Pokeslob said:
here's some variable that popped into my head when reviewing lifetime sales of 360 and ps3.
1. the 360 has a lead of less than 2mil according to the chart on the homepage.
2. 360 had an entire year to sell systems without the ps3 rivalary
3. when someone's 360 broke, and they went ahead and bought a new one without trying to repair the first one, that counts as a new sale.
that last point there, as someone who works in the gaming industry, I do notice a lot of people doing that, instead of trying to fix it they just go ahead an buy a new one.
with those variables in mind, would you say that the ps3 is actually more successful than 360, or not?
explain why, I'm interested :)
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1) True.
2) And in exchange, the PS3 had an entire year of R&D and improvements.
3) Yes, but:
a) There was a three year warranty on all systems, which does NOT count as a sale.
b) The PS3's failure rate is non-zero and I know this because my first PS3 broke and I did have to buy a new one.
So no, the PS3 has not sold better than the 360, though it has made up a huge amount of ground since its initial awful phase, and done a lot better than most people (myself included) expected. I thought it would stop at around 65 million. Many people were saying back in 2009 that it would struggle to hit 40 million.