| numonex said: Speaking on behalf of 360 fans I am shocked by this terrible news of the PS3 heavily outselling the XBox 360 in NA during BF week. PS3 BF sales week surprise a huge blow to XBox 360 and its fans. I can not believe this has happened. It means the gap will fall to 5 million or below by end of 2009. Natal launch may have to be launched early or just let the lead fall to 3 million by Fall 2010? PS3 outsold the 360 by almost 200k units in NA with BF sales week. The XBox 360 was supposed to win over PS3 in NA. XBox 360 is much cheaper than PS3. This can not not be happening. Hopefully this is not the end of the titanic battle for second place between the XBox 360 and PS3 in the console sales wars showdown. |
Don't worry man. The Xbox 360 might very well end up with bronze (you never know though, it could be that the 360 is hitting saturation somewhat whereas the PS3 may start to hit saturation in the future as more and more of them get into homes, especially in NA) but the platform isn't in any real danger. Third-parties are going to continue developing mostly multi-plat considering how there are about 9 million more Xbox 360 consoles sold in Americas and the numbers in Europe/Others aren't nothing to sneeze at either. So as long as Microsoft is getting third-party support and Microsoft Game Studios continues with their quality releases, Xbox 360 gamers have no reason not to be happy (it's only the PS fanboys that scream doomsday scenarios of 360 being doomed because the 360 has less "real exclusives". A fact that doesn't bother all those 360 gamers who buy L4D, Mass Effect, etc. in droves anyway) and the Xbox division will stay in the black. After all the investment in the Xbox division, they are in the black now. The focus should be to recoup all of those past investments. That's going to take awhile because Xbox 1 was a huge financial black hole but it's better to be in the black than to bleed themselves even more with red ink.
When Next Gen hits, NextBox should start with Razor and Blades to ensure that the console gets third-party support (and it'll help loads to build a reliable console from the start and to make the console easy to program for just like Xbox 1 and 360). But 360 is already locked for that support.
