PS3 will never catch the 360 and heres why!

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thismeintiel said:

enrageorange said:

around half the posts on this topic are far more "misinformed"  than that one was. Yes the 360 has a sku cheaper than the cheapest ps3 sku. It also has skus equally expensive.

I never understood why in this site ps3 exclusive sequels are huge console movers, 360 sequels "do nothing" despite the fact that 360 hardware often gets more significant boosts weekly on the releases. 

Someone posted that the kinect is just a fad. It has sold to 1/5 of the xbox 360's userbase in one holiday season, with 2 notable titles, neither of which are anything extrordinary, at a price that when first reaveled caused most of the community to instantly write off as a failure that will sell next to nothing. For 2011 it has sold better than any hd game, including a few "huge" ps3 exclusives. Yes quite the failure fad.

In 4 months the ps3 has sold 3.2mil and is leading the 360 by 500k. Last year by 4/17/10 the ps3 had sold 3.7mil and was leading the xbox 360 by 1.2mil and the 360 nearly caught up for the year. The holidays of course might not pan out the same way, but strictly comparing to last year, the ps3 is having a bad year so far in 2011, while the 360 is having a better year than last year. 

But does it really matter to anyone if the PS3 is down YOY if its still outselling the competition and is selling at more profit than the year before?  I doubt it.  And a fad can sell extremely well before it dies out.  To not be just a fad, Kinect will have to pull off a Wii and sell extremely well for years after its release, not just for one holiday.  Of course, I won't write off Kinect as a fad personally until I see this holiday's sales.  Though, I do have a feeling that Kinect is going to come up against some stiff competition for the IT thing to buy for the holiday.