PS3 begins to overtake Xbox360 in sales since launch
January 5, 2008
I hate to beat a dead horse but it looks like the PS3 is starting to pull ahead of the Xbox360 when you sync sales since launch date.
The Wii is currently sitting at about 19.54M units worldwide. Xbox360 has over 16 million sold (early holiday reports are putting it in the neighborhood of 17 million). The PS3 is sitting at 8.92 million units sold.
Understand that I am a Nintendo man all the way and I love my Wii (and DS Lite, thanks Santa) but the amount of negative reporting the PS3 had to endure during its first year makes me think the same people working for Hillary Clinton also work for Microsoft (go Obama!)
The folks at Sony have long said that they see the PS3 being around for the long haul. They look at the lifespan of the PS2 (launched in March 2000) and how it is still selling very well. Sony is looking at how the other video game console manufacturers give each system a four or five year lifespan and they are thinking ten years. Will this gamble pay off? Who knows but Sony is clearly basing the future on their past experience with the PS2
Look at that, released just under eight years ago and the PS2 has a sales chart very close to that of the Xbox360! Clearly the PS2 was (and still is) a huge success. Why Sony decided to pull the PS2 chips from their low end PS3 is beyond me. Both the wii and the Xbox360 will play games from the last generation of their consoles. Is the couple of dollars they save worth it or is demand for the PS2 still so high that they would rather lower the price of the PS3 to a point where buying both a PS3 and a PS2 makes more economical sense for the customer?
Sony has made a few mistakes recently (Root Kits, DRM, etc…) but I no longer think that the PS3 is among those mistakes.
Charts are from VGChartz.
Looking to buy any of these three consoles?
Sony PlayStation 3 40GB System with Spider-Man 3 Movie
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As for the Wii… Good luck finding that one either in stores or online! Your best bet is to try eBay.
Written by Steve D · Filed Under Games
Looking at the graph of sales from each consoles launch. The ps3 has a very respectable curve compared to the xbox360. Consider the fact that the xbox360 had no other competition in this latest generation of consoles when it was launched. Its sales curve is very similar to that of the PS3. While the PS3 had 2 other consoles to compete with one of which has sold unbelievably well. So realistically it looks like ps3 will be in the same if not better position in the same time line.
Good graph! However, I think the 360 is falling short of the PS2, as this graph shows:
http://vgchartz.com/hwlaunch.php?cons1=PS2®1=All&cons2=PS3®2=All&cons3=X360®3=All&weeks=132
And I can’t find a good chart to show, but it looks like the 360 sold about as many in it’s second year as it did in its first. And I’d think that you’d want to sell more. So seems like it has stalled a bit?
Just some thoughts,
Finally…someone makes a post like this one! All I read is about how the PS3 failed in console sales and number of games when compared to the 360…though when you look at both consoles FIRST years…they are very similar. This post, while using the somewhat controversial VGChartz.com data, points out that console sales are almost identical, and as the above poster mentioned…the PS3 actually had competition. Now note that in its first year, the 360 had largely bad PS2 ports just like the PS3 has had bad 360 ports…devs simply develop for the console that is best distributed first and then ports to other systems. And at the end of the 360s first year, there were some good games finally coming out, just like we’ve seen over the past few months with the PS3. Just keep in mind that even though M$ was first to market this generation with a horribly engineered machine, you still need to compare apples to apples….
The reason behind the Ps3 dropping BC may be to encourage PS3 owners to buy PS3 games. The software attach rate is awful for the PS3 right now, which is a big problem.
VGChartz can be a bit on the inaccurate side. For instance, they still have not updated their data on the latest Xbox sales, so your analysis may be built on faulty data.
When I wrote the article news of the Xbox360 selling 1.7 million units over the holidays was just coming out. Since then Sony has claimed to have sold over a million PS3 units over the same time span.
Time-shifting those sales curves serves no real purpose…other than to make PS3 fan-boys feel better about waiting an extra year to get in on the next generation of gaming.
