UK - 360's strongest country?

[DirtyP2002]

akuseru said:

DirtyP2002 said:
The Xbox 360 will easily secure 2nd place in the UK and the US. Maybe even in Australia and probably in Canada, even though we don't have much data from canada at all, but I doubt they are 100% different to the US data. So the largest english speaking countries do prefer the Xbox 360 over the PS3.

This might be a big plus for the next generartion.

First step: Get into the market (Xbox)
Second step: establish on the market (Xbox 360)
Third step: Dominate the market (Xbox³)



I think having a huge fanbase in some of the biggest markets in this industry can't be wrong.

How will the 360 easily secure 2nd place in the UK? GT5 has not even been released yet ^^ The last Top Gear I saw (it was a rerun yes) they even mentioned that Polyphony Digital (or as he said: "the guys behind the fabolous Gran Turismo games") had made the graphics for the car's speedometer and whatnot. GT5 will help the PS3 in the UK a lot, but the gap is pretty big though, 1.7 million. However, I don't believe the PS3 is out of the race just yet. It looks like it will be a tough battle, almost impossible. Let GT5 show us the truth =P

And Australia? Even with the ridicolous prices our forum's members from Down Under report, the PS3 is still doing fairly well compared to the 360. This week it sold about 1000 more units, and the PS3 is about 144.000 units behind, which is a lot. But the PS3 is apparently really expensive in Australia, so if the PS3 has a price drop it may sell a lot better in the future.

 

Do you really think GT5 will make the gap close? Let's say they sell 1.5 million copies in UK alone. And the game might push 200k consoles in UK (That is a lot btw and would mean about 1 million PS3s sold due to GT5 worldwide) there is still a 1.5 million gap and the Xbox 360 did not get a price cut since september 2008. Actually they saw a price increase for the Arcade SKU. Really, there is no way the PS3 will get 2nd place in UK.