is ps3 actually selling better than 360?

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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.

1. That's still 2 million more then PS3 (I think it's less now)

2. Doesn't matter, if both systems stopped selling now 360 would win. MS was able to release a system a year early then good for them. Why should PS3 get the benefit of the doubt? For instance do we go around saying that the GBA was the second most successful Nintendo handheld? No it's the least successful because the DS was released soon afterwards.

Sony entered this gen late, but they are also leaving late.

3. When someones 360 broke, they had a 3 year warrenty by microsoft to get a new one. I'm on my 4th X-Box, all replaced under warrenty.

PS3 didn't have as big of a fail rate, but they didn't have as long of a warrenty, so when my PS3 broke, I eventually have to get a new one.

Plus there is always the good chance those people bought the opposing console. You really can't argue that the PS3 is ahead of the 360 because of reliability because you really don't know how many people on each side rebought systems.