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

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kowenicki said:

thismeintiel said:

kowenicki said:
If it stays roughly as is then the PS3 has 'outsold' the 360 by 250k... or 1.7%

Market share 2011 (home consoles) will be:

PS3 34.9%
360 34.4%

Moral victory for 360... MASSIVE HOLIDAY DEALS.... :p

Fixed that for you. 

I will admit this year was a victory for the 360 because it was up ~5% in 2012, thus making it the best year for the 360.  Now it's your turn to admit is was a victory for the PS3 because it was up ~5%, thus making it the best year for the PS3, and it outsold every console (except 3DS, barring any adjustments). 

Not where it mattered, a price cut in Europe and this would have been a different result IMO. 

So who made the bigger investment from September through the end of the year. MS with the co-marketing deals or Sony with the $50 US price cut (I do believe this was worldwide).

Sony sold about 7.9 million PS3s September 1 through end of the year.  That is a cost of $400 million.  Of course they wouldnt have sold 7.9 million if they hadnt cut $50. How many fewer we do not know.  Not to mention the co-marketing deals they did with retailers although not at the same extent as MS did.

Or did MS with the aproximately 4.5 million that were sold in the USA in November and December with all of the co-marketing deals?