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bannedagain on 06 November 2010
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kain_kusanagi said:
theonewhoisme said:

I've always been sure it eventually would happen, after all ps3 has been outselling 360 pretty much constantly since launch, and especially recently it has become clear that it's going to happen it's only a matter of when. 

Anyways it's hard to say when, despite having higher software sales and most likely a higher userbase (since so many 360s broke compared to ps3s) 360 has managed to keep the lead from it's headstart, anyways If I were to guessed I'd say the ps3 will outsell the 360 in total sales around march 2012 I mean 360 doesn't even have any good exclusives coming out next year, but it hasn't had many for awhile and still manages to sell anyways thats my prediction 

The PS3 could outsell the Xbox 360 if things went perfectly for Sony and terribly for Microsoft. But 2012 is too early to guess based on your assumptions.

You say the PS3 has a higher user base than Xbox 360 due to busted units. You don't have any evidence of that. MS replaced those busted units for free so all those sales, for all we know, are gamers still playing on Xbox 360s, just free replacements instead of their original units.

Then you claim the Xbox 360 doesn't have any good exclusives next year and it hasn't had any good ones lately. Well, you might not like Gears of War 3, but a hell of a lot of people are looking forward to it's fall 2011 just for it. Fable 3, Halo Reach, Alan Wake, Splinter Cell Conviction as well as others are all great games that came out this year. You should know that MS likes to keep it's future titles secret long enough to keep sales of it's current games going. Next year will have plenty of top quality Xbox 360 exclusives, you just won't hear about them until after the holiday season.

Besides, exclusives matter to hardcore gamers, but most gamers are now semi-casual and they just want to play Call of Duty with their friends, who probably all have Xbox live going by the sales.

You also forgot to mention the impact of Kinect and Move. Sony's hasn't really created a firestorm with Move and we have yet to see what Kinect will do. If it sells slowly like Move the PS3 could have a chance to catch up, but if Kinect grabs the attention of casual families it would sell record numbers.

I'm not saying PS3 can't outsell the Xbox 360. I'm just saying you're not looking at it objectively.

@ kain, very well said. I second that.