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When will the PS3 surpass the 360?

end Q4 2012 122 19.81%
 
end Q1 2013 93 15.10%
 
end Q2-3 2013 193 31.33%
 
end Q4 2013 165 26.79%
 
by october 2012 43 6.98%
 
Total:616
VGKing on 15 April 2012
enditall727 said:
kowenicki said:
enditall727 said:
kowenicki said:
enditall727 said:
Lafiel said:
TheKoreanGuy said:
Halo 4 comes out and suddenly the numbers matter to Xbox gamers. The Last of Us and/or God of War 4 gets less sales than Halo 4 and Xbox gamers laugh at pitiful Playstation exclusives. PS3 gamers say numbers don't matter and that their game(s) is/are better than Halo. PS3 sales turn out good and Sony gamers brag about better WW numbers than Xbox. Xbox gamers say Sony already lost and that numbers don't matter anymore.

You guys are just saying what is convenient every. single. time.

vgc(/the internet) in a nutshell

enditall727 said:
360 had all these advantages this gen while ps3 had all the disadvantages.

to be fair the PS3 still had and has the advantage "Japan" over the 360


true but the 360 advantage in North America outweighs PS3's advantage in Japan :)

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the 360 is more expensive than the PS3 if you want to play online... always has been.


yea but the 360 has sold like 12 million more than ps3 in North America

Ps3 has sold like 5-6 million more than 360 in Japan

^^ like i said before, the 360 advantage in North America outweighs the PS3's advantage in Japan


Its how those advantages come about that interests me.  The 360 is utterly irrelevant in Japan (we can argue about the reasons - but we dont need to go there) whereas the PS3 has a major presence in the US. 

Effectively the 360 gets all of its sales from 2 markets, the PS3 from 3.


true, but 360 still made up for its inexistance in Japan with America

the 360 failed at its attempt to take the japanese market and Sony failed at its attempt to take the NA market

PS3 launched at a ridiculously high price within a recession here and really did not deliver on its online portion which was obviously like the main focus in American gaming

in order for the XBOX to do good in Japan they would need to get the top games that Japanese people play. Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest would be the only way to take the Japanese market. It would be hard because those games are already big on PS consoles over there so the best thing they could do is get a deal to launch 6-12 months earlier than the competition OR get timed dlc so every body would buy the game on there console(which was pretty much what they did with a lot of games to make sure people bought it on their console).

of course it didnt happen because Sony caught on to that strategy that Microsoft was doing and made a deal with Square to have FF13 release a year earlier in that region on their console. Square also took forever to finish the game so MS couldn't make any deals with them earlier in the gen with FF

 

Whut? Online gaming wasn't very mainstream until years after 360 launched. PS3 contributed to that in a major way since it was free to play online.
Yes Halo was a popular series on original Xbox but that's pretty much it. Nothing else was really popular online at the time. Gears of War didn't launch until November 2006 and COD4 until Nov. 2007. 



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VGKing on 15 April 2012
maximrace said:
VGKing said:
maximrace said:
Ah the ps defence force! I think it took the ps3 quite long considering the superior brand name and ps2 dominance... Who should have thougt this 7years ago. But in the end it doens't matter... Only the true fanboys kick on this sort of gap philosophy... What matters is that both consoles were immensely popular and got awsome games ;) (coming from a big xboxfan... I just don't care about sale places... I only care about the games...


Yup, you say that now that the Xbox 360 is close to getting kicked to 3rd place.
Funny how you say "ah the ps defence force!" and "only fanboys care' when you yourself are part of the MDF and a fanboy yourself.

Funny how you say I'm part of the MDF since I even haven"t posted 300 times in 2years. Tells me alot about you...You should take it easy with those rage coments.


You admitted yourself that you're an Xbox fan, then you call other people "Sony Defence Force". Only a MDF member would say something like that.



VGKing on 15 April 2012
kowenicki said:
VGKing said:
maximrace said:
Ah the ps defence force! I think it took the ps3 quite long considering the superior brand name and ps2 dominance... Who should have thougt this 7years ago. But in the end it doens't matter... Only the true fanboys kick on this sort of gap philosophy... What matters is that both consoles were immensely popular and got awsome games ;) (coming from a big xboxfan... I just don't care about sale places... I only care about the games...


Yup, you say that now that the Xbox 360 is close to getting kicked to 3rd place.
Funny how you say "ah the ps defence force!" and "only fanboys care' when you yourself are part of the MDF and a fanboy yourself.


thats the second person in the space of 6 posts you called a fanboy... calm down and cool your tone.  reported.


Calm down? WTF? Maybe you should be the one to calm down. You're readin some kind of anger in my comments maybe its you who needs to cool off. K? Thanks.



enditall727 on 15 April 2012
VGKing said:
enditall727 said:
kowenicki said:
enditall727 said:
kowenicki said:
enditall727 said:
Lafiel said:
TheKoreanGuy said:
Halo 4 comes out and suddenly the numbers matter to Xbox gamers. The Last of Us and/or God of War 4 gets less sales than Halo 4 and Xbox gamers laugh at pitiful Playstation exclusives. PS3 gamers say numbers don't matter and that their game(s) is/are better than Halo. PS3 sales turn out good and Sony gamers brag about better WW numbers than Xbox. Xbox gamers say Sony already lost and that numbers don't matter anymore.

