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thismeintiel on 30 November 2011
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nightsurge said:
2 things, which I am sure have already been covered in this thread.

1 - Black Friday week looks like the Xbox 360 will erase a good 500k or more from the lead in just that one week by itself. Makes it a lot more possible then for the remaining weeks to make up the deficit.

2 - We don't know for sure, or at least I have not seen it specified anywhere, whether MS meant the calendar year or their fiscal year. If they have until next June when their fiscal year ends, I am sure they will accomplish this feat with ease as they are in prime position for major price cutting ventures (Have been for over a year now, it's amazing they haven't cut the price in 3 years. They have to be making gargantuan profit margins on all SKUs).

@ #2

It's been mentioned in this thread, as well as others, several times that MS meant the calender year 2011.

@ Seece

Not ignoring anything.  Of course, the 360 is going to continue selling well throughout Dec, but you act as if there will be little to no drop in the next few weeks after one of the biggest shopping days in America.  There is going to be a drop in next week's numbers, quite a large one.  Then it will slowly begin to rise until about 2 weeks before Christmas, where it will shoot up to numbers similar to Black Friday week.  On those weeks I can see it pulling in over 200K more than the PS3, but not all of them.  Then again, because of Black Friday deals starting on Thursday night, instead of early Friday morning, you had a lot more people participating in Black Friday this year.  This may drop the numbers for those last two weeks slightly.  Then the PS3 will start to see larger gains across EMEAA and Japan.  So yea, this definitely got much more interesting. 

There is also the point of adjustments that will come in Jan/Feb '12 when the big 3 release shipment data.  Of course, I will be updating the OP with the numbers we have when we get them, but I will probably revisit this thread when all adjustments are made (probably sometime in Feb).

Oh, and kinda off topic, do you know if we will be getting the yearly charts back?