360v PS3 gap charts updated for Feb

[MikeB]

SickleSigh said:

MikeB said:
The gap by March 2007 seems a bit low to me, considering the 360's 1 year and 5 months headstart for PAL regions. Less than 7 million seems very low for 1 year of additional sales for the main NTSC regions and more for other regions.

Did the 360 really sell this slowly early on? I remember at the time many people hailed its "amazing" sales...

Ps2 was still selling well I think and might have slowed 360 sales.

Certainly it was good competition, the PS2 was the best sold home console in 2006. But the PS2 sold well in 2007 as well, for Sony's previous two fiscal years it sold over 28 million units to retail. So per year multiple times the amount the 360 is believed to have sold its first year on the market (about 14 million vs 5.5 million units according to VGChartz 360 sales data). Retailers of course bought new PS2s at roughly the same rate they were selling these systems themselves as they will have left over stock from the previous year.

It seems on the low end for such a big headstart.