starcraft said: ioi said: Reasons why this is the case - blu ray and general market acceptance / good price point is helping PS3 sales, 360 sales have been low due to lack of Elites / Premiums and will likely remain a little low as many are waiting for a price drop which is just around the corner. Pooper, were you reading that?

By remain he means since this monday and on, not last week. The PS3 is selling equally as well in NA. Just face it. 360 has no advantage in any region any more

 

DMeisterJ said: I thought by march, this was all supposed to be sorted out. I for one still haven't seen the shortages.

There were no 360 shortages here in Madison either -- you could find 360s at most big chain retailers (and there are a lot in this little town). The 360 just isn't going to keep up with the PS3. Microsoft is trying to save face, but if they really wanted to save face they'd work on the quality of their product.

I don't doubt that there were some shortages, but it just seemed like there was no big rush to go and get 360s after the 'shortages' ended. 

@ ioi

First let's wait and see if the figures are close or not. If the differences are huge and IMO for January it was pretty big for most platforms (and for the UK before PS3 adjustment as well) of course you can expect some criticism, and not only from your supporting website members who are often only trying to help.

Let's face it people come here to compare sales and if one platform is said to considerably outsell another, while according to a more resourceful source it's the other way around it's impossible to stop the discussions.

Anyway Microsoft's comments are interesting, we will get NPD's figures later this day.

PS3 will be leading the NA region over the XBox 360 by the end of December. All regions PS3 will be in front of XBox 360. PS3 will get to 24 million install base compared to the XBox 360 total install base of 21 million.

thats by the end of 2008

ioi said: For interest, my best predictions US NPD this month (if I was asked to predict what how I think NPD will look based on VGChartz data): Wii 477k DS 451k PS3 299k X360 296k PS2 254k PSP 236k

Based on this for North America? Is South and Middle America included in the data below? Do you get data from such countries?

 

 

On a weekly and cumulative basis, Vgchartz hardware sales showed the following:

Hardware	1-Mar	23-Feb	16-Feb	9-Feb	Total
DS	152,759	111,174	166,899	153,321	584,153
Wii	218,189	78,975	47,702	216,466	561,332
Xbox 360	102,622	87,569	79,204	86,526	355,921
PS3	89,585	94,106	80,214	74,588	338,493
PS2	80,039	64,932	63,277	65,685	273,933
PSP	76,447	66,770	62,493	59,765	265,475

Thank you ioi

No 360 shortages. You heard it from the boss.

[And anyone else who has been to a best buy or circuit city in the last month]

PS3 is simply catching up to 360 in America, and the blu-ray factor is hard to ignore.

I'm only happy because I will probably win my ban bet with TBFJ [look at my sig]

I_own_a_PS3 said: PS3 will be leading the NA region over the XBox 360 by the end of December. All regions PS3 will be in front of XBox 360. PS3 will get to 24 million install base compared to the XBox 360 total install base of 21 million. thats by the end of 2008

Whats funny is that is kinda believeable. Lol. It wont be leading in NA, but I think 24,000,000 WW is actually reachable lol. Depending on titles and pricing that is.

 

Not the 21,000,000 though. The 360 will be between 23-27 

 

MikeB said: ioi said: For interest, my best predictions US NPD this month (if I was asked to predict what how I think NPD will look based on VGChartz data): Wii 477k DS 451k PS3 299k X360 296k PS2 254k PSP 236k Based on this for North America? Is South and Middle America included in the data below? Do you get data from such countries?     On a weekly and cumulative basis, Vgchartz hardware sales showed the following: Hardware 1-Mar 23-Feb 16-Feb 9-Feb Total DS 152,759 111,174 166,899 153,321 584,153 Wii 218,189 78,975 47,702 216,466 561,332 Xbox 360 102,622 87,569 79,204 86,526 355,921 PS3 89,585 94,106 80,214 74,588 338,493 PS2 80,039 64,932 63,277 65,685 273,933 PSP 76,447 66,770 62,493 59,765 265,475

you never stop asking questions do you..

do you perhaps, not have anything better to do? 

Threads like this always boil down to ridiculous fanboy rants about everything and anything. Can anyone on this entire site ever be civil?