Official: 360 vs PS3 gap now 2.88m

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BHR-3 said:

kowenicki said:

so the shipped gap is growing...

excellent.

should grow a bit more to take it back above 3m next quarter too.

there will always be far more PS3's in the channel than 360's... always

 

kowenicki had also said: I fully expect 360 to outship PS3 in the next qtrs figures.

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=3718627

 

 

now if i only had a penny for ever time MS fans have said that to only turn out WRONG

 

as for

"there will always be far more PS3's in the channel than 360's... always"

you might want to start writing articles for the site again b/c the ps3 has had less in the channels than the 360 for

quarters ending Dec 06, Mar 07, Jun 07, Sep 07, Dec 07, Mar 08, Jun 08, Sep 08, Dec 09, Mar 10, Jun 10 and at one point the 360 had a enormous 2.5M and has been over 2M mark in the channel four times, where as the ps3 biggest shipped to sold gap is 2.5 and has only gone over the 2M mark twice

 

now as for "should grow a bit more to take it back above 3m next quarter too"

really? what makes you say that?

some facts for ya

PS3 has out shipped the 360 6 straight quarters only this last one being a tie this is all b/c of only one thing sony has done the $299 PS3, even with MSs relaunch, Halo Reach, and Kinect MS has failed to out ship Sony, what is MS doing or going to do in the next 2 months that leaves you to believe it will outship Sony for this current quarter?

in the last 2 quarters where the PS3 has outshipped it 9.8 vs 9.1 this sites data shows that 360 outsold it 9.7 vs 8.9.  now current sales for Jan are 993k vs 360s 897k how is the 360 going to over come its Jan and outsell it further for its shipments to be above the PS3?

As I have said several times in this thread. Sony needed to make sure Japan had plenty of stock for the 1st couple of weeks in Japan.  In January the PS3 sold 137,999 of which 48K is from the last 2 weeks for an average of 24,160. The 1st 2 weeks 90K PS3s were sold in Japan. At the same time the 360 sold 6800 the last 2 weeks and 7200 the 1st 2 weeks. 

So the last part of the Japan holiday sales are over and those sales help the PS3 far more than they help the 360.  Although the 360 sells fewer than 4000 each week in Japan the amount the PS3 sells beyond the 360 is far lower than it was during January.

Finally MS needs to replenish stock all over the world far more than Sony does.  360 sales are up YoY and PS3 sales are down YoY. MS has said they expect revenue for this qtr to increase by 50% YoY.  It all points to MS shipping a good deal more 360s this qtr and Sony shipping fewer.