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Retailers predict Xbox 360 console war victory

In a recent survey conducted by trade paper MCV which questioned 100 independent videogames shops, the Xbox 360 consoles emerged as the favorite to win the console war.

Despite the Wii console topping monthly sales figures over and over again, sometimes by a large margin, only 16% of the voters in this survey believed it could win the war. About 49% believed that the Xbox 360 had the best chances of winning, followed by a 35% vote of confidence in the PS3.

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Liar6735d ago

The Sony trolls are going to have one hell of a hissy fit now.

Mu5afir6735d ago

I mean, it's not like it's a POLL... I am assuming Europe / Japan / Others were left out of this POLL. And yet the Wii is the top console on the market, and the Ps3 is catching up. What ya know?

chitown6735d ago (Edited 6735d ago )

Liar
who the hell is this kid anyway?

pathetic i hate how these polls can just proclaim who they think is going to win the war without any concrete evidence. half the time theyre just trying to get traffic site and start flame wars

BTW the 360 better watch its back the ps3 is starting gain serious steam with all the AAA games comin out

Ureval6735d ago

OK so for like the past few weeks since I got on this site there has been one story after the next that says Microsoft will win the consoe battle, Sony is exaggerating its success, and the Wii is fun for a few minutes then gets boring.

So why the hell do people keep posting about the great PS3? I dont have a problem with the PS3, but seriously.

Stop being stupid.

TANOD6735d ago

Poll on consumers count

In Europe it is either ps3/wii . x360 doesnt even exist anywhere except UK but for how long?

what happens when GT5,MGS4,FF13 hits the scene?

Genuine6735d ago (Edited 6734d ago )

Your French, right? Did you know that more consoles are sold in a month in N.A. than what France has sold in 2 years? Guess where the 360 is alot more popular than ps3? That's right, N.A. Ps3 isn't gaining steam in N.A., it's losing it.

My theory is that english speaking gamers enjoy playing online with other english speaking gamers. Ever noticed how anywhere that english is the native language 360 hammers the ps3? No wonder the ps3 didn't come with a head set for voice chat, because your not able to communicate with 9 out of 10 of the people you play with anyway.

@Salgoods comment below

This is an easy one to explain. If your in school in the U.S. and your not playing Halo, then your not part of the "in" crowd. As far as sales, if you haven't noticed 360 has trampled the ps3 in sales every single month since launch. The Nov ps3 sales are nothing more than the normal holiday boost. And in case you didn't notice, 360 still sold a little more than 300,000 over the ps3.

salgoods6735d ago

ps3 not gaining any ground in NA? i think you need to check npd the last several months. the 360 once had a 4:1 lead in NA. now its at 1.8:1.

someone's got some splaining to do lucy

InMyOpinion6734d ago

6 frustrated trolls and counting.

Pain6734d ago

cuz its not like it selling 'MORE' in the rest of the World, And World i mean as in the other chunk of
the planet thats not part of America........

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INehalemEXI6735d ago (Edited 6735d ago )

Still early watch those prediction %'s change as time goes on. Good luck to all and may the best console win.

As Game Library's are now those #'s make sense Yet things change.

Genuine6735d ago (Edited 6735d ago )

The ps3 has already lost. It is too far behind to catch the 360. Going by current numbers, if the ps3 started to outsell the 360 by 100,000 a month worldwide, it would be almost 6 years before the ps3 even managed to catch the 360. The only thing people are going to see as time goes on, is a higher % of people predicting the ps3 to lose.

It's really strange how sony fanboys keep thinking the ps3 will win. Although, the ps3 gets brutally outsold monthly in the U.S., and has proven to be an inferior game machine to the 360.

I know that sony fanboys like to toot their horn about Japanese and European ps3 sales. But isn't this going to hurt sales in countries that have English as a native language and plan on gaming online. I'm sure after playing enough games with people they can't communicate with, english speaking only gamers will switch to Xbox Live where the majority of the gamers speak english. Ever noticed how the 360 always outsells the ps3 in Canada, United Kingdom, Australia, and the U.S.?

salgoods6735d ago

its entertaining that teh 360 fanboys once proclaimed the ps3 had to outsell the 360 by 500,000 a month for upteen years just to catch it.

then we witessed marty boy say well the ps3 needs to outsell the 360 by 320,000 every month for upteen years just to catch it

now we have you saying it has to outsell the 360 every month by 100,000 for upteen years just to catch it.

is it me or all those nubmers getting smaller and smaller.

i know what it is...you must have been late to the 360 strategist meeting.

mccomber6735d ago (Edited 6735d ago )

the Wii is the one they say is least likely to come out on top, with the PS3 following the 360 more closely in comparison... but I'm guessing we'll see most comments poking the stick at Sony.

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Final Fantasy X 25th Anniversary Website Launches With New Nomura Artwork and Merchandise

Square Enix launches Final Fantasy X 25th anniversary site, revealing new Nomura art, books, music releases, and merchandise.

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-Foxtrot27d ago

Look I know VIII has its issues and all that but how on earth can the do big anniversary events with new artwork and merchandise for VII, IX and X yet VIII got sweet f*** all.

They could have given it something during its 25th anniversary yet all it got was a single Happy Anniversary post on their social media.

solideagle27d ago

they should know that we are OG fans of VIII as it sold truckload as well. not as much as VII or X. I personally didn't like IX but X and VI are my personal fav.

Shadow Hearts 2 covenant is another game I love. I hope one day someone can make remake, I would be delighted

Relientk7727d ago

Final Fantasy VIII is great and you are always the first to defend it in the comments

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Why the Wii is Such a Nostalgic System in 2026

The Wii is now a retro console. Let’s get nostalgic about an often maligned system.

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ActualWhiteMan33d ago (Edited 33d ago )

Crazy to think the WII is to the Switch 2, as the NES was to the WII back then. 20 Year difference.

jznrpg33d ago

My wife asks me to bust it out (heh) everyone once in a while to play bowling and tennis with the kids. There was a ton of slop on it but some good stuff as well.

Smellsforfree32d ago

Wii was great but boy howdy did it cause Microsoft to go on a dark walk with the Kinect and the disastrous XBox One launch that they arguably never recovered from.

Loktai32d ago

Not nostalgic for me.. I was there.. anyone who wasnt a little kid realized it was a gamecube with shit tacked onto it, it was the "joke" system and was well below even the switch in terms of comparing it to the latest machines at the time. The machine was well loved by young people and "casual gamers" who now remember it 20 years on, or in most cases more of its sales came in the 15-20 years ago range not right at launch- but again its not nostalgic for people who were "gamers" then really, just for those who ended up with one in their house, the games , graphics, interface and online features were archaic already in 2006.

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15 Years Ago, Mortal Kombat (2011) Saved Gaming’s Biggest Fighting Franchise

A brutal reset, a smarter story, and a return to what made it great—Mortal Kombat (2011) revived the series.

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italiangamer36d ago

"Gaming’s Biggest Fighting Franchise"

Press X to (seriously) doubt.

DarXyde34d ago

Underrated comment. I used to hate that game so much that any time my siblings asked me to play it, I just picked Hom and shut myself down mid-match.

Soy34d ago

And then MK1 killed it again.

DivineHand12534d ago (Edited 34d ago )

15 years went by so fast. I remember playing through the story mode at launch.