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Zekkyou on 05 February 2014
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DeadBigfoot21 said:
Zekkyou said:

The PS3 has been selling more than the 360 at a higher price for years.

The earlier launch was far too insignificant to matter much.

It did launch it more countries, but it's also beating the X1 in pretty much every country they are both out in. The PS4 also still has Japan up it's sleeve, something the X1 isn't likely to benefit much from, and the PS4 has also been constantly hit by supply issues.

Anything else you want to add? ^^

It outsold it at the end of the generation.....it took 8 years...

Ps4 is beating the xbox one is the US because of the price. It launched worldwide so supply issues should be high obviously. More countries means less consoles shipped to each country. Microsoft launched in only 13 so that gave them more supply for each country. It isn't rocket science.

Ps3 had alot more exclusives over it's lifetime than xbox 360. People buy consoles to play exclusive games. That alone gave sony the advantage to sell more consoles than microsoft. 

I will await your replay..

No, it took the the PS3 7 or so years to overtake the 360, since the 360 had a rather large lead from it's early release. Despite the PS3 costing more it's entire lifetime it's been outselling the 360 more months than not since for the last 4/5 years. Even during it's launch year at $600 it still managed to keep on the 360's heals, and even outsell it some months.

Because of those supply issues we can't know if the X1 would be selling more in the US at the same price, since we don't know the PS4's sales potential without them. I do think at the same price the X1 would be ahead, but it's still a huge victory for Sony to take that much market share from MS so quickly. The X1 may also have more territories to release in, but the PS4 also has Japan. I'd bet that will counter out the effect of much of the X1's launch in those countries, since it will benefit little from Japan.

So you admit to the PS3 being a better console than the 360? ^^ Because you're right, it did have more exclusives, and with better critic receptions too.

The PS3 ended up outselling the 360 for the majority of last gen at a higher price, shall i expect to see the same from the X1 once they are both released everywhere? ^^ It does currently have more major exclusives released than the PS4, so it has no excuse not to ay?

It's also worth noting that the X1 comes with a peripheral. MS were the ones who chose to put it in, so it's their job to make customers see that peripheral as worth the higher cost. If the only way the X1 could outsell the PS4 is cost the same/less then it would just show that MS made a pretty big mistake with the Kinect.