Global UP! 12th January (updated with front page numbers)

[sales2099]

ManUtdFan said:

kowenicki said:

platformmaster918 said:

sales2099 said:

platformmaster918 said:

sales2099 said:

1.6 million gap.

PS3 outselling 360 by 50 k each week on average.

7-8 months is 1.8 million. Thats around August 2013. Unless MS does a LONG OVERDUE 360 price drop.

Best case scenario for PS guys is August 2013. Worst case is after November.

don't forget all the exclusives coming out in Q1 & Q2 (beyond, LoU, GoW, Sly, Puppeteer, Ni No Kuni).  PS3 could get some big spikes from a couple of those.  Also I think Sony has some room to maneuver with the cheaper slim.  They will cut price if Microsoft does I feel.

Nah casuals wont be swayed by core games this late in the gen. Core gamers allready made their choices.

So God of War and Last of Us won't provide any sales spike?  I guess Halo and Gears don't help Xbox when they have a release anymore...oh wait.

No. They wont.  Go check some history.  You MIGHT get a slight bump, but no spike of anything major.

The problem with that is, you just see a temporary slight increase in sales but that doesn't factor in the long term benefit that a big esteemed game has on hardware sales. e.g. Someone decides to buy a ps3 or xbox because of playing on a friend's call of duty game that's already been out a year. It DOES affect the long term trends as well. That's why 2011 was such a good year for ps3 sales despite it being around for 5 years- the games were shifting the hardware consistently through the year.  

Problem is trends like those are spread out throughout the year, not localized to one week.