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Sales - WW up 30th april - View Post

reviniente on 10 May 2011
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ethomaz said:

reviniente said:

1. Random, for the unfocused. The PS3 is not overtaking the X360, it is merely reducing the gap at the moment. A gap that will widen considerably come November and beyond.

2. BTW, anybody knows why the X360 had an increase of 114% in Japan? I know it's Golden Week, but nobody else had a similar push, specially considering no exclusives came out for the X360. I've also been monitoring sales at Amazon Japan and the Xbox Live 3500 Points Card has been on that hourly updated bestselling list, second overall, for three straight weeks! The X360 never gets second on anything. What gives?

1. I guess that's not true... check October to December sales in 2010 (360 Slim, Kinect, etc).

PS3: 6,550,883
360: 7,047,842

PS3 already outsold 360 by more than 500k in Jan to Mar puting the gap down again... by the end of year PS3 will outsell 360 over 2 million again.

2. 360 sells nothing in Japan... less than 2k... so anything sold in Golden Week helps to make a huge percente increasing... so a little more than 4k is 110%.

On your first point, what I state is that the expansion or reduction of said gap is not constant but cyclical: yes, it will shrink during the first semester and slow down during the 3rd quarter although it continues to get smaller, but then, come November, the Holidays' sales explode, albeit not proportionally for every console (usually Ninty gets the lion's share), and the gap widens again. You're assuming the PS3 will continue to lead the weekly sales indefinitely. That is unrealistic, specially in the Americas, X360 mega-market.

On your second point, you are confusing total figures with percentages. Yes, PS3 still outsold X360 5.81 to 1. Yet last week it did it by 9.99 to 1, while selling less units. As you well mention, 'anything sold in Golden Week helps to make a huge percente increasing', yet the percentage increase for PS3 wasn't nearly as massive. And what about my bit about Amazon. Hmm... I still believe something's afoot in the Land of the Rising Sun.

Also, don't downplay 2,000 extra X360 sold. X360 owners are people, too!