No it just proves you ddont know you maths.
If you go by peoples guess here....
Ps3=23m
360=30 mill.
30/23 =1.3 or 30% more.
What 30% more than 13%?
16.9%
The gap is pretty much were it should be.
And the reason the PS3 was so high last year?
Haze?
@traveller.
Perhaps you need to learn you maths.
If the PS3 is at 21 mill.
And the 360 is at 28 million, thats 28/21 or 33% more.
If the Ps3 sold 13% on their sales, 33% more of that is 17.2%.
So the 360 platofrm should have sold aorund 17%
OMG they failed by 1%!!!
Not exactly the dire picture you would like to paint is it?
And PS3 numbers are strong last year because of Haze.
@cyberwaffles.
Depends what your crieria is, for shear number of "not on the other consoles" releases, the 360 beats the PS3 hands down this year:
360:
Onechanbara
Race Pro
Star Ocean 4
Halo Wars
Stoked
Ninja Blade
Battlestations: Pacific
Velvet Assasin
Infernal
Halo ODST
Forza 3
Splinter Cell Conviction
Left 4 Dead 2
Magna Carta II
Dungeon Hero
P...
@red2tango
ps3 got uncharted 2, ratchet and clank, deamon souls while 360 only got ODST and Splinter Cell, Forza 3, Left 4 Dead 2, Magnacarta 2, Dungeon Hero, . Splinter Cell is good but Uncharted alone kills it. ODST is confirmed to be shorter than Halo 3, but still sell4 x more then Uncharted 2 (which is sad, U2 deserves more). Forza 3 will have no peer, and Left for Dead 2 will be another million seller for Valve.
Fixed that for you. And if you dont own a 360, you sh...
"The recent sales boost Microsoft’s Xbox 360 console has enjoyed since a drastic price cut in September of last year seems to have fizzled out as a result of stiff competition "
Thats not a fact, thats conjecture. How stupid does it look if Sony and Nintendoe are down by 20% and not 8%.
I dont mind a comapirsim article if there is something to compare, to decide that it's fizzled out because stiff competition when you dont have the competitions numbers? Gimme a...
I'll tell you why this article is stupid:-
"Microsoft’s Xbox 360 console had enjoyed a sales boost versus its competition when they announced lower prices on all 3 available 360 versions in September of 2008"
- Had? We dont know if it is still having a boost "versus it's competition." Sony's numbers arent out yet.
He compares it to Sonys console, then to itself pre economic meltdown.
Clever stuff, and pointless.
W...
One 1/4 of slaes that are down by 100k does not show any "spike" waering off.
If all the consoles are down in shipments, and the 360 is actually the least affected, then what would you say?
You cant go saying, oh oh look sales effect has worn off, when you have nothing to compare it to.
it could well be that all the consoles are down by 20% and the 360 is only down by 8%.
Then who looks stupid?
Thats what it has to d...
@darkride, maybe it's because its just conjecture, the writer doesnt really kniow why the sales were worse (by a "shock" 100k) than last year.
If your prepared for Sony to come out on the 30th and announce less than 1.2 million sold, and you prepared for exactly the same artcile written not about Sonys price cut, but about the popularity of the PS3 in general, then go for it. But most aorund can see this article for what it was, just somebody trying to stir before Son...
And yet sells more than ever before for a fiscal year?
Go figure, a whopping 100k differnece between this time last year and now?
Sounds like sour grapes from this website.
@sorceror- Eh?
They lost 130 million for the quarter. Yes thats true, but this is the slow 1/4 if anything.
As for profits. Entertainment made $160 million profit for the year.
Down from $497 million the year before.
Wait, doesnt that mean they made 2 years of profits in the entertianment division?
Why yes, yes it does.
LOL at disagree. How the hell can you disagree with figures?
And for good measure for the doubters.
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I doubt it, they increased 360 sales, and still made a entertaiment division profit for the entire year.
If you compare to this time last year, they didnt even loose as much money.
Given the tough economy, I think they did more than OK.
Entertainment and Devices made 7.7bn in revenue down 500 million from last year.
Xbox360 sold 11.2 million up from 8.7 million.
I woudlnt say that was a bad result.
Actaully there is now some DX11 features inside the 360 ;)
Multicore support for the command buffer for one.
@GWAVE "They don't have strong 1st-party support, nor do they share their software tech with other devs."
You dont even have a clue do you? Why would you come up with a line like that , when you dont even know what your talking about?
MS has always released their tech to developers absolutly free, you dont even have to programme for the 360 to understand how to programme for the 360.
Perhaps you should take a good look here, download a few whitep...
We will know the global numbers by the end of the month.
Sony relase fiscal data on the 30th July for the 1/4.
MS release fiscal data for the 1/4 (and year) on 23rd July.
Then people can decide whos selling what globally.
Section 8 got cancelled for the PS3.
http://g4tv.com/games/ps3/3...
@ Goldsack...
every ps3 exclusive sold over 1,5 million copies.
KZ2, LBP, Infamous, Heavenly Sword, Motorstorm2
Rubbish.LBP was given away free, just like Infamous is now in PAL regions, MS2 sold pitfully. MS1 sold well though.
HS sold so well, the devloper has had to go multiplatform..
BTW, no one over 30 gives a rats bum about Ratchet and Clank. But we do play Halo.
Already out this year:
360 Only: Star Ocean 4, Ninja Blade, Stoked
PC/360: Race Pro, Velvet Assasin, Infernal
To come:
PC/360: Raven Squad, Section 8, Darkest of Days, Tropico 3, Risen, Dungeon Hero, Divinity 2, Ago of Conan .
Consider them added.
"Uncharted 2 will own everything this year" - Unless you dont own a PS3.
Seriosusly, your as bad as he his. Just give it a break for Pete's sake.
Your guys opinons are not facts. Get over it.
My 9 month old Samsung LCD handles 1080p over componant just fine.
However I doubt it will handle 3d.
Wouldnt it have been better to say that 3d TV's require HDMI for 3d.
It's not like my standard 2d TV is going to be misisng out.
On a side note, if I could afford a 3d capable TV, I'm pretty sure I could buy myself another Xbox.