Slimebeast said:
Pristine20 said:
I wonder if amidst all these latest events there are still some who believe the ps3 can catch up this gen. I'd surely like to hear their reasoning. As for me, I believe it'll most likey stay the same
The strangest thing happened though. Anyone else use gamefaqs.com? Well, it's pretty much a U.S. gaming site and the ps3 was voted console of the year 2010. looking at the U.S. sales chart, I'm still trying to figure out how that happened.
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Quick background, the sales in 2010:
X360: 13.6 million
PS3: 14.3 million
Lifetime sales as of Dec 31 2010:
X360: 50.4 mill
PS3: 46.2 mill
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total gap: 4.2 mill
Rough predicted sales in 2011:
X360: 13 million
PS3: 14 million
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total gap: 3.2 mill
Sales in 2012:
X360: 8.5 mill (big drop in sales as the Xbox 3 is officially revealed at E3 with a highly anticipated launch in Nov 2012)
PS3: 12.5 mill
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total gap: - 0.8 million
PS3 has catched up.
Sales in 2013:
X360: 3.5 mill (similar to the fate of the PS2 in 2007, the X360 is being ignored in favour of the new Xbox)
PS3: 8 mill (big drop in sales after the PS4 has been officially announced at E3, launch in Nov 2013)
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total gap: - 5.3 million
PS3 is the clear winner with lifetime sales of 80.7 million units by Dec 31 2013 compared to the X360's 75.4 million units.
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That's all nice and well, but if Sony waits another year to annouce the PS4 or whatever, the same shit will happen next gen, where it will only be able to overtake Xbox after it becomes near enough negligible whether it does or not. Whichever way you spin it, it is still a massive surprise that Sony is not the market leader as many analysts had it pegged it to be, considering it's previous success with PS and PS2, how one company manages not to be the market leader despite the already established base as large as 100m is pretty surprising, but then again, the launch price was a real bitch.