If you take the PS3 curve, and instead of timeshifting in backward in time, you numerically shift it upward in total sales, you will see that the PS3 and Xbox 360 sales curves are absolutely identical. Right down to every little blip and slope. What does this tell you? At best PS3 and Xbox 360 have been selling esentially 1-to-1 since the release of the PS3. Microsoft had 10 million units in the field by that point in time.
In order for Sony to surpass the Xbox 360 it actually needs to start outselling the Xbox 360 on a consistent month-to-month basis. The Wii has done that handily, not the PS3. If anything, the PS3 is about to enter is’t “post-early-adopter” flattening of sales period. Where Sony will either need to cut prices (leading to more losses) or enhance their “perceived value” in the minds of consumers. An increase in BluRay momentum will help here, but only slightly. Instead, Sony needs a MASSIVE infusion of AAA titles just to stay “even”.
I have many gamer buddies, some with each system. The Xbox 360 guys are actually frustrated because they can’t possibly play all of the games that are available for their 360’s that they want to play. The PS3 guys, on the other hand, enjoy their machines plenty….but are always “longing” for a future title release because they are getting bored of the few games that they have and enjoy.
Let’s check back on these graphs in 6 months shall we?
-D-
Like I stated in my above post…This article is logical…the David Eisenberg post is not… The article is stating “apples to apples, the PS3 and 360 sales have been similar with PS3 slowly gaining an edge”. What David’s post is saying is “the 360 has sold more consoles than the PS3″. And who cares since its not an logical comparison? Of course it has sold more…it has been out longer! Thats the 360 fanboy logic I see plastered all over sites and it’s hilarious.
And I disagree about his early adopter theory…the PS3 has been a “wait and see” for many gamers and with its now proven performance and good lineup sales will INCREASE and not level off like the 360. It will surpass 360 eventually in total console sales.
And I’m glad to hear that your representative sampling of the gaming public (your “gamer buddies”) like their 360s more than PS3s. Thats certainly concrete evidence that the 360 is better. Since sarcasm doesn’t always come through in type I’ll just state that I’m being sarcastic here…
Yes…we’ll check back in 6 months and see total consoles sold and I’m certain that PS3 share of total consoles sold will have increased and the 360’s will have decreased…which is just what this article is stating.
The curves are irrelevant. Software sales are driven by curves. They are drawn by the number of owners that have the consoles and are buying games for them. Right now, there is no evidence indicating that Sony is making a dent in either Microsoft’s or Nintendo’s leads.
Honestly, the point about the PS-2 outselling the other consoles actually is more damaging to the PS-3. Even Sony partisans are not jumping on the PS-3 bandwagon and that is a mighty troubling sign.
Finally, the point that MS has been around longer by one year doesn’t cover the 10 million unit gap. Microsoft didn’t sell 10 million in the first year.
Thats cause theres less than a 10 million unit gap. Its closer to 8. Your whole arguement is petty and unfounded. You guys are just sour because of your systems RRoD problem. You also cant stand that the old ps2 is doing better than your system.
You say Sony partisans arent jumping on the ps3? how many Microsoft partisans do you think are jumping on the xbox? I bet you 90 of the ps3 “fanboys” who posted here, did so from a Windows PC. I know people who have 360’s but hate em. I know people who HAD 360’s but sold them in favor of ps3’s. I also know people who had 360s that broke down and rather than pay more to M$ to fix it (similar like how you have to
pay M$ extra for online play, a bigger harddrive, wireless controllers, HD movie player, etc) they just chose to throw poorly engineered 360’s in the garbage where they belong so they could make room for a shiny new ps3. I even know M$ fanboys who avoid the 360 like it’s the plague.
Face it, I could go on and on and on in response to your’s and david’s claims. I could easily lay waste to any stupid arguement you could raise. The time will come when your system is over taken. Dont bitch like a little girl, take it like a man. It’s like you guys are getting ultra bitter by the day as you read bout how your HDDVD is going to shit, or experience your constant hardware failures, or hear about your overly-populated-with-assholes online service which you actually pay for, is leading less and less over the PSN.
