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Seece on 27 September 2010
theonewhoisme said:
Seece said:
iWarMachine said:
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!


we could start to see a change if FIFA11 gets PS3 advertising and GT5 coming...but i don't think the effect will be enough to change the tide...i'm sure it'll be a close battle though.

Has a 2 plus million growing lead there, fifa and GT5 will do nothing to scratch that. The Slim and price cut did little last year.

How does it have a 2 million lead over there when it only has about a 3-4 million lead worldwide, I don't understand where you people are pulling these numbers from, it always looks like 360 is selling more but when we get the worldwide shipped Sony always has started to close in somewhat, it's been that way for a few years now

The front page, and seen as you're on this site if you don't like that then you might as well leave. Also our numbers are in line with Chart Track UK.

Edit - I get your confusion, you think the UK 2 mill lead takes up half of the "3 - 4 million lead", you're assuming PS3 and 360 are drawing elsewhere. PS3 has a lead in Japan of around 4 million remember, and in other European countys PS3 is in the lead.



 

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johnglen on 27 September 2010

The difference is huge and the xbox360 is selling much better on a weekly basis .Why the hell would fifa help the ps3 ?? Anyway we'll probably get official numbers at the end of the year (we always do with the U.K) and these will show how silly this discussion is.

I was in London at the beginning of this month and went both to HVM (oxford street) and GAME and the xbox presence in retail is huge compared to the ps3.



theonewhoisme on 27 September 2010
Seece said:
theonewhoisme said:
Seece said:
iWarMachine said:
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!


we could start to see a change if FIFA11 gets PS3 advertising and GT5 coming...but i don't think the effect will be enough to change the tide...i'm sure it'll be a close battle though.

Has a 2 plus million growing lead there, fifa and GT5 will do nothing to scratch that. The Slim and price cut did little last year.

How does it have a 2 million lead over there when it only has about a 3-4 million lead worldwide, I don't understand where you people are pulling these numbers from, it always looks like 360 is selling more but when we get the worldwide shipped Sony always has started to close in somewhat, it's been that way for a few years now

The front page, and seen as you're on this site if you don't like that then you might as well leave. Also our numbers are in line with Chart Track UK.

Edit - I get your confusion, you think the UK 2 mill lead takes up half of the "3 - 4 million lead", you're assuming PS3 and 360 are drawing elsewhere. PS3 has a lead in Japan of around 4 million remember, and in other European countys PS3 is in the lead.

I go by the last shipped, the sites numbers are inaccurate and it's still a good forum/news site, even if it's chartz numbers are off 



iWarMachine on 27 September 2010

yeah, now that i think about it, it sounds crazy...EA has been licking sony's feets lately.



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Viper1 on 27 September 2010
Coca-Cola said:

http://www.ifreshnews.com/ps3-likely-to-overtake-xbox-360-in-the-uk‏/3544

Electronic Arts, manufacturer of video games has revealed that the Sony PlayStation 3 could end up as the number one gaming console on the British market, a position which is held by Xbox 360, manufactured by Microsoft.


Wii says EA needs to take math classes.



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Carl on 27 September 2010

Not a chance in hell for lifetime.

Weekly, unlikely... But possible.



                            

Seece on 27 September 2010
theonewhoisme said:
Seece said:
theonewhoisme said:

How does it have a 2 million lead over there when it only has about a 3-4 million lead worldwide, I don't understand where you people are pulling these numbers from, it always looks like 360 is selling more but when we get the worldwide shipped Sony always has started to close in somewhat, it's been that way for a few years now

The front page, and seen as you're on this site if you don't like that then you might as well leave. Also our numbers are in line with Chart Track UK.

Edit - I get your confusion, you think the UK 2 mill lead takes up half of the "3 - 4 million lead", you're assuming PS3 and 360 are drawing elsewhere. PS3 has a lead in Japan of around 4 million remember, and in other European countys PS3 is in the lead.

I go by the last shipped, the sites numbers are inaccurate and it's still a good forum/news site, even if it's chartz numbers are off 

Uh huh, you don't have any shipped numbers for UK, and chartrackUK is in line with ours.



 

Nsanity on 27 September 2010
Seece said:



EA have been arse licking Sony a lot lately


I noticed that.



theonewhoisme on 27 September 2010
Seece said:
theonewhoisme said:
Seece said:
theonewhoisme said:

How does it have a 2 million lead over there when it only has about a 3-4 million lead worldwide, I don't understand where you people are pulling these numbers from, it always looks like 360 is selling more but when we get the worldwide shipped Sony always has started to close in somewhat, it's been that way for a few years now

The front page, and seen as you're on this site if you don't like that then you might as well leave. Also our numbers are in line with Chart Track UK.

Edit - I get your confusion, you think the UK 2 mill lead takes up half of the "3 - 4 million lead", you're assuming PS3 and 360 are drawing elsewhere. PS3 has a lead in Japan of around 4 million remember, and in other European countys PS3 is in the lead.

I go by the last shipped, the sites numbers are inaccurate and it's still a good forum/news site, even if it's chartz numbers are off 

Uh huh, you don't have any shipped numbers for UK, and chartrackUK is in line with ours.

I have worldwide which was under 3 mil lead, but I guess with 4 mill in japan and another few mil from places we never heard of 360 is probably still ahead by a few mil in europe



johnglen on 27 September 2010
theonewhoisme said:
Seece said:
theonewhoisme said:
Seece said:
iWarMachine said:
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!


we could start to see a change if FIFA11 gets PS3 advertising and GT5 coming...but i don't think the effect will be enough to change the tide...i'm sure it'll be a close battle though.

Has a 2 plus million growing lead there, fifa and GT5 will do nothing to scratch that. The Slim and price cut did little last year.

How does it have a 2 million lead over there when it only has about a 3-4 million lead worldwide, I don't understand where you people are pulling these numbers from, it always looks like 360 is selling more but when we get the worldwide shipped Sony always has started to close in somewhat, it's been that way for a few years now

The front page, and seen as you're on this site if you don't like that then you might as well leave. Also our numbers are in line with Chart Track UK.

Edit - I get your confusion, you think the UK 2 mill lead takes up half of the "3 - 4 million lead", you're assuming PS3 and 360 are drawing elsewhere. PS3 has a lead in Japan of around 4 million remember, and in other European countys PS3 is in the lead.

I go by the last shipped, the sites numbers are inaccurate and it's still a good forum/news site, even if it's chartz numbers are off 


Since when do we go by shipped numbers to compare userbases ??That's something that GAF started because it favoured the ps3 and sony . That was not the case a few years ago, nobody was comparing shipped numbers from companies' fiscal reports, it's a recent trend to show how the ps3 is "closing " the gap. I would never go by shipped numbers from sony . If you don't care about VGchartz then compare the official numbers that we do get (NPD, MC ,chartrack from time to time) and that's about it.