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Gilgamesh on 13 October 2009
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elticker said:
Gilgamesh said:

Like I said many times Natal will do nothing for hardware sales (Same as the PS Wand or Sphere or whatever there calling it). The only thing Microsoft can do is cut the price by $100 on the Elite to have sales better then PS3, but then again it'll only be a matter of time till the PS3 cuts the price then it'll be the PS3 ahead again. The X360 had a year start, sales are going to start going downhill while PS3's continue to go up, it's only natural.

There's not much Microsoft can do. There dead in Japan and there's pretty much nothing they can do to save them (unless they some how get FFXIII, but that looks highly doughtful). There already dying (<--fixed) in Others and GT5 will be the nail in the coffin for that. The only region they have going for them is America, and as big as America is it won't be enough to save them.


first thing how do you know natal will do nothing to sales, i dont know neither does microsoft(they are expecting it to do good but they didnt sell it yet so how do they know) so how do you know. by the way xbox 360 is ahead by 1 mil in others so if ps keeps outselling xbox 360 by 50k they will need atleast 20 weeks but i dont think micrososft will let playstation outsell them in others or atleast they will try to.  ps its unlinkiley that ps3 will come in second this generation but its possible which i hope not.

Natal is an accessory, since when has an accessory saved a console, actually if history repeats itself then this will kill the X360 faster then ever. It'll do nothing for hardware sales, might help out software sales though. And you sir are forgetting that the next 20 weeks is the most important time of the year when it comes to sales, that 20 weeks can basically turn into 10 weeks because of the high holiday sales, by the end of December the PS3 will be ahead of the X360 in others.

I also don't see how it's unlikely that the PS3 won't come in second, seems kind of natural to me that it's going to happen?. The X360 has a year start, it already has a console at the big $199 price point, there really isn't anything other then Halo (and maybe Gears) that Microsoft has for the X360 while the PS3 has a huge list of big AAA exclusives. The PS3 has already out sold the X360 for the 2009 year, already! after being outsold by the X360 from pretty much every week of 2009.

So it seems very reasonable for the PS3 to outsell the X360.

@Kowenicki, sure the X360 has twice the amount of consoles sold in America, but like I said you can't ignore the rest of the world, I mean 300 million VS. 6.4 billion? you can't just rely on America (even though it is the biggest market), that's just suicide to stick to one region and ignoring the rest of the world. Other's always has higher weekly sales then America, and Japan is up there aswell.

@Seece, oh it's dying, it's hard to tell because the last couple weeks it had huge games realeases and the holidays is coming up so the numbers will obivously be high, so it's hard to tell now, but it's dying, I feel it in my bones :)