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Vorodroid on 04 September 2024
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LegitHyperbole said:

Without question the 360. However. And this is a big however. I believe that 50% of 360's died to RROD and this bumped sales significantly making the console appear more popular than it was, I can't find it now but I used to have solid evidence that the failure rate was slightly above 50%. I lost one, everyone I knew who had the original model lost at least one and one fool I knew bought the console four times (used 3 times) after me trying to get it into his skull to just buy an elite model after the second failure which I believe didn't have the same failure rate. So, I believe Xbox has stayed as popular as they have ever been up until this generation where they seem to be slipping off. I don't believe there ever was a point where Xbox was winning the 7th gen apart fron the first two years where they had the early start and Sony stunned release in regions. I belive PS3 caught right up to them much sooner than the numbers implied.

Found on some scource not sure if it's right ai haven'tchecked into it:

54.2%
Microsoft's Xbox 360 has an overall first-time hardware failure rate of 54.2% among its readers, according to a report by print magazine Game Informer in its latest issue -- and 41.2% of those users were said to have multiple failures.

I agree that the main reason behind the initial margin between X360 and PS3 was the one year gap. And X360 used these months to buy some timed exclusive games in 2006-2007 like Lost Planet or Portal. While development of some games for PS3 was more difficult, it wasn't the main factor of delays. Many of these games were released one year after launch on X360. It's obvious that there were exclusive deals. But then in 2008 a lot of games were launched on both consoles on day one. (even if some games performed better on X360) There was a marketing deal between Take-Two and Xbox about Grand Theft Auto 4 but then the game launched on both consoles on day one, even earlier than on PC.

Also PS3 always sold better in Asian countries. Japan market is obvious example although MS tried to improve sales there in 2005-2007. In the first two years MS released some exclusive japanese titles but it didn't work. The situation in asian countries hasn't improved since those times.

Finally, it took 7 years for PS3 to reach the number which X360 reached in 8 year period of time. By the end of 2013 they have had the same number of units sold.