Numbers That MS Needs To Pull To Tie The PS3 For 2011. And Why I Think It Is Now Impossible.

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Michael-5 said:

Seece said:

Michael-5 said:
287k lead over next 5 weeks?

Maybe next week 360 can pull that off, but for 5 weeks, no.

I think I will be right overall though. PS3 will win 2011, but by less then 1 million, maybe even just 500k.

360 should close the gap to 1 mill this week, so 200k over the next 5 weeks. Which isn't remotely difficult with the momentum it has. Black Friday week sales are never above Christmas week sales for any system, 360 will do 1.2/1.3M this week WW, so is a shoe in for 1.5M xmas week.

How do you even check yearly sales? This new VGC update has really downgraded some of the features we once had....

Doing some math, the difference at the start of the year was 3.85, now it's 2.6. So PS3 is 1.25million ahead of 360 YoY. 360 should get that difference to under 1 million, and with a few strong weeks before christmas, I think 500k is possible.

Oh yea, wow 360 did break 1 million this week. When I read it did 950k, I forgot that's just for Americas. 1.2-1.3 million is pushing it, but 1.1-1.2 for sure. Curious to see how well PS3 did.

Actually that 960k for BF week was just for the USA only. It does not include any other countries in the Americas (Canada, etc.).

http://majornelson.com/2011/11/29/xbox-360-records-the-biggest-week-in-xbox-history/

Sales highlights in the U.S. during the week of Black Friday include:

• Xbox 360 sold more than 960,000 consoles in the U.S. alone, of which more than 800,000 were sold within a period of 24 hours – the biggest week of sales in Xbox history. (Source: Internal data)