100,000 people bought Xbox 360's this week gone for GTAIV (extrapoloted based on the difference in sales WW week-over-week). The vast majority of those peopl were PS2 owners. Think about that for a moment. 100,000 of the kind of people that only buy one console per generation will, from this moment on, be purchasing games for a Microsoft console (the console sales themselves will already have given Microsoft a profit off these new customers) INSTEAD of a Sony console.
so where's your proof that majority of the 100k people who bought the x360 are ps2 owners? where is your proof that these people only buy one console per generation? link? evidence? none? no link/evidence = baloney
But 100,000 people left Sony for Microsoft this week, and as many as 300,000 left Sony for Nintendo
again, where's your proof that these 100k-300k individuals owned a ps2? link? evidence? proof? none? again = bunch of baloney
it has a more expansive, diverse and quality-filled library than the PS3 (according to Gamerankings.com).
this is what i would expect from a fanboy. and fanboy=bias=unreliable srouce of information for other consoles.
Futhermore, Microsoft has significantly more leverage to cut prices than Sony does, suggesting that by the end of the year, the console will be approaching mass market prices, such as the $US199 point where the PS2 did the majority of it's business
really? and you know this from where?
However, given the business models of both Sony and Microsoft call for early hardware losses to be recovered on software sales, I'd think the fact the Xbox 360 continues to have enormous software sales and just substantially outsold Sony on a Playstation associated franchis is arguably the most significant factor for us to examine.
your right, let us indeed examine this further
i believe associated franchise=gtra4
install base
x360 (us+others)= 18,116,203
ps3 (us+others) = 10,281,004
ratio = 1:1.7 in favor of x360
gtaiv week 1 sales
x360 (us+others) = 3,288,125
ps3 (us+others) = 2,613,973
ratio = 1:1.2 in favor of x360
attach ratio
x360 = 18%
ps3 = 25%
sales boost versus previous week (us+others)
april 26
ps3 - 187,299
x360 - 159,763
may 3
ps3 - 342,606
x360 - 264,305
sales increase
ps3 - 82%
x360 - 65%
hmmmmmmm
