Spectrumglr said:
TauKappaNASA said:
Spectrumglr said:
raygun said:
I love all the posts saying 'when will PS3 catch up to 360?' Imagine 2 cars in a 4 lap car race, and the 360 car gets a 1 lap head start. People are saying the 360 is ahead? Right! Well, to even things out, lets factor in that extra 'lap' of sales, 5.9 million xbox360's in it's first year. You can either minus that from the total 360 sales (42 m) or add it to the PS3 sales (36.6m) to nullify that head start, either way PS3 is ahead, 36m for 360 vs 36.6m for PS3, or 42m 360 vs 42.6m PS3. When a race has staggered starting of the contestants, you don't look at who's nearest the finish line, but their distance/time for the race so far.
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let's put apart for a moment your flawed logic...and let's concentrate on pure math.
Let's start by saying that the week before the Ps3 launch the x360 WW total was about 5.3M (and not 5.9)...now the gap is about 5.4M: let's add it to actual PS3 WW total..and you know what? PS3 is still behind. (= your math needs a refresh as your logic)
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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?
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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.
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The Blu-Ray alone makes the PS3 more "future proof." That is the only reason why I think it will last longer. As someone previously stated, if Move or Kinect somehow become the "It" things then everything will change anyway.
