I'm pro game... with a leaning towards the Xbox 360 as my chosen console... much like our friend Seraphic has a leaning towards the PS3... though he's one better on me since I'm broke and can't get a PS3(I am taking donations though :-p and I"m only half joking about that.. I really would use any money to get one hehe).  Also I was of the mind that it'll be around 40 million... I expect it to average around 200k/wk world wide for the first 42 weeks of the year and then sell 3-6 million during the holidays.  Last year it was much like Sony will be this year... very flat and low numbers as it reached it's saturation point at the 270 low point.  At 200 bucks I don't expect it to hit a saturation point until it nears the 40 million mark.  Then it'll need to drop the price to 180 at least though 160 seemed to be the magic number for the PS1 and PS2.  If Microsoft can keep hitting the price drops at the right moment to keep momentum they could see a much higher lifetime than most of us though even coming into this year.  Also remember that HDDs have a bottoming out point so it's likely that at some point Microsoft will go with a solid state replacement... probably in 2010 or 11 that will allow the HDD version to be replaced with smaller solid state machines.  I read an article on a site (that escapes my memory) that talks about HDD getting replaced by solid states at prices drop and read times completely eclipse HDD.

Well, it combines two things. One, that polls are terrible reflections of opinions and two, that people love to hate on systems. Why? Who knows.

I'm one of those people that voted above 42m, as I have it at 42.5m by EOY due to the Slim revision launching late this year, and the YOY increases from the price drop in September. I came to my conclusion by predicting a 30% YOY increase.

scottie said: kowenicki said: It isnt some people... its a lot of people... but in the end it will just be a lot of people who are wrong. You have to understand that this site has fewer 360 fans (fanboys) than either the PS3 or Wii. The PS3 will always come out well on this site in terms of sales predictions and most wanted and user review polls... so yeah.. its biased. But most people have a bias of some kind in all things in life. You do get some ridiculous results and comments as a result though. (i.e. <33m cosoles sold by end of 2010) its no big problem really.... actually its good fun when they are all so wrong over and over and over and over and... you get the idea......   What platform do you game on the most? DS 185 6.63%   PC 192 6.88%   PS3 1,024 36.69%   PSP 53 1.90%   Wii 662 23.72%   XBOX 360 675 24.18%     2,791

That's nice... But the poll is flawed.

Voting in that poll doesn't need an account. Thus, people who just visit the site can vote, while many regulars will forget to do so.

Polls are decent to be compared to each other, but I'm fairly certain that Wii owners outnumber X360 owners on the forums (just see how much bigger the Nintendo forum is than the X360 forum).

That said, there are also more people who hold grudges against the Wii than the X360.

People are biased the world is filled with PS Fans as seen by the graph

I think there messing around though me included we know it will get past at least 37 it kills us to admit it same goes for the Wii poll too the PS3 polls doesn't have these problems i wonder Y

Oyvoyvoyv said: scottie said: kowenicki said: It isnt some people... its a lot of people... but in the end it will just be a lot of people who are wrong. You have to understand that this site has fewer 360 fans (fanboys) than either the PS3 or Wii. The PS3 will always come out well on this site in terms of sales predictions and most wanted and user review polls... so yeah.. its biased. But most people have a bias of some kind in all things in life. You do get some ridiculous results and comments as a result though. (i.e. <33m cosoles sold by end of 2010) its no big problem really.... actually its good fun when they are all so wrong over and over and over and over and... you get the idea......   What platform do you game on the most? DS 185 6.63% PC 192 6.88% PS3 1,024 36.69% PSP 53 1.90% Wii 662 23.72% XBOX 360 675 24.18% 2,791 That's nice... But the poll is flawed. Voting in that poll doesn't need an account. Thus, people who just visit the site can vote, while many regulars will forget to do so.   Polls are decent to be compared to each other, but I'm fairly certain that Wii owners outnumber X360 owners on the forums (just see how much bigger the Nintendo forum is than the X360 forum).   That said, there are also more people who hold grudges against the Wii than the X360.

Yeah, it's a lot like the USERS score on Metacritic. Killzone 2 at 63%? Give me a break.

Polls are filled with bias. There is no way around it. There are tons of people who will skew results because they either love the system or hate it. It is as simple as that.

The 360 will be around 37-40 million units sold. So the people who predict over 42 are a bit optimistic and the people who say under 35 are a bit pessimistic.

PS3 and Wii fanboys say less then 35 and Xbox fanboys say more than 42. Thus we have an inaccurate poll.

In another thread I remember being bashed for saying that this year 360 would have YoY increase because its the third year -_- well whatever. If slim launches this year sales are gonna be much larger then most expect.

^ one thing is to be a fanboy, but this don´t give you the excuse to be unrealistic. Unless PS3 reaches $200 price tag( impossible) this year, the x360 should at least sell the same as last year. My prediction actually, with the numbers between 37-40 mln at the end of the year. So the poll result is just a joke. A bad one BTW.

I dont see much Xbox fans here to be honest so I think thats why. The PS3 fanboys all ways swear 360 is gonna stop selling and PS3 will catch up.

I voted closer to 38 million.