S.T.A.G.E. said:
Aura7541 said:
S.T.A.G.E. said:
Exactly. Thats one of the largest failure rates in the history of gaming. They had to beat Sony to the market because they didnt want to launch with Sony. They knew that first impressions are everything and they won the first impression but killed it with a faulty product. I can't even begin to count the amount of people that I know that have gone through three to five xboxes. I am willing to bet that at least a quarter of Xbox sales before 2010 were attributed alone to former RROD victims who ran out of their warranty even after Microsoft initiated the three year warranty for people after 2007 . Not only that, but people paid once more to upgrade to the newer version of the slim through discounts from trading in their former Xbox fan. Nickel and diming coldnt even begin to cover it for how much they made people spend for the console alone.
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Yep. Sales figures don't mean much if several people are rebuying the product. And here's an interesting tidbit. In 2011, Strategy Analytics revealed that by the end of 2010, the PS3 userbase might have surpassed the 360 userbase (43.4 million vs 42.9 million) (http://www.inquisitr.com/102342/ps3-overtakes-xbox-360/). This basically confirms that RROD really skewed the 360's sales figures and explains why we're seeing such a huge disparity in sales between the X1 and PS4.
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The link didnt work, but I ageee. I do remember reading that analysts believed the PS3 would outsell the 360 by 2011 though based on the way the PS3 was intially selling. Microsoft can thank their lucky stars for those broken consoles and people who repurchased Xboxes when the look changed.
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Ah! Apologies. I shall do it right this time...
http://www.inquisitr.com/102342/ps3-overtakes-xbox-360/
