PS3 widening the gap with 360: gap is now 1 million

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Shadow1980 said:

tiffac said:
Why is the 150M LTD sales made by the PS2 is always getting compared to the current 80M by the PS3 when the PS2 had 13yrs under its belt compared to 7yrs for the PS3. Why not compare them year by year?

Here something I whipped up for you. First is annual sales and the second is cumulative LTD sales. They are aligned by the end of the first fiscal year the system had been out in all major regions. Note that this is based off of official Sony numbers and are by Japanese fiscal year, so "Year 1" is the year ending March 31, 1996 for the PS1, March 31, 2001 for the PS2, and March 31, 2007 for the PS3. The one exception to the numbers is PS3 sales for the year ending March 31, 2013, which is based on VGC numbers. So, due to the methodology used in constructing these charts, there may be a margin of error in both Year 1 and Year 7.

The PS3 is actually doing better than the PS1 did at this point in its life, and thus the PS3 is quickly closing the gap between the two. It may end up getting close to the PS1's 102 million lifetime sales by time it goes out of production.

Interesting. I believe PS3 will surpass PS1 sales.