PS3 Adjusted up! Now only 1.3m behind!

[walsufnir]

cookingyourmama said:

kowenicki said:

Turkish said:

walsufnir said:
Wow, so Sony managed to reduce the "headstart" of x360, which resulted in a diff of ~6.7 million sold, to 1.3 million in about 5 - 6 years. Impressive.

Wut, the gap was 9 million just before PS3 Slim released.

No it wasn't.  Never got above 8.

But that wasn't his point, he was saying that at launch it was 5.4m it had as an head start.  So it has taken 7 years t get from 5.4 to 1.3.

Incredible really isn't it, given the power of playstation.

Sure that's if you pretend that the PS3 wasn't released an extra half a year later in Europe (Sony's biggest selling region) and you also pretend the gap really is 1.3 million when in reality Vgchartz numbers need updating and the gap is much less.

That's why I chose to say "~6.7 million" as I took both YoY-numbers from 2006 *and* 2007 so that this excuse can't really be taken in. In short  just saying that the ominous "head start" was never really big and given all these years PS3 performed a bit better but nowhere to, as some say, "biggest comeback in videogame history".