Yeah, which is why NPD consistently shows the 360 outselling the PS3 by a two to one margin for the past twelve months. (According to NPD, the 360 sold 4.5 million from Dec. 06 through Nov. 07, and the PS3 sold 2.25 million.) The red ring of death has had a negligible effect on sales, unless you're arguing that the 360 should be outselling the PS3 by three or four to one. It's just a ridiculous argument to make... the PS3 couldn't even outsell the 360 the month they announced their $100 price cut! If anything, they lost ground, because the 360 was back to outselling the PS3 by two times in August when MS cut the price, then in September the 360 outsold the PS3 by a factor of four to one.
I would be willing to bet that when NPD announces the numbers for December 2007, the 360 will have outsold the PS3 by two times at least.
I don't want to be rude, but you just couldn't be more wrong. I'd love to hear about developers that aren't creating games for the 360 anymore because of low sales of the 360. There are absolutely no facts to back up that argument. Not one.
Honestly, if you think somehow the 360's sales are going to suddenly plummet and developers are going to abandon them now because of the RRoD issue, I'll have some of what you are smoking, please. If they haven't by now, they just won't. The 360 just had the highest sales volume year in video game history!
I'm not a PS3 basher by any stretch, but one need only walk into any store that sells consoles to see which ones are selling and which ones aren't. The PS3 is the only console that was easily available this season. All but the Arcade version of the 360 were hard to find this Christmas, as was the Wii. It's only in the past week or so that I'm seeing any kind of restocking on 360s, but I'm still tripping over stacks of unsold PS3s that were there before Christmas. You practically see tumbleweeds in the PS3 aisle...
Were it not for the Blu-Ray playing capability, I'd say that the PS3 would be totally dead in the water within two years if not sooner. The only reason to buy one at this point, aside from one or two appealing games and maybe two or three good-looking future games, is because it plays Blu-Ray disks, and Blu-Ray standalone players cost about the same as a PS3, so why not buy one? The problem with that is, if the price of Blu-Ray standalone players goes down substantially, the PS3 becomes a less appealing buy to non-gamers, which puts them back in jeopardy.
Frankly, I'm hoping WB's decision to go Blu-Ray exclusive comes to bite them in the rear end... they made the decision to try to force people into one high definition format now because high definition players are seeing nowhere near the mainstream adoption DVD did. I'm guessing the studios aren't too happy about that. Problem is that most people still have SD TVs, and DVDs are about as good as it gets on those. Also, Blu-Ray players are still too expensive for anyone but tech geeks to buy them, so now instead of two formats no one is buying, we'll have one format no one is buying for the foreseeable future, until economies of scale kick in and prices come down. And with no competition and incredible arrogance on the part of Sony management, I just don't see pricing on Blu-Ray coming down that quickly.
I would be willing to bet that when NPD announces the numbers for December 2007, the 360 will have outsold the PS3 by two times at least.
I don't want to be rude, but you just couldn't be more wrong. I'd love to hear about developers that aren't creating games for the 360 anymore because of low sales of the 360. There are absolutely no facts to back up that argument. Not one.
Honestly, if you think somehow the 360's sales are going to suddenly plummet and developers are going to abandon them now because of the RRoD issue, I'll have some of what you are smoking, please. If they haven't by now, they just won't. The 360 just had the highest sales volume year in video game history!
I'm not a PS3 basher by any stretch, but one need only walk into any store that sells consoles to see which ones are selling and which ones aren't. The PS3 is the only console that was easily available this season. All but the Arcade version of the 360 were hard to find this Christmas, as was the Wii. It's only in the past week or so that I'm seeing any kind of restocking on 360s, but I'm still tripping over stacks of unsold PS3s that were there before Christmas. You practically see tumbleweeds in the PS3 aisle...
Were it not for the Blu-Ray playing capability, I'd say that the PS3 would be totally dead in the water within two years if not sooner. The only reason to buy one at this point, aside from one or two appealing games and maybe two or three good-looking future games, is because it plays Blu-Ray disks, and Blu-Ray standalone players cost about the same as a PS3, so why not buy one? The problem with that is, if the price of Blu-Ray standalone players goes down substantially, the PS3 becomes a less appealing buy to non-gamers, which puts them back in jeopardy.
Frankly, I'm hoping WB's decision to go Blu-Ray exclusive comes to bite them in the rear end... they made the decision to try to force people into one high definition format now because high definition players are seeing nowhere near the mainstream adoption DVD did. I'm guessing the studios aren't too happy about that. Problem is that most people still have SD TVs, and DVDs are about as good as it gets on those. Also, Blu-Ray players are still too expensive for anyone but tech geeks to buy them, so now instead of two formats no one is buying, we'll have one format no one is buying for the foreseeable future, until economies of scale kick in and prices come down. And with no competition and incredible arrogance on the part of Sony management, I just don't see pricing on Blu-Ray coming down that quickly.
Comment