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Forums - Sony - The PS3 is really catching up the Xbox 360 in Europe.

Microsoft said they were wrapping up NA and now focusing on EU, with Sony still wobbling in EU by making the same stupid mistakes to piss off folks in EU, don't count out MS yet.



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by the way, the PS3 isn't catching up. Its selling about 3K less a week.

The 360 has a lead of 320K in Europe.



starcraft do you mean others or europe?



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madskillz said:
@ Twestern - you must have that troll excel doc on reserve. Please e-mail me a copy for my gaming blog. LOLz.

Done and done.

tombi123 said:

@Twestern

That graph is all wrong...

edit: It should be in 1,000's not 100,000.

It was 100,000's when I first made it but I didn't like that and just never changed that.  :-p



@twes

ah ok, it just confused me thats all



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Sorry guys, I meant "Others."



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@ Twesterm

No need to put such a huge emphasis on time. If the PS3 gets a $100 cut say in September, and the 360 doesn't.......then the PS3 could outsell the 360 by a ton, greatly reducing those times. Those calculations are useless as they ignore software boosts and holiday changes.



@twesterm

remember 2008 holidays & how much xbox 360 outsold PS3 by

look how much its outselling PS3 by now

All your "dates" can get skewed by huge sales in 1 holiday

Look at one of kownicki's threads about "gap differences"

you'll see a huge difference int he holiday bit & literally almost a flat line now



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huge price cut will do.



twesterm said:

Hooray for yet another chance to bring out troll.xls!  (and I'm using last weeks numbers by the way, don't feel like putting in this weeks yet)

Here's the time it will take for the PS3 to catch up to the 360 assuming it starts outselling it tomorrow.

Time for the PS3 to catch the 360 (in 100,000's)
  Worldwide America Others
Time(weeks) Sales/Week Sales/Week Sales/Week
4 1993 2193 1220
8 996 1096 610
16 498 548 305
24 332 365 203
52 153 169 94
78 102 112 63
104 77 84 47
130 61 67 38
156 51 56 31
182 44 48 27
208 38 42 23
234 34 37 21
260 31 34 19

If the PS3 is to catch the 360 in others in lets say three years, it will have to outsell the 360 by 31k per week every week for the next three years.  It can be done but will it really matter in 2012/13?

Uhm, weird math? By the charts I see that the 360 has about 1.3M over the PS3 in Others.

If we consider three years then 1.3M/156 weeks=8.3K sales per week the PS3 needs to outsell the 360.

Or in other words, by outselling the 360 by 31k per week, won't that mean that the gap would be closed in about 1.3M/31k=42 weeks?



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