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Kantor on 06 September 2009
SolidSnitch said:

Just wondering also, if it fails whats going to be the fanboys new hope for the playstation.... or I guess no matter what happens it won't fail even if there's only a dozen sold worldwide and then you have two dozens sold you'd see threads with PS3 sales up 100% lol.

 

Btw I think its true, Halo3 is underrated by many gamers. The game is still selling good even now and still lots of people playing it.

Ah good, now I know you're a troll, and not just extremely delusional, so I won't feel bad about this:

Just go away. Seriously.



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JGarret on 06 September 2009

Kantor, honestly, how many units do you see the PS3 selling worldwide by January 2013?



geddesmond2 on 06 September 2009
JGarret said:
Kantor, honestly, how many units do you see the PS3 selling worldwide by January 2013?

By then I see at least 70 mil. I know the question wasn't to me but PS3 is going strong in these economic times



Kantor on 06 September 2009
JGarret said:
Kantor, honestly, how many units do you see the PS3 selling worldwide by January 2013?

2013?

Jan 2010: 30 million

2011: 42 million

2012: 53 million

2013: 63 million.

Optimistically.



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Lostplanet22 on 06 September 2009

I think you should be happy if PS3 can manage to sell 28 million at the end of this year. It needs to sell a million a month...Maybe for december a given but for September and Octobre?



 

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Kantor on 06 September 2009
Lostplanet22 said:
I think you should be happy if PS3 can manage to sell 28 million at the end of this year. It needs to sell a million a month...Maybe for december a given but for September and Octobre?

I would hope it would sell far more than 1 million in December- it should approach that on Christmas week. Perhaps 2.5 million in December, a little less in November thanks to Black Friday, and a fair bit in October with all of the software launching. It has to sell 6.5 million in four months...a little doubtful, actually. Yeah, 30 million is probably too optimistic.

If it averaged, say, 170k for 12 weeks, from now to end November, that would be 2.04 million. Another 2.5 million in December would make 4.54 million. Which would put the console at 28 million.



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FinalEvangelion on 06 September 2009
geddesmond2 said:
t'scrumas2 said:
geddesmond2 said:
lhill81 said:
wow, you who made this thread, what a dumb ass, give credit where its due, are you that blind, i like both systems but its idiots like you that make me hate the 360, the idiots that support them. come up with a real topic to debate

I've never actually said this but yeah it's 360 fanboy's making threads like this that make me hate the Xbox aswel. I mean do they know how dumb they sound with these topics. It's like they ignore the fact PS3 has sold 23.4 mil consols worldwide and Xbox 360 has sold 31.6 mil worldwide. Only 8 mil more than PS3 and the Xbox 360 was out 1 year earlier, selling on the HD market with no competition and a lot of advertisement for 1 whole year until Sony came along with there HD consol selling with very little advertisement. But yeah Sony's failing big time in the eyes of 360 fanboys

I have trouble understanding why anyone would hate a product because he/she disliked some of the people who own the product.  Would you hate steak because you read threads online from people you disliked who were fans of steak?  I like steak because it tastes good to me, not because anyone else likes or dislikes it.

I think a lot of people who are fans of the PS3 blame 360 fans for their 360 angst when actually there is a more subtle reason... when we make a choice and a larger group of people make a different choice, a little voice in the back of our heads tells us that perhaps we made the wrong choice, and that makes us defensive and more sensitive to negative comments regarding our choice.  That's just the way people are.

I'm more interested in the facts regarding consoles than in trying to prove to myself that I made the "right" choice... in fact, I will probably end up with all 3 eventually.  I've also noticed that there are several posters whose comments seemed to become less defensive when they ended up owning 2 or 3 of the consoles... it took the pressure off to justify to themselves that they hadn't made an expensive mistake.

