I found that link to yet another chart: http://en.konsolewars.com/
No idea it it is more accurate than vgcharts.org (that one is clearly wrong )
No idea it it is more accurate than vgcharts.org (that one is clearly wrong )
"Considering last VG charts"
PS3 isn't going to ever catch up be their sales decreasing weekly. Even if it pulls a miracle and outsells the 360 250,000 each month for 36 months it pretty much breaks even in mid 2010 at the very tail end of this generation.
Woo hoo what a win for Sony.
I find posts like these so weird. I don´t know if they should be interpreted like blatant fanboy rants or if there is some analysis behind them."Considering last VG charts"
PS3 isn't going to ever catch up be their sales decreasing weekly. Even if it pulls a miracle and outsells the 360 250,000 each month for 36 months it pretty much breaks even in mid 2010 at the very tail end of this generation.
Woo hoo what a win for Sony.
I find posts like these so weird. I don´t know if they should be interpreted like blatant fanboy rants or if there is some analysis behind them.
Some people take for granted that the 360 and the PS3 will follow a similar life cycle curve and end simultanously. I wonder what the basis for this is? Sonys execution so far seem to follow it previous curve is that a bad thing and the PS2 seems to be still be doing pretty fine.
"Considering last VG charts"
PS3 isn't going to ever catch up be their sales decreasing weekly. Even if it pulls a miracle and outsells the 360 250,000 each month for 36 months it pretty much breaks even in mid 2010 at the very tail end of this generation.
Woo hoo what a win for Sony.
I find posts like these so weird. I don´t know if they should be interpreted like blatant fanboy rants or if there is some analysis behind them.
Some people take for granted that the 360 and the PS3 will follow a similar life cycle curve and end simultanously. I wonder what the basis for this is? Sonys execution so far seem to follow it previous curve is that a bad thing and the PS2 seems to be still be doing pretty fine.
"I think there was another thread regarding the sales of the 360, noting that it doing solid but not likely to be number 1."
Um only the WII is selling enough monthly to knock the 360 off the number 1 spot and honestly I would not consider it directly competing.
Between the PS3 and the 360 the PS3 has to make up an 8-9 million console lead and to do that they need to start trouncing the monthly sales of 360 on a very consistent basis to do that in any reasonable time frame.
PS3 being outsold by 100,000 units by the 360 in the USA is not going to help the PS3 over take the 360.
Like I just said, it could do that in single quarter if it sold like the PS2. Even if doesn't, a smallish lead over the whole year will turn into a 1-2 million lead in just the last two months of a year in the US alone. Worldwide, it could be more than double that. So your claim that the 360 has an nearly insurmountable lead is simply false. A massive holiday season sales burst could easily bring it into parity.
Like I just said, it could do that in single quarter if it sold like the PS2. Even if doesn't, a smallish lead over the whole year will turn into a 1-2 million lead in just the last two months of a year in the US alone. Worldwide, it could be more than double that. So your claim that the 360 has an nearly insurmountable lead is simply false. A massive holiday season sales burst could easily bring it into parity.
"it could do that in single quarter if it sold like the PS2."
Yea and I'm sure most of us can walk on water to. So you are saying by some freak miracle the PS3 is going to outsell the 360 by "2-3 MILLION CONSOLES PER MONTH" in a single QTR to finally break even or pull a little ahead?
They can't even make that many PS3's per month and at $499-599 no one is going to buy that many.
Hey I'd like to see the PS3 outsell the 360 by any number in one month before you start making unrealistic predictions like that.
I said your argument is flawed because PS2 has shown that such a gap can be closed very quickly.
It could, but this is highly unlikely given the facts as we know them today. Until evidence shows otherwise, why would we logically assume this to be a likely event?
I didn't say anything about likely or unlikely, just that the strength of the lead of the Xbox 360 is simply not that strong. It's currently on place for a solid second place according to that other article, which means sales are vulnerable to be beaten by the PS3. Whether the PS3 actually sells that well is to be seen.
Ok here's another unlikey scenario, Microsoft blows up the 360 dies today never sells another console.
The PS3 will then catch up to it in 18 months selling 500,000 consoles a month or 9 months selling 1 million a month each and every month. Even if the 360 does not sell another console we are still talking another year to catch up. It's price would prevent that from happening even if it had NO competition.
an 8-9 million console lead is about as safe as you are ever going to get in this business.