ROFL

 At the track, that would be prefaced with "And falling further back..."

That's why the numbers need to be taken in context.

Last year, the 360 had a decent year, and the PS3 a terrible one, but Sony turned it around in the last quarter, and was heading in the rightdirection.

This year, the trend has reversed itself. The 360 had dramtically increased its sales, while the PS3 is slumping. The momentum is goingin the "wrong" direction.

@skeeuk

You were not "just making a point" about anything. I bolded the sentence where you clearly make a supposition. Even if that sentence wasn't in there, you say it is "admirable" how the PS3 is selling. This is also clearly a value judgment and an indicator where you stand.

Your response to my second point isn't even clear (maybe blazinhead89 can help out since he apparently agrees). "In a general sence [sic]" tells me nothing about why the 360 is selling more this holiday season. There is obviously a mindset that the value per dollar for the 360 is better than the PS3. There are a million things people could spend 200-400$ dollars on this holiday season, but many of them are choosing to buy a 360. It has nothing to with a price that you can interchange and claim that the PS3 would sell well at also. Of course it would, because it would have more vaue per dollar because its parts cost more to manufacture and provide newer technologies (bluray). Similarly, the 360 and Wii would obviously sell less at 400 dollars because they do not include the more expensive parts or newer technologies. This is why I say you are damage controlling. You act as if each console sells just based on its proce tag, regardless of product, and then deem the 360 atractive only for its superficial price tag and fail to look at value per dollar. It is value per dollar, which is different for each console.

The 360 was selling less before the price cut because its hardware and offering was not valued at 300$ or whatever it was at. Compare what you get for 300 dolars in an Xbox hardware wise to 400$ for a PS3 and people chose the PS3. At 200$ the value per dollar rises and the PS3's value per dollar goes below the 360. Do you think if the PS3 included a free TV for 400$ it wouln't sell? Of course it would, not because of some superficial price (because the price would stay the same ) but because of the consumer realizing the value per dollar was better than the 360.

So stop claiming, as you did, that people buy based on price. They buy based on what they think they are getting out of the product.

Really? lol

Biggest increase Year over Year = Xbox360!
+93%

Good job Microsoft!

Yep, we are in a "Stage 3a Drought", in Victoria at least, not sure about the other states, I wasn't joking :)

It's pretty clear from this thread that a lot of people don't want to take the time of year into account when looking at the sales numbers. The sales numbers for the PS3 are terrible for this time of the year, although they'd be considered very good during July.

@tabsina N.S.W has been in a drought for years aswell. Thats what we get for living in a country thats mostly desert...

thanks for clarifying, figured as much