sales2099 said:
platformmaster918 said:
sales2099 said:
CGI-Quality said:
sales2099 said:
CGI-Quality said:
sales2099 said:
The 30k gap keeps up then 360 will have no problem holding 2nd til November. |
Which is irrelevant for a two reasons:
A. The gap won't remain that low (God of War: Ascension and The Last Of Us weeks should see spikes)
B. Even if the PS3 doesn't pass the 360 till next year, it's pretty much a certainty, regardless.
OT: I'm pretty happy for Ni No Kuni, though I'm not surprised. I know a lot of people that bought it and the buzz surrounding it has been pretty strong.
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It is a certainty, but 360 fans such as myself see holding out for the "relevant" parts of the gen and not the aftermath sales important.
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It's always relevant. That's like saying PS2's sales after November 11, 2006 were irrelevant. Unlike personal feelings, business doesn't work like that.
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They were irrelevant as Gamecube and Xbox were done. But more importantly the gamers focused on the newer machines as only casuals got the PS2 from that point onward.
You can disagree, but as this has been said numerous times, winning while the 3 consoles are "in the spotlight" is important. To pass afterwards just means you weren't good enough to pass it within the window of the devices being most current.
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or it means your console has more lasting value. That's like saying Avengers was more successful than Avatar because it had a bigger opening week. That was its time in the spotlight but Avatar ended up selling more. In the future people will remember the final sales just like they remember that PS2 sold 160 million, not the 100 million it sold when the other systems finished in its gen.
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It is just nice knowing 360 held its own while it was the current offering. Shows its gen over gen improvement. I see no reason to shit on that reasoning if you know PS3 will edge it out eventually.
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360 did incredibly well this generation. Much better than anyone could have predicted (at least before Sony announced the price) so congrats to them, but acting like legacy sales aren't remembered or don't matter is absurd. We still see DS and PSP sales on the front page and they've been legacy systems for a year (PSP) and a year and 3/4 (DS). I'll give 360 all the credit in the world I mean it over tripled its user base. I believe it relied on a lot of mistakes by its main competitor to get those sales and did it in some dirty ways, but I still give it credit. I wait until all systems are discontinued to declare a winner, especially this gen when things are sooo close we could potentially have the traditional 3rd place console win it all before its said and done (obviously not profit wise but install base wise).
