| IFireflyl said:
No they did not. PS3 launched in November of 2006. They sold 394,937 consoles in November. They sold 857,103 consoles in December. The Xbox 360 (which was already ahead by a few million units before November of 2006) sold 849,098 consoles in November. They sold 2,046,655 consoles in December. The 360 had been selling for a year. When the PS3 launched people still didn't want it like they wanted the Xbox 360. Be that price, games, etc the PS3 was nowhere near the 360 in terms of sales for the beginning, even if we don't look at the year of sales the 360 did before the PS3 even came out. The PS3 was not a failure, but it had the same thing happen to it that the Xbox One did... lower starting sales. That doesn't mean failure. |
I am not sure where you got your numbers from, but this chart will clear some things up:
http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=151051&page=1#1
If you look at the ALIGNED launches of both the PS3 and the XB360, the PS3 was doing better. So by saying that the PS3 was getting demolished or "The PS3 launched people still didn't want it like they wanted the Xbox 360" is completely false.
Additionally, apart from you of course, who aligns the 2005 launch of the XB360 with the sales of PS3 at 2005? You said it yourself...PS3 didn't launch until November of 2006. That is like comparing the PS1 to the console that Microsoft never put out. When you compare data, you might want to have two sets of data...not just Microsoft sales versus ZERO PS3 sales for the first year of the 7th generation and then say XB360 domination!!
By aligning the sales for the first year of the XB360 to that of the PS3, one can actually gather information from the data. What you did is simply ridiculous and uninformative.
If the PS3 had "lower starting sales", then the XB360 had even LOWER starting sales!
