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Xbox 360 v.s. PS3 Has Anyone Won Yet?

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doughboy04690
at February 18, 2007 in Console Gaming, PS3, Wii and Xbox 360. 4 Comments

Xbox 36 v.s. PS3

This war between consoles has been going on for a while now (read: 4 Months) and many are wondering whether or not a winner has been decided. You could include the Wii in this war but I find that it is in a separate new class of casual gaming and semi-physical gaming. Anyways the Xbox 360 having been out for a much longer time has obviously sold much more consoles but by comparing their numbers at lauch you can somewaht predict a winner. The Xbox 360, launched November 2005, sold 325,902 in the first month of its launch. The PS3 on the other hand only sold 195,000 units in the first onth of launch. That is a huge gap. Also during the PS3 launch the Xbox 360 sold 511,000. You could balme this on the bad production management of the PS3 but the Xbox 360 had the same problem at launch so that claim really is not valid. This would mean we could declare a winner in the first round but the second round is blazing forward with PS3 shortages still rampant to my knowledge and Xbox 360 being bought more and more. The Xbox 3660 being bought more an more could be becuase the people that wnated the PS3 were turned away by the price or by the shortages. We'll have to see how it plays out in the future.With a possible Xbox 360 Version 2 and the Fall 2007 Title Halo 3 coming, Sony had better have something up its sleeve to counteract all of those sales that those options will bring.

PS3 Sales Somewhere Around 25% Less than Predicted

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doughboy04690
at January 16, 2007 in PS3. 0 Comments

PS3 with Controller

According to Dailytech.com, PS3 sales are around 25% less than Sony predicted, thanks to a few different factors. From an independent company, Nomura Securities, they say that the sales in North America are struggling to get anywhere near the mark that Sony set. Sony’s orgional prediction was that they would have 2 million units for launch globally and another 2 million for the rest of the holidays, but according to the facts that number was set back to around 2 million in total globally. According to the real numbers, they were 530,000 away from getting to that 2 million mark. If things keep playing out as they are Normura predicts 4.5 million units worldwide by March instead of Sony’s goal of 6 million. That puts Sony a little behind in their numbers. Sony had better get their manufacturing act together because they are getting called on their prediction numbers and they need to start producing if they are to succeed ever.