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Bladeforce on 20 October 2009

The end of M$ this gen a new console is needed now



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ethomaz on 20 October 2009

Sure it will, next Halo should make this.



SOLIDSNAKE08 on 20 October 2009
PS3beats360 said:
"The XBox 360 will never outsell the PS3 ever again in weekly console sales". I am willing to wage a perma-ban on it. If the XBox 360 beats the PS3 in one sales week worldwide I want to be banned forever. To come back knowing I failed with a huge prediction - the shame would be too much for me to bear.


thats my prediction too, i just cant see what microsoft can do to get the sales up significantly. not only that but theres alot of games coming out for ps3 including their biggest games and system sellers.



SlipperyMooseCakes on 20 October 2009

Yeah, it will. November is looking likely. The weekly sales for the PS3 and 360 are not as far off as you think. Of course the PS3 has been selling more WW as of late thanks to the price cut/slim and recent releases of games like Uncharted 2 and Fifa 10. Last week the 360 actually outsold the PS3 in America. Starting next week and into early-mid November Microsoft starts the release of their onslaught for the Holidays.

Forza 3, Episodes from Liberty City, Call of Duty 4 (complete with Elite bundle and timed exclusive DLC) and Left 4 Dead 2. Smaller things like the update coming in November will be great to have for Holiday advertising. If people see you can Facebook and Twitter on your Xbox 360 this holiday that could bring in a handful of sales as well whether it is a useful or not the name a lone should help.

So yes, the Xbox 360 will outsell the PS3 during some weeks in November and perhaps for the entire month in total.



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everdom on 20 October 2009

Yes its guarenteed one week even if it does nothing else: Halo Reach



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tedsteriscool on 20 October 2009

It'll outsell it at some point. It just needs a price cut to do so. $149 Arcade may do it.



ocnkng on 20 October 2009
Homeroids said:
@dorbin

Know how to take control of a market? You, of short memory. MS got damn lucky getting a deal with IBM to bundle Windows licenses with IBM compatible PC's. Heck, MS still had not acquistioned what was to become DOS, at the time they did the deal with IBM.

MS entered the console market as a new player (like Sony). Conversely, if you take away Windows and Office, MS is basically a bleeding company. It is Windows and Office that generates all the bundles of cash.

taking control of the console market actually means MS has to sell things for little profit, if not for a loss. This is no monopoly.

I just find it strange that anyone can say "Microsoft know how to take control of a market" where the only market they have ever controlled (albeit it's a bloody big one and important one) is the PC O/S and Office market.

MS have desperately been trying to diversify. Their Search division, their Gaming and Zune division. Was it not Ballmer that once said that the iPhone would be a complete flop? MS have proven quite a bit over the past 10 years, even with their cash, just how damn hard it is to take control of a market that has nothing to do with PC's.

Looking at history, and I am not trying to be Mr Sony here, it is Sony that proved they knew how to take control of a new market after their little fallout with Nintendo and making the CD drive for the big N. Sony came from behind and owned the console industry.

I am not saying MS can't do it but it's going to cost a heck of a lot more than what it did for Sony.

^This. Hit the nail right on the head.



 

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ooozxooo on 20 October 2009

NEVER



Neoraf on 20 October 2009

Sure it will.
Just like last year...

Natal + Price cut = Tremendous sales.



     

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Heavenly Sigma on 20 October 2009

It will at sometime. Probaly not for atleast a year. I just can't see it doing more then 3 weeks in a row ever again. Sony is about to start a new PS Eye push months before Natal that should take the wind out of its sales alittle (not that I believe either one will sell).



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