Xbox 360 -Ps3 week sales gap incredibly small? (22 sept sales)

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pokoko said:

Wh1pL4shL1ve_007 said:

FrancisNobleman said:

Wh1pL4shL1ve_007 said:

FrancisNobleman said:
If you put rod'd and ylod'd consoles that had to be replaced but also counted as shipped numbers, ps3 is already ahead.

Meh.. heard that a million times actually...

And you can hear it a million times more, doesn't make it fake.

Just think about the sheer number of RoD'd 360 consoles against the PS3 ylod'd and then subtract from sales.

hint: for 360, your number is something between 10 and 15 million units.

I know but people dont really have numbers for it do they? Which makes it more of a myth than a fact...

I've seen it written that the PS3's installed base has passed that of the 360.  If that's true, then the 360's high failure rate would have to be the cause.  There is no other reason why it would have sold more units yet have less active consoles.  Still, the installed base was virtually tied, so the difference in dead/unreplaced 360s compared to dead/unreplaced PS3s would seem to be between 1 and 2m.  That means a higher number of 360s are replacements purchased at the owner's expense, but you also have to assume that some of those dead 360s were replaced with a PS3 and/or a Wii, instead.  The RRoD fiasco didn't just cost Microsoft upwards of a billion dollars, it also cost them market-share.  Fanboys might care about total units sold, without context, but I have no doubt Microsoft would rather have finished in "3rd place" rather than have had the RRoD event take place.

Bottom line: Its all pure speculations. Unless we have TRUE numbers then we will have closure.

Were crossing the line of WHAT IFS again, which I hate. What if Ps3 sold at 499 instead of 599? What if MS made XBL free? What if RROD never happened?  

Edit: you also forgot to put the (People were scared to buy a faulty hardware) factor.