Anyway you slice or dice it, the PS3 is going to take over, and with all its thousands of features and reliable engineering (not to mention constantly updated/added features like Blu-Ray 1.1), the 360 (or Wii for that matter) will stand no chance in the long haul.
My prediction, the wii will eventually be the 1st to fall off. I mean the gameplay is only fun for about 30 minutes and what adult can really stand those graphics?? Not to mention the whole claim to fame (motion controller) is also in the PS3. Its just Sony unlike Nintendo, isnt using the 30+ year old light sensing technology to do it. I Challenge any one to play High Velocity Bowling on ps3 and Wii Bowling on Wii and tell me that Wii’s bowling game is better (impossible).
As for the 360, it will give way to both the wii and the ps3 due to its outdated and poorly engineered hardware and single player target. Not to mention it’s American, and as we’ve seen with countless other battles of imports vs domestics (look at the auto industry..GM is going down,) the Americans are doomed to lose (also because of poor engineering…coincidence?? hmmmm..)
All that being said, do youselves a favor…buy a ps3 =D
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Wow, some good news for the PS3 fanboys. Too bad there aren’t any good games to play on the PS3. And the cross platform games, it seems like the 360 version was way better then the PS3 version. (except CoD4 which was identical).
Where is this super duper system? How come all the games run slower and sometimes takes 2 or 3 times as long to load?
And before you open your pie hole, I have all 3 systems. I’ll buy a 360 version of the game before i buy a PS3 version because performance is sometimes better and with Live, I have a better online experiance.
You, strumer, are not a very bright one I would guess. “Too bad there aren’t any goog games to play on the PS3.” I’ve heard that load of crap for a year. I guess Resistance, Unreal Tournament 3, Ratchet and Clank FToD, Uncharted, Folklore, Heavenly Sword, Warhawk, and Motorstorm don’t count? And those are only exclusives. There’s also NBA, Madden, GH3, Rock Band, COD4, Assassin’s Creed, and Orange Box also don’t count? And there’s tons more. And the only bad ports were Madden 08 and the Orange Box, so keep your dumb comments to yourself. And while the two systems may be pretty equal now, what about when the Dualshock 3, Home, Haze, MGS4, Killzone 2, Little Big Planet, GT5, and Tekken 6 come out? Will they still be equal? I think not. Use your head man.
Hey Ruddiger
I get a kick out of how you call David a fanboy when it is painfully obvious that you are one yourself. His point was simply that for the PS3 to take over the 360 in TOTAL console sales they will need to start outselling the 360 on a much larger scale than they are now. Nowhere in his post does he deny that the reason the 360 has more units out is because it has been out longer that is common sense what he is stating is that with 360’s big lead sony needs to outsell by a big margin not by such a small margin if they hope to catch up.
His comment on how the ps3 also has a bad attach rate is true and while stating that his buddies like the 360 more than ps3 has no real meaning unless you have been living in a cave you have no excuse to realize how few AAA game’s sony machine has out right now. Microsoft is laying a whooping on sony and nintendo when it come’s to software and if you watched the CES keynote last night you would have proof(over 1 billion more dollars software sold than nintendo)
Fairly good argument…except that I was making a point regarding David’s fanboyism (I do not deny mine) and the flaws in his logic based on his bias. I don’t disagree about the attach rate, though I must comment on the lower intelligence of 360 owners since they are playing on a system that breaks 1/3 of the time just because they think it has great games….what about making a statement on demanding quality in what you spend your money on? It’s stupid to put up with something that breaks…thats why I’ll never buy a 360 and own a PS3. And I enjoy it plenty and have more games than I know what to do with. It appears that you are a bit of a fanboy as well, based on the post below. A 360 shortage a year after release? I call shenanigans! I recall seeing an ample 360 supply February of 2006…four months after release. You must have the 360 and the Wii mixed up. And the 1 billion dollars more M$ made on software over Nintendo just about covers the RRoD warranty. So congratulations, they actually broke even.
