperformed by both competitors.


It doesn't affect M$ , ninty sales because their consoles are Mass Market Price. Regardless Of what people think, The PS3 has had a great and IMO has has had the best exclusives and also manages to perform reasonably well sales wise for its price. As for being outperformed, in sales yes, but thats about the height of it IMO.