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cleveland124 on 30 January 2008
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viewsonic9 said:
cleveland124 said:
You guys think this is a good thing for Sony?  The PS2 outsold the Xbox by almost 22 million units in Japan.  The 360 is dead in Japan.  The fact that you can take Europe and Japan and 360 still has a lead is a testament to a good business decision by xbox and the lack of total business sense by Sony to release a $600 game machine.

That's one of the dumbest posts I've ever read. You do realise that the PS3 has been out for 11 months less than the 360 in Japan and about 15 months less in Pal regions?

Since its launch in Pal regions the 360 has sold about 215,000 per month there compared to the PS3 selling an average of 400,000.

How can that not be a good thing that the PS3 is selling twice as fast as the 360 in Pal regions? How can it not be a good sign for the future that the PS3 is selling in all regions?

It never ceases to amaze me the amount of people who criticize Sony's gaming strategy when they have sold more home consoles in 13 years than Nintendo have in 30. How on earth can you criticize their lack of business sense when the 8 year old PS2 is outselling the 360 so far this year?


It's very simple, 90% of the gaming public thought PS3 would own the market by now.  Developers don't care that the PS3 has been out for 11 months less in Japan or 15 months less in Pal regions.  Did this help the Xbox against the PS2, and extend the life of the xbox?  Games will sell better currently and the foreseeable future on the 360.  Or did you miss the rash of PS3 game cancellations and the big titles that either got ported to the 360/Wii or moved altogether?  The Xbox 360 and PS3 lives will end at the same time regardless because neither has become the phenomenom that was the PS2 or PS1 for that matter. 

PS3 is not selling twice as fast as 360.  To compare launch to launch you are looking at a launch where the 360 had extremely limited supply to a launch where PS3 had 1 million units.  Current sales are better to compare since neither is supply constrained.  Current sales according to the site are 46% better than 360.  This sounds good until you realize the Wii outsells the PS3 + Xbox360 in Europe.  But you are probably in your dream world and believe that the PS3 doesn't compete with Wii. 

 Sony did an AMAZING job with PS1 and PS2, no complaints there.  But that doesn't mean they are foolproof.  The PS3 has been a nightmare from the start.  We can argue til we are blue in the face about their launch, but if you'd have said PS3 wouldn't sell 10 million in it's first 15 mos on the market, would sell less than half as much as the Wii during that time, and had no chance of passing the 360 worldwide by the end of 2008, people would have laughed at you and called you the dumbest person on earth.  Notwithstanding arguing that this was a good thing for the PS3.