EA is making tonne of money because of the good PS3 softwares sales

good multiplateform software sales du to the lack of hacking and the less "upgrade/remplacement hardware purchase" because of the RRoD

FIFA is a good example ....

EA has also been making tons of money because of the good xbox360 software sales for years now, so what's your point ??

The rest is bullshit (the blahblah blah when it comes to the 360's userbase) when the attach ratio of the 360 is by far the highest this generation, a fact that destroys all the amateurish propaganda.

If the ps3 ever came close to the 360's price in the UK, I could see it happening.  That won't be the case anytime soon.

The UK is a weird spot for the ps3.  It's a part of Europe, so it shares a similar pricepoint as the rest of Europe, yet the console's demand in the UK is more similar to that of the US than the rest of Europe.

In mainland Europe, the ps3 can get away with being a decent bit more expensive than the 360.  In the UK it needs to at least have price parity with the Elite SKU to be competitive.

I will say that, going by percentages, the 249 pound ps3 has generally held its own against the 199 pound 360 Elite better than the $399 ps3 did against the $299 Pro/Elite in NA.  Until the 360S released, of course.  However, 199 vs 249 is only a 25% increase in price, while 299 vs 399 is a 33% increase, so I guess that's somewhat expected.

so let me see if i get what your saying, VGC on the day they released the quarters shipping numbers (which is a month after they stop counting for that quarter) only had 300K units free the number of free units im interested in is the number for the date the tracking for the quarter information ends, im betting that was more then 300k. by the time the numbers are out for us a month later who know MS could have holding shipments for the start of the next quarter and pumped a few hundred thousand out.

do you have the exact end date of the quarter in question, vgc listed as ltd and MS ltd. not the date the report was released but the date they stopped counting for the report

edit sorry for the slow reply got caught up in minecraft

VGchartz's numbers that was publish on N4G.
If you read the comments there. You will know. Lol

well, I m sure they are making tonne of money on the 360. They are making more money on 360, let's be clearer.
But they also know those 360 people are very Gears or Halo or CoD biased (not EA games). While PS3 is lacking a "king exclusive" meaning people will tend to buy more multiplateform games (see FIFA).

At the end, multiplateform sales tend to favor PS3 compared to the "official" console user base ratio. That is why EA is loving the PS3.

And, at this question : WHY PS3 software sales on multiplateform games do not follow the userbase ratio PS3/360 ?

- there is no piracy on PS3, there are plenty on 360
- I m GUESSING the 360 userbase is "virtually" slightly inflated because of people buying more than one whatever it is because the old one was broken or because the 360 is cheaper so u can buy several for your children. I doubt many people have 2 PS3s and I doubt people bought many PS3s because their first died by RRoD ...

Also, about the attach rate you are mentionning, since this rate include the 360 exclusive or no EA games (that EA, obviously, dont give a fucking shit) AND since this attach rate is biased because it is calculated WITHOUT taking in count the fact that the 360 was released 1 year before the PS3 (from what I know), I tend to consider it is not an interesting parameter IMHO

Lol. Not a chance in hell. Unless some miracle happened.

VG had the 360 sales at about 300k less then the amount MS said they shipped, and then a month or so later (not sure when just heard about it) they add 1 million to the 360 sales because of under tracking 4 years ago or something, so if they added it at any point before the shipped numbers for 360 came in, VG would have shown 700k more 360s sold then MS said were shipped (even if it sold that much in a month that would mean there are no 360s left in stores at all), and there were no reported shortages for 360s, where there were reported shortages of ps3s which had 2 million more shipped then VG had sold, which means VG chartz numbers are way off and inconsistent, as for the date of the report http://scrawlfx.com/2010/04/xbox-360-reaches-40-million-sold the article says april 23

wouldn't an extra year on market make the 360s attach rate go down with more used games being available?

vie heard of piracy on the 360, though only through threads, is it really a big problem?  I know molding exists as i knew a few people who modded consoles to cheat at cod… and i stopped knowing them for that kind of shady shit. they generally had two to three consoles.  but it seems as if that would be such a small community with in  xbox.

ill admit i plan on replacing my launch box with a new unit id like to get hdmi on my console with optical out, and not have to use a special cable.  will significantly clear up the clutter. but i cant imagine thats  more the a few % at most who are willing to do that.


I do know that it has been frequently mentioned by ioi and the source that the first year of xbox software sales are  not as well recorded researched as following years for all consoles especial in europe, this could lead to a change in those ratios up or down as well. its a shame publishers do not realize old data say from 5 years prior so we could make more accurate tracking for these things. I feel it would help the industry overall.

anyway,…. sorry for the ramble … the first points the only real one

Also worth mentioning it's only like .6 or .7 higher on 360 then ps3, so not even significant to start with