People buy what they want, not what is cheapest/what they can afford. And it's Brand.

My Prediction is that 360 will catch PS3 (not until next week mind you as it'll only have 2 days of sales) but won't beat the PS3. Mainland Europe just don't want it, accept that M$. But it won't even be close to the Wii.

@ahcheng,

you will eat tone of crow later, but u know it, dont you ?

You lost me on that one.  Are you saying the 360 will catch up to, but not surpass (beat) the PS3 in sales?  Is this just for the next few weeks, or over time?

I know the 360 is very popular in the UK, but apparently is less popular in other places in Europe.  From your perspective as a citizen of Belgium, would you say that RROD or brand are bigger issues for people in your country vs the UK?

Also, considering the new 360 (Jasper motherboard) has a process-reduced GPU (much less power-used and heat produced), and that RROD will likely be much reduced or removed entirely, do you feel that people in Belgium will consider the 360 due to the lower price?

Same as the last?

DMeisterJ killed the thread ....

i bought one (living in the netherlands)
to complete my collection (i already have a wii and ps3)
both pgr4 and dead rising are very good games.

on topic.

i guess 120.000 first week after the drop

Apologies, yes, it will catch but not surpass. And yeah for a few weeks, spiking during big game and christmas.

@Crumas2

Most people I know who own a 360 own Guitar Hero in it. Heck even on bought it for it only. don't think they realised it was on PS2 and £100 cheaper at the time. :P

But you are right, it is more popular, here. And it's the only place it has any power. Wii still rules though. Best time to tell for europe is FIFA09 and PES09 time early next month for sales.

I would say 150000 first week, 80000 average.

Seems alot of people think it will do better than what I predicted. I believe although the 360 is a bigger name than PS3 in UK, as many others mentioned the rest of Europe seem to have more in line for PS3.

If there are no more RRoD moments through this christmas period who knows how the 360 will perform in others next year. Some here are predicting over 100,000 units in others, I personally think first week will be 90,000 max but I could be wrong.

I think it will average out at around 65,000 - 70,000. Still thats about a 20k jump for M$ and helps there WW figures. Considering that the 360 will go from strength to strength in America and seems like it is doing ok in Japan I think it could win every week WW against PS3 right up to Christmas. Should be interesting.