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leo-j on 31 December 2008
theRepublic said:

Does this look like console of the year to you?

The holidays are the most important time of the year.  The Wii is up 80% year over year for the holidays.  The 360 is up 47%.  The PS3 is down 15%.

If you want to claim that as some sort of victory, go right ahead.  You would have to be delusional though.

Why dont you compare the entire year?

 



 

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theRepublic on 31 December 2008
leo-j said:
theRepublic said:

Does this look like console of the year to you?

The holidays are the most important time of the year.  The Wii is up 80% year over year for the holidays.  The 360 is up 47%.  The PS3 is down 15%.

If you want to claim that as some sort of victory, go right ahead.  You would have to be delusional though.

Why dont you compare the entire year?

 

 

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


Console PS3 X360
Total
7,618,421
7,929,882

VGChartz Hardware data for the period 05th Jan 2008 to 20th Dec 2008:


Console PS3 X360
Total
9,968,790
10,622,325


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blazinhead89 on 31 December 2008
theRepublic said:

Does this look like console of the year to you?

The holidays are the most important time of the year.  The Wii is up 80% year over year for the holidays.  The 360 is up 47%.  The PS3 is down 15%.

If you want to claim that as some sort of victory, go right ahead.  You would have to be delusional though.


Sigh, Last year PS3 came off the back of a price cut, the Economy was good, This year 360 off the back of price cut and economy gone down the shitter. for a 400$ Console to sell Half a Million in one week is some sort of victory no? I Know this is cliché, but if the PS3 was 299 it would easily have outsold 360 this year (And by a much larger margin than PS3 outsold 360 from Jan-Aug 08)

leo-j on 31 December 2008

@The republic

Selling 2 million+ more consoles than last year and counting since we still have 2 weeks of data to get in, isnt a failure.

Also if your a gamer PS3 is the console of the year, if your a sales analyst then its not.



 

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nightsurge on 31 December 2008
forevercloud3000 said:
nightsurge said:

I'm sorry, but you are a fanboy.  And the criteria never changed.  The 360 had more hardware sales in 07.  The 360 had more hardware sales in 08.  You are the one trying to change the criteria or see things differently.  You are desperately trying to hold on to some positive fact about your only console.  A fanboy.  Also, you keep saying the PS3 library was better in 08.  That is a major opinion, and even if it were true, the amount of total quality AAA games on the PS3 is still well behind the 360.

@blazinhead89
The $600 model was cut to $500.  Then that same model at $500 was dropped to $400 and changed slightly.  The smaller previous $400 model was discontinued.  Thus the $600 console dropped to $400 in a place of a years time.

 

The "360 is System of the Year!" articles started just after the 360 price cut. We did not even have the time to see whether the 360 was going to truly outsell the PS3 this year. I believe the price dropped around October(?) and the sales went above PS3's like a week afterwards. The Articles in question started surfacing in the nxt two weeks!!!! All the "PS3 is dying!" "PS3 fails!" "360 now outselling PS3!" started coming in by the bucket load. Need proof of that? just visit N4G.com, where I get all my gaming news from. The site is SWAMPED with all these articles dated back to that initial time period. So how could that claim be justified only a week or so after the 360 surge? Explain that to me please!

And I am not a fanboy, but indeed a fan of PS3! I just wish the PS3 could get the same level of respect from the media that is handed to the 360. 360 has gotten the golden ticket this gen and gets away with EVERYTHING, things that would have been plastered on Sony's forehead if they had done it. PS3 never gets recognition for what they do right by anyone but the fans, and it is stomped into the ground when they do something wrong by the media.

The 360 cut it's price in September.  Also, feel free to link me to said "2008 Year of the 360" articles.  Which claim are you asking to be justified?  The "PS3 is doomed" stuff or the supposed "2008 Year of the 360" stuff?

And forevercloud, you may think you are just a fan, but when a fan gets very upset over such things, and does not see thigns through, and goes through great lengths to try and create a false image with false hopes, you become a fanboy.  I'm sorry to tell you that.  You can still change, though.

 



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Batman...WTF? on 31 December 2008

I declare that 2008 is the year of the Dark Knight. Woot.
That and the PS3 failed at outselling the Wii, and is still behind the 360.



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nightsurge on 31 December 2008
leo-j said:
@The republic

Selling 2 million+ more consoles than last year and counting since we still have 2 weeks of data to get in, isnt a failure.

Also if your a gamer PS3 is the console of the year, if your a sales analyst then its not.

That's odd.  I'm a gamer and the 360 is still the console of the year for me.  Like someone said ages ago in this thread, we determine our own system of the year based on the games and enjoyment.  Going by sales, though, the 360 was the console of the year.



Chris Hu on 31 December 2008
Batman...WTF? said:
I declare that 2008 is the year of the Dark Knight. Woot.
That and the PS3 failed at outselling the Wii, and is still behind the 360.

2008 really was the year of the Dark Knight.

 



theRepublic on 31 December 2008
blazinhead89 said:
theRepublic said:

Does this look like console of the year to you?

The holidays are the most important time of the year.  The Wii is up 80% year over year for the holidays.  The 360 is up 47%.  The PS3 is down 15%.

If you want to claim that as some sort of victory, go right ahead.  You would have to be delusional though.

 

Sigh, Last year PS3 came off the back of a price cut, the Economy was good, This year 360 off the back of price cut and economy gone down the shitter. for a 400$ Console to sell Half a Million in one week is some sort of victory no? I Know this is cliché, but if the PS3 was 299 it would easily have outsold 360 this year (And by a much larger margin than PS3 outsold 360 from Jan-Aug 08)

Hypothetical situations don't mean anything.  What matters is what actually happened.  The PS3 is $400, not $300.

As for the economy, it didn't seem to affect Nintendo's or Microsoft's sales much.  That's Sony's problem.

A console of the year shouldn't have these kinds of problems during the holiday.  It shouldn't be outperformed by both competitors.



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the2bears on 31 December 2008
forevercloud3000 said:

 

....in 07 The PS3 started outselling the 360 right before Christmas time then(Just like the 360 is now). PS3 didn't have the same game collection though, the 360's overpowered it with stuff like Mass Effect,Halo 3, etc. 2007was still hailed as The Year of the 360, even though it was being out sold by the PS3.

Why is it now that the tables have turned, this year doesn't belong to it, matter of fact everyone is trying to say the PS3 is going to fail now! How backwards is that? Complete media bias for the American company is most apparent here!

This year is still the YEAR of the PS3!

And Next year will be too!

Discuss!

Just what exactly are you trying to win here?  Was does "winning" even mean.  It's not like buying a PS3 makes you part of "Team Sony", or buying a 360 makes you part of Chez MS.

 



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