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homer said:
The Xbox just has a more diverse line up of games year after year and xbox fans as a result buy more games. If the playstation 3 was as well endowed with a great lineup as the 360, I'm sure those few owners would buy more.


agreed.  from call of duty to grand theft auto, resident evil to final fantasy, skyrim to assassins creed, fifa to red dead, fallout to batman.  xbox has a diverse library like no other console.



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drkohler said:

Did it ever occur to you that XBox had a one year headstart in NA and 15 months (2 holiday periods) in Europe? That is lots of games bought while zero PS3 games were bought. Your table simply shows that more XBoxes are out in the wild for a longer time than PS3s.

2.) Tie ratio in Japan: I have seen several estimates on how many of the early PS3 were bought for Blu-Ray only and the estimates varied from 30% to 70%. Still PS3 "sells more" than XBox because absolute numbers count, not some irrelevant "tie number".

3.) Also who cares about "tie rate?"

4.) Certainly not game manufacturers.

5.) If you believe the revenue numbers here, you'll see both consoles sell the same amount of sofware (actually PS3 is alittle ahead of XBox).

1.) For all the software sold during the 360's headstart, there was also hardware sold. So the tie-ratio should be even with the rest of the 360's years. Your argument is invalid.

2.) Anecdotes, no facts

3.) Caring is subjective.

4.) Unsupported assertion

5.) Wait for Manufacter's official numbers.

 

All I'm seeing is opinions and unsupported assertions. Can someone disprove my argument with logic and facts?



don't a lot of the games ported to PS3 have problems like Bayonetta and Skyrim? so if I had a PC or 360 I would then get them for those platforms instead

I see it more as "where does my entertainment play best?" situation rather than me being satisfied with the entertainment I have and just not buy more games for that particular system.


or it could just be that people are saving for Wonder Book!



    R.I.P Mr Iwata :'(

Jay520 said:


Can you prove these statements? And I'd like facts please...no opinions, anecdotes, or testimony.

Funny, coming from the OP of this thread.



Roma said:
don't a lot of the games ported to PS3 have problems like Bayonetta and Skyrim? so if I had a PC or 360 I would then get them for those platforms instead

I see it more as "where does my entertainment play best?" situation rather than me being satisfied with the entertainment I have and just not buy more games for that particular system.


or it could just be that people are saving for Wonder Book!

Stop using your brain! You're ruining the thread!



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Adinnieken said:
Jay520 said:


Can you prove these statements? And I'd like facts please...no opinions, anecdotes, or testimony.

Funny, coming from the OP of this thread.


so you have no argument?

...didn't think so



Jay520 said:
drkohler said:

Did it ever occur to you that XBox had a one year headstart in NA and 15 months (2 holiday periods) in Europe? That is lots of games bought while zero PS3 games were bought. Your table simply shows that more XBoxes are out in the wild for a longer time than PS3s.

2.) Tie ratio in Japan: I have seen several estimates on how many of the early PS3 were bought for Blu-Ray only and the estimates varied from 30% to 70%. Still PS3 "sells more" than XBox because absolute numbers count, not some irrelevant "tie number".

3.) Also who cares about "tie rate?"

4.) Certainly not game manufacturers.

5.) If you believe the revenue numbers here, you'll see both consoles sell the same amount of sofware (actually PS3 is alittle ahead of XBox).

1.) For all the software sold during the 360's headstart, there was also hardware sold. So the tie-ratio should be even with the rest of the 360's years. Your argument is invalid.

2.) Anecdotes, no facts

3.) Caring is subjective.

4.) Unsupported assertion

5.) Wait for Manufacter's official numbers.

 

All I'm seeing is opinions and unsupported assertions. Can someone disprove my argument with logic and facts?

number 1 isn't invalid. 360 owners own their console much longer as ps3 owners on average and with that they had more time to play through plenty of games. if you think it makes no sense you also say someone who bought a ps3 last week has to have as many games as someone who bought a 360 in 2005.

2.  why do you want facts when you have no own facts except a ratio and make a full thread out of it? i mean, that's funny, you have no facts but people have to disprove them with facts, otherwise you just say "no facts"



crissindahouse said:

number 1 isn't invalid. 360 owners onw their console much longer as ps3 owners on average and with that they had more time to play through plenty of games. if you think it makes no sense you also say someone who bought a ps3 last week has to have as many games as someone who bought a 360 in 2005.

2.  why do you want facts when you have no own facts except a ratio and make a full thread out of it? i mean, that's funny, you have no facts but people have to disprove them with facts, otherwise you just say "no facts"


1. The 360 only sold ~20m units of software before the PS3 launched. That amount is too minscule to have an effect on tie-ratio in 2012.

2. Can you disprove me or no?

Just saying "you have no facts" doesn't make it true.

My theory stands



It's really simple... It's right before our eyes.. Where are the 360 fans on this site? They aint here.. Why? That's right they are playing a game they bought.. Where are the ps3 fans? That's right.. They are spending all their time here on this site posting how amazing the ps3 is instead of buying and playing a game on their favorite console.. Hench the difference..



 

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