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Sales - Xbox 360 won NPD imo - View Post

Homeroids on 22 October 2009
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damndl0ser said:
Homeroids said:
PS3beats360 said:
September 2009 NPD sales: PS3 = 491k Vs XBox 360 = 352k
PS3 won by 139k over the XBox 360.

See, the other way of looking at it (manipulate the stats, NOT!) is that why would anyone think that when the PS3 beats the 360 by about 139k for the month, that the 9 million aggregate difference between the PS3 and 360 in the US is suddenly irrelevant? NPD is about the one month. For that month, the PS3 sales beat the 360 quite resoundly. The fact that ODST was released in the month does not mean 18 million 360 owners fall on their sword in awe at the amazing sales of the PS3 Slim for that month and decide not to buy ODST. Life goes on.

 

I guess my point is, when you have a user base that is double, the PS3 is never going to beat the 360 in terms of revenue. We know that. But the real and only stat that counts is the here and now relating to Hardware sales. It's that simple. Analyse all you want but for anyone to think that the PS3 could have beat the 360 in Sept in terms of revenue are kidding themselves. However, the PS3 still one the month on the stat that counts the most. Period.

 

 

Your actually wrong.  The only stat that really matters to companies is if they make money or not. 

I get that, however in context of the userbase, the stat that counts is how many hardware units you shift. This is the stat that most care about. Again, manipulate all you want.  The Slim price cut was not only for the US region.