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misterd on 28 December 2007
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rukusa said:
Passenger57 said:
Prove to me that the 360 is loosing steam. I hear this over and over again, the point of this thread was to say that during the busy season is when slow selling systems like the PS3 gain ground. During the slow season is when its important to gain ground especially when your 7 million units behind. If and that a BIG if ps3 sells hundreds of thousands more than the 360 during the slow season than I believe that the 360 is loosing steam. Right now all I see is what I've seen since the beginning of ps3 release, steady flow of 360 sales and holiday busy season/price drop ps3 sales boost.

No one is required to prove anything. Sounds more like its just that you can't bare to hear those kinds of opinions.

Yeah, we're talking about the states. The PS3 is indeed limping in there, it seems to me like the main region where people are willing to pull the plug on the PS3 and call it waste of time.

I find it pretty interesting that just because the 360 is dominating the US makes it already a lost cause everywhere else in the world. Like Japan, where the 360 is 1 million consoles behind the PS3, or in Europe where the margin has gone down a close gap of almost 1,5 consoles in between the PS3 and 360.

What I believe is that youre wrong judging the PS3's chance of surviving based on its status in the american homeland when in the other markets its making a good battle to maintain its presence with a optimistic forecast of actually succeeding.


"The 360 is losing steam" is not a statement of opinion. It is a testable, objective statement and as such can be supported or undermined by existing evidence. The facts as we currently know them are that the 360 still accounts for a large percentage of software sales, and that it has managed to increase it's holiday sales this year over last (though those figures may be revised, for now we work with what we have). All of this before the 360 has received a substantial price cut (an average $33 drop across 3 models is not what I would consider substantial).  Those don't imply that the 360 is losing steam.

Similarly, there is a good deal of evidence that the PS3 is gaining steam - the price cut and new models have increased sales over the last several months, and it is exceeding weekly 360 sales in "other" territories (such was always the case in Japan).  However, the increased sales of the PS3 does not inherently translate to a slowdown in the 360.