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Badassbab on 09 October 2009

This gen PS3 probably will finish 3rd. Catching up will be far too difficult and resource heavy. Sony is a conglomorate, not just a gaming company. If they can keep bringing our awesome exclusives and Microsoft keep relying on 3rd party support than it might be able to swing it round near the end of this gens lifetime but definately not anytime soon and Microsoft do have exclusives of their own to boast about.






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Reasonable on 09 October 2009
Hardcoregamer1989 said:
come on guys no more console war bullshit threads... cant we just get along

why cant we just be friends where both gamers

PS3/360/Wii motherfk'in crap, POS consoles for casual, noob hardcores!

Oh, okay.

'Gotta agree with you, but advise you don't hold your breath!



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TT Makaveli on 09 October 2009

Michael Jackson Singstar Bundle will save the PS3 and the World!



Carl on 09 October 2009
Avinash_Tyagi said:
Carl2291 said:
Avinash_Tyagi said:
Carl2291 said:
Avinash_Tyagi said:
As a well known Wii fanboy I believe I can be objective in this:

the gap according to VGC is 7.387 million currently

Even if the the PS3 continues to average 84K greater sales a week than the 360 (the sales gap last week), it would take approximately 88 weeks for the PS3 to pass the 360 WW

So a year and half, not taking into consideration Christmas boost and SW boosts?

Sounds very possible when you put it that way.


  No I factored in Christmas boosts and the such, because PS3 is unlikely to maintain its sales lead throughout the next year and a half, in fact I fully expect many weeks, even months, next year where 360 retakes the lead, so I estimated, that even taking into account holiday boosts and software releases, the best PS3 can hope for is averaging a sales lead around what it has now

I see.

How the hell did you factor in all the Christmas boosts and SW boosts without knowing what will be sold?

And your estimations for many weeks and months next year are 99% likely to be way, way off.

Of course, this is a very rough estimate, however a few things are pretty likely, first that PS3 sales are likely to peak this holiday, and then drop off in the next year, with a boost for a time around the GT5 release, 360 is likely to price drop next spring and possibly next fall, Sony may have one price drop next fall, but with a weaker overall lineup next holiday, while the 360 will likely have a stronger one, the Wand and Natal are likely not to have a big effect on the market, and likely not to be successes.  So I felt my estimate was very generous to the PS3.

So basicly you guessed everything. From boosts, what they will do at Christmas, random pricecuts...

No offence, but taking into consideration your prediction history, and the randomness of the figures you will have used, i really can't see that happening.



                            

Alby_da_Wolf on 09 October 2009
Avinash_Tyagi said:
LF-A said:
tuscaniman said:
The final verdict is this; If Microsoft feels the need to lower the price on the 360 they will do so accordingly. Right now there is a 7 1/2 million console lead over Sony. I think its a little premature right now to even consider Sony taking back second place. Microsoft obviously has way more leverage to lower the price on the console seeing as it doesn't include blue-ray or WiFi. The Elite could easily be lowered to $249 without breaking a sweat. HDDs don't cost that much and with the arcade being priced at $199, a $249 Elite sounds about right. And if the future for the 360 is as doomed as you Sony fans say it is, then the $199 Elite wild card comes out and we know what happens when the $199 price point comes around. Apparently some people don't realize how much money Microsoft is worth. Microsoft doesn't like to fail. They aren't gonna let Sony take back the market just because they are afraid to lose a little money on hardware.

LoL they wont let Sony take back the market its not MS market to lose, nintendo kinda owns it right now.

Its funny how many of you think MS is just willing to lose $ to beat Sony.  MS can't be that retarded, no one is other then delusional fanboys.

 

By the way no one is dommed not MS not Sony sure as hell not Nintendo, enough with that fanboy stupidity.


  Actually MS would be willing to lose money to bleed Sony dry, as they only are in the market to stop Sony really, and protect their core windows market

What a shame that while MS was so busy spending so many efforts, resources and money to trip Sony over, Nintendo was quietly growing so much that MS is very lucky Wii wasn't meant to threaten Windows, but with the low cost CPU's, GPU's, RAM and storage already have now, in two years or better more, Wii2 will be able to be for Windows a nightmare worse than any Playstation ever was, if just Nintendo so wishes, and maybe with a little help from Google. Ballmer will better pray it doesn't and start being a good boy and hope God hear his prayers.



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ps3_jrpg_gamer on 09 October 2009

YOUR DATA IS FROM JUNE 31 JUST TAKE A LOOK IN RECENT DATA GAP IS 7,3 NOW IN CHRISTMAS IT WILL BE LESS THAT 5 MILLIONS JUST OF THE WEEK ENDING DECEMBER 19th
PS3 360
JAPAN 210,000 11,000
AMERICA 250,000 240,000
OTHER 310,000 220,000
TOTAL 770,000 471,000 THE GAP BECOME SMALLER 0.3 IN A WEEK JUST OF FF13 IN JAPAN



ooozxooo on 09 October 2009

PS3 IS THE FUTURE



Reasonable on 09 October 2009

I remain doubtful about 360 / PS3 ending up as anything but a draw, but if Sony could drive substantial sales in Japan, and gain a decent lead in Others, then it is possible for PS3 to overtake 360. 360 is clearly going to depend heavily on US and then Others as in Japan it is never going to be anything other than a costly (for MS) niche player.



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StrifeHawkins on 09 October 2009

Why PS3 will Beat 360

* my speculation not 100% but its close to figures

PS3 has been selling at a faster rate for the first 2 years of its life, It only stopped catching the 360 when the xbox dropped its prices and was half the price of a ps3

Ps3 has sold alot faster in europe, it caught up a 1.5 years xbox advantage! The gap is less than 1 million now. Japan Xbox 360 is dead

ps3 will continue to outsell xbox 200 000 units a month for a while with bonus sales from GT5, GOD OF WAR 3, Uncharted 2 , FF13 etc so lets say counting   starting this month till june 2010 = 200,000 * 9 months = 1.8 Millon units + Bonus Sales(500 000) = 2.3 millionunits so in June 2010 the gap will be less than 5.2 Million

Bonus Sales estimate
FF13 = 150 000 units
GT5 = 200 000 units worldwide
God of war 3 = 150 000 units worldwide
uncharted = 60 units worldwide

These are conservative numbers so i think the ps3 can do better



 

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StrifeHawkins on 09 October 2009

Mw2 ,Halo odst, Forza are not big hardware movers they sell to exisiting owners halo odst proves my point, Forza is definately not gonna sell like gears of fable, and there is alot of racing games on the market



 

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