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cmeese47 said:

FIfa wins on PS3, Madden barely wins on 360 despite having a 10 million unit lead in NA. Need for Speed wins on PS3. Burnout wins on PS3. Dead Space wins on PS3. Fight Night is essentially a draw.

Shooters win on 360 and that isnt a shock consider it is 360 most popular genre and the most popular genre in the US where the 360 has a 10 million unit lead. 

Was EA foolish in claiming that Sony could win in the UK yep but were they foolish for supporting the PS3 fuck no.

The difference between sales of Fifa on PS3 and 360 are less than the difference of sales of Madden between 360 and PS3.

Game PS3 Sales (in mills) X360 Sales (in mills) 
2010 FIFA World Cup SA 0.89 0.7
FIFA Soccer 10 3.46 2.67
FIFA Soccer 09 2.46 2.07
FIFA Soccer 08 1.69 1.46
Total: 8.5 6.9
Difference: 1.6  
Game PS3 Sales (in mills) X360 Sales (in mills) 
Madden NFL 11 0.98 1.16
Madden NFL 10 2.20 2.71
Madden NFL 09 1.78 2.49
Madden NFL 08 0.94 2.42
Total: 5.9 8.78
Difference: -2.88  

Need for Speed as a franchise has actually sold more on the 360 if we include all titles released on both platforms. The only one that has sold better on PS3 is Shift and that can be accounted for by the release of Forza 3 at very close proximity to NFS: Shift. 

I'm not taking sides or anything. Just thought I'd clear up some misinformation. Things like total userbase size and time on market of each console can be argued until the cows come home but what matters to EA is the bottom line of total units sold.



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priteshmodi said:
cmeese47 said:

FIfa wins on PS3, Madden barely wins on 360 despite having a 10 million unit lead in NA. Need for Speed wins on PS3. Burnout wins on PS3. Dead Space wins on PS3. Fight Night is essentially a draw.

Shooters win on 360 and that isnt a shock consider it is 360 most popular genre and the most popular genre in the US where the 360 has a 10 million unit lead. 

Was EA foolish in claiming that Sony could win in the UK yep but were they foolish for supporting the PS3 fuck no.

The difference between sales of Fifa on PS3 and 360 are less than the difference of sales of Madden between 360 and PS3.

Game PS3 Sales (in mills) X360 Sales (in mills) 
2010 FIFA World Cup SA 0.89 0.7
FIFA Soccer 10 3.46 2.67
FIFA Soccer 09 2.46 2.07
FIFA Soccer 08 1.69 1.46
Total: 8.5 6.9
Difference: 1.6  
Game PS3 Sales (in mills) X360 Sales (in mills) 
Madden NFL 11 0.98 1.16
Madden NFL 10 2.20 2.71
Madden NFL 09 1.78 2.49
Madden NFL 08 0.94 2.42
Total: 5.9 8.78
Difference: -2.88  

Need for Speed as a franchise has actually sold more on the 360 if we include all titles released on both platforms. The only one that has sold better on PS3 is Shift and that can be accounted for by the release of Forza 3 at very close proximity to NFS: Shift. 

I'm not taking sides or anything. Just thought I'd clear up some misinformation. Things like total userbase size and time on market of each console can be argued until the cows come home but what matters to EA is the bottom line of total units sold.

Hmm interesting ps3 seems to be selling more relative to the 360 the more time goes on (on both of them)



theonewhoisme said:

Hmm interesting ps3 seems to be selling more relative to the 360 the more time goes on (on both of them)

Yea I saw that the gap was closing in terms of software sales. Interesting trend. In the end though EA really only cares about the bottom line.



priteshmodi said:
theonewhoisme said:

Hmm interesting ps3 seems to be selling more relative to the 360 the more time goes on (on both of them)

Yea I saw that the gap was closing in terms of software sales. Interesting trend. In the end though EA really only cares about the bottom line.

PS3 actually had slightly better software sales in 2009 then 360 

http://www.playstationuniversity.com/ps3-software-sales-outstrip-xbox-360s-ps3-attach-rate-up-to-8-1-3807/



Halo_Reach said:

ba...wahahahahahahahahahahahahahah thanks for the lolz there is a better chance of snow in the desert on a 95 degree day, also the ps3 will never ever pass the 360 in america, we love the 360 here...except a few people that wont even give the system a chnce do to there blind devotion to sony, ugh

 Snow in the desert on a 95 degree day.  LMAO!

360 is smashing the PS3 in both UK and US and that is all that really matters. 



