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Tachikoma on 14 March 2013
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Carl2291 said:
theshonen8899 said:

You don't seem to get the point. The PS3 was released a year after the 360. The means the PS3 has sold far more units per year than the Xbox 360. It's barely third in absolute sales (which means nothing), but second in sales per units by a wide margin, the only statistic that actually makes sense. If you REALLY want to use total sale, you'd need to add in the last year of PS2's sales to the PS3's sales to properly compare it to the 360, which is still larger.

There are more 360's sold worldwide than there are PS3's sold worldwide. Your "point" doesnt matter.

360 - 74,519,356
PS3 - 73,206,500

The PS3 is in 3rd place. No matter how many different excuses you use. No matter how much you try spin the numbers. The headstart doesnt matter. Aligned launches dont matter. Units per year doesnt matter. It doesnt matter if you want to add PS2 numbers to the PS3 total.

The PS3 is in 3rd place.

PS3. 3rd place.

3rd place.

Lets look at some points here :

1) 1 year headstart in sales
2) aligned launch dates sees ps3 outselling 360 consistently
3) sells more units per year
4) lower failure rate thus..
5) higher number of functional units in the retail stream

So yeah, by the numbers 360 is ahead of the ps3, but by logic it's solid third, and even the one point it's ahead in won't be the case for much longer, enjoy it while it lasts.

But hey, let me predict your argument in a few months time 'ahead in the US and that's the biggest market so it's still second place, doesn't matter if ps3 has sold more'

To op, it's all relative, i've seen just as many nintendo/microsoft fans getting overconfident that their system will be better than the ps4 recently as i have, seeing overconfident sony fans, but let me paint a little picture in your mind.

Microsoft's console launched a year ahead of the playstation 3, the playstation 3 launched at a rediculously high price when it finally came out and was hated by the media and developers, for the price, sonys arrogance and the architecture respectively, despite that massive disadvantage and being hated for neigh on two years from launch, 6 years on it's now only around 1 million behind this generations 'golden child' the xbox 360, all that advantage only gives microsoft a 1m sales advantage?, it doesn't matter what microsoft pull out of the bag, if both the ps4 and 720 launch within months of each other, the 720 will lag behind from the get go, or soon after in global sales, sure american sales will probably see the 720 on top, but as time goes on the gap between 720 and ps4's sales will increase dramatically - ps4 is launching in the same timeframe, with both media and developers praising the machine, theres no handicap this time round, microsoft have no advantage, you can try to spin that however you want but it's just basic fact.

With that in mind, the only real contender to the ps4 right now is the WiiU, and that hinges solely on software as the hardware is already sat in homes waiting to run the games.