You guys are just saying what is convenient every. single. time.

vgc(/the internet) in a nutshell

enditall727 said:
360 had all these advantages this gen while ps3 had all the disadvantages.

to be fair the PS3 still had and has the advantage "Japan" over the 360


true but the 360 advantage in North America outweighs PS3's advantage in Japan :)

RROD?  Subscription for LIVE

the 360 is more expensive than the PS3 if you want to play online... always has been.


yea but the 360 has sold like 12 million more than ps3 in North America

Ps3 has sold like 5-6 million more than 360 in Japan

^^ like i said before, the 360 advantage in North America outweighs the PS3's advantage in Japan


Its how those advantages come about that interests me.  The 360 is utterly irrelevant in Japan (we can argue about the reasons - but we dont need to go there) whereas the PS3 has a major presence in the US. 

Effectively the 360 gets all of its sales from 2 markets, the PS3 from 3.


true, but 360 still made up for its inexistance in Japan with America

the 360 failed at its attempt to take the japanese market and Sony failed at its attempt to take the NA market

PS3 launched at a ridiculously high price within a recession here and really did not deliver on its online portion which was obviously like the main focus in American gaming

in order for the XBOX to do good in Japan they would need to get the top games that Japanese people play. Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest would be the only way to take the Japanese market. It would be hard because those games are already big on PS consoles over there so the best thing they could do is get a deal to launch 6-12 months earlier than the competition OR get timed dlc so every body would buy the game on there console(which was pretty much what they did with a lot of games to make sure people bought it on their console).

of course it didnt happen because Sony caught on to that strategy that Microsoft was doing and made a deal with Square to have FF13 release a year earlier in that region on their console. Square also took forever to finish the game so MS couldn't make any deals with them earlier in the gen with FF

 

Whut? Online gaming wasn't very mainstream until years after 360 launched. PS3 contributed to that in a major way since it was free to play online.
Yes Halo was a popular series on original Xbox but that's pretty much it. Nothing else was really popular online at the time. Gears of War didn't launch until November 2006 and COD4 until Nov. 2007. 


i guess i should've said that Online gaming was "turning" into the main focus of american gaming?

either way, you know what i mean lol



VGKing on 15 April 2012
tonymarraffa said:
OMG!! I see alot of immature people here. I'm a fanboy of games, not systems. That's why I own all three systems. Just remember these companies do not care about us in any way other than our cash. Why are people treating them like family members lmfao. Why don't we all start having game vs game threads instead of System Wars that in the big picture don't really matter.


360 fans feel threatened the gap is closing so fast. It's only natural to defend somethign you hold so dear such as a piece of silicon.



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VGKing on 15 April 2012
pezus said:
kowenicki said:
ethomaz said:
I think it's funny on a site about SALES which SALES don't matter anymore.

lol


Well sales of the gamecube, xbox and PS2 dont matter anymore....  (I realise the PS2 is amost like a mother to many here so it matters to them).  And its always been like that, when the PS3 was being humiliated earlier in its like, sales diodnt matter becasue it was all about the quality of the games and the diversity of the games and the... and the.... 

Sales of the DS and PSP don't matter any more as far as I am concerned.

The only interesting ones at the moment for me are PSV and 3DS

This gen is almost last gen.  Last gen doesn't interest me as far as sales are concerned.. never has, it didnt as soon as the 360 released and this gen wont interest me as soon as the WiiU releases.

I'm sure some people will be talking and debating the ongoing sales of the 360, PS3 and Wii long after the WiiU releases, 720 and PS4 release... I wont.

Of course you won't. Why would you discuss PS3 overtaking 360?

:D Be careful he might report you!



VGKing on 15 April 2012
Pirateogta said:
pezus said:
Sal.Paradise said:

Lol, best one so far. Why do NPD sales matter so much to some people but not WW sales?


Because NPD numbers are actually real.

The last real worldwide numbers we have are through Dec. 31, 2011. A 3.8 million gap with the 360 at 65.8M and the PS3 at 62M. Now according to this site, in the last 3 months, the PS3 has sold 1.5M and the 360 has sold -300,000. How do you sell negative numbers? Don't ask me. And people wonder why this site is the laughing stock of the internet gaming world? Well, time to log off of here and head back to reality!

NPD numbers are estimates, they are not 100% accurate.



crissindahouse on 15 April 2012

lol not many posts here anymore after that ban.



thismeintiel on 15 April 2012
hatmoza said:
wow just wow at the users trying to downplay this great achievement. I'm tempted to bust out my 2010 mentality on yer asses.

but then again, it's entertaining reading the pseudo-meltdowns.

Just imagine what the meltdowns will be like when it gets within a few 100K of the 360 and/or passes it.  We're going to be seeing financials posted aplenty. 

@ OP

Congrats, Sony.  Can't wait til the next million milestone.



 

D-Joe on 15 April 2012
crissindahouse said:
lol not many posts here anymore after that ban.

i was considered to told them wait few more days

btw i still bet 360 shipped 0m,what do you think?



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