Which HD console will honestly win this gen?

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Ascended_Saiyan3 said:

twesterm said:
Already explained in this thread:

Me saying the PS3 can't beat the 360 isn't just a wld guess or because I think the games will make the difference, it's just looking at the numbers.

If the PS3 dropped price tomorrow and suddenly became such a selling machine that it outsold the 360 by 100k per month, it would take more than 6 1/2 years for the PS3 to just catch up to the 360.

In order to just catch up to 360 in a reasonable amount of time, say two years, the PS3 would have to OUTSELL (not just sell) the 360 more than 350k per month for two straight years.

So yeah...

Of course, that assumes that the X360 will still be on the market for as long as the PS3.  That would be incorrect.  MS said the X360 might be on the market for 7 years.  The PS3 lifecycle has been announced as 9 ot 10 years.  That's a 2 to 3 year period with NO X360.  Now, at 2.3 million consoles per quarter, how long would it take to make up 7 to 8 million console sales?  Here's a hint: it's nowhere near 6 years.  Hell, it's nowhere near 2 years!

This just requires below average math skills to figure out.

 

MS said that the Xbox 360 would be on the market for the same length of time as the PS3 (+ one day)