MS/360 VS Sony/PS3 Oct-Dec 2011 (With Recent Sony Q3 Report)

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Seece said:

Reasonable said:

yo_john117 said:
This back and forth thing about which console won 2011 is getting tiresome.

Assuming you mean "sold to consumers" as MS definately won the shipped battle for 2011.  I know what you mean.  I'm putting that on ice until we see Q1 shippments and whether we see adjustments.  If MS ships close to normal Q1 then personally I'm going to assume 360 sold more to consumers, if they ship below normal levels then I'll assume Sony won sold due to overstocking of 360 in US for December.

No idea where VG numbers will settle at this point.

Well, they're going to be down over last year for sure, as they were replenishing the channel. They normally ship in the 1.5 - 1.7m in Q1, not 2.7 they did last year.

Good point - forgot they had to rebuild stock more last year.  That's going to make it a bit trickier to estimate.

Ah hell - I'm going to give it to MS personally until I see/hear otherwise.  They shipped more and even assuming retailers over-ordered (based on November spike plus missing sales last year) there's a fair chance MS still sold more to consumers or it was the dreaded statistical tie.

TBH next to Sony's overall position which one sold a couple of hundred K more to consumers seems a fairly minor distinction.  Both sold well and MS pulled off a great holiday performance to edge the year (at least on shipped) - but Sony's decent PS3 performance simply pales next to the bigger challenges the company is facing.