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sales2099 on 22 October 2012
S.T.A.G.E. said:
spurgeonryan said:
Because everyone thought microsoft could not hang with the big boys. ^ they were wrong. So now we habe three threads.


It wasn't rocket science how they did it. They had to cut into Sony's Marketshare (by becoming indistinguishable to them), then they cut into Nintendos( with the kinect). Smart plan, but as a developer they have yet to impress. Congrats to them because 70 million is definitely a milestone.

This continued mentality is astounding. As a gamer, all you should concern yourself with is that they get games for their console and deny it on the competition.

They may not make some, but the games are there regardless. Same end result.



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sales2099 on 22 October 2012
pezus said:
Lostplanet22 said:
Damnyouall said:
DigitalDevilSummoner said:

So, i was reading the comments of these articles recycling the 70m news and this is what came to me

Isn't the more important question how many active consoles of each company there are today ?

I mean the 360 was being manufactured for 3 whole years with a reported fail rate of over 50%, people's comments were about how many 360 consoles each of them had bought !

At the end of the day it's all about how many consoles are alive and kicking at this moment.

 


My point exactly. The first couple of revisions (pre-Jasper) had a 50-100% failure rate. The extended warranty did eventually end, and if your 360 died after that, you had to buy another one. I myself bought two Xbox 360s. However, this only increased the install base by one (because I don't buy two copies of the same game). I personally know several people who have purchased multiple 360s (some before the extended warranty, some ofther it ended). I bet that even in this thread right here there are several members who have bought more than one 360. Since the number of failed PS3s is without doubt smaller than that of 360, I am convinced that at this time the total install base of PS3 is ahead of 360. I'd wager any amount of money on this.

If that would have affected so much why is their still a big gap in software sales?  Or is that active installbase of PS3 not buying any of the so many awesome PS3 exclusives? 

NA buys the most software by far + one more year on the market and 16 months in PS3s biggest region.

1st year 360 software sales are nothing special.But you also imply that Europeans like PS3 but shy away from buying their games for some odd reason.



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thekitchensink on 22 October 2012

Totally deserves it--tied for my favourite console of all time.



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Jaywood2010 on 22 October 2012

This thread again......Conrats to Microsoft and Xbox 360 again. I'm sure everybody is arguing once again




       

drkohler on 22 October 2012
Zappykins said:


Thank you! I have often wondered about this.  I wondered if I need to adjust the numbers when looking at other consoles sales.

So is it safe to assume then, that Microsoft manufactured a million or more that 70 million for replacements?  Say probably a million or more for warranty replacements, and another batch for gifts. 

Your estimate of 1mio extra units is very generous. Roughly the first 12 mio manufactured X360s were "ready to break" revision 0 models. It is anyone's guess on how many they had to actually replace in the end. All we know  they had to charge an EXTRA $1.1bio for RROD costs. This extra cost was announced after they had depleted their "normal account for broken stuff" account. We don't kow how much that was, and how much shipping and labour costs were involved with each boken XBox. If we go by $400 RROD costs for every ultimately replaced bad XBox, a good estimate is around 3.5mio extra XBoxes which were produced but never counted, roughly 30% of all the first batch XBoxes.



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Farsala on 22 October 2012
ganoncrotch said:
Farsala said:
Damnyouall said:
DigitalDevilSummoner said:

So, i was reading the comments of these articles recycling the 70m news and this is what came to me

Isn't the more important question how many active consoles of each company there are today ?

I mean the 360 was being manufactured for 3 whole years with a reported fail rate of over 50%, people's comments were about how many 360 consoles each of them had bought !

At the end of the day it's all about how many consoles are alive and kicking at this moment.

 


My point exactly. The first couple of revisions (pre-Jasper) had a 50-100% failure rate. The extended warranty did eventually end, and if your 360 died after that, you had to buy another one. I myself bought two Xbox 360s. However, this only increased the install base by one (because I don't buy two copies of the same game). I personally know several people who have purchased multiple 360s (some before the extended warranty, some ofther it ended). I bet that even in this thread right here there are several members who have bought more than one 360. Since the number of failed PS3s is without doubt smaller than that of 360, I am convinced that at this time the total install base of PS3 is ahead of 360. I'd wager any amount of money on this.


True for me. My brother got a 360 and I got a 360 for 50$ (with 10 games and controller). Both were out of warranty when they both broke on the same day (not even RROD). So thats 4 360s for MS. I also had a PS3 that broke (not YLOD) but it was in warranty and I got a free one within 2 weeks. So thats 1 PS3 for Sony.


4 broken xbox's 1 broken ps3 without the aid of RRoD or YLoD.... what in the world are you doing to the things?


Its 2 broken Xbox's. All 3 of the problems had to do with disc reading errors. Never have had a broken system until this generation. All 3 of the problems can be found on youtube so its still a little widespread. Just not as much as RROD and YLOD.



Ganoncrotch on 22 October 2012
Farsala said:
ganoncrotch said:
Farsala said:
Damnyouall said:
DigitalDevilSummoner said:

So, i was reading the comments of these articles recycling the 70m news and this is what came to me

Isn't the more important question how many active consoles of each company there are today ?

I mean the 360 was being manufactured for 3 whole years with a reported fail rate of over 50%, people's comments were about how many 360 consoles each of them had bought !

At the end of the day it's all about how many consoles are alive and kicking at this moment.

 


My point exactly. The first couple of revisions (pre-Jasper) had a 50-100% failure rate. The extended warranty did eventually end, and if your 360 died after that, you had to buy another one. I myself bought two Xbox 360s. However, this only increased the install base by one (because I don't buy two copies of the same game). I personally know several people who have purchased multiple 360s (some before the extended warranty, some ofther it ended). I bet that even in this thread right here there are several members who have bought more than one 360. Since the number of failed PS3s is without doubt smaller than that of 360, I am convinced that at this time the total install base of PS3 is ahead of 360. I'd wager any amount of money on this.


