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polezo on 05 December 2008
TheSource said:

The quote was PAL which is defined differently by Sony from what Microsoft was saying earlier as "EMEA".

Sony, as a Japanese company includes pretty much everything outside the Americas and Japan in PAL, but EMEA refers to Europe, Middle East, and Africa.

Our definitions are a bit different:

Americas - Canada to Argentina

Japan - Japan

Others - Everything else

 

All this posturing seems a bit irrelevant anyway. PS3 is going to destroy 360 in Europe long term (i.e. if Sony can drop price sometime in the next six months). Its taken three years of games, two skus under the price of Wii (and 1/3 the price of PS3 i believe) for Microsoft to sell significantly more 360s than PS3s in Europe on a weekly basis.

I agree; if a price cut hits the PS3 soon it will easily retake weekly sales in EU.  Even if it doesn't the PS3 has a couple of lifesavers that will likely give it the edge in the long term in Europe.  One is the Blu-ray's momentum and the percieved extra value from that and other features; and in lieu of that though theres always the full version of GT5... European's love that shite.  Also, isnt the PS3 actually tracking ahead of the PS2 from launch in others?

All that said--the PS3 is doooooooooooooooomed.

 



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jingho on 05 December 2008

Ofcoz VGC is right coz it works for itself
Sony will only talk for themselves and lie in order to make PS3 fanboys happy or make them look good
You think they'll admit that 360 outsells them in Europe? ofcoz not



polezo on 05 December 2008
Words Of Wisdom said:
TheSource said:

All this posturing seems a bit irrelevant anyway. PS3 is going to destroy 360 in Europe long term (i.e. if Sony can drop price sometime in the next six months). Its taken three years of games, two skus under the price of Wii (and 1/3 the price of PS3 i believe) for Microsoft to sell significantly more 360s than PS3s in Europe on a weekly basis.

It really doesn't matter what Microsoft has done to get its position in the market.  Adding that information in is an unnecessary qualifier.  The video game industry has a tendency to snowball (sales create sales).  Right now Microsoft just needs to get its system into the hands of as many people as possible and it doesn't matter what Microsoft is doing to get there.

As long as the 360 can retain a high value proposition, the PS3 won't be destroying anything.  As time goes by and more games come to the 360 that gets much easier.

I agree and disagree with you here; while the sheer saturation of 360's in the EU certainly can't hurt, video game sales have significantly less of a snowballing effect in Europe than they do in the U.S.  In the U.S. your average 360 owner has 10 games, while in Europe that number is around 3.  It seems that Europeans tend to buy their systems for one game, like a Fifa, Winning 11, or GTAiv.  As a consequence, they spend less time on their consoles in general, and proclivity of games the saturation loses some of their effects in creating momentum.

 



gebx on 05 December 2008
TheSource said:

The quote was PAL which is defined differently by Sony from what Microsoft was saying earlier as "EMEA".

Sony, as a Japanese company includes pretty much everything outside the Americas and Japan in PAL, but EMEA refers to Europe, Middle East, and Africa.

Our definitions are a bit different:

Americas - Canada to Argentina

Japan - Japan

Others - Everything else

 

All this posturing seems a bit irrelevant anyway. PS3 is going to destroy 360 in Europe long term (i.e. if Sony can drop price sometime in the next six months). Its taken three years of games, two skus under the price of Wii (and 1/3 the price of PS3 i believe) for Microsoft to sell significantly more 360s than PS3s in Europe on a weekly basis.

 

 



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chenguo4 on 05 December 2008

Oh gebx. That's epic.




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gettinthatmoney on 05 December 2008

VGC is known for being wrong in their numbers all across the web, its Guestamation , reminds me of back when i was in elementary school and you would guess how many gumballs were in a jar. Yep modern guessing, Guess how many consoles sold this week



pbroy on 05 December 2008







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