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Forums - Sales Discussion - The PS3/Xbox 360 Holiday Sales Gap Thread! (Updated: January 11th) - ADJUSTMENTS! Last week is UP!, PS3 and X360 basically back to where the table began, PS3 1.5 million sold more then X360 in 2012

Gilgamesh on 09 November 2012

It's that time of the year people sales are going to exploded over the next couple months and those boring summer sales are now over! Many big games have yet to release (including Halo 4 numbers) and we may even see some record setting numbers this holiday. This thread is dedicated solely for the PS3 and Xbox 360 and how close the sales gap will get within the next two months. A lot can happen in the next 10 weeks, the PS3 could close the gap completely or the Xbox 360 could even double the gap. I'll be starting witht the sales ending November 3rd 2012 and finishing on the week ending January 5th 2013, that's 10 weeks.

Feel free to make a total prediciton of what the gap will be by the end of January 5th.

Week PS3 Week Xbox 360 Week Difference Lead Total PS3 Total Xbox 360 Gap
November 3 314,648 215,316 99,332(PS3) 99,332(PS3) 67,837,749 69,385,126 1,547,377
November 10 285,128 340,089 54,961(X360) 54,961(PS3) 68,122,877 69,725,215 1,602,338
November 17 349,086 400,235 51,149(X360) 6,778(X360) 68,471,963 70,125,450 1,653,487
November 24 758,573 972,703 214,130(X360) 220,908(X360) 69,230,536 71,098,153 1,867,617
December 1 462,594 385,072 77,522(PS3) 143,386(X360) 69,693,130 71,483,225 1,790,095
December 8 497,907 479,586 18,321(PS3) 125,065X360) 70,191,037 71,962,811 1,771,774
December 15 552,969 615,171 62,202(X360) 187,267(X360) 70,744,006 72,577,982 1,833,976
December 22 594,971 654,775 59,804(X360) 247,071(X360) 71,338,977 73,232,757 1,893,780
December 29 445,957 342,689 103,268(PS3) 143,803(X360) 71,784,934 73,575,446 1,790,512
January 5 300,661 169,602 131,059(PS3) 12,744(X360) 72,085,595 73,745,048 1,659,453

 

2012 Current Gap

Week PS3 Total Xbox 360 Total Gap

January 5

 11,277,199 9,806,002 1,471,197 (PS3)

 

I'll update the list weekly, if I can ever figure some of this out I'll create some graphs as well. Should be another interesting holiday guys!

I'll usually wait a day or two after Worldwide sales are released incase of adjustments, I'm expecting some big adjustments aswell from the NDP numbers so I may have to change what's there, unless they were already changed.



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sales2099 on 09 November 2012

My favorite 2 months of the year and my favourite thread every year! :D

Next week is Halo 4 bundles. Week after is Cod bundles. Then Black Friday?

Just gonna sit back with a smile on my face.



Xbox: Best hardware, Game Pass best value, best BC, more 1st party genres and multiplayer titles. 

 

Carl on 09 November 2012

Over the next 3 Weeks the gap will increase by over 500,000 units.

Halo - CoD - Black Friday

Yey for huge sales!



                            

babuks on 09 November 2012
sales2099 said:
My favorite 2 months of the year and my favourite thread every year! :D

Next week is Halo 4 bundles. Week after is Cod bundles. Then Black Friday?

Just gonna sit back with a smile on my face.


I know its hard for you to see PS3 leading every week of the year until these period comes :P



sales2099 on 09 November 2012
babuks said:
sales2099 said:
My favorite 2 months of the year and my favourite thread every year! :D

Next week is Halo 4 bundles. Week after is Cod bundles. Then Black Friday?

Just gonna sit back with a smile on my face.


I know its hard for you to see PS3 leading every week of the year until these period comes :P

Truly it is. But when in doubt I look at the Vgchartz homepage and see that glorious bar graph. And all becomes right in the world



Xbox: Best hardware, Game Pass best value, best BC, more 1st party genres and multiplayer titles. 

 

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Chark on 09 November 2012
sales2099 said:
My favorite 2 months of the year and my favourite thread every year! :D

Next week is Halo 4 bundles. Week after is Cod bundles. Then Black Friday?

Just gonna sit back with a smile on my face.


You know if that doesn't pan out you will need to invent a new word for the expression your face will have....Sandger...Frustrapointment...Hatempt...well, I'll help you come up with something in case it happens.



Before the PS3 everyone was nice to me :(

kitler53 on 09 November 2012

you should add wii U to the mix.



Gilgamesh on 09 November 2012
kowenicki said:
Nicely done. Will watch with interest. Although clearly there are some rather serious tracking issues right now.

Yeh NDP wasn't to kind to VG Chartz for October I'm expecting some big adjustments.



paulao on 09 November 2012

Let's see if PS3 doesn't win... Europe/Japan are Sonyland...



Pineapple on 09 November 2012

So, let's hear some predictions, then! That'll make it more interesting.

VGChartz' best predicters predicted an average of 581k in favour of the 360 in the 10 week countdown. Personally, I was a bit slimmer with a 355k advantage to the 360. Some predicted as high as 1580k in favour of the 360, while others went with the extreme opposite and said a million pro the Ps3.