Unless the Ps3 starts doubling the 360 sales it wont catch up with microsoft because of the headstart.
What a lot of people fail to realize is the shortages.When the Ps3 was first released there was a shortage for a month or two when the 360 was released there was a shortage for almost a freaking year, if M$ kept up demand those charts would be different.
People also tend to forget that console makers sell consoles at a loss and make up profits in software sales and guess who is whooping the other two consoles in that department. The figures went out last night at the CES keynote and Microsoft sold over 1 billion dollars more than the #2 console being the Nintendo Wii!
I have all 3 systems. And yes ps3 had a slow start but to say that there are no good games is just plain ignorant. They have resistance, Motorstorm, Warhawk, Heavenly Sword, ridge racer, Uncharted, and assassins creed. All of those games except one are ps3 exclusives… Yes playing online is better and more fun on the xbox 360. But that all might change with the ps3 home. Sony is being more innovative and taking more risk. And because they are doign that, they are being scrutinzed.. sure halo and gears of war, are great games. some of the best, but sony is coming along also with some great games. Not to mention their lineup for the coming year. Gran tursimo, Metal Gear 4, Killzone 2, Tekken and the sequels to the above mentioned games. The ps3 is a system that really cant be beat. $500 and you get Wireless built in and a blue ray player. Not to mention it plays most if not all ps2 and ps1 games. Microsoft fanboys can’t comprehend this sophisticated power so they have to resort to talking smack about it. which is sad. Xbox also has the wretched 3 red rings of death. I’ve had to exchange my 360 3 times. 2 times because of the red rings. and 1 time because the power button didnt work. And longer load times on the ps3? please say specifically what games you are talking about because i find little to no load times on the ps3 and are quite shorter than the ones on the 360.. Like i said, i have all 3 systems and try to be unbiased to all of them but you gotta give props where they are do, and sony is finally coming along. Microsoft cant handle that…. Also they are losing their hd dvd support…looks like blue ray is better ;)
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jebus, PS3 fanboys sure are a defensive lot.
360 sold more units in 07 than PS3 even when the whole PROD thing became public. Nuff said.
Yes, the Xbox360 has sold more units than the PS3 in ‘07, no one is saying otherwise. However, by syncing sales by launch date you have a view of how each console has done over its available lifetime.
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hd-dvd = lost!! 3shitty = losing
And I totally agree with you ‘Spunkee’, except for what u said about Gears and Galo. They’re good games, but NOT some of the best, not even close mate. I’d still rather play Max Payne than Galo. But yeah the amount of TOP CLASS exclusives we’re gonna get is just staggering. MGS4, KillZone2, LBP, Drake pt2, Resistance pt2, Tekken, The Agency, LA Noire (and rockstar is making an exclusive franchise for the PS3 as well), HAZE. There are gonna be SO many games to choose from.
I agree with most of the people comments. I am a proud owner of the PS3. The hogwash about the PS3 not having any good games is not true. I will admit that at the beginning the developers were having a hard time with the PS3. I think the PS3 will pass the 360 in sales, but it will take a while since the 360 had a year head start. There is so much that you can do on a PS3 that the 360 fans do not know about. I know a lot of people who plan on buying a PS3 but wanted to wait until the format war was decided. Sony has a huge advantage over the 360. Sony fans are a lot more loyal than the 360 fans. A lot of the Sony fans will not buy the 360 no matter what. A lot of the people that have the 360 are more likely to buy the PS3. If no one believes me then just look at the Japanese sales. I would rather pay the one time fee of 500 dollars for the PS3 and have online play for free forever than buy the 360 and have to pay a monthly online fee. The PS3 online might not be up to par with the 360, but Sony has already and will continue to improve it. If you have a 360 for just 3 years and pay for live then that adds up over time.
