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theRepublic 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.

Who said anything about failure?

I just said it is not console of the year.

Edit:  I am a gamer.  My console of the year is the Wii.  I think it has the best games, but "best" is subjective.



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nightsurge on 31 December 2008
theRepublic said:
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.

Who said anything about failure?

I just said it is not console of the year.

Edit:  I am a gamer.  My console of the year is the Wii.  I think it has the best games, but "best" is subjective.

theRepublic, unfortunately fanboys see only what they want to see.  Competition.  They interpret things different than normal gamers.

 



saibotex on 31 December 2008

I just love how these kind of threads go ^^

Very entertaining



theRepublic on 31 December 2008

By the way, that graph is from Sqrl.  The thread and editorial are both excellent.



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forevercloud3000 on 31 December 2008

@NightSurge

I think it is you who are not willing to see the truth. Which is the correct way of telling which system is SOTY? Is it...
A. By sales
B. By quality/quantity of games, as well as bonuses within the year
C. A mixture of both

If A is true...
-360 did better in sales 07 and 08, by a small margin both times being less then 1mill apart.
-360 would be the correct SOTY then! Yet, everyone says this is not how we decide.

If B is true...
-in 07 PS3 had lackluster game selection. 360 Won hands down.
-in 08 PS3's game selection blew 360's out of the water with such highly rated exclusives and gaining a few of old 360 exclusives(Bioshock and Eternal SOnata). 360 gained FFXIII as a MP title. Both companies went for a price drop at different times of the year.
-PS3 would be the winner with more going for it this year such as Games quality and amount of them, had a price cut, HOME released, and gained two ex 360 exclusives.

IF C is true...
-07 360 won hands down with better sales and games.
-08 PS3 had better games, but slightly lower sales trailing by a mere 600k. 360 didn't have the game selection of PS3, but due to price drop out performed PS3 in sales.
-Conclusion: DRAW both were on par with each other. Where one excelled in sales the other excelled in software.

This is the point I have been trying to make for the last 8 pages that you do not seem to be getting.



      

      

      

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Dgc1808 on 31 December 2008

2008 = Year of the DS



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perpride on 31 December 2008

GO PS3!!!! 2008 YEAR OF THE PS3 MGS4 IS THE only thing I needed to tell me that.



blazinhead89 on 31 December 2008
theRepublic said:
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.


It doesn't affect M$ , ninty sales because their consoles are Mass Market Price. Regardless Of what people think, The PS3 has had a great and IMO has has had the best exclusives and also manages to perform reasonably well sales wise for its price. As for being outperformed, in sales yes, but thats about the height of it IMO.

Passenger57 on 31 December 2008
nightsurge said:
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!

The PS3 in 07 only BARELY started outselling the 360 with the last few weeks left.  The 360 this year started outselling the PS3 in September through the end of the year to end up selling more than the PS3 this year by nearly a million units.  This year was not the YEAR of the PS3 because it did not outsell the 360.  07 was the year of the 360 because the 360 still sold more units than the PS3 in that year, just as it did again in 08.  Granted, though, both years were truly the Years of the Wii as graywolf said.

 

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forevercloud3000 on 31 December 2008
Dgc1808 said:
2008 = Year of the DS

 

lol! THis^ is true as well. I am just trying to prove that the 360 is always getting praise for things they do not deserve or have not earned.

2008=Wii and DS domination

If you don't count handhelds and dont believe the Wii is in the same league as HD consoles...

2008=TIE between PS3 and 360

 

2008 =/=360



      

      

      

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