true.
I messed my point up. You said it better for me.
Thanks.
Lbp will not sell consoles as it’s not known outside of the gaming world as its a new ip. The bundles will sell but thats because people buying a console will want to get a free game with it. But with GoW2 there will be a few people who played the first on a friends console and buy a 360 for it but not many. Fable on the other hand has a fanbase from the last gen and will see that as well as GoW2 as a reason to get a 360 at chrimbo. So not so much a fanboy comment as you think. But yours still was.

You are grossly over estimating how the 360 will sell over Christmas, and now that the 80gb PS3 is $399 and the 160gb moving into the $500 spot later this year, sales have already spiked and will continue to do so. I am not saying that the 360 won’t sell well over the holiday period but it will not outsell the PS3 it doesn’t matter what price it is. The trend for the entire year has been PS3 outstripping the 360, in North America the margin is a little bit more slim, Europe holds the biggest margin, and Japan it’s about 2-3x but the sales of both are still low there, however the gap is still very large and will not close anytime soon. In fact the sales lead that the 360 has over the PS3 only exists in the US, nowhere else. Microsoft is dropping the price to to try and compete better against Sony, but it didn’t work in Europe and it won’t work in the US. Dropping the price of the Arcade to $199 isn’t to compete with the PS3, it’s to compete with the Wii, and the others are for PS3 competition. Microsoft is spreading itself too thin by doing this and it is going to cost them as the hardcore look at it as a joke and the casual look at it as a hradcore system that isn’t as fun as the Wii. Sales of PS3 systems are catching up to the 360 it’s just slower in America where the lead exists. And I wouldn’t be surprised if there were temporary price cuts for all solo systems and multiple bundles. That along with in store incentives will help push it even closer to closing that gap. Say they have a $50 price cut from October 1st-December 26th, and Walmart and Best Buy run another promotion giving a $100 gift card, now you would be able to get and 80gb PS3 for $50 more than the 360 Arcade and the PS3 comes with a Blu-Ray player, wifi adapter(built in), free online and incredibly stable hardware, and it comes with the cutest looking game ever created, LittleBigPlanet.

This article not only reeks of blatant fanboyism, but I think your actually retarded for writing it the way you did. I love my PS3 and I think the 360 is great but the way you did this article is fucking stupid and you should try to do some real research and learn what people mean when they are talking about outselling the 360. To save you some time remember that means month to month not overall global sales. Do you honestly think that Microsoft is cutting global prices because they still maintain a lead over the PS3 in install base!? Well they don’t, they care about month to month just like Sony and Ninty, and they are in last from month to month, not first or second. That is the reason for immediate price cuts not because they love the consumer so much they think they should give them a break.

Idiots

But first the parents decide to be responsible and do a little research and what do they find but thousands of articles online about how horrible the people on Xbox Live act and all the racist bullshit that comes out of their mouths on a regular basis.

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one year head star and only 5 millions more than the ps3
? what do you think?

“Interesting concept, except for the fact that it’s flawed. ”

No it’s not.

“The thing is, that if you look at the console sales, you can see that the gap in sales between the PS3 and Xbox 360 is still roughly the same as it was when the PS3 was launched.”

No it’s not. 360 had far more than 5 million sales when PS3 launched.
PS3 reached 10 million sales 2 months faster than 360, it will overtake 360 eventually.

haha u are widely mistaken…. there not going to buy them crappy 360′s and join you {QUOTE} “foul mouthed children ~join us on Xbox Live~ and when they do….” but all parents will be buying the Wii… stop loving 360 so much.

Well, here’s the most telling thing. At the beginning of 2008, the 360 had an 8 million console lead. Now it has 5 million lead. The PS3 probably won’t catch up this year, but to say it isn’t catching up at all is ridiculous.

I really cannot believe that you are still are trying to back up your article Nick!

Parents buy Wii for the kiddies.

Theory is theory. Percentage wise the PS3 caught up with the 360. Quite a lot actually.

ps3 is selling very fast and piracy is a big factor. people here in asia have a option to make their console modded or wait for the original (which will release after one or two months). ps3 owners on the other hand have no options, they have to buy original games. Even developers like VALVE, who once called ps3 as a waste of time are going to make left 4 dead on ps3. which will be soon…. ps3 games and ps3 are selling fast and very fast…. this is just another shit article for getting attention… and yup u have ur attention but people will just abuse u. hope u this kind.

You know what’s absolutely insane? No matter how well or poorly
either console sells, I still enjoy playing video games on my
console of choice precisely as much as I did before.

interesting…

Actually, the 360 was at 9 million when the PS3 launched. Now the 360 is only 5 million consoles ahead.

i disagree i am 20 years old and i choose the ps3 over the xbox 360
if you think about it the xbox is dropping it price not just for
parent it because there hard ware sucks if you were me then you would
want a console that doesn’t break everytime. and having it to send
it. i like the ps3.i have it for threes years now and look it still in perfect shape.

