| Seihyouken said: You'd think that way with the way Christmas sales have been hugely in favor of 360, but the truth is that that the worse has already ended for Sony, or at the very least is about to end. Now that the Christmas rush is drying up, PS3 and 360 worldwide sales are going to fall back to being within 50,000 every week. At that point, it's no longer so much about which console is cheaper so much as which console has the bigger new releases. In that sense, both the PS3 and 360 are about even in Q1. Furthermore, Sony pretty much just has to survive through the next two months with selling the PS3 at a loss and then March comes along with the 45nm cell chip revisions where the PS3 should break about even. Then Sony just has to stay within margin with 360 sales (all the meantime making profits off of PS3 sales) until Q4 when they issue a $100 price drop along with huge releases like God of War III in America, Gran Turismo 5 in Europe, and Final Fantasy XIII in Japan. Needless to say, PS3 sales would explode, possibly as much as 6 or 7 million in two months. Now Sony just needs to make it happen. |
I would be surprised if the difference was less than 100k per week. At this point is the reverse of what you say, its about which console is cheaper not which console has the big new releases (Unless its the Wii). Both Others and Americas are significantly in the Xbox 360s favour at this point. Take Killzone 2 as an example? What an OMFG game right? Well that genre is whored out, the Xbox 360 hit it twice already with big name exclusives. TIME AND AGAIN its been shown that pretty much all of these big name games on the HD consoles do squat for sales barring a few exceptions.
At 75k per week the gap increases by 1M per quarter.
150k = 2M per quarter, etc.
Tease.
