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gebx on 03 March 2008

I don't think the 360 will outsell PS3 in NA till next week.

Supply started rolling in late last week and probably won't really take effect till this week sales are posted.



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MikeB on 03 March 2008
Lafiel said:
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but Ryu ga Gotoku Kenzan hasn't been released in the week ending 1st of march, so it won't have any effect on the sales data for that week

No, but but sales will rise the week after. Some Japanese may want to wait a week for a Yakuza bundle. Just wanted to address this with regard to the original post.

I think North American PS3 sales will stay high due to clarity on the now settled HD format war (there was a lot of FUD spreading with regard to this in the US media in the past). For Japan there never was a real format war as Blu-Ray already accounted for 99% of software and hardware sales, so this settlement has no real impact on Japanese sales.



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NeoRatt on 03 March 2008

I don't think 360 will go ahead in any way this week. It is in third for a while more right now.This time of the year doesn't matter much anyhow. What matters is what happens starting in September.



gebx on 03 March 2008
MikeB said:
Lafiel said:
@ MikeB )

but Ryu ga Gotoku Kenzan hasn't been released in the week ending 1st of march, so it won't have any effect on the sales data for that week

No, but but sales will rise the week after. Some Japanese may want to wait a week for a Yakuza bundle. Just wanted to address this with regard to the original post.

I think North American PS3 sales will stay high due to clarity on the now settled HD format war (there was a lot of FUD spreading with regard to this in the US media in the past). For Japan there never was a real format war as Blu-Ray already accounted for 99% of software and hardware sales, so this settlement has no real impact on Japanese sales.


I think the recent increase in PS3 sales in NA  has more to do with the 360 supply then Blu Ray.

Some will buy a PS3 because of the Blu Ray, but I believe more gamers are choosing the PS3 due to the 360 being in short supply.

Next week, I'm IOI's numbers in NA to show a 50% increase for the 360 and a 20% decrease for the PS3.

You can quote me on that, so let me clarify - This week, the week ending March 8th, which ioi will report next week, will show a 50% increase for the 360 and a 20% decrease for the PS3



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Reasonable on 03 March 2008

I think this week its gonna be close... too close to call if the early Japanese numbers are anything to go by.



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kingofwale on 03 March 2008
Reasonable said:
I think this week its gonna be close... too close to call if the early Japanese numbers are anything to go by.

 PS3 will at least double xbox's sale, I wouldn't call that exactly 'close'



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Original cast: Badonkadonkhr, sc94597 allaboutthegames885, kingofwale, Soriku, ctk495, skeezer, RDBRaptor, Mirson,

Episode 1: OOPSY!
selnor: Too Human I even expect 3-4 mill entire life and 500,000 first day. GoW2 ( expect 7 - 9 million entire life and over 2 mill first day), Fable 2 (expect 5-6 million entire life and 1.5 mill fist day) BK3 (expect 4 - 5 mill sales entire life and 1 mill first day).. Tales/IU/TLR should get to 2 or 3 million! post id: 868878
Episode 2:
Letsdance: FFXIII (PS3+360) first week in NA = 286K
According to pre-order rate in week 13 (post id: 2902544)
kingofwale on 03 March 2008

sorry for the double post. I'd say that PS3 will still outsell xbox360 even without japan. Let's just wait until some solid data first.



Soriku (Feb 10/08): In 5 years the PS3/360 will be dead.

KH3 bet: "If KH3 comes to Wii exclusive, I will take a 1 month of sig/avatar by otheres open a thread apologize and praise you guys' brilliance." http://vgchartz.com/forum/thread.php?start=50&id=18379
Original cast: Badonkadonkhr, sc94597 allaboutthegames885, kingofwale, Soriku, ctk495, skeezer, RDBRaptor, Mirson,

Episode 1: OOPSY!
selnor: Too Human I even expect 3-4 mill entire life and 500,000 first day. GoW2 ( expect 7 - 9 million entire life and over 2 mill first day), Fable 2 (expect 5-6 million entire life and 1.5 mill fist day) BK3 (expect 4 - 5 mill sales entire life and 1 mill first day).. Tales/IU/TLR should get to 2 or 3 million! post id: 868878
Episode 2:
Letsdance: FFXIII (PS3+360) first week in NA = 286K
According to pre-order rate in week 13 (post id: 2902544)
starcraft on 03 March 2008

It is close when the difference is 8k and the last Sony console beat the last MS console by 19million units:)



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kingofwale on 03 March 2008
starcraft said:
It is close when the difference is 8k and the last Sony console beat the last MS console by 19million units:)

 Did I just see you comparing weekly difference with LTD difference? lol



Soriku (Feb 10/08): In 5 years the PS3/360 will be dead.

KH3 bet: "If KH3 comes to Wii exclusive, I will take a 1 month of sig/avatar by otheres open a thread apologize and praise you guys' brilliance." http://vgchartz.com/forum/thread.php?start=50&id=18379
Original cast: Badonkadonkhr, sc94597 allaboutthegames885, kingofwale, Soriku, ctk495, skeezer, RDBRaptor, Mirson,

Episode 1: OOPSY!
selnor: Too Human I even expect 3-4 mill entire life and 500,000 first day. GoW2 ( expect 7 - 9 million entire life and over 2 mill first day), Fable 2 (expect 5-6 million entire life and 1.5 mill fist day) BK3 (expect 4 - 5 mill sales entire life and 1 mill first day).. Tales/IU/TLR should get to 2 or 3 million! post id: 868878
Episode 2:
Letsdance: FFXIII (PS3+360) first week in NA = 286K
According to pre-order rate in week 13 (post id: 2902544)
starcraft on 03 March 2008

No you didn't. I said that the sales volume between the 360 and PS3 in Japan is tiny to the point of insignificance THIS WEEK. I also said that this is extremely disgraceful for Sony given their previous console gave the Xbox an unmitigated hiding in the last console generation (and still is lol).



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