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kowenicki said:

Alby_da_Wolf said:

kowenicki said:
I thought the PS3 - 360 gap might drop into the 30k level... but its actually down to 26k now.

YOY

Wii down 38k 18%
360 down 2k 2%
PS3 up 32k 35%

I am convinced the 360 will have a better 2010 than 2009... despite the doom and gloom merchants here.

This week XB360 had huger releases than both PS3 and Wii, but while it kept better than Wii YoY, it was nevertheless a little bit down and a lot worse YoY than PS3. And regarding sales numbers it was last of home consoles. If it takes having the biggest releases to XB360 to achieve this, well, then we could extrapolate that also in Q4, getting the best releases it will be able to achieve around -2% YoY.

It will do better than that, but I wouldn't conclude it from this week.

I diagree... heres why

The 360 has had a slow start to the year software wise and yet it is only down around 3% YOY YTD...  Thats a good performance imo.

And of course its worse than PS3... what did you expect? Its sales at this point last year were the lowest so its bound to be up. Come August that flips...  The PS3 at 126k is a lot lower than quite a few here thought would be the minimum weekly sales level this year.

 

 

 

 

 

Let me start admitting a thing. I don't know whether I ever wrote it, but during Q4 2009 I often thought PS3 wouldn't have dropped under 150k during 2010, although I'm never 100% sure about anything, nor I totally wazs even back then.

This said, here you're trying to mix a truth with a thing less true to make the latter pass: it's totally true that going up YoY from a previous meh sales performance isn't difficult, but it's just the norm when you finally do things right. But it's also true that last years's XB360 performance in this period was by no means stellar, so it was expected too to rise, considering the big SW releases it had this week. So judging from this week shouldn't bode well for XB360 next Autumn. Why I'm not pessimistic anyway, then? Because XB360 is expected to have some more or less big and significant renewal and this should remove at least some reasons for the current sluggish performances. But getting good omens from this very week, really no, I can't do it.