This article is true. At the rate PS3 are moving it will probably never past the 360 until the end of its “10 year life”. Especially after the price drop. I doubt it going to make a giant difference like this guy makes it seem but it will make a difference thought. And for that gears vs. LBP comment, trust me 1) gears will sell more and 2) how are you going to compare LBP to gears. One is aimed at adults and the other is aimed to evryone(but mostly kids). You need to compare LBP to viva pinata.

all i gotta say,
X360′s been out 2 1/2 years, and as sold ~20 mil.
PS3′s been out 1 1/2 years, and as sold ~15 mil.

you do the math and tell me who’s really selling more.

first of all try to use more reliable sources for data.
According to NPD USA and Canada data XBox360 was sold 600 000 units less then it is shown at vgchartz.com by the end of july. That means that diffence between XBox 360 and PS3 is about half million less then you expect.
Microsoft lowered prices at Europe 2 months ago – so what? nuffink… No one cares
Microsoft lowered prices last month at the USa and Canada – so what? PS3 oversold 360 by 50 000 units again…
Ok … Parents will come with their kids to buy them something for Xmas… Do you really consider that all kids are idiots? Or parents are too stupid and cares about their money… Noone likes wasting money.. Noone wants to get a pain in ass with RRoD.
Do you really think that parents want their children play games like Fable 2 where gay releations (even marriages) and candoms are allowed? Kill me but I dont let my 7 years old son play this game.
When an adult will come to a shop to buy a Xmas gift to his/her child he/she will see a lovely choice. Bloody face of Markus Fenix from GoW2 poster from one side and lovely face of sackboy from other… He will reasonably ask about price of both consoles… What do you think he / she will want to buy to precious enfant? Yeah .. sure bloody game and will pick up left 4 dead and a pice of gayish relations .. sure ….
An adult will say – Fuck it .. I’d better pay a 100 bucks more to get something relaxing and not so provocative … And to have fun…
So stop this shit about 360… Noone cares about it here in Europe
seems to stop caring in NA
It will take some time to get the same tend to the shores of ZA and wash this shit away

fable II… come on i don’t know why people are trying to hype this game up… i’ll give it to GeoW2 that game looks bad ass but fable?!? wack…

Just look at “hardware from launch” on VGchartz.com and compare the 360 trend to the PS3 trend if you need a visual.

The question isn’t only the $$$, but look at E3 and you the point. Sony has one decent eye catching title (LBP) and a ton of generic stuff.
A parent looking at the Xmas for colourful family titles sees:
PS3: LBP, Eyepet and Singstar
360: Banjo, Viva Pinata, Fable 2, Lips, Scene It, Crash bandicoot(comes to PS2 not 3), Tales of Vesperia and overseas ‘Primetime’

Weight that with most other games being available on both + $200 entry, it should be a winning formula. Who knows, maybe the rumoured motion controller may even make it.
But on the other hand there’s no accounting for brand loyalty.

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You can also realise that gamestop has about 20 360s per store, while they keep about 3-4 in each gamestop. And they always sell ps3s as of late, but for somereason, we still have a couple that have been there for a year, those poor 360s arent getting any love on our floor.

Yes i work there. So shipped numbers actually dont mean much mr.

Dont know if anyone said this already but did everyone forget the 360 has been on the market for nearly a year longer than the ps3? Sony is catching up.

I think the point to be made is that the PS3 is catching Xbox undeniably. However if the current rate is maintained realistically the PS3 will only catch the X360 towards the end of next year probably with both consoles having approximately LTD sales of +- 30 mio units. So I think it safe to say that 3P Devs are going to keep doing MP for the foreseeable future. Biggest selling Exclusive to date for PS3 I believe is MGS4 with round about 3mio sales which compares favourably with EA’s sales figures for the Sports Franchise shovelware (FIFA , Madden etc) and pales into insignificance compared with GTA 4 , COD4 etc. So really for the remainder of this generation it is not really going to make any difference which console you chose to endorse .

There is one simple way to see the PS3 is catching up.
And that is that the number of ps3 fanboys is rapidly approaching
that of the xbots

Do you guys realize how stupid u r being arguin over hardware sales of consoles? For one the 360 has been out a year longer than the ps3. Two if MS weren’t so damn wealthy their game division would b dead by all the money they have to put into faulty hardware and buying software exclusives. And lastly why dont u guys use VGchartz compare console sales matching launches, when u do that of course the wii is killin everything (which btw nintendo give us Super Mario RPG for god sakes in the US the best RPG till i started playin Final Fantasy games) but the ps3 has 3.7 million sales lead in that comparison, considering the 360 had no competition for a year and devs had way easier time making great games like Gears or Halo. In the end juss go play a game and have fun.

peace

PS3 fanboys out in full force again I see. Appears they suck at basic math too.