WOW…..nice spin on that chart.
Is your middle name “The Amazing Kreskan”.
Total BS damage control from another Sony fanboy(you claim to be an Nintendo fanboy…I have serious reservations of such).
Sony has had 2 or 3 months where there sales numbers exceeded those of the 360…that’s not the way to catch up to the decided lead advantage Microsoft currently owns.
I have both a PS3 and a 360, both are great machines…the 360 just has WAY more great games to play…PS3 will have there games, I’m not concerned with that…but you should twist the numbers to make Sony look better…no matter how badly they need the it.
There’s just way too much PS3 and 360 fanboy chat on here! All really worried their console of choice claiming second place behind Nintendo.
I think it’s pretty public knowledge that PS3 & 360 sales are about 1 to 1 now. Lets just assume that this sales ratio stays the same and Sony and Microsoft continue to cancel each other out…
…The PS3 does not catch up with 360. However the 10m gap would also stay about the same. In a few years time the 360 may have sold 60m units and the PS3 50m units. The 360 remains in second place, but the market shares of the two machines would have narrowed because a 10 million gap is a smaller percentage of the total number of sales…
This is is obviously hyperthetical. My point is that arguing about the 10m sales gap or whether one console will finally overtake the other is pretty pointless unless one starts to far outsell the other - which at the moment is simply not the case and looks pretty unlikely in the future.
If both consoles continue to cancel out each others then there’s no big deal. Both systems will be successful in their own right, whichever ends up in last place. The competition between Sony and Microsoft will push both corporations to secure decent exclusive content for their consoles and improve the quality and value of their services. As the install base of both machines increase 3rd parties will not get away with poor ports to either machines (I’m looking at you Valve/EA). In the end, gamers will be the winner of the console war.
Hyperthetical? Hyperthetically you are an idiot.
I think your assessment is right - on a global base, because Xbox 360 doesn’t sell (well) in Japan and in Europe PS3 does better now.
But in North America Xbox 360 is leading.
Wow, I try to make an objective (an platform independent) comment and get personally attacked. This forum should have age verification (and maturity verification) before allowing posts.
My original comment NEVER said, “PS3 ain’t got no good games”. The PS3 has some wonderful games. In addition, I for one, am anxious to see LBP arrive for the PS3, it looks like a blast!
However, EVERY game gets stale! No matter how good it is! My comments regarding all of the 360 and PS3 owners that I know (even though it was ridiculed by an obvious fanboy) was simply a relation of my personal experience that every 360 owner I know has a backlogged list of 360 games sitting on their shelf that they can’t even get to yet. While, by contrast, every PS3 owner I know constantly expresses a desire for something new because the software supply just isn’t keeping up with their gaming appetite.
For those of you that are slow on the realities of business, when customers have a NEED you can’t or won’t fill….they become disatified with your product and become more likely to go someplace else.
The software attach rate (which nobody can argue with) reinforces my comment. I’m not knocking PS3, I am just trying inject some market reality into this discussion. There is such a thing as “opportunity cost”….and Sony is getting killed by this BIG TIME right now!
Accept it, then help to change it if you don’t like the result. Don’t act three and just insult someone as a response.
-D-
I understood your comments regarding your friends. What I was saying that your sampling of the gaming population was too small to be valid. Who cares if your 20 360 friends think they have too many games to play and your 20 PS3 friends don’t? If you mention overall attach rate of the 360 being higher…thats more useful in an argument because it covers all systems. Keep in mind that the average gamer continually buys games over the time they own their console, so the fact that the 360 was out longer still skews results… The longer you have a system…the more games you will have, so the people out there that have had their 360s for over two years (and have had them replaced at least twice) will have more games for their one system. Again…and apples to apples comparison is needed. And Techoff…of course there is fanboy chatter on here…its a fanboy article idiot! See…now you’ve made me resort to (more) namecalling.
