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Squilliam on 18 May 2009
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libellule said:
Squilliam said:

The Xbox 360 average price is about 33% cheaper than the PS3 in the United States and the sales difference is about the same.

OK

In the United Kingdom going by Wikipedia the average sale price is probably roughly $169 vs $299 for the PS3 and Europe is probably $200 vs $400 for the PS3. The difference here is 'only' 20% in favour of the Xbox 360 however the real price difference is much closer than that as Europe has a higher wireless adoption rate from what I've seen and the Xbox 360 has extra costs associated such as wireless and Live and no Blu Ray so the likely real cost of the systems is probably much closer than the prices indicate.

LOL, much closer my ass ! At the end most of the people buying the Arcade sku are not gonna play much online or buy extra storage hdd. At the end, you have no clue about what people do or not do. So you can't make speculation about what people buy or not. Again, some free extra spinning ...

the SKU becomes a lot more popular at that time as a gift for children/whatever and cheaper becomes an important point.

 cheaper is always an important point ...

 

 

You accuse me of spinning? Theres as much speculation coming from you as from me if we hold it to a strict standard.

Cheaper is not always the most important point, for example the last best information on the SKU split for the Xbox 360 was from pachter and average price of the Xbox 360 as stated by him was $290 in the United States. Its a complicated issue and there are multiple factors which work for and against consoles. If both consoles came with DVD and no wireless out of the box then there would be far more merit to the simple statements about one being cheaper than the other.

@Pinab: Thats the overall market share as it stands right now per region? Then perhaps the market conditions world wide have changed so therefore we could expect those numbers to change right? Anyway a more accurate number would be the 6 monthly or yearly market share per region I think anyway.

@PapflesJe: The difference between the United States and Japan is that stating the PS3 could lead the Xbox 360 there is a reasonable statement to make, and it has done so in the past on a monthly or weekly basis. The Xbox 360 on the other hand could never find acceptence in the Japanese market so that will always be Sonys strong point over Microsoft no matter what happens. So for someone to compare the world wide performance of the two without understanding that point, they would be decieving themselves.

VGChartz Hardware data for the period 04th Oct 2008 to 03rd Jan 2009:

 

Console PS3 X360
Total
3,900,383
6,004,081
America
1,556,840
3,147,679
Japan
367,837
150,484
Total Others
1,975,706
2,705,918

VGChartz Hardware percentages for the period 04th Oct 2008 to 03rd Jan 2009:

Console PS3 X360
Total
3,900,383
6,004,081
America
 40%
52.5%
Japan
9%
2.5%
Total Others
 51%

45%


Tease.