The PS3 has already caught up to and passed the 360 sales!

[Spectrumglr]

Icyedge said:

Spectrumglr said:

TauKappaNASA said:

 

Its not that his logic isn't sound. Data can be interpreted in many ways. I agree that the "important" measure is what they are currently at right now. But to the people saying the logic is flawed. In 2013ish (give or take) when 360 is gone and the ps3 is still going strong for a year or two (give or take) will the same people change their logic saying 360 quit while they were ahead and was the rightful leader at the exact moment they quit but not a year or 2 down the road?

again i don't understand why people continue to state that Ps3 will last longer..there's no reason for a company to quit a project as long as it's succesful and on the other side there's no reason to proloungue the life of something that fails to reach its objective by a long shot.

Ms and Sony don't have to do something because the people here expect them to do so:

• if MS quits x360 this won't happen because of a "five-years-plan" (like it was set in stone from the beginning of time) but simply  because x360 is no more profitable.
• if Sony prolongue the life of the PS3 to 12 years this won't be because of a supposed "12-years-plan" but because the PS3 is still profitable

as of now there'se no single reason for MS to quit x360 before Sony quits its PS3...surrender to this fact.

PS3 having simlar sale at an higher price point (at an average for past 4 years), blu ray/3d getting more and more attention and the army of first party pumping exclusives for their console can probably allow Sony to support it longer. Tough, Its not a fact, only an educated guess. Kinect might become a "it" item which would allow Microsoft to support 360 longer, who knows.

PS3 having similar sale at higher price point is not something that should bother a company..having profit is and right now MS is having comprable profit per unit at lower price point (if not "higher profit").

bluray argument is going to end soon...when you see players for under 100$ there's no reason to buy a PS3 if you like movies...and BTW you can still buy a x360 arcade and a BR player for the same price

3D is not a factor at all...Blu ray is gaining some momentum this year (in its 4th year) and 3d is a new techonology in its 1st year. I don't expect to become a popular feature in less than 4 year from now (actually i still doubt it will become a popular feature at all but that's another story). 

there's no thing like "ps3 is 3d capable and x360 is not"..they're both 3d capable.

there's no reason for 3rd party developer to quit 42M and counting userbase (multiplat is the direction that game developers took in case you lived on Mars in the last 12 months)...this unless on the market there's a platform that is capable of things that the other platform can only dream of (and that's not the case of ps3 vs x360)

MS is going to launch kinect this fall...what's the point of launching a feature when you're going to quit the system in let's say 1 or 2 years?

Ms has just redesigned the console..again what's the point of doing so if it's true that by fall 2011 MS will quit the x360?