Amen
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Let me express my opinion. I’ve had A Xbox360 since launch, and a PS3 since last november. I find myself honestly using my ps3 more and more everyday and here’s why:
1) Games - Yeah I said it games. PS3 has had a nice winter. There are more titles on the PS3 that I as a 27 year old (20 year gaming veteran) want to play than on the 360.
2) Online - Yeah I said it…ONLINE. People talk about xbox live structure and how it is superior to the PS3 and blah blah blah. Noone ever talks about reliability, I’ve been a XBL gold member for 2 years, and I like live, but you cant argue with the fact that LAG WILL RUIN THE EXPERIENCE for most online games, especially the popular ones. Sometimes you cant even connect (been happening alot lately google it if you think I’m kidding). I was at the point where I would have to disconnect every other computer in my house from the internet in order to play some games. But have any of you seen any issues with PS3 games like Warhawk and Resistance with lets be frank here, 16-32 players (a ridiculously large # of people for a console) in the same game with no issues, a feat which has not been seen on a MS platform.
3) Hardware/Media - PS3 is superior hardware in every category. And the multimedia functionality is extremely impressive and constantly expanding.
4) 3rd XBOX - Yup first and 2nd one died (actually happened to 2 of my friends as well), as they are known to do. Additionally, MS had really awful repair service before they made it public that they were having hardware issues. And I’m just afraid that its gonna happen again.
TO EVERYONE SAYING PS3 HAS NO GAMES…TELL ME… WHAT DOES 360 HAVE ON THE HORIZON NOW THAT HALO’s FINALLY COME AND GONE. I have heard nothing for your system since. Not a damn thing. What makes your system so much better in terms of games??? 1 million identicle shooters with COD4 being the only one that stands out?? greeeaaaaaat your system DOES have SO many more great games (sarcasm).
My point is, 360 only seems to have shooters. Realistic ones, crappy alien kiddy ones (halo), shitty 3rd person ones. Like thats really all there is. Aside from shooters, you have sports games which are available on every other system including my cellphone. So really… what the hell could you possible have in the game department that can make you say “we have all the games, ps3 has none”. And dont say Halo or Gears as they both suck shit (and im not just hating..i really think both those games are garbage..worthy of wii)
I beg to differ, you clearly did NOT understand my comment.
Xbox 360 owners don’t have games sitting on their shelves that they bought 2 years ago. They have games sitting on their shelves that they bought recently. Most gamers buy a game, play the heck out of it for a few weeks, then place it aside to play something new. Old games generally only get played if they are truly compelling titles (which are rare) OR if there is nothing else to play. 360 owners tend to be the former, PS3 owners tend to be the latter.
If you think my sample size is too small, then read more forums. If I had a dollar for every PS3 fanboy response that had “just wait for the release of ….” in it I would own Microsoft by now.
Regarding your “apples to apples” comment…I have started several businesses in my lifetime….the competitive landscape, market conditions, and customer requirements are different from one day to the next. Saying that PS3 sales today should be compared to Xbox sales of a year ago (in order to “be fair”) is like comparing my bank balance of today with the bank balance of the average American in 1920.
The only fact that matters is CURRENT month to month sales. Wii is kicking everyone’s butt and continues to do so on consistent basis. PS3 floats up and down on a monthly basis but it has not broken ahead of Xbox in any meaningful way.
I do not see how that will change without an increase in comparable software and services to support their platform.
-D-
Do you understand what attach rate is? Its the number of games purchased made for a particular console divided by the number of consoles sold. So it doesn’t matter whether the gamers set aside games they are done playing or if they ever play them again (or sell them…or throw them away)…they already purchased them and they figure into the ratio. So if you use attach rates to state that 360 is better than PS3 or to say that the PS3 is in trouble…you are wrong.
I realize your main point is just to state that your experience tells you that 360 owners have too many games to play and PS3 owners have too few. My point about that is…who cares? Thats just personal experience and you can’t use that information to justify saying the PS3 is “in trouble” or that it will never catch up to 360 system or software sales.
