DanneSandin said:
IFireflyl said:
DanneSandin said:
Obviously I am. Its quite clear that PS3 started to outsell X360 (with aligned launches) from early on. This means it was just a matter of time before PS3 caught up with X360, and I believe that was in... 2011? 2012? Little by little Sony chipped away the lead MS had built up with their head start. Its all there in the charts.
anyways, if you reply again, can you please trim the quote tree? Im on my phone now and cant myself
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.
What that graph showed was the ALIGNED launches of PS3 and X360, that means you take both consoles numbers for their respective 1st year of sale and compare them, side by side. That would be 2005 for X360 vs 2006 for PS3, and what we then get is that PS3 had a better first year on the market than X360. Before we clear this up there's no point of making any further discussions. Do you understand where I'm coming from when I'm talking about aligned launches? Yes, X360 sold better in 2006 than PS3, but that's because they had a years head start, but I'm pretty sure that PS3 had a better second year than X360.
This isn't a good point though. Nobody cares about aligned launches. People are making the argument that the Xbox One is a failure because they are down in sales (e,g, they've sold less consoles than the PS4). The PS3 was down in sales. It came back to be number one. Aligned launches mean nothing. The Xbox 360 was ahead of the PS3 for years, and that's the bottom line. Anyone can make a comeback, and that is my point. The Xbox One isn't a failure, and anyone who thinks so is being biased. I hate the Xbox One. I loathe it. I think it's a poorly made multimedia system. I like my PS4. A lot. Especially in comparison to the Xbox One. The Xbox One is not a failure though. There is empirical evidence that shows this.
