| yo_john117 said: How about you learn to debate without attacking/name calling people. It's not in it's dying years. This year the 360 will probably match or be up YOY in the Americas not to mention next year it will probably do close to this year because there will be a price cut. And you are assuming that the 360 will stop selling completely when the next box comes out which is not going to be the case at all. The only reason why MS pulled the original Xbox is because it was a black hole for money. If you look at the numbers you will see it is possible that the 360 overtakes the PS2 sales in the Americas. |
If you look at the numbers, the 360 is most likely going to finish down YOY. The 360 sold ~8.31 mil in Americas last year, and has sold ~4.21 mil so far in Americas this year. That's a difference of 4.1 mil. We have 9 weeks of sales to go. So in those 9 weeks, the 360 needs too pull off an average of ~456K a week there. Last week it sold ~150K. You can start to see how difficult it is going to be for the 360 to finish up YOY, or even on par with last year.
Now, you couple the above with the fact that the PS2 is greatly undertracked here (worth noting that even with the undertracking, even the DS hasn't quite passed the PS2 in America), and you can see that the 360 is going to struggle to even come close to the PS2's numbers. Of course, it is also a moving target, as the PS2 is quite finished selling more than a few million in Americas in the next few years.
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