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RAZurrection on 14 May 2008
DOATS1 said:
RAZurrection said:
Wow. A 6.5 million difference between 360 and PS3 between US and Canada. Thats a massive, more like grand canyon then silicon valley.

At a rate of 200K per month lead (startign this month), the PS3 will catch up around November 2010...lol. What possessed Sony to want to lose the console war in the biggest console market on the planet?

wow, if i didn't know any better, i'd say you were don mattrick himself. using totally irrelvant information to claw some kind of damage control together.


In the US, the console war is over. To not acknowledge that is just trying to ignore a problem thats never going to go away.



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PooperScooper on 14 May 2008
RAZurrection said:
Username2324 said:
RAZurrection said:
Wow. A 6.5 million difference between 360 and PS3 between US and Canada. Thats a massive, more like grand canyon then silicon valley.

At a rate of 200K per month lead (startign this month), the PS3 will catch up around November 2010...lol. What possessed Sony to want to lose the console war in the biggest console market on the planet?
Yet another faulty prediction that does not consider holidays, new releases, or price drops.

 


 It also doesn't consider the fact the PS3 has never, ever sold 200K more than the 360 in the US in any given month.

 Hell it took them 3 months and a 360 shortage just to outsell it by 50K, i'm being more than generous here.


http://vgchartz.com/hwcomps.php?cons1=PockSt&reg1=All&cons2=PS3&reg2=All&cons3=X360&reg3=All&start=39446&end=39579

If 360 was short so was Ps3. Those lines are very similiar and 360 was selling around the same amount then as it was now.



DOATS1 on 14 May 2008
RAZurrection said:
DOATS1 said:
RAZurrection said:
Wow. A 6.5 million difference between 360 and PS3 between US and Canada. Thats a massive, more like grand canyon then silicon valley.

At a rate of 200K per month lead (startign this month), the PS3 will catch up around November 2010...lol. What possessed Sony to want to lose the console war in the biggest console market on the planet?

wow, if i didn't know any better, i'd say you were don mattrick himself. using totally irrelvant information to claw some kind of damage control together.


In the US, the console war is over. To not acknowledge that is just trying to ignore a problem thats never going to go away.


i fully agree with you. want to tell me who has won that war? without a damage control follow up?




Kenology on 14 May 2008
FishyJoe said:
History has shown us that press releases right before NPD can only mean bad news ahead.

 That's what I was thinking.



SWA_JM_Obi-Wan on 14 May 2008

@Raz
Honestly a year ago the 360 was Riding high, and the PS3...Well i know allot of people were predicting it's death. one year later look where we are. Is itthat hartd to believe that a year from now the PS3 could be out selling the 360 by 3 or eveen 400k a month? The PS3 has done what they have done to date with virtually none of their big hitter games and a high price point. variables change in the marketplace all the time. Sony has never been known to front load a generation with games. They build their sales up gradually and release big games throughout a generation and therefore sustain sales over a long period of time. If you are counting on things staying as the status quoe you will be dissapointed that is for sure.



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tombi123 on 14 May 2008

This confirms NPD data will be Wii>PS3>360 again.

LOL at RAZurrection



bluesinG on 14 May 2008
blykmik said:
LordTheNightKnight said:
Okay, we know they spin the numbers, but you just spun the numbers at the end. Two spins don't make a truth.

Microsoft may not be in the dominant position, but they are doing better than they would have been.

 How did I spin numbers?

 

 I just used the vgchartz America console totals.  MS has 70% - 30% advantage of the consoles in the US, and they're touting the fact that they are selling 60% over 40% of GTAIV sales.

Isn't that just fact?  Correct me where I'm wrong.


"Spinning" doesn't mean lying, it means introducing a frame of reference that suggests a particularly positive or negative interpretation of a set of facts. You spun the GTA numbers by introducing a frame of reference (LTD installed base) that makes them look bad for Microsoft. Here's a different--and equally valid--frame of reference that makes the GTA numbers look VERY good for Microsoft:

Last generation, 91% of all GTA sales were for the PS2 (42.86 million), and only 9% of GTA sales were for the XBox (4.15 million). So far this generation, 57% of sales for GTA IV have been for the XBox360 (4.37 million), and only 43% have been for the PS3 (3.29 million). Microsoft's current-generation GTA marketshare is 633% of its last-generation GTA marketshare.

See what I did there? I didn't lie, I spun.



DMeisterJ on 14 May 2008

So 360 sold 1.7 mil in Canada? I thought it was only 10% of sales...



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PS360ForTheWin on 14 May 2008

oh dear, its a shame when PR like this gets out, all it does is make MS look like idiots, yes the 360 may well have hit 10m in the US first but it had a years head start and is almost caught by the Wii and losing sales to the PS3, i love my 360 but this is just stupid PR, also the US is only one country, what matters most is WW sales.