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Forums - Gaming - PS3 closed gap on 360 in US last month, says Pachter

jkimball said:
Legend11 said:
I think he's off the mark and that the 360 outsold the PS3 by at least 80,000 in March.

 

 Right, which is still less than 360 outsold PS3 by in February, hence the 'closing the gap' headline...

the stated gap in Feb was 115000.  So anything less than that is considered a win for PS3. Sad, but true!

 

 

I guess some people might consider it a victory.  At the end of the day the gap is around 8.66 million in North America and will likely continue to grow.



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Am I going to have to dust off the old Pachter was wrong thread?



City17 said:
Am I going to have to dust off the old Pachter was wrong thread?

Patcher may be crazy, but he got this one right... i think

 



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It will be an interesting race over the next 18 months. During that time we will probably see a $100 price cut on the PS3 and some juggling on MS's side. I think that MS has to be disappointed that the $200 entry price for the arcade failed to cut into the Wii sales.



Thanks for the input, Jeff.

 

 

swearitsoul said:
If Sony had invested more in advertising like Microsoft did at the beginning I feel this could be very different.

Exactly how much money does Sony have to spend on advertising to suddenly make consumers want to buy a console that is more expensive, and whose games don't look that much better?  If that were the case, then could Sony spend so much money on advertising it beat the Wii.

Ok, on this "closeD gap" comment:  Let's say the gap is a my fly on my pants being completely open.  I mostly zip the fly on my pants, but didn't completely zip it.  My fly is still open.  The same with the gap.  The gap is not closed.  One can say the gap is closing, but it hasn't closed yet.

So, since this is a Pachter comment, I will predict here that the opposite is now true: The 360 now has a PERMANENT lead over the PS3.  A Bizzarro Pachter is likely more accurate than the regular Pachter, so I would side with that.

 



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I don't know why everybody bashes on Pachter. He is so amazing. I love watching clips with him in them. He is really fun to watch.




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End of 2009 sales predictions:

PS3 - 33 Million     360 - 40 Million    Wii - 75 Million

YEA!!!!!!!!!

The PS3 didn't get beaten so badly like in the previous month!!!
Where is SONY PR hailing this achievement..oh wait



Pachter, LOL.

In all honesty according to VG Chartz PS3 did close the gap this month, but 360 still outsold the PS3 in america and by 30K worldwide, 360 so far this year until killzone 2 came out was outselling the PS3 by 30K worldwide weekly, so what 360 did in January and for some parts of February, they did for the whole month of march, which like I said outsold PS3 by 30K for the entire month, so yes the PS3 closed the gap but still didn't outsell the 360 for the month.

360 has outsold the PS3 every month so far this year, the PS3 only outsold the 360 for 2 weeks so far this year when Killzone 2 came out.



And like I posted in other threads the reason I think the Gap was closed last month was because the 360 is having hardware shortages worldwide.

I know some people won't want to hear that but that is a strong possibility.