True for me. My brother got a 360 and I got a 360 for 50$ (with 10 games and controller). Both were out of warranty when they both broke on the same day (not even RROD). So thats 4 360s for MS. I also had a PS3 that broke (not YLOD) but it was in warranty and I got a free one within 2 weeks. So thats 1 PS3 for Sony.


4 broken xbox's 1 broken ps3 without the aid of RRoD or YLoD.... what in the world are you doing to the things?


Its 2 broken Xbox's. All 3 of the problems had to do with disc reading errors. Never have had a broken system until this generation. All 3 of the problems can be found on youtube so its still a little widespread. Just not as much as RROD and YLOD.


oh yeah I know of the disk read errors well with xbox's heard the most common cause of those is using the system vertically rather than horizontally, not had it myself but my system has been flat on its side since day one, slightly harder to sit a wii on top of it if it's vertical :D



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Farsala on 22 October 2012
ganoncrotch said:
Farsala said:
ganoncrotch said:
Farsala said:
Damnyouall said:
DigitalDevilSummoner said:

So, i was reading the comments of these articles recycling the 70m news and this is what came to me

Isn't the more important question how many active consoles of each company there are today ?

I mean the 360 was being manufactured for 3 whole years with a reported fail rate of over 50%, people's comments were about how many 360 consoles each of them had bought !

At the end of the day it's all about how many consoles are alive and kicking at this moment.

 


My point exactly. The first couple of revisions (pre-Jasper) had a 50-100% failure rate. The extended warranty did eventually end, and if your 360 died after that, you had to buy another one. I myself bought two Xbox 360s. However, this only increased the install base by one (because I don't buy two copies of the same game). I personally know several people who have purchased multiple 360s (some before the extended warranty, some ofther it ended). I bet that even in this thread right here there are several members who have bought more than one 360. Since the number of failed PS3s is without doubt smaller than that of 360, I am convinced that at this time the total install base of PS3 is ahead of 360. I'd wager any amount of money on this.


True for me. My brother got a 360 and I got a 360 for 50$ (with 10 games and controller). Both were out of warranty when they both broke on the same day (not even RROD). So thats 4 360s for MS. I also had a PS3 that broke (not YLOD) but it was in warranty and I got a free one within 2 weeks. So thats 1 PS3 for Sony.


4 broken xbox's 1 broken ps3 without the aid of RRoD or YLoD.... what in the world are you doing to the things?


Its 2 broken Xbox's. All 3 of the problems had to do with disc reading errors. Never have had a broken system until this generation. All 3 of the problems can be found on youtube so its still a little widespread. Just not as much as RROD and YLOD.


oh yeah I know of the disk read errors well with xbox's heard the most common cause of those is using the system vertically rather than horizontally, not had it myself but my system has been flat on its side since day one, slightly harder to sit a wii on top of it if it's vertical :D


Lol that does not sound good either, put a phat PS3 on an xbox see what happens :O. Its been a combo of vertical and horizontal for me, so who knows.



Ganoncrotch on 23 October 2012
Farsala said:
ganoncrotch said:
Farsala said:
ganoncrotch said:
Farsala said:
Damnyouall said:
DigitalDevilSummoner said:

So, i was reading the comments of these articles recycling the 70m news and this is what came to me

Isn't the more important question how many active consoles of each company there are today ?

I mean the 360 was being manufactured for 3 whole years with a reported fail rate of over 50%, people's comments were about how many 360 consoles each of them had bought !

At the end of the day it's all about how many consoles are alive and kicking at this moment.

 


My point exactly. The first couple of revisions (pre-Jasper) had a 50-100% failure rate. The extended warranty did eventually end, and if your 360 died after that, you had to buy another one. I myself bought two Xbox 360s. However, this only increased the install base by one (because I don't buy two copies of the same game). I personally know several people who have purchased multiple 360s (some before the extended warranty, some ofther it ended). I bet that even in this thread right here there are several members who have bought more than one 360. Since the number of failed PS3s is without doubt smaller than that of 360, I am convinced that at this time the total install base of PS3 is ahead of 360. I'd wager any amount of money on this.


True for me. My brother got a 360 and I got a 360 for 50$ (with 10 games and controller). Both were out of warranty when they both broke on the same day (not even RROD). So thats 4 360s for MS. I also had a PS3 that broke (not YLOD) but it was in warranty and I got a free one within 2 weeks. So thats 1 PS3 for Sony.


4 broken xbox's 1 broken ps3 without the aid of RRoD or YLoD.... what in the world are you doing to the things?


Its 2 broken Xbox's. All 3 of the problems had to do with disc reading errors. Never have had a broken system until this generation. All 3 of the problems can be found on youtube so its still a little widespread. Just not as much as RROD and YLOD.


oh yeah I know of the disk read errors well with xbox's heard the most common cause of those is using the system vertically rather than horizontally, not had it myself but my system has been flat on its side since day one, slightly harder to sit a wii on top of it if it's vertical :D


Lol that does not sound good either, put a phat PS3 on an xbox see what happens :O. Its been a combo of vertical and horizontal for me, so who knows.

atm in my sitting room there is my wifes Elite xbox, my original white 360 and my ps3 slim all stacked on each other.... they've not killed each other yet, we got 2 seperate xbox's just to be able to chill and play different games at the same time. Still tho... waiting for the day my original xbox finally dies so I can upgrade to a slim altho I wonder if mine has gotten so old now it's forgotten how to rrod... hopefully!



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tonymarraffa on 23 October 2012

Isn't this like the 500th thread on this lol.