PS3 50 million sold

[Stanislav.Ten]

Icyedge said:

Stanislav.Ten said:

 

Well off the top of my head I can recall a few exclusives that may be causing some of the "I might just get a 360 for this game.." sort of thing, Alan Wake - definitely now the PC version has been discontinued, Splinter Cell Conviction which came out during this week - yet to see the sales of the first week, Mass Effect 2, Halo Reach and the announcement of Gears 3, despite being just outside the end of the year during which the PS3 is predicted to sell 50m by the OP but still relatively close to that date(April 2011). If you think about it,

There is an exclusive game that have been postponed for the last 4 years, bound to be hyped beyond belief by now.

Splinter Cell Conviction, in development for several years now with a large fanbase, although the FPS element may turn some of them off..

Mass Effect 2, highly acclaimed by the critics, despite lower sales figures it is still a juggernaut in the making - really surprised at the sales, expected considerably higher.

Halo Reach - The halo series are the juggernauts of Xbox, bound to increase sales provided the Beta is as awesome as they are hyping it to be.

Gears 3 - Another 360 juggernaut, the highest selling exclusive on Xbox, bound to be hyped up beyond belief.

 

 

By normal I mean somewhere borderline 200-300k, if averaging such figures up until November it will only result in a sum of 300K*7= 2.1M sales until November, if PS3 averages 700k for the duration of the Christmas period(nov-jan) - around 2.1M on top and then 500K in Feb, 400k in March and etc. It will round up to around 4.6M in sales, which is a strange figure to myself personally as to how 13M were achieved I am confused. Not being biased here but I have no clue how the consoles are being sold in such high numbers - both on the 360 and the PS3 front when the average sales are amounting to around 300-350k a month. Either the sales are ridiculously overtracked or I am just not getting it.

Imo, the Game lineup has just encouraged those who were on the verge of buying PS3 as it is, contributed - but in the slightest, the price slashes and the introduction of "Better, slimmer" models have boomed the sales, I know several of my friends who have gotten rid of their Phats and purchased a Slim instead, for whatever reason I am not sure..

I am stating that nothing new will likely to be introduced that will rival the scale to that of GT5, sure there will be exclusives but nothing will be hyped to an extent that PS juggernaut would if it were to be announced for this years release. I am suspending the judgment in a sense that the PS3 MIGHT achieve similar sales to that of last year without the price slashes and the release of new model to back them up, but no way could the sales mark hit 50M by this time next year. - 45M maybe, not 50. E3 can influence the sales of the console, but not by such a large margin, 3M increase seems like a large mark, optimistic but not realistic.

 

P.S By "normal" sales I was insinuating around 200-300k averaging a month up until Christmas.

You know that the list you posted, the same thing can be said of the PS3 library and 2010 release. Anyway both companies will announce lots of things at E3, its not going to be stale on either side. About the numbers, you missed a BIG something, sales for PS3 at the moment are averagin at 200K-250K per WEEK lol. 1 million per month at this moment.

"I know several of my friends who have gotten rid of their Phats and purchased a Slim instead, for whatever reason I am not sure.." Did they sold their last one or keep the 2 of them? If they sold their old one then its a new customer not a duplicate purchase. Also im an owner of a BC 60 GB PS3 that I paid 600$ why in hell would I pay to downgrade to slim lol. Your surely exagerating the effect of duplicate purchase, software sales proves my point anyway (in case you dont know Sony sales more software per week than your idol even with a fewer install base, if there would be so much duplicate purchase as you were insinuating earlier this wouldnt be the case).

First of all, I do not idolize Microsoft, if I could I would change many things about 360, but I am just giving you the list that you have asked for, second of all. I was just saying that there would be no reason for PS3 to have such high sales(16m), because my opinion differs to yours and I have provide the facts as to why I think PS3 won't have as much sales considering the fact that unless there is another price cut planned for this year, more customers will purchase a cheaper alternative - 360.

 

As I was saying, the main reasons for the PS3 MAJOR success last year were:

*Price cuts, large price cut in UK

*Release of Slimmer model which caused discontinuation of older models, therefore affected the prices of the old models as stock was cleared.

*Lineup has somewhat affected the not yet decided people.

And PS has a MUCH larger fanbase, after all, PS1 and PS2 did shift around 250-300M consoles in their lifetime.