| rocketpig said: The 360 sold ~6.8-6.9m in 2006. In 2007, it's at ~7.7m thus far. Add in the last week and that number should easily eclipse 8m. While not a huge difference, those numbers are hardly the same. We're talking about close to a 20% difference year-over-year. |
A slightly bigger increase than I thought (I was thinking in the 10-15% range). Nevertheless it's not that big considering last year millions upon millions of Halo fans were going to buy a 360 P. Seriously though in the bigger scheme of things it's not that big a deal. It's like adding 4 or 8 million units to the N64, Gamecube, or Xbox, does it change much? It again proves my main point that given the amazing year for the 360 in 2007 and the massive once a generation advantage it had over its competitors its sales only increased 20% off of a shaky first year. Why with most advantages reduced or eliminated would 2008 see even a similar amount of growth?
The only thing such minor differences will decide is whether the PS3 or 360 ends up in a close 3rd place. I suppose that matters to some people but isn't something much to worry about I think.
