My point being, even after just counting the latest 2-years ignoring all the other years the gap shrunk by 1 million. Move the numbers around whatever way makes you all feel better, but the gap shrunk by 1 million....
Go ahead, extrapolate that!
The cycle is about to end in 2-3 years and with the Wii eating out of both PS3 and Xbox 360 plate, tell me how the sales will increase significantly?
Combined, we got almost 150 million consoles sol...
LOL... people arguing about chumpchange numbers that aren't relevant. The only number people should care about (not about who won a year by 100k sold) is the gap. The gap has barely shrunk 1 million since this generation basically started. You can move those numbers around how you like, but that is a small gap decrease in 3-4 years!
It will be irrelevant by the time a new generation starts... which should be in 2-3 years time if not started sooner by Nintendo.
All I can say is for Sony to outsell MS, the gap should be smaller.
Let's look at this way, the gap now is 5 million consoles after a stellar run for Sony since September of 2009 after the price reduction and redesign. The gap when Sony introduced the PS3 was 6 million. That is a million gain in the gap.
So if Sony were outselling in 3 years straight, then it couldn't have been by much, in fact on average that would be less than 30,000 consoles monthl...
Triply right if you own all three! Quadruple right if you also own the often left behind PC!
Actually, I beg to differ. If anything, software design in itself may have limitations that prevent a certain feature from being implemented efficiently within the constraint the designer setup. An example of this is the friends list limitation set by the original Xbox Live.
So even though the hardware is capable, a design that doesn't account for those features will prevent it from happening. Same with hardware, if you optimize efficiently you can draw out a lot of power...
LOL... inverse logic for the fanboys.
PS3 can support this, even though nobody made it yet. Xbox 360 can't do this, because nobody made it yet!
Nah, the vast majority should NOT care. Content will come to all consoles regardless of sales, just look at the games that came out last generation for GameCube and the original Xbox...
Because America gets sales statistics every month and America happens to have the largest market share, about 50% of the world wide gaming market. That is more than Japan and Europe combined!
The fact that Dead Space: Extraction is a Wii port highly suggest it is paid for by Sony. Why would you go through the effort of porting a game to a system that aren't to kind to porters?
To top it off, Sony is clearly trying to sell you the PS Move, that is why it is being ported!
Bottom line, Sony like MS is paying for content. Nothing wrong with that, unless you are MS!!!
ya, not everyone can see straight if they are a fanboy.
Nope, Sony likely paid for the content....
I wish there were more Asian and black characters in games, but I guess I can't blame the west when Japan themselves don't create Asian heroes! What an atrocity?!
Don't bother with him, the PS3 is no longer in shortage:
http://n4g.com/news/565067/...
I find it ridiculous that it has a shortage, yet the 360 outsold the PS3 in May in the US (almost 200k as opposed to 150k). Where is the shortage or do MS just have that much more units on the market?
I don't buy the whole shortage argument for one moment, when it h...
So it seems the PS3 then peaked... as soon as the Xbox 360 S came out?
Ironically there is no longer a shortage as soon as the new Xbox 360 S came out....
Except the Xbox 360 also outsold the PS3 in May.... The gap has just widened this month.
But yeah, a price cut always does the trick. Helped the PS3 numerous times as well as the 360... The cycle repeats!
One game will get a temporary boost nothing more. A price reduction down the line will spur sales, but when? When a new console generation comes out?
The next cycle will start in max 2-3 years and the current gen will almost be obsolete over night!
I'm not arguing with you if the PS3 has great hardware or not. That is up for each individual to decide.
My comment was intended to illustrate the point that early adopters paid $600 for a console that it's power wasn't utilized long after it was introduced. When we talk about computing power, it roughly doubles every 18 months (1.5 years) so by the time it is utilized it is obsolete.
I would rather have cheaper consoles and shorter cycles. Imagi...
It might work now, but the early adopters paid for it as well as Sony.
What news? The entire site is about flamebait articles, rumours, speculation, top 10 lists and a heap of mis-information!
It's basically news for gamers by the amateur blogging crowd looking for hits!
I agree, Balmer is an idiot. Wish Bill Gates was still at the helm. Unfortunately, he is off doing charity work giving away his mountain of money.
Courier was a really interesting concept, I still don't understand why the canned it.