Haven't posted here in awhile, but I read through the posts on a fairly consistent basis; and I see there's still no end to the silly number crunching and subjectively arranged sales data offered up by one particular group of fanboys.

So, in response to another sales oriented post, "Same point in time..." by PS3beats360, which, for the sake of his own personal bias, completely ignores the current momentum of one console to paint the other in a more favorable light; here's mine.

Starting on the launch date of the PS3, November 11, 2006, the Xbox 360 has outsold it by almost 3 million. 2,827,092 according to VGChartz numbers.

From the moment that consumers could actually choose which console they'd rather own, when both consoles were sitting right next to one another on the store shelf, nearly 3 million more have decided to purchase a 360 over a PS3.

I think that's a pretty fair, and even though I'm partial to the 360, a much more accurate and unbiased approach towards which console has truly 'outsold' the other.

The "Same point in time" view, while correct, completely ignores the 360's momentum over the past year, relying on and including sales stats from it's first 365 days on the market to attain a thoroughly misleading total for which console is tracking better. It's asking people to react to sales figures for each console that start and stop on completely different dates, which is of course, an unrealistic comparison because it doesn't exactly put them head to head and it doesn't take into account the most recent, most relevant sales data..... today's. The effort to put the PS3 on top actually makes it appear worse in comparison, because when you look at what's happening NOW, it's steadily losing ground... day in and day out... to the 360. It's further behind now than it was when it launched. Dance around the numbers all you like but....

since they've both been available, the 360's sold almost 3 million more.

Damn another one, like the one for the PS3 wasn't bad enough. Both of you are correct. No need to create more space for a war between the Fanboy factions.

thead over

yes we already know

I beleive this is more of a better comparison then the other one.

Are you genuinely saying that, or are you saying it because you prefer the 360, and everything positive that is said about it (Just going by your signature). From the way I see it, both are equally plausible and well done comparisons. Wait scratch that... they aren't well done, but good enough anyway.

rckrz6 and ultibankai.... yeah, I know it's annoying and I know mine is just another post in the avalanche of stupidity that encompasses anything related to sales and console fanboys.

just couldn't help myself.

No need to punish yourself, everyone can't help themselves at least twice in their lives. Whether its on the internet or elsewhere.

Great but that lead is mainly due to last Septembers price cuts. Without the price cuts they would be pretty much even.

Does it really matter?

I'm pretty sure all the 3 players in the console market don't go to their directors with aligned launch sales data to spin the numbers to make them look better so I don't know why people do it for them.

Also the only company truly delighted this generation is Nintendo, Microsoft will be kicking themselves for their reliability woes that without I think 2nd place would have been wrapped up by now. Sony will be devastated they misjudged the market so badly choosing to launch such an expensive console and the subsequent money they bled to keep it selling by cutting prices very early.