| Seihyouken said: A lot of people like to throw around numbers like the fact that the PS3 has to outsell the 360 by 113,000 units per week and simply leave it at that without doing the math in their head and realising that that is very possible. PS3 will definitely not outsell the 360 by 113,000 units every week, however every week that the PS3 exceeds that number brings that weekly average down. The weeks of Uncharted 2's release, the 3 weeks surrounding Black Friday, the week of Final Fantasy XIII's releae in both Japan and the west, the week of Gran Turismo 5's release; All theses weeks are ones where the PS3 is likely going to outsell the 360 by a lot more than 113,000 and every time it does, it will bring down the ammount that it has to outsell the 360 during the off weeks. |
That wasn't the point of that post. It's meant to point out that the PS3 must consistently outsell the 360 by over 100,000 units each week for very, very long periods of time in order to catch up to the 360. It's accepted that it will do so some weeks, and not do so on others.
Let us take your examples. If the PS3 outsells the 360 on a worldwide basis by an average of 300,000 on each of those five occasions* it would still be about six million units in the hole. Is it possible to overcome that gap by the end of 2010? I suppose. Is it even remotely plausible? I'm pretty sure we have different answers there.
*For the record, I think the only one that gives it even a semblance of such an opportunity is Final Fantasy's Japanese release, and I don't think it will come anywhere near that high then either.
