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Nsanity said:

The gap is still around around 3 million, so no need to party yet.

But I want to party. My Red Wii has been sitting there naked for a while. It's already a Fiesta in here.



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ps3 has a faster sell rate than the 360 had in its first five years.



Turkish said:
Blood_Tears said:
Turkish said:
The lead will decrease to below 2 million by january 2012, PS3 is doing much much better than what VGChartz predicted, there is nothing to stop PS3 Domination to commence!


You heard it here folks



Now why did you go ahead and do that?  Now your gonna get 1 if not all 4 360 fans on this site quoting this calling you a fanboy..


They do whatever they want! PS3 is coming and when it catches up, a lot of shitstorm will happen!

Seriously, people still argue over 360 vs PS3? That is sad on there part.



I do think PS3 has a great chance to outsell the 360 this year due to the momentum the brand has been keeping up lately. Gears and Forza are now released and the sales boost received will slow down post-release however, Uncharted 3 has yet to come out, and with Sony announcing they will be spending £5 million pounds on advertising in the UK alone, I think we can expect a huge push when November arrives (Possibly through the whole month?).

This week PS3 is number 1 and that may be an indicator of whats to come (obviously bearing in mind 3DS could well explode in sales soon)



i wonder what the shipment gap is. once sony close that gap, they've officialy passed the 360. its not like anyones gonna say lets wait for vgchartz to confirm it.



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NobleTeam360 said:
ps3 has a faster sell rate than the 360 had in its first five years.

This is true, but PS3 was riding the hype of PS2 and taken significantly more price cuts. The current price of the 360 shows they are in it to make money, not just move some hardware.



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should be lower next wk as this month ends but Nov. through Dec. are a different beast and 360 cold rise again? but hey who says history has to repeat its self? i remember many saying this day would never come! and now look at them with egg on there face.

It's likely 360 sales will surpass PS3 sales in November, but not by as much as in 2010, not without a price cut. Then next year PS3 should reduce the gap further. not sure? the ground is set for allot of things to happen, and as i've said before there are things releasing that counters every move MS and Sony make.

I always say this, but 360 outsells PS3 weekly in the combined Americas and EMEAA region throughout the year. So basically any gain PS3 makes will be limited to how well it sells in Japan. PS3 sales in Japan peaked in 2009, and have been dropping since, so we should expect the PS3 sell 1 million in Japan for 2012, which would reduce the gap to 2 million next year. However that might be a bit much since the 360 will likely get it's price cut to boost sales in other regions.

i think both if wise will make price cuts. sony is playing keep away. you know you have been saying that but i got one for ya. PS3 comtinues to out sell the 360 in Japan and the EMEAA's combined. yea bite in the but . you had it coming.

Anything can happen, but assuming PS3 does gain ground on 360, it will be a slow crawl. I can't picture PS3 passing 360 sales anytime during this gen or before 2014. we agree allot but i also have to add that there are to many factors involved to say anything will happen.

i'll say it like this. bats can't see during the day but at night they can see the world.



Well if you keep up with Seeces Year Over Year Holidays Sales Tracker thread, you would see that 360 is actually holding weekly sales almost exactly on par to last year. Ever Novemember there is a CoD game, and MP games do help 360 more during the holidays then PS3. Even if Kinect isn't as big as last year, I think the 360 will have a strong Novemeber. PS3 will be strong too, but Novemeber is when Americas region sales start to inflate, and 360 is king in Americas by a long shot. 

why does history have to repeat its self?

ok so we have COD for MS, FFXIII-2 for PS3, BF3 even with the 1943 game and BF special edition console only on PS3; 360 has BF3, Sony has UC3 and bundle, Sony has 2 bundles for black friday, MS has the Sky Rim bundle, Sony has an RPG bundled console i have no idea wht the name is for Japan and the EMEAA i think, PS3 has 4 different colored consoles for the EMEAA and Japan, and a pricecut made just a few months ago that could help carry it through Nov.-Dec.

