PS3 sales tracking almost exactly 360 sales.

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LunarFlame17 said:

Final-Fan said:

Smashchu said:

Dolla Dolla said:

leo-j said:
And that saying its a $600.00 system vs a $350.00 system or $280.00 system or a $450.00 system etc..

Actually $500. The uptake of 80gb Motorstorm bundles is decidely less than the $500 60gb.

Surprising. You'd think with the Playstation name and two consoles with 100 million a piece under their belts they would sell quite a bit differently. Yet, the PS3 is tracking only a bit higher than the Gamecube and nearly on the same track as the original Xbox.

http://vgchartz.com/hwcomps.php?cons1=PS3®1=All&cons2=GC®2=All&cons3=XB®3=All&align=1

Times have certainly changed.

That's what you get with a 600$ price tag. if it weren't for the other two systems, the system would be dead now at less then a million sold.

What? Are you trying to say that PS3 sales would be worse if the Wii and 360 didn't exist, or if the GC and Xbox didn't exist? I ask purely out of curiosity because either way that statement is insane.

I think he's trying to say that if the PS3 had been Sony's first system, the $600 price tag would have killed it almost instantly. The main reason the PS3 hasn't died is because of brand recognition.

Yes, I just realized that a minute ago.  Which makes him not insane, but it's still a useless and unprovable statement, especially if you consider that in that thought exercise, to be fair, we would also have to stipulate that the Xbox and all prior Nintendo consoles didn't exist.