ils411 said:
yo_john117 said:
thismeintiel said:
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.
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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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But aren't most of the undertracked PS2's from over in EMEAA? I can't imagine it's too undertracked in Americas (not more than a million or two)
And I don't think you really understand how much consoles sell during the Christmas season.
The 360 sold 4.23 million from now until the end of the year last year plus the 360 has been up YOY in the Americas for the past 4+ weeks. This week of sales are about 50k over the same week last year.
And then when you enter in the garanteed price cut for next year the 360 should come close to this years sales and in all probability the 360 will sell for years after the next box comes out.
I'm not saying it's a fact that the 360 will outsell the the PS2 in the Americas but it is very plausible.
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Xbox360 outsell PS2 in the US? Its in the realm of possibility. As long as MS doesn't drop support like a rock and continue selling it while releasing good games for it even after the nextbox releases I could see it happening.
IMHO, the x360 is due for another hardware revision (Same with the PS3). Maybe MS will release a new true slim veriosn at $199 for the HDD version and $149 for the no HDD version. It will surelly take away sales from the Wii U.
IF was MS and or Sony, thats what I'd do to counter the Wii U and at the same time extend the life of my console. But thats just me.
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Yeah I highly doubt MS will drop support for the 360 like they did for the Xbox. The only reason they did it for the Xbox was because it was a literal black hole of money for them.
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