PS3 will never beat 360 this generation.

[criminalminds]

joeorc said:

criminalminds said:

GameAnalyser said:
whatever...360 is already on the decline...ps3 is picking up the pace and soon we'll see the sales surpassing it by mid 2010. And I admit that u've got guts to state so...Japanese H/W sales numbers for 360 is a joke..

And then 2010 rolls around, MS price cut + Natal + Console rebranding/redesign of some sort and once again the 360 worldwide lead goes right back up to 8 million or maybe even higher while the PS3 sales once again decline.

You must be short sighted and have forgotten about all the past shifts in sales/price?  And to be honest, PS3 sales in JP are a joke considering last generation.  This gen they'll be lucky to finish with half the sales the PS2 had in JP!

the big point will Microsoft do that...?

 

look at this way

Microsoft's first xbox sold lifetime around 25 million system's world wide in

5 year's

right now the new xbox360 has sold less than 33 million in 4 year's as of nov 2009 that's

a growth of the xbox brand of  not yet even 9 million systems.

ask your self if the entire install base of the prev. gen xbox was 25 million in 4 year's and right now the xbox360 install base of new 

gamer's added to the xbox brand has grown under 9 million in "4" year's 

one would hope that Microsoft would want to keep the xbox360 on the market as long as they can at this point price drop's are a way to spur sales, but at the same time if you go to low to fast you risk the brand to be de-valued.

 

 

Um, the original Xbox got 25 million in 5 years, not 4.  So to surpass it and be 8 million+ with a year to spare.... that means it's actually going to end with a MINIMUM of 16 million new gamers added to the Xbox brand over that 5 years.  Most impressive.

And how's come predicting the Xbox to get a price cut + Natal + rebranding/redesign is seen as wishful thinking?  This is so obviously what they will do!  It's been hinted at many times already and Kim said the launch of Natal would be like the launch of a whole new console.  Add on the that the massive list of stellar games the 360 is getting in 2010 that the PS3 is NOT getting, and you have some seriously strong line-up to keep sales up until the 2010 deathblow.

I guess I don't see how if Sony can do something its wishful thinking to ever imply someone else can do it?  Sure MS is not a "hardware" company, but they are a large company, much larger and wealthier than Sony and I'm sure they can afford to hire some people to get the design done right this time around.  I also don't get how the Sony line-up is any stronger than MS's?  Seems to me like while this is all entirely opinionated, both companies have titles that basically cancel each other out or apply to just their fanbases so it seems pretty equal to me.  Especially with lots of games yet to be announced for both.