ArnoldRimmer said:
I absolutely agree for most parts. Console sales figures say very little. The PS3 will probably soon surpass 360 hardware sales, and has most probably already surpassed the 360 when it comes to active install base (some analysts say this already happened almost a year ago).
But even active install base does not say too much. Even if the PS3 is ahead in both consoles sold and active user base, it will still never come even close to the 360's success. Because in the end software sales are what really counts, and the 360 has by far the most hardcore audience: Many young teenage boys who still go to school/college/whatever and thus have lots of time for playing video games. 10 million of those are easily worth even 20-30 million casual gamers. The PS3 on the other hand has a more mature, more casual audience. A report I once read said that the typical PS3 gamer is 26-35 years old. They usually work and thus have more money they could spend on video games - but they don't, because they have much less free time and with increasing age they are also less and less willing to spend their remaing free time on video games etc.
So Xbox enthusiasts really don't need to worry that the PS3 will surpass the 360 in sales - because in the end, console sales say hardly anything, especially now that we are already 6 years into the current console generation.
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More or less what he said, but I still think the 360 has a slight edge in active user base. But what matters most is that the 360 has slighly more then 100 million unit lead when it comes to software sales and that number could be a lot higher if the 360 wasn't so easy to hack and their would be less contend available on the XBox Live Marketplace. Also since both consoles are sold at a loss software sales are much more important then hardware sales.
