The only reason that those percentages are so high is because the ps3 was selling so poorly before the price drop/slim. Things will even out again; in terms of games, they in general have always sold better on the 360.
Exclusives may help the ps3 sell in japan, but not here. As long as MS keeps dishing out those price cuts it will always be ahead of the ps3.
| numonex said: PS3 fans only settling for second place. I want to see some of you crazy guys make up the story on how the PS3 is going to finish first this console generation. Now that the PS3 Slim is here and things can turn around and that almost 30 million deficit in sales behind the Wii can be overtaken very easily. Just you all wait and see. Forget about the silver, go for the gold. No one remembers the silver medallist. |
Hey, Fanboyism is about claiming crazy things, not making normal calculations 
Evan Wells (Uncharted 2): I think the differences that you see between any two games has much more to do with the developer than whether it’s on the Xbox or PS3.
i don't think two price cuts of $50 would be as good as the $100 price cut. How far apart would you make those price cuts? If they're too close together, then definitely there would be a lot of angry consumers (I think 1 year would be too short for consecutive price cuts). Also, could you imagine how "desperate" sony would seem to all the xbox fans... especially since the slim would sell decently.
Cutting the gap for second place by 4 million units by the end of the year is kind of crazy. If they can get GT5 out this year then maybe they could cut it by a third (I believe MS grew their lead by 2 million units last christmas so I think 2.7 with GT5 is possible).
| numonex said: PS3 fans only settling for second place. I want to see some of you crazy guys make up the story on how the PS3 is going to finish first this console generation. Now that the PS3 Slim is here and things can turn around and that almost 30 million deficit in sales behind the Wii can be overtaken very easily. Just you all wait and see. Forget about the silver, go for the gold. No one remembers the silver medallist. |
Easy nuff wii hd next year old wii dies fast as public no longer will settle for far inferior console when same Mario but better is on the wiihd.
| mtofu said: i don't think two price cuts of $50 would be as good as the $100 price cut. How far apart would you make those price cuts? If they're too close together, then definitely there would be a lot of angry consumers (I think 1 year would be too short for consecutive price cuts). Also, could you imagine how "desperate" sony would seem to all the xbox fans... especially since the slim would sell decently. Cutting the gap for second place by 4 million units by the end of the year is kind of crazy. If they can get GT5 out this year then maybe they could cut it by a third (I believe MS grew their lead by 2 million units last christmas so I think 2.7 with GT5 is possible). |
Microsoft grew that lead after coming back from over a million behind over the year... last year (ms numbers) is something that I don't think Sony can match sales wise... the Playstation brand has been damaged significantly this generation and it's hard to see GT5 do GT3 number... certainly the brand of GT has seen some degradation though there will be some pent up demand for the first on the PS3. I still think that 300 bucks will hold Sony's holiday number to the 300-600k/wk range... they may see another big week, but I don't expect that they'll be turning up 7 million console this holiday season... that's assuming MS does 3 million and I just don't think that their brand has that kind of power... at best they bring the lead back down to 6 million and depending on how next year rolls out that could keep shrinking or Microsoft could completely pull away
I dont know why people are surprised by the 1st full week sales of the Slim. Sony gave the world like 2-3 week notice that a new PS3Slim with more HDD capacity and a $100 price cut was coming. Not to mention after weeks/months of constant rumours that this was going to happen. Of course the 1st week of this was going to create a monster week. It held up sales for weeks. We will see the real effect in a few weeks. Numbers still need to be extraodinary in a few weeks for the PS3 to catch up.
This is why MS only made a phantom price cut. As someone said earlier MS just added 60GB to the 360 HDD for the same price as last year and dropped $50 on a discontinued SKU.
Its libraries that sell systems not a single game.
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