MikeB on 21 May 2010
@ slowmo
I think you and others are being childish, XBox fans here destroyed a lot of good discussions, be that technical or sales discussions.
the only valid comparison is total sales LTD
With the 1 year headstart for the XBox 360 in Japan and the US and a 1 year and 4 months headstart in PAL regions (2 extra holidays seasons in the past for the XBox 360) and more in other parts of the world that would a distorted picture.
What matters to software companies is not a headstart a platform in a distant past had on the market but how much software they can expect to sell now on a platform and the data clearly shows the PS3 has siginificantly beaten the XBox 360 on software sales last year despite 4.47 million fewer units on the market.
Even in the XBox 360's best year of software sales PS3 software relatively outsold the XBox 360 despite a very large install base gap. Yet total sales were virtually identical.
At the end of this fiscal year the PS3 install base is anticipated to have overtaken the XBox 360's total install base, so if you were a software company and you would start developing a software project today (which is done at the end of this fiscal year), considering all the data, which platform would be more interesting to you? (try to reason as a businessman when answering this question)