Maybe your 360 friends have too many games to play because they need to send their system in for repairs every six months… Its hard to play games when your system is in the shop for a month. Now if I had a dollar for every 360 fanboy who ignored statements regarding the RRoD just to say “but it has great games” I would own Microsoft and I could rid the world of Windows forever.
Congratulations on owning several business in your lifetime. I design laser and rail-gun weaponry and was the King of France for a time but that doesn’t make my points any more valid (even if that was true). We’re talking about logic here however…and we all know business is not logical mostly because the average consumer is ignorant.
I tire of this…it was fun for a while however…good show David.
I disagree on your comment with Xbox 360 gamers only playing recent games and PS3 owners playing all of these “compelling titles” they have (unless of course you were referring to there being nothing else to play). That is a fanboy statement if I have ever heard one. As a proud owner of BOTH systems I can easily say that I play nearly the same number of games for BOTH systems. Some are launch titles and some are newer. Many of my favorite games are from within the first launch year for BOTH systems. But if I were to choose a multi-plat title I would go with the 360 simply because I have enjoyed my gaming experiences more with the 360 than the PS3 although I do think both are great systems.
I own a Wii and a PS3 , by far the Wii is the best system as far as it being fun to have around a big group of people( basically on a Friday night drinking) However the arguments between 360 and PS3 are ridiculous, sure your gonna have 360 fanboys talking crap about PS3 and PS3 fanboys doing the same. Fact of the matter is, 360 has more titles to choose from because it has been around longer by one year. I’ve heard so many people talk about the PS3 being to much money, look people the PS3 is really not much more then the price of the 360. The PS3 has alot more to offer you technology wise then the 360 will ever offer, if you want HD you have to spend 199.00 on the 360 if you want this or that you have to buy it extra, the PS3 has SD card slots USB2.0 slots up the ass, BLU-RAY , which also so plays DVDS and CD’s Divx (which I think 360 also has. The DIVX part). My opinion is that I’m not hating on the 360, but hold up peeps, the technology in the PS3 is by far superb to the 360, from the processors in it , to the hardware that already comes with the PS3, to the free online gaming, and don’t argue with me about “oh XBOX LIVE is so much better network” Shit please give me a break you think that the demographic of gamers is just 18yrs of age to 32? ROFLMAO CAKES BITCH. 60% of owners of consoles are friggin children under the age of 12 who don’t give a rats ass about if there connected to online gaming. And who don’t even know what it is. Period end of discussion. IF you pay for the internet then why in the hell should you pay for XBOX LIVE. I don’t have to pay to play on Quake 4 servers on my PC do I? , no because I already am paying for the ISP. WAKE UP PEEPS, it’s like paying for cable television twice just cause they say it is better for you TV if you pay for it twice.
as more and more ps3 games are made, 360 sales will decline and ps3 sales will increase. so then that is where the ps3 will make up the 8-10 million deficit. they will no longer be 1-1. the wii is great and will continue to sell well. it is not in competition with the ps3 and 360. it has its own niche. the ps3 has superior hardware and developers had a tough time since programming was so advanced (360 developers were fine-what’s that say about their technology?) ‘08 will see amazing ps3 games which will sell more consoles. the 360 will continue to sell just because they have had an extra year to make games. as the price gap narrows you will see more people choosing the better console that will last the longest and give you the biggest bang for the buck. the endless updates, superior hardware, titles in development, free online, multimedia support, blu-ray, etc. all these reasons show that ps3 will outlast and outsell the 360. gaming is fun and that’s why we buy these consoles. i want the best everything. best tv, car, pc, etc. the 360 is not the best and just b/c it is selling well doesn’t mean it is the best system. i know deep down that the ps3 will catch up and be on my tv stand in 10 years and that 360s will be obsolete by then. all hail the ps3–victor of the next gen war.
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