Haven't posted here in awhile, but I read through the posts on a fairly consistent basis; and I see there's still no end to the silly number crunching and subjectively arranged sales data offered up by one particular group of fanboys.
So, in response to another sales oriented post, "Same point in time..." by PS3beats360, which, for the sake of his own personal bias, completely ignores the current momentum of one console to paint the other in a more favorable light; here's mine.
Starting on the launch date of the PS3, November 11, 2006, the Xbox 360 has outsold it by almost 3 million. 2,827,092 according to VGChartz numbers.
From the moment that consumers could actually choose which console they'd rather own, when both consoles were sitting right next to one another on the store shelf, nearly 3 million more have decided to purchase a 360 over a PS3.
I think that's a pretty fair, and even though I'm partial to the 360, a much more accurate and unbiased approach towards which console has truly 'outsold' the other.
The "Same point in time" view, while correct, completely ignores the 360's momentum over the past year, relying on and including sales stats from it's first 365 days on the market to attain a thoroughly misleading total for which console is tracking better. It's asking people to react to sales figures for each console that start and stop on completely different dates, which is of course, an unrealistic comparison because it doesn't exactly put them head to head and it doesn't take into account the most recent, most relevant sales data..... today's. The effort to put the PS3 on top actually makes it appear worse in comparison, because when you look at what's happening NOW, it's steadily losing ground... day in and day out... to the 360. It's further behind now than it was when it launched. Dance around the numbers all you like but....
since they've both been available, the 360's sold almost 3 million more.
