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| Nick de Bruyne - September 1st, 2008 at 12:45 pm - 363 Views - 114 Comments |
With PS3 sales overtaking Xbox 360 sales in the last couple of months there have been many articles and reports flying around the internet saying that the PS3 is finally starting to catch up to the 360 and may possibly even overtake it soon.
Interesting concept, except for the fact that it’s flawed.
The current sales of the Xbox 360 and PS3 on VGchartz are as follows:
Xbox 360: 20.44 Million
Playstation 3: 15.05 Million
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.
This means that in the current state, the sales of the PS3 are at best only matching the sales of the Xbox 360 even though sales for Sony’s console have picked up recently.
The PS3 is indeed becoming more popular and the past problems with the Xbox 360’s hardware have made quite a difference. However, we all know that the Xbox 360 is going to be the only console offering HD next-gen gaming at the magic price of $199 US dollars.
As we have stated in previous articles, come Christmas time, parents are going to be flocking to stores to ensure a truckload of new foul mouthed children join us on Xbox Live and when they do, the low price of the Xbox 360 is going to be incredibly tempting, especially with Nintendo’s Wii suffering from shortages abroad.
As much as the PS3 enjoys strong brand recognition and a large fanbase from the PS2 generation, the purchasing decisions are that of the parents and not the children and when the price is right, the parents are all for it. So how is the the future of the PS3 looking?
We spend so much time discussing exclusive titles and graphics comparisons that we forget that at the end of the day it largely comes down to parents, standing in a store, staring at shelves with PS3’s and Xbox 360’s on them. They don’t care about MGS4 and Gears of War 2. They see a low price tag on one of them “new console thingamajigs” and the truth is, its not the PS3.
It seems pretty obvious which one is going to be leaving in their trolley.
[Thanks Ewie for the tip]
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September 2, 2008
1:42 pm
Great backing of your comment “me”!
Hey do I get something for the 100th comment? :razz:
September 3, 2008
1:43 am
Nope because I stole it :razz:…
September 3, 2008
2:34 am
PS3 is outselling the 360 by a huge margin.
Consider this:
1) When the 360 was launched there was no competition.
2) When the PS3 was launched it was up against 360 and Wii.
Therefore, what do you make of the following numbers?
Sales in the first 22 months from launch:
360: 11M
PS3: 15M
September 3, 2008
4:27 pm
Spoken like a true fanboy Editor
Ernies last blog post..White Knight Story to be shown at TGS?
September 3, 2008
4:54 pm
Spoken like a true fanboy commenter
September 3, 2008
8:36 pm
5.5 only
September 26, 2008
12:18 pm
People buy PS3 purely for the blue ray capabilities not for gaming. thought that would be obvious.
I would buy a PS3 for blue ray but, the titles are lacking…. And i already own most of it on DVD a bit of a waste buying a R5400 console that has the same games as the 360.
I gaurentee you most of the PS3 ever bought almost never get used anyways. No good games really and too little Blue ray movies to back it up for the time being
March 12, 2009
12:15 am
your article is flawed. so far to date the 360 has sold 28 million since Nov 2005, the PS3 has sold 22 million since Nov 2006. AVerage the sales numbers out for 28 million over the course of 36 months that totals an average of 777,000 a month world wide. now the PS3 with 22 million sold over the course of 24 months thats an average of 916,000 a month world wide. So yes the PS3 is catching up FAST! PLus how many of those 28 million 360s sold are rebuys. i know people who have bought 2 or more of this craptastic console.
August 25, 2009
11:31 am
i whould just like to say you all forget about the problems on both consoles,i got all 3 consoles wii xbox360 and ps3 and realy ps3 is the shit i can put al my movies on hdd or extarnal and can download blu ray movies and watch it in full 1080p.the thing is there is no deferance in both dh consoles,i dont use my xbox at all couse the the interface is so cool on ps3,i think it is just fan boys if you got n xbox 360 then it is the no 1 console or if you have n xbox get all 3 then you sit back and lougt about all of this couse realy both is the same and now days all games are out on both consoles
August 25, 2009
11:37 am
o yeah and onother my xbox give the the ring of death was so pised lucky microsoft swoped it out so the i lost trust in xbox but the the weekend my ps3 broked and geus what sony dont have that to swop it out the new thing with ps3 is the bluray lens is so weak itis going to cost me 1400 to rpair it so both company had bad harware
August 25, 2009
12:08 pm
Market saturation?
Everybody I know have a PS3 and a couple of 360’s.
PS for media, 360’s for gaming.
August 25, 2009
12:12 pm
yeah it is like that but i think ps3 is stil beter and for media it kick ass xbox you have to download codecs and all sort of crap to play avi and whatever,where ps3 play about everything,just sad that now sundely ps3 bluray disk is not trust worthy
August 25, 2009
12:35 pm
Sony has always had dvd/br issues.
How many Ps2’s did I go thru? Alot!
And the xbox codec is one 5 mb file… ;-)
But yeah, for media, I do thing the ps3 is better.
Games? Not so mutch.
Live intergration is awesome. And Achievement… they rock.
August 25, 2009
12:49 pm
so true but the prize tag is uge now acording wel known source the bluray lens last about 2 years that’s crap i hope they fix it with the new slim ps3,hopefully.cool thanks wil dowload it i did the new dashboard upgrade and it looks beter but stil looks like wii for me,geus it is for project Natal and that is a whole deferent story