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JaggedSac on 03 September 2008
Paul_Warren said:


"Oh how the so called mighty have fallen"


Yeah, it really has. Selling 40,000 less consoles in Europe last week than the PS3. Being beaten in America, the country where it does its best, by the PS3 this year. Failing to be able to release any exclusive games with 9+ review scores for almost a year when it had so many games scheduled for release -- quantity doesn't count when the quality is just not there -- second rate NG, second rate Tales HD, dismal failures with Too Human, Fable 2 (it's possible), and Infinite Undiscovery. The 360's on the way out and with the 360 barely being able to crack 100,000 in worldwide sales the last few weeks is proof of that.

 

Are you saying Fable 2 will be a dismal failure? LOL.



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forevercloud3000 on 03 September 2008

Where did you get this graph? I think It might be flawed seeing as the PS3 started outselling the 360 at the beginning of the Christmas Season, yeet that graph shows the drop did not start till after it. That cant be right?@!?

Also the PS3 has accumilated at least a 1million lead over that time period so the graph should AT LEAST cave decreased a whole million in gap.



      

      

      

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libellule on 03 September 2008

@forevercloud3000,

to my eyes (looking at VGC numbers) :

PS3 has outsold Xbox360 since about (end November07) / (start december 07) that is coherent with the graph.

PS3 reduced the gap by about 1.5M that is also coherent.



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JaggedSac on 03 September 2008
forevercloud3000 said:
Where did you get this graph? I think It might be flawed seeing as the PS3 started outselling the 360 at the beginning of the Christmas Season, yeet that graph shows the drop did not start till after it. That cant be right?@!?

Also the PS3 has accumilated at least a 1million lead over that time period so the graph should AT LEAST cave decreased a whole million in gap.

 

VGChartz Hardware data for the period 06th Oct 2007 to 29th Dec 2007:


Console PS3 X360
Total
3,931,306
3,981,768

Formatted for easy copy & paste into spreadsheets and other websites!



Necromunda on 03 September 2008

Dont forget the holiday season is coming up fast which accounts for a large percentage of console sales for the year. If the new upcoming 360 price cut does not have a large impact in the US expect to see the line become steeper and decrease even more thus closing a large part of the gap by the end of this fiscal year.



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Retrasado on 03 September 2008
JaggedSac said:
forevercloud3000 said:
Where did you get this graph? I think It might be flawed seeing as the PS3 started outselling the 360 at the beginning of the Christmas Season, yeet that graph shows the drop did not start till after it. That cant be right?@!?

Also the PS3 has accumilated at least a 1million lead over that time period so the graph should AT LEAST cave decreased a whole million in gap.

 

VGChartz Hardware data for the period 06th Oct 2007 to 29th Dec 2007:


Console PS3 X360
Total
3,931,306
3,981,768

Formatted for easy copy & paste into spreadsheets and other websites!

lol. still, if you count from the beginning of November (the traditional beginning of the VG holiday season) instead of October (post-Halo syndrome), the PS3 did out sell the 360 by a slight amount; but not enough to make the graph inaccurate. That didn't start until the middle of December.

 



Not trying to be a fanboy. Of course, it's hard when you own the best console eve... dang it

Paul_Warren on 03 September 2008

"Are you saying Fable 2 will be a dismal failure? LOL."

I might have used a bit of hyperbole. I don't expect it to get a Metacritic score as low as those of Infinite Undiscovery or Too Human. On the other hand, I don't expect it to receive a much higher review score from IGN than Ninja Gaiden II did either.



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forevercloud3000 on 03 September 2008

you know, you guys are right. My eyes made it seem as if the down spike did not start till December. Forgive my dislexic(SP?) eyes.



      

      

      

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Commando on 03 September 2008

cool.



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makingmusic476 on 04 September 2008

It's called Christmas.

I posted this in another thread:

...the ps3 could shave over a million off of the 360's lead this November and December alone, assuming the ps3 maintains a similar lead over the 360 percentage-wise throughout the holiday season. Sales will increase dramatically for both consoles over the holidays, as will the gap between them.

Last year the 360 sold 3.4 million over the holidays (November + December), and this year it's been selling much better on average than it was last year (though I suppose the increase may have started along with the price drop and release of Halo 3 last August/September, thus it will matter little from this point onwards), and the ps3 has been outselling the 360 on average ~34% for most of the year. Assuming the 360 ONLY sells 3.5 million or so between November and December, and assuming the ps3 outsells it by ONLY 25%, the ps3 would catch up to the 360 by 875k units. If the 34% trend holds true (and this and last week implies that the trend is only increasing - for now, at least), then the ps3 could outsell the 360 by 1.20 million. In only two months!