| kowenicki said: @ OP but that would take 3 years if that trend started tomorrow morning @ gilgamesh... you couldnt be more wrong. PS3 sales are down this year from last year... 360's are up every single year... year on year. This year is the best first 4 1/2 months by around one million console sales. explain your statement please? |
That's because the X360 had a price cut at the end of last year remember?
Most of 2008 the PS3 was outselling the X360 (sales were about 110K all year, the X360 had very bad sales in 2008) until it got the price cut so obviously the X360 is going to be selling better this year. Also the last PS3 price cut was almost 2 years ago (I think it was around the end of 2007), and it's stuck at the cheapest price as $400 and the most expensive as $500 (still expensive as hell for most people, especially in this economy). The X360 should be selling way better then the PS3 right now, but it seems to be selling only around 10K more then the PS3 (a console double it's price) and the X260 is probably going to be under 100K now...I'd be worried if I was Microsoft.
So obviously a PS3 price cut will make a pretty big jump in sales (the PS2 had a $30 price cut and it outsold the PS3 and came a few thousand short of outselling the X360 in America!), and like I said Sony has a lot of trump cards up there sleeves in the upcoming years, huge AAA exclusive games, price cuts, Slim PS3 (should make a big impact in Japan) and god knows what else.
Like Sony said the PS3 is in it for the long run, it's going to be around for probably another 5 years, so there's plenty of time for the PS3 to surpass the X360.
