Do you people see the sale shifts?

[DirtyP2002]

CGI-Quality said:

DirtyP2002 said:

I can't believe I just read that MS should be scared because of the black friday sales. There were 75k more PS3 sold than Xbox360... Oh no Xbox360 is doomed! (Remember there is still a 9 million gap in the US)

I think it is impressive for a console in its fifth year to sell 325k consoles @ black friday. Besides that, they won on the software front. Assassins Creed II, Left 4 Dead 2 and Modern Warfare 2 all on the X360 were the big winners.

But anyway, Sony has still GT5 to make its debut for this gen. This and God of War III are the last big IPs Sony has for this gen.

MS will release Natal and advertise the hell out of it. I say we might see a $200 or $250 Elite with Natal this time next year. (I still hope that Alan Wake will be a great success, but thats just me :D) 

This gen is basically:

Wii Owns! But that's boring so we check MS vs Sony:

Xbox 360 rules America
Xbox 360 rules UK / scandinavia / Australia

PS3 rules Japan
PS3 rules continental Europe

Just by looking at these markets it is easy to say that the difference in sales won't be huge at all. They will end up more or less with the same amount of consoles. Maybe a 5 million difference (like 55 vs 60 million), but there is no publisher / developer that can afford to drop a 50 million userbase just for the fuck of it.

You conveniently missed the point. The Xbox 360 is $100 cheaper than the PS3, yet was outsold by it, in it's biggest territory, by 100,000 units or more according to the early leak.

Unless Microsoft drops the $199 Arcade down by $100 next year, or unless Natal is a huge success, they have something to consider worrying about. Let's step out of preferences for a second and think logically here for a moment.

Okay, you are probably right. The Xbox 360 is doomed.

Well to the early leak it might be less than 100k, like 75 or less.

Straigth from the article:

"PS3 sold nearly 400,000 units during the week"
"Around 325,000 Xbox 360s were sold"

So a 70k - 75k difference @ black friday... two months after the price cut and the redesign / relaunch of the PS3. I

There is no reason for MS to be worried about. The sales of the Xbox360 are very decent for a console in its fifth year. There is no chance in hell that the PS3 will catch up to the Xbox 360 in NA. Yeah there is a $50 / $100 price difference, so what? The Xbox 360 will always be cheaper than the PS3. This has been the same situation since this gen started. The point is that MS makes money with the cheaper console and Sony loses money with the more expensive one.

Next year, after the more than likley price cut and after the release of Natal, Sony is forced to make a very hard choice again. Should they cut the price again (and continue to make losses) or should they try not to lose more than $250 million every 3 months (that was their BEST result for the PS3 I think) for the very first time.

Actually I think MS has Sony at the balls.

But all this is not interesting for us, the gamers. Both consoles will see major 3rd party support for the rest of the generation.