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cookingyourmama on 19 May 2014
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fallen said:

PS3 needs a lot of help Sony has really botched it late in life. Obviously 360 outsold PS3 worldwide and this is a big reason why.

PS3 is high priced compared to 360, Apparently Sony is not able to get engineer the cost down, and the new design looks horrible and ugly. It got outsold 2-1 by 360 last NPD and is and has been outsold by 360 worldwide clearly both lifetime and for the last 1-2 years (both recent ship figures and NPD prove this, and of course MS sold 80m before Sony which is proven by their press releases direct from both Sony and Microsoft). All this despite the media endlessly hyping the P3 and titles like Last of Us asnd even nonexistent titles like Last Guardiann the last 3 years (more like 5 years of endless media hype for a game that doesn't even exist in the case of LG, truly amazing).

Lol no, just no. What is it with some people round here saying the 360 has been outselling the PS3 worldwide when it is a fact that all the shipment numbers we've had over the past few years show the PS3 has been outselling the 360, it's like some people live in opposite land.

Since both the PS3 and 360 have been available worldwide, out of the 23 quarters worth of data that can be directly compared the 360 has only managed to outsell the PS3 7 times, so 70% of the time the 360 has failed to outsell the PS3. And in the past 2 years worth of data we have there isn't a single quarter where the 360 managed to outsell the PS3.

January - March 2012: PS3 1.9m / 360 1.4m

April - June 2013: PS3 1.1m / 360 1.0m

July - September 2013: PS3 2.0m / 360 1.2m

On top of that for many years now whatever amount the 360 outsells the PS3 in the USA the PS3 makes up that amount by outselling the 360 in Japan and that's still true to this day. That leaves Europe+the rest of the world where the Playstation has always dominated the 360 and there is zero evidence that magically the 360 is now outselling the PS3.

Both console's sales are slowing down but the PS3 is selling more and the Playstation brand has a history of doing well late into each generation unlike other console brands. Sony reworking the PS3 design and/or cutting the price wouldn't be stupid and would further insure respectable sales late into the gen. The PS3 will go on to sell over 93m lifetime at least.