Sony has pulled out all the stops and it still looks damn even to me! COD doesn't come out the same wk UC3 does i think so PS3 will have that wk and PS3 should have the first wk of Nov. aswell.

i can give 360 the 2 following wks unless one of those wks have FFXIII-2 in it then its farely even. then black friday is anybodies guess. then the final wk of Nov. should see things balance out before Vita hogs the spotlight in Japan and Dec. becomes a quite memory with bg sells for both consoles for christmas presents and most of Jan. holds PS3 as the eading consoe until ME3 comes out then the 360 takes the next 2 wks and likely half of Feb. until the 14th when Twisted Metal comes out. then the wk after that on the 22 PSVita comes out in the states and it flys off shelves and then by the end of March Sony continues its trend of out selling the 360, gets a boost in America from that same JRPG i still can't remember the name of in the Americas and the EMEAA and then PS3 continues to out sell the 360 till E3 as the big3 make there announcements and we all get together and do this again next yr during the holiday season and someone gets proven wrong, right or what ever.

i guess histroy will repeat its self. Sony shuld announce a new slim modle PS3 and maybe a pricecut to continue to stay competitive againts the 360, but PS360 will do bad next yr with Wiiu coming out! isn't that what we all expect to happen?

I know PS3 outsells in the combined EMEAA and Japan region, but you are ignoring half the gaming world in that comparision. My point by saying 360 is outselling PS3 in the combined Americas and EMEAA is to show you that PS3 will never rapidly reduce the lead. The lead 360 has will only be chipped away at slowly thanks to Japan, that's my point.

so your saying i'm ignoring half the market? monkey see monkey do! it seems Mr. monkey we both ignored half the market!

So people who think PS3 will surpass 360 in 2012, they are just wrong. I don't need to be an analyst to show you that.

hey they may be right? why not let them think it? the blind leading the blind into the lake of fire. those who see blindly leading themeselves into the lake of fire. those saying it will happen and those saying it won't happen will both burn in the fire

both sides are so busy saying what will and won't happen they don't see the fire underneath where they sit.

ok look at it this way. the only 2 exclusive heavy hitters coming out next yr as of today that i knoow of are Halo4 and Twisted Metal. 

TM is nowhere as big as Halo but out of all 10 of the PS3 titles i know about this is the only one that has brand recognition. the Last Guardian will likely sell 1m units or more before the yr is out but it will not carry th PS3 through Nov.-Dec. and it can't compet with Halo or COD, but with 7 of those 10 yet to be annouced and lots of unknown factors next yr is a toughone to call.

i bet your wondering where i get all these analogies from? its a gift lol!

I agree with you anything can happen. I'm just being realistic and basing this off what I see. PS3 can surpass 360 in WW sales, but if it does, it won't happen for a while.

i've already prjected it to happen in 2014 if sells continue on there current path, meaning even if sells drop WW for both consoles PS3 would only have to sell 1m+ units more then the 360 until 2014. how likely is that to happen? well considering many are looikg at history in this thread then hell shoudn't the PS3 continue to out sell the 360 by 1m units every yr?

i still look at MS discontinuing the 360 in 2013 but i can see it may not happen then, but they will want to focus on NB so like the Wii and PS2 before it the 360 looks to be abandoned by MS. all current features will stay and anything new the NB gets including downloadable games i can see the 360 getting aswell but MS will likely want to move on and make the NB be the platform for there base as they look to win next gen which is a very likely thing to happen IMO.

LOL Bats....Batman can see all the time. you for got about the episode where he actualy turned into a bat. yes i have a counter for everything.

side note: GT5 will likely get bundled with a rumured new slim PS3 modle so EMEAA sells will pickup for sure next  yr if this happens.



Really? Sounds like it's time for some adjustments.



Mr Puggsly said:
NobleTeam360 said:
ps3 has a faster sell rate than the 360 had in its first five years.

This is true, but PS3 was riding the hype of PS2 and taken significantly more price cuts. The current price of the 360 shows they are in it to make money, not just move some hardware.

And the 360 launched at $200 less than the PS3 a year earlier.  It was also the first console this gen, including the Wii, to drop its price to $199.



Everyone should have expected this to happen.



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