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andrewpeirce on 13 September 2007
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makingmusic476 said:
andrewpeirce said:
I read your entire post, like you requested at the end of your post. I don't belive N64/PSX is comparable to this gen with xbox 360 vs. Sony
(btw, PSX didn't "completely dominate" a much better description would be "PSX won handily")

PSX came before the N64. N64 was the one hyped. N64 is the one that messed up, then later got really good first party and rare games, yet didn't win.

Xbox 360 came before PS3. PS3 was the one hyped. Both Xbox 360 and PS3 messed up, but PS3 more so imo. Both are moving to fix thier mistake (N64 did not, they stuck with carts)
I don't think we can predict the future. The end of this gen is still very far away. My guess though is the PS3 and Xbox 360 will be very close, either 5m away either way for either console, or perhaps virtually tied. I don't believe either will sell for than 50m.

Yes, but the ps1 had the games, and it looks like the ps3 will have the games as well. My point was that the games helped the system overcome it's higher price point. Why couldn't that happen for the ps3 as well?

Also, the ps1 did dominate. It beat the n64 by 60-70 mil. consoles.


 I am pretty sure that the Playstation had more games becuase a) Nintendo used carts, while sony used the superoir CD format and b)Nintendo was pretty arrogant and was treating devlopers badly

It is not clear that the PS3 will have better games than the Xbox 360 in the future. Meanwhile in the present, it is painfully obivous that Xbox 360 has a superoir lineup of games when compared to the PS3. I belive in the end Sony's strong brand name and incredible smoozing abilites will cause it to be withing 5 million units of the Xbox 360, either more less, or tied. I think it will be very similar to Xbox vs GC numbers cloness wise. I preidct PS3/Xbox 360 will sell 10m-20m more units than GC/xbox did. So it may end up at 43m PS3 and 39 Xbox 360.

However... if Sony's holiday lineup bombs and the console doens't sell very well this winter, the PS3 will have to do very well spring.summer of 08, preferrably with an $100 price cut. If the PS3 cannot close in on the Xbox 360 by this time next year (the end of summer- also closing in doenst mean pass/tie, it means get close) the PS3 will lose most of its support and will probably be 5-10 million untis behind the xbox 360. If this happens it is quite possible that the Xbox 360 could surpass 50 million units sold.