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Halo_Reach said:
Viper1 said:
Halo_Reach said:


dude there is NO CONVINCING A SONY GUY, sony has been known for years to count manufactured units ass sales, it was going on since the ps1 days to hype up e3 crowds and such, it then went to what was in the warehouse not even shipped to distribution centers yet and counted those as sales... sony is a greasy shady company when it comes to numbers, dont believe the hype sony guys

As of April 1, 2007, Sony began using the industry standard method of counting units sold to customers (meaning retailers and wholesalers).

bull i dont believe that for one second. you can if you would like though- i short sony stock every chance i get- just bought 2000 shares of msft at 23.60 i am up big on that and gonna hold and sell 20 calls for the 26 dollar strike price and with them profits buy some puts on sony, just in time for earnings

What the hell does that have to do with anything in this thread?  Good grief man, at least act like you are going to have a reasonable conversation with people.



cmeese47 said:

FIfa wins on PS3, Madden barely wins on 360 despite having a 10 million unit lead in NA. Need for Speed wins on PS3. Burnout wins on PS3. Dead Space wins on PS3. Fight Night is essentially a draw.

Shooters win on 360 and that isnt a shock consider it is 360 most popular genre and the most popular genre in the US where the 360 has a 10 million unit lead. 

Was EA foolish in claiming that Sony could win in the UK yep but were they foolish for supporting the PS3 fuck no.

Yeah PS3 is about 2mil behind in the UK, i think there can still be a victory there for Sony if the gen lasts another 5 years - which both MS and Sony support. however until PS3 can get a price cut there i dont see it happening, and then MS will counter with another price cut.

the only reason i could see this all changing is because of next years software line up, where MS has 1 high profile excvlusive against at least 4 or 5 PS3 exclusives. and as you mentioned the 360 has a 10mil lead in the US, but the software sales are about the same, (except for shooters) despite the 10mil lead. that suggests that a lot of those 10mil are duplicate buys.

a lot of people say GT5 will change everything, but imo it will take a lot more than that, but it can happen. and Sony really should advertise they're products better than MS, MS are very good at marketing, where as i think Sony could do better!



Err? If there is 1 country in the world other than USA it wont beat 360 its UK. I really don't see how PS3 could beat 360 in UK when it selling worse and every game sells like 3 times as much on 360 than PS3.



A203D said:
cmeese47 said:

FIfa wins on PS3, Madden barely wins on 360 despite having a 10 million unit lead in NA. Need for Speed wins on PS3. Burnout wins on PS3. Dead Space wins on PS3. Fight Night is essentially a draw.

Shooters win on 360 and that isnt a shock consider it is 360 most popular genre and the most popular genre in the US where the 360 has a 10 million unit lead. 

Was EA foolish in claiming that Sony could win in the UK yep but were they foolish for supporting the PS3 fuck no.

Yeah PS3 is about 2mil behind in the UK, i think there can still be a victory there for Sony if the gen lasts another 5 years - which both MS and Sony support. however until PS3 can get a price cut there i dont see it happening, and then MS will counter with another price cut.

the only reason i could see this all changing is because of next years software line up, where MS has 1 high profile excvlusive against at least 4 or 5 PS3 exclusives. and as you mentioned the 360 has a 10mil lead in the US, but the software sales are about the same, (except for shooters) despite the 10mil lead. that suggests that a lot of those 10mil are duplicate buys.

a lot of people say GT5 will change everything, but imo it will take a lot more than that, but it can happen. and Sony really should advertise they're products better than MS, MS are very good at marketing, where as i think Sony could do better!

Are you even thinking that through, if you think MS only has 1 high profile game next year you're wrong.

Games like LBp2, K3, Infamous 2 ect are not going to sway the competition, it's such an absurd thing to say.

And lmao at the italicised bit, software the same in America? You need to go recheck those numbers, 360 is over 130 million games ahead there. Also has the highest attach rate there.



 

Seece said:

rofl. Never. PS3 hasn't beaten it once there in yearly sales, and barely tops 1 mill there a year.

EA have been arse licking Sony a lot lately, I don't know why. Maybe it's because Microsoft is firmly in bed with Activision .. but then it doesn't sound like Activision love Microsoft that much, just their money!


Why would you say that? Infinity Ward have been quite strong in support of Xbox. Taking diggs at PSN when it was down when MW2 came out (they said "Xbox Live didn't have any problems"), etc.

And Activision has the COD DLC exclusive with 360. Sure that involves $, but you can bet so do any EA-Sony exclusives.