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Seece on 23 January 2012
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pezus said:
Seece said:
pezus said:
Seece said:
o_O.Q said:
ZaneWane said:
100 million is still big gap


not necessarily if you consider that xbox 360 was selling software almost a year prior to the ps3's launch

27m extra SW 360 sold whilst PS3 wasn't on the market.

And the larger base established in that first year didn't stop buying games. So if they had launched at the same time with similar hardware sales until now I think they'd be about even 

See my above post. In the same timeframe (both on market - now, PS3 has sold more HW but a lot less SW.

The one year headstart means nothing now in terms of when a console peaks in SW, Attach rate ect, it's dilluted because this gen has gone on too long.


You can't just look at the software sales in the first year. As I said, the users that bought the 360 in 2005, 2006 and part of 2007 in Europe didn't magically stop buying games so you can't just say 27m and leave it at that. Imagine a rowing contest where one boat starts off with 5 men rowing and the other joins the race 1 minute later at the starting position with 2 men rowing. Naturally, the 5 man-team is still rowing at a far faster rate even when 1 more man joins the lagging boats and then another.

So it's not fair to only look at the 27m extra SW sold in the first year and say that's that. 

Whatever excuse you wanna use pezus, your argument is the weaker one. Attach rates are behind on PS3 on alligned launch, come up with an excuse for that.