PS3 likely to overtake Xbox360 in u.k.

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theonewhoisme said:

goddog said:

libellule said:

johnglen said:

libellule said:

Seece said:

rofl. Never. PS3 hasn't beaten it once there in yearly sales, and barely tops 1 mill there a year.

EA have been arse licking Sony a lot lately, I don't know why. Maybe it's because Microsoft is firmly in bed with Activision .. but then it doesn't sound like Activision love Microsoft that much, just their money!

EA is making tonne of money because of the good PS3 softwares sales

good multiplateform software sales du to the lack of hacking and the less "upgrade/remplacement hardware purchase" because of the RRoD

FIFA is a good example ....

EA has also been making tons of money because of the good xbox360 software sales for years now, so what's your point ??

 

The rest is bullshit (the blahblah blah when it comes to the 360's userbase) when the attach ratio of the 360 is by far the highest this generation, a fact that destroys all the amateurish propaganda.

well, I m sure they are making tonne of money on the 360. They are making more money on 360, let's be clearer.
But they also know those 360 people are very Gears or Halo or CoD biased (not EA games). While PS3 is lacking a "king exclusive" meaning people will tend to buy more multiplateform games (see FIFA).

At the end, multiplateform sales tend to favor PS3 compared to the "official" console user base ratio. That is why EA is loving the PS3.

And, at this question : WHY PS3 software sales on multiplateform games do not follow the userbase ratio PS3/360 ?

- there is no piracy on PS3, there are plenty on 360
- I m GUESSING the 360 userbase is "virtually" slightly inflated because of people buying more than one whatever it is because the old one was broken or because the 360 is cheaper so u can buy several for your children. I doubt many people have 2 PS3s and I doubt people bought many PS3s because their first died by RRoD ...

Also, about the attach rate you are mentionning, since this rate include the 360 exclusive or no EA games (that EA, obviously, dont give a fucking shit) AND since this attach rate is biased because it is calculated WITHOUT taking in count the fact that the 360 was released 1 year before the PS3 (from what I know), I tend to consider it is not an interesting parameter IMHO

wouldn't an extra year on market make the 360s attach rate go down with more used games being available?

vie heard of piracy on the 360, though only through threads, is it really a big problem?  I know molding exists as i knew a few people who modded consoles to cheat at cod… and i stopped knowing them for that kind of shady shit. they generally had two to three consoles.  but it seems as if that would be such a small community with in  xbox.

ill admit i plan on replacing my launch box with a new unit id like to get hdmi on my console with optical out, and not have to use a special cable.  will significantly clear up the clutter. but i cant imagine thats  more the a few % at most who are willing to do that.


I do know that it has been frequently mentioned by ioi and the source that the first year of xbox software sales are  not as well recorded researched as following years for all consoles especial in europe, this could lead to a change in those ratios up or down as well. its a shame publishers do not realize old data say from 5 years prior so we could make more accurate tracking for these things. I feel it would help the industry overall.

anyway,…. sorry for the ramble … the first points the only real one

Not it means everyone has an extra year to buy games for it, attach rate means how many games the person owns after averaging it out, 360s being out a year more means people had a whole extra year to buy games for it 

Also worth mentioning it's only like .6 or .7 higher on 360 then ps3, so not even significant to start with

thx for your 2 points