PS3 10% Ahead of 360 This Year Worldwide, 'Strong Contender' to Take Second Place

[Michael-5]

Dragon_Lord said:

Michael-5 said:

Dragon_Lord said:

I really don't think anyone thinks the only reason ps3 is ahead in japan and europe is the brand factor, you know that extended warrenty that didn't even cover all 360 failures in NA, most of the rest of the world didn't even get that, also 360 exclusives often don't get localized and xbl isn't even on par with psn in alot of the world (but they still have to pay), there are actually alot of places where you can get psn but you can't get xbl, MS is doing very little to appeal to people outside of NA and Sony has been doing alot for awhile 

It's down 62% yoy in the last couple weeks, the only reason it was up yoy before was the slim, and the reason that was such a big boost is because it's the first 360 that's actually reliable so people on the fence and people wanting to upgrade (from an older 360) both went out and got one, now that it crossed that part of the year it's going to be down yoy for the rest of the year unless it price cuts

An equal price cut will still benefit ps3 more, because of the 200 360 skew and the ps3s blu ray player and I really can't see either cutting the price without the other matching, and again MS advertised a ton last year and had more advantages over ps3 last year then this one, and they still only tied so I don't see how they can win this year with less advantages 

What 360 exclusives don't get localized? I'm only aware of two games which released in Japan, and not the rest of the world, and all of Microsoft's published games are globally released.

XBL isn't on Par in a lot of the world? How and where?

You think the Slim boosted 2011 sales, not Kinect or a good Halo?

Also, I think everyone interested in Blu-Ray already owns a Blu-Ray player. People will not be buying a PS3 for Blu-Ray nowdays, but you do make a lot of sense. I only question the above 3 comments.

Forza, Fable 3  hell half of MSes exclusives don't have pal release dates and Alan Wake, too human and kinect sports among others don'thave jp ones 

laggy and just not that much service avalaible basically, and pretty much anywhere outside of NA, main cities in EU where there is xbl, unsure of current state of japan xbl i know it was bad but they have been pushing japan recently 

Kinect boosted sales for the holidays but that's about it, and I've made this point before but almost everyone thats interested in halo probaly already has a 360, the  fact that it's up yoy until the slim release then massively down makes it pretty clear 

You'd be surprized blu ray is constantly gaining ground, if ps3 gets a price cut to 200 people who are mildy interested in blu ray and are interested in a gaming system will lean more towards ps3, though at it's current price blu ray isn't much of a selling point 

Forza 3 doesn't have a PAL release date? Half of Forza's market is PAL. Fable released worldwide within 3 days. This is just bs you're spreading about 360 games often not getting localized in the PAL region. Same with Japan, Kinect Sports released worldwide on the game date as Kinect, same with Japan and PAL regions. Too Human was released in Japan before EMEAA, which was only 10 days after Americas, and a similar story for Alan Wake.

That is just BS on 360 exclusives not getting localized. MS is freaken amazing at localizing their games worldwide. How many Japanese games does Nintendo and Sony not localize outside of Japan? A LOT! I'm only aware of 2 360 Japanese games which haven't been localized Espagula and Monster Hunter Frontier.

What supporting proof do you have of XBL being laggy in main cities of EMEAA and in Japan? I can understand rural cities in Africa, but not EMEAA. When the 360 first came out, I played a lot of games of Lost Planet against Japanese gamers, and I had very little lag. When I first picked up Halo 3 I had the chance to play people in South Africa and Tanzania, and I had no lag. Those guys told me the same thing. So what are you basing this off?

As for being up YOY up to the Slim release, that doesn't disprove Kinect and Halo didn't help boost YoY sales. Yes sales are down like 60% week on week, but the Slim just came out. In september, do you honestly feel that 360 won't be back on par with YoY sales? What you are doing is essentially comparing one week of sales, with inflated sales of a past years due to the release of new hardward, and that's just not a fair comparision.

Also most people who bought a 360 for Halo already owned a 360? Did you not see the 100k hardware spike last fall when Halo Reach came out, and the higher stabilization point afterward? Most people in this forum were saying that clearly a new Halo did attract new fans.

As for Blu-Ray gaining ground, I disagree. I know people who bought a PS3 at launch just because it was a cheap Blu-Ray player, and then they bought a game or two for it. Nowdays Sony sells stand alone Blu-Rays for $100, and they are much smaller then the PS3. Anybody slightly interested in Gaming and Blu-Ray will be just as interested in getting an Arcade 360 and a standalone Blu-Ray as they would a base PS3.

You, kind sir, are bending the truth. You are making unfair comparisions all over, and some of what your saying is just untrue, or unfounded opinion.