Look it's like this. At the start of this generation I had no opinion on the Xbox 360. I followed Sony since the PS1 days and PS3 was my choice of consol. I had nothing bad to say about Microsoft, PS3 was for me and as long as I had that I was happy. Then all these threads started by Xbox Fanboys saying THE PS3 IS DOOMED, PS3 owners wasted there money, haha we robbed this exclusive, PS3 is in last place, I give Sony 2 years before they discontinue PS3.

A full year of that coming from very arrogant and stupid fanboys voicing there opinions and then using ad homien attacks on anyone trying to talk facts is enough to turn anyone against a consol. Who want's to be part of that comunity.

I did plan on owning all 3 consols at the start of this generation just like I owned a Gamecube along with a PS2 last gen. See how thats changed. I've become a fanboy myself because of fanboys. LOL your whole steak moral didn't really make much sense by the way cas it's a totally different thing going on to what you discribed lol but I know what your trying to say but unfortunatly my hate for Xbox did start with Fanboys

 

Although I still own a 360 to play a couple of the games I want (and I mean only a couple jRPGs), I can see what you are saying.  It seemed in previous generations, fanboyism primarily stayed on the internet.  This generation, when I got the PS3, alot more people attacked me on that at the beginning of the generation IRL and were offended I got a PS3.

 

Anyway, I think it's better just to get consoles based on what games / features you like and not who owns them.  Because I own a 360, many people think it's crazy I'm not interested in Halo/Gears/Madden.



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SolidSnitch on 06 September 2009

For the guys calling me a fanboy, well I can honestly say that I better like the PS3 to the 360, the reason for it, I'm on my fifth 360.....still I better like the games on the 360 and online is better and I prefer the controller, but the PS3 games are getting much better now. Also yes Halo is an excellent game, it seems the only guys I know that hates the game are PS3 owners..... I love MGS4 and I can't wait for GoW3 for the PS3 and Forza3 on the 360.

But you have to look at the facts, the PS3 is not doing well for some reasons this gen and it seems like everything they do won't do a thing to help it. Look at last month, 1k in Japan, thats pretty bad and I'm not sure if Sony is a company that will stick around if they don't make any money on a product.
You guys have to admit, the PS3 fanboys in my opinion are the worst, they will pull whatever numbers to make it look like its doing great in term of sales and it seems to hate everything about the 360 for some reasons.



My favorite games for this gen:

1. Gears of War    2. MGS4    3. Killzone 2   4. Halo 3(Underated by many)      5. Mass Effect

geddesmond2 on 07 September 2009

@ Solidsnitch

As I said in a previous post of mine. You 360 Fanboys pulled us PS3 owners down to your own levels. Most of us had nothing bad to say about the Xbox 360 until you's started coming with comments like the one you posted above. I like the PS3 more because I had 5 xbox 360's and then you go on to say about us pulling numbers to make it look good in sales. First thing my friend. If you like 360 games better then you like the 360 better, if you had 5 360's already then you like the 360 better. There things that speak for themselfs.

You like 360 games and think there better than PS3 games and I love the PS3 games and think there way better than Xbox 360 games. Do I make threads saying "is Project Natal the last hope for Microsoft". No I don't. Thats fanboyish at the fullest.

Your saying look at the facts PS3 isn't doing well. Well Most PS3 owners are looking at the facts and if your saying PS3 isn't doing well for selling 23.5 mil units in 2.6 years. Then Microsoft isn't doing very well for selling 31.5 mil units in 3.8 years.

The reason why Sales in japan have been very low recently is because the japanese have been waiting for the Slim. If any region is going to go made over a PS3 slim it's Japan. Japan love everything small. No Japanese person is going to buy a PS3 fat when they Know in 3 weeks they can buy a Slimmer version. You can't go talking about Microsoft winning Japan until there beating PS3 there all the way through september. Thats a very big fanboy comment to make



geddesmond2 on 07 September 2009

Heres some numbers for you Solidsnitch. Considering us PS3 fanboys love pulling any sort of numbers we can just to make the PS3 look good.

150K in japan this week. Big step up from the 1k you previously stated right.