I don't see why the PS3 numbers are wrong? If we add Japan (Media Create) then the PS3/360 gap becomes 9 million, not too different from shipped figures.

Damn, I thought the gap was 8.5 million.

A dark day indeed.



I will cry at 51%

I do believe Sony hasn't release the Slim yet because too many units are sitting in retail unsold.

Price reductions on current production (actually earlier production as I'm convinced Slim production is currently underway) models will probably be seen right around or immediately following the introduction of the new slim model.

I wouldn't be surprised if you could pick up a current 80GB model for $299 on the remaining stock in inventory channels when that happens.

It's for this same possibility that I could see the slimline originally being priced at $349-399 until the old inventory has been cleared, making way for a "price dropped" $299 slimline by the holidays.

@ Mont

See i did a better job ;)

On topic. Yh VGC may not be 100% accurate but nowhere is. VGC gives us good estimations of the numbers each week for free. You will not find anywhere else that does WW numbers as well as VGC.

Me too.

What do you think NPD and all the others are? Do you really think they are in every retail store in the world counting receipts? hahhahaa ROFL!!!

All retail sales tracking from any source that is entended to track an entire region and/or groups of different retailers has a large % that is essentially a smart guesstimation. That's the reason sales trackers in the same region never even match. They all have different ways of calculatiing the unknown.

If you come back eventualy and read this, I'd suggest a quick read about statistics and estimations.

Absolutely nothing. No change at all.

Entering the 4th year of the current generation will not bring any significant changes in development or publishing trends. What each console currently has in terms of titles, genres and franchises is a pretty clear indicator of what each will continue to see through the end of the generation.

For most gamers, this is the main trend to be watching as they presumably play games and not sales.

And while sales traditionally dictate development trends, particularly when resources are limited (relatively new or small developers), the differences in hardware this generation have made the development choice an issue of which platform is most suitable to which types of games and the general demographics of the players on each platform.

So there's nothing particularly magical about 50.001% being a point at which all major developers and smaller developers alike suddenly "see the light", "realize they have an obligation to their shareholders", "must develop for the best selling platform or go out of business", etc. Everyone who's been paying attention at all the last three years knows where the numbers lie.

And unfortunately, developing with numbers being the primary concern typically means developing low budget games with quick turn around times to be sold to less discriminating consumers, low sales figures aside so long as a small profit can be achieved. And that's a trend everyone should already be seeing based on what's being sold today.

lol, this thread was epic. RPG was just ignorant. He didn't seem to understand how anything worked and equated his ignorance with being right. "If I don't know the answer, then there isn't one!" kind of reasoning is really annoying. Kudos to ioi for personally banning him. Actually I take that back, kudos to ioi and thesource for actually trying to debate him in a civil manner and then using a ban as a last resort after his ignorance had been shown and he resorted to flaming.