Can X360/PS3 reach 100 million sold units?

[bouzane]

Conegamer said:

bouzane said:

Conegamer said:
All of these people talking about the PS3's success:

Remember, last year the Wii was still selling above 100k regularly. Now look where it is. Look at the 360. This generation is coming to an end. When the interest stops, as it has for the Wii and is happening to the 360, sales just drop and drop and drop. The same thing will happen to the PS3 late this year, or early next, and when it does, absolutely nothing can save it.

Last year, it wouldn't have been unreasonable to say the Wii would reach 115-120mil LT. Now some people are doubting it'll hit 100mil. It wouldn't have been unreasonable to say the PS3 would never overtake the 360 this time last year, but now it seems to be a given.

When the PS3 drops below 100k, which it may well do this year, nothing will save it. And with the WiiU out this year, that WILL take some sales away, I see both consoles struggling to reach 90mil and 85mil accordingly.

Sorry but it's blatantly obvious that the PS3 will overtake the 360's lifetime sales and it was just as obvious last year.

Weren't sales between the two for the year really, really close? Infact, with the holiday sales, I think the 360 may have sold more, but I'm not sure... It looked very possible alright, but you could disagree without ridicule. Now, you can't.

You mean the year of the PSN outage and Kinect's first holiday? Did anybody expect either of these things to have long lasting ramifications for sales trends? The 360 has been on the market longer and it has little more to gain from price cuts, new models, peripherals or services. I'm not trying to be condescending (don't care if you take it that way though, you're a random person on the Internet who I don't know, just stating a fact) but it really has been terribly obvious for quite some time that the PS3 will eventually overtake the 360 in total hardware sales. The only scenario in which the 360 could possibly outsell the PS3 is if the PS4 hits the market before the Xbox Trinity / Delta and we all know that to be an unlikely scenario.

 

@Mr Puggsly

How do you define the end of a console generation?