| DogWeed said: isnt it already outselling the 360? if you mean by total sales its because the ps3 is constantly outselling the 360 weekly. and in time it will catch up and eventually pass it. plus all of the games that are comming out for the ps3. |
Add to this that XBox 360 was released 1 year earlier, so it would be reasonable that PS3 would be retired 1 year later, so, as currently it's already outselling XBox weekly, also given equal lifetimes it would outsell it also totally.
If you add that since the beginning, when they made XBox 1, MS is oriented towards shorter lifetimes, and is now forced to rethink this by tough reality, while Sony is always oriented towards longer lifetime, as they learned that their consoles don't start selling strongly immediately, but start doing well after one year or so and get even stronger later, and the likeliness of PS3 outselling XBox 360 is even greater.
However it is very unlikely that PS3 will catch up with Wii, but the bigger concern for Sony now is to reach 40 millions or so consoles sold to recover all costs, then reach at least 50 millions sold, the more, the better, to keep the brand reasonably strong.
The good news for both Sony and MS, but also for Nintendo, is that for the next generation developing and building consoles with HD graphics and high capacity optical drives will be a lot cheaper, so the hard times of skyrocketing development and components costs should be over, at least until the next big leap forward in TV technologies... It should be also noted that avoiding trying to be ahead of the times Nintendo avoided completely the troubles that hit its competitors.
