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raygun on 17 August 2010
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ZenfoldorVGI said:
M.U.G.E.N said:

360 fans and anti sony force will disagree and will ignore than year head start

'shrugs' can't really do anything about it


Bullshit. Actual sales are not hypothetical. Sony chose to release their console a year later than the 360, and that has had benefits and penalties. It was a strategy decision, NOBODY is ignoring it, it's a fact. It's also a fact that the strategy has landed their playstation brand in the shitter compared to last generation, and their console in 3rd place. Stop making excuses for a huge company that made a bad decision, they aren't your friend.

Next gen, they don't start with the brand name superiority crutch. Their brand is arguably in the worst position of the three, and if they launch late, they're screwed. Excuses or not.

Saying that "360 fans" anything is already starting your statement off with a biased tent, and imply that anyone ignores the "headstart" is an insult to everyone on this forum. It wasn't a headstart, it was a business strategy that was deliberably planned by both Microsoft and Sony, and one benefitted and one did not. The playstation brand has suffered as a result, that is inarguable, and we arne't comparing speculative "what if" numbers here, because we have the real numbers, fyi.


Hah, man your intense! I'm not sure how to respond to this rant. So I won't! Oh what the hell.

Bullshit! (LOL) It WAS a headstart, the 360 came out a year before the PS3, LOOK AT THE RELEASE DATES. You can't say (something) has sold more than (something), when the first something had started selling a year before the other, that's ridiculous. 

Oh, that was business strategy you say? I think it probably had to more to do with whether the design phase of the console's were completed, ya think? 

Still a little fuzzy? The 360 has been on sale 25% longer, so  IT BETTER have more total sales. IF YOU STILL DON'T GET IT, lets view it as 2 separate races, or better yet time trials, each on their own separate racetrack, the 360 has done 4.7 laps on it's track, the Ps3 has done 3.7 laps. (aprox) NOW LETS COMPARE AT LAP 3.7 FOR BOTH 360 AND PS3, SHALL WE?

VGChartz Hardware data for the period 05th Nov 2006 to 07th Aug 2010:
Console PS3
Total
36,634,461

Now lets look at the 360 sales FOR THE SAME AMOUNT OF TIME, starting when it was released:

VGChartz Hardware data for the period 20th Nov 2005 to 22nd Aug 2009:


Console X360
Total
31,201,088

 

So what does this mean? You can even use the LAST 3.7 years of 360's sales instead of it's first, and you'll get:

VGChartz Hardware data for the period 19th Nov 2006 to 07th Aug 2010:


Console X360
Total
36,474,147

And 360 still barely looses, but it's not a fair comparison, we should stick with the first 3.7 years of each console, because it looks better from my point of view (smile). These ARE real numbers.