When will PS3 Surpass Xbox360?

[Legend11]

omgwtfbbq said:

Legend11 said:

marc said:
Side Note: Anyone who thinks the Wii isnt competing with the PS3 and 360 is in denial. If it werent for the Wii, the 360 and PS3 sales would be double what they currently are and the PS3 would have sold several more million in Japan. Casual people will not buy multiple consoles but they will buy 1 and without the Wii there they would have chosen one of the others. There arent that many grandma's who own a Wii despite all the talk of how the Wii expanded the userbase. Its not that big of a spread.

I don't believe that. There are a lot of people buying a Wii for themselves that haven't bought another game system in their life, I seriously doubt they would have bought a PS3 or 360 if the Wii didn't exist.

yes, but on the other hand, there are a lot of people who will generally buy one console a generation, and play a few games on that. I know three people who had a PS2 last generation and a Wii this generation. These people would have purchased a PS3 or 360 (eventually) had the Wii not come out.

The keyword there is "eventually" because we both know most of them wouldn't buy one at the current asking price.  Marc's statement basically implied that they would all be buying PS3s and 360s now and was the statement I was disagreeing with.  Does a $75,000 sports car compete with a $15,000  car?  Well they are both automobiles so in a general sense the answer is yes but they both go for a different type of customer and it's the same thing with consoles.  The 360 and PS3 are going after a specific kind of customer that wants cutting edge graphics, HD, etc, while the customers going for the Wii aren't looking for those particular things.