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Kasz216 on 05 February 2010
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Xoj said:
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Kasz ended this thread a while back. It's fun to see the delusional keep ignoring him though. The original post ignores the fact that the PS1 would have been out for 4 fiscal years in Japan, 3 fiscal years in North America and Europe. The PS3 has been out for 4 fiscal years in Japan and North American, and 3.5 fiscal years in Europe. In this flawed comparison the PS3 has been on the market for 1 year longer than the PS1 in North America and six months longer in Europe. Thread logic = Fail.

Nomatter the headstart in 2 regions, taking equal timeframes last quarter the PS3 sold just as much as the PS1 did for the equivalent quarter. So IMO despite the much cheaper entry pricing of the PS1 at that point, the PS3 performs well and considering how well the PS1 did in the end certain fans too quickly made this gen out to be a sprint instead of a marathon.

PS3 actually performed BETTER last quarter then the PS1. 

6.5  million for PS3 vs 5.7 for PS1.   With the 5.7 being under Sony's old shipment figures.

Though whether such a comparison is valid is iffy.

Afterall since the PS3 had the 2 region headstart that means it's ahead in the "Sales ramp" so to speak by a year in the US... and like 9-10 motnhs ahead in the EU


For example 1 year later.... the PS1 shipped 3.41 million in the US in the equivlent quarter and 2.59 million in the EU.  Combined with the 1.45 million that shipped in Japan in 97...

 

and you've got ~7.45 million vs 6.5 million. 

though this is sometimes seen as irrelevan't, the ps3 was a year late to the 360 and more 1 year and 5 months in europe it strongest market.

ps3 not only passed 360 in europe but others in a blink of a eye.

in similar time frame ps3 it's performing abit better, both console with the hardware released worlwide

i think ps3 wont get to the ps1 100 millions, but will reach high numbers later on if sony plays theirs cars right imo.

one o them depends if nintendo decides to make hardware more powerful than the ps3, or just about the same, and the other if sony will tackle microsoft for multiple cpu console, with very expensive hardware.

now we now that early birds may mean they will win the gen.

I'm not sure what your point is here...

Though the reason why it's seen as irrelvent in the PS3/360 model is because they are of the same generation and your asking two different questions.

The PS3 will never gain that extra time on the 360... since the generation is going to end at the same time... one console may stop being sold before the other, but we don't know that for sure, both may get cut off at about the same time.  They're being sold primarily through the same timeframe.   It's an issue of how fast the PS3 is catchin up to the 360 in this case and will it beat it.

 

It's only when you compare generations do you adjust for launch, because it is here you need to do modelling based on sales arcs since you have both a valid starting and ending date for one of the two being compaired.  (Or both.)

 

The chance of the PS3 winning this generation though is still rather unlikely, even if it were to hit 100 million... which is still seen as less likely then likely.