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thismeintiel on 21 November 2011
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Hyruken said:
pezus said:
Hyruken said:
Not shocked at the 360 numbers, but shocked at the people crying about it....

It happens every year in the build up to the holidays, you think people would learn by now.

Also just thought i would add something to the whole "Europe" thing. In case you have not heard countries like Spain,France,Italy,Greece and now maybe Germany are in financial trouble. In Spain 40% of ages 16-35 are out of a job. That is the gaming audience. I am surprised that the numbers for all the consoles are that high right now in europe considering the eurozone issues.

The sad thing is the numbers will continue to mirror last years and the year before that, and the year before that but yet people will still cry undertrackz for da ps3!! Sony never wins the holidays. Feck even November last year in the NPD 360 sold 1.4m and the PS3 sold only 500k. An almost 900k gap just from that one month.

I think very few people honestly expected PS3 to be doing better then 360 in the run up to holidays.

Bolded: I see an error in your reasoning.

Why don't you list EMEAA numbers for November last year while you're at it, and maybe Japan too?

There is no error. The point i was making was to show that at this time of the year 360 sells more. That isn't even debatable.

To save an argument the WORLDWIDE numbers for november last year was 360 - 2.218m and PS3 - 1.8m. That was with the launch of GT5 and the bundles etc

What i was trying to say was that 360 numbers in the states from this period until the end of the holidays are always stronger then the PS3. This year will be no different. The high numbers in the US make up for the EMEAA and Japan numbers. With what is happening in europe with the financial situation i would expect ps3 and 360 numbers to be well down on last years in EMEAA.

You mention last year, but if you go back just one more, 2009, you will see that the PS3 performed better during the holiday season.  In Nov '09, the PS3 sold ~1.91 million, while the 360 only sold ~1.64 million.  In Dec '09, the PS3 sold ~3.93 million, while the 360 only sold ~2.71 million.  That's a lead of ~1.5 million in the PS3's favor.  In Americas for that year, the 360 only outsold the PS3 by 172K for both months combined.  So yea, Americas does not always make up for EMEAA and Japan numbers.  While I have no doubt this is going to be a great year for the 360 in Americas, the PS3 isn't going to exactly be a slouch there.  And it is going to rule EMEAA and Japan.  At least, in home consoles.