NPD charts show PS3 selling less than GameCube

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@Griffin

This is terribly bad news. You cannot spin it into good news. Not that your particular spin maneuver has not been tried in the past. Less a revelation, and more of a excuse for the system to do poorly. There are parallels with the previous generation, but there are fundamental differences. I could spin shallow numbers to.

The reality is the excuse does nothing to help Sony out. The situation is what the situation is. They are selling a console at a stupendous loss to drive the sales even this high. Even then last month they lost to the 360 the second place runner in the war at this point by 5 to 1 in North America. Sony needs less excuses, and more results if they do not break ahead soon they are likely to lose the war, and very likely to be a third place finisher.

Let me spin something out for you. The PS3 may be under performing the GC at this point in its life, but what of those GC numbers how many years ago did it make those sales? The market has expanded since that time has it not. So if you factor that in the PS3 is probably doing much worse then the GC. Say the market has expanded by a meager ten percent. Effectively if you factor in market inflation the PS3 might be doing markedly worse.