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calvinandhobbes on 25 May 2010

Like everyone has said, there would be no RROD. It might have come with wireless built in and maybe more powerful hardware. Oh yea and hard drives would have come stock.

As far as sells, I think that it would still be a pretty close race.



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vage on 25 May 2010

I'd say PS3 would be 1st .



MARCUSDJACKSON on 26 May 2010
Seece said:
MARCUSDJACKSON said:
well if you go back and look at vgchartz sells numbers for both cosole first yr's. PS3 sold 4m+ and 360 sold 5m+. now heading into there second yr. total sales for 360 was 12m and PS3 total sells were 16m. i should beproviding a link but i don't have time. well maybe tomorrow.

Id say PS3 would be 1st between them for different reasons.

alligned launches prove nothing, they're different points in time. Let me put it in a simple and over exaggerated form.

 

Imagine it's 2005 and the 360 has released, it' sells as well as it does.

Then 2006 hits, and the PS3 comes out, BUT, everyone WW gets $1000 given to them. The whole market gets a boost.


That's extreme and not the reason. But when the PS3 released, the 360 got that gen alive and kicking, more people aware of next gen consoles ect.


good point.



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MARCUSDJACKSON on 26 May 2010
M.U.G.E.N said:
Less RROD issues/fiasco imo which would have led to better sales...but I do believe the ps3 would have come on top...actually i think it will be even with the one year late start so yeah :P

but at the end of the day, as a gamer, I couldn't care less who wins or loses in this fan made up console war


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SnesTea on 26 May 2010

They would've been smart enough to sell a single SKU for 350 USD.



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Reasonable on 26 May 2010

It's pretty obvious that PS3 would be comfortably in second place (assuming the Wii remained unchanged). That's not fanboy speak simply the most likely outcome.

Without the year start, particularly in the US market, 360 wouldn't have had the time to win over enough marketshare and developers would have gravitated immediately to the PS3 assuming it would be the winning platform, leaving the 360 with the ports rather than vice versa as happened.

I think 360 would still have done well vs Xbox once Halo 3 launched but I have zero doubt it would have started and stayed behind the PS3.

MS pushed very hard to be first to market, to get a good SDK into developers hands to make DVD the standard physical limit for most title, and for a very good reason - they knew they had to otherwise they ran the risk of only seeing a modest increase over Xbox from the previous generation.



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disolitude on 26 May 2010

Here is a better question...

What if PS3 didn't have bluray and cost the same...but instead of bluray, they decided to put a 512MB 8800gtx video card in the PS3 (top video card at that time)...

PS3 would be awesome, thats what would have happened.