is ps3 actually selling better than 360?

[Tachikoma]

J_Allard said:

Tachikoma said:

tres said:

Pokeslob said:

here's some variable that popped into my head when reviewing lifetime sales of 360 and ps3.

1. the 360 has a lead of less than 2mil according to the chart on the homepage.

2. 360 had an entire year to sell systems without the ps3 rivalary

3. when someone's 360 broke, and they went ahead and bought a new one without trying to repair the first one, that counts as a new sale.

that last point there, as someone who works in the gaming industry, I do notice a lot of people doing that, instead of trying to fix it they just go ahead an buy a new one.

with those variables in mind, would you say that the ps3 is actually more successful than 360, or not?

explain why, I'm interested :)

whon whon whon well must we sing the same ol yada yada that based on non-sense?  did you count my couple ylod ps3s that padded sonys numbers? i got variables too

the world hates microsoft

japan support their own  -- where would xbox be if they sold just 10 percent of ps numbers in xenophobia?  20k vs 500 this week

xbox has been kinda sluggish game wish for 3 years

even with all that here we are still worrying about which of these 2 or doing better

Psst, where does the xbox sell best?

Xbox might sell more in the US than it does anywhere else but please don't try to compare the two territories. While we give MS their best support here in the US, the Wii has still outsold it here this generation. And Sony chimes in with over 26,000,000 in PS3 sales. You compare that to Japan where Nintendo enjoys about an 800% sale rate over the 360 and Sony around a 600% rate and it's not even close. The guy is clearly referencing the way the Japanese culture just flat out refuses to support the Xbox.

The Japanese market is shrinking though. Sony won't enjoy that free space next gen. Or, at least, it won't be worth anywhere near 9-10 million next go around.

Again, the point is the software support, the japanese market is catered for by a massive selection of games that never see a release outside of the country, Sony and nintendo have broad software genres and support those genres well, with plenty of western releases and plenty of japanese releases, Microsoft does badly in Japan because only a very tiny number of games for the 360 there are really aimed at japanese customers, usually it's just western games which historically don't sell anywhere near as well in japan as they do in the west.

That software support that sony and nintendo provide in the region is WHY the gap is so big, where the original poster was insinuating that "japanese people just buy it because its japanese and avoid the xbox because its american", because that is possibly the stupidest assumption and stereotype i've ever heard, coming from people who clearly have either never been to japan or haven't been since the 80s, western culture is a very significant part of the japan of today with the majority of it's youth embracing western influences and products.

Every time i see a fanboy use the "japanese dont buy it because its not japanese" argument, i facepalm at the complete lack of firing neurons.