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archbrix on 14 March 2013
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Tachikoma said:
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'

@bolded: Why would you presume that Carl would proclaim such a statement? Like he tried to explain to that other user (who was clearly just trying to argue), he's not disputing any of the facts you mention. All he's stating is that, for the immediate moment, the PS3 is in third place - at least according to VGChartz numbers - regardless of the extenuating circumstances.

Furthermore, you can also make points in Microsoft's favor as well:

1. The 360 was the successor to a very modest performing console; the PS3 was the successor to, by far, the biggest selling home console of all time.

2. The 360 was all but ignored in Japan, making its presence there practically irrelevant.

3. The 360 isn't sold in as many territories worldwide as the PS3.

Despite these circumstances, the Xbox brand was able to gain an incredible amount of marketshare and largely replace "Playstation" as the popular brand name for gaming in the U.S. and was still able to claim second place WW for the vast majority of the 7th gen... and Microsoft made much more profit than Sony this generation to boot.