Microsoft has admitted the PS3 looks set to outsell the Xbox 360 even in its US stronghold, but defiantly maintains that the Xbox’s annual sales will still exceed those of the PS3, and that the Xbox 360 will outsell the PS3 “for this entire generation.”
Microsoft’s top flack Aaron Greenberg holds forth yet again on why Sony is doomed:
“I can tell you to that when NPD releases September sales… we fully expect PlayStation 3 will come in as the console with the most units sold for the month.
This is frankly not a real surprise to us or the analysts that follow this industry, as it is typical to see a short term bump following the introduction of new hardware and pricing into the marketplace.
What I can tell you is we remain confident that Xbox 360 will not only outsell PS3 for the full calendar year, but for this entire generation.
It is similar to a game of baseball, it is not about just winning one inning, but instead being able to win the game by consistently delivering across all nine innings.”
Via Ore-teki.
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Its amazing how many people still think that the 360 has a 54% failure rate. The 54% rate was based on a skewed survey of readers of ONE website. While the original 360 admittedly has a ridulously high failure rate, its undergone 2 chipset revisions since then. The current jasper chip used in the 360 has a 4% failure rate. Which is comparable to the current PS3s 10% failure rate.
tl;dr
The current 360 with the jasper chipset actually has a lower(4%) failure rate than the PS3(10%)
I find it hard to believe the 360 has a lower fail rate then the PS3 so if you got any links proving this then by all means show us if not stop posting bs
@anon 12:48 well certainly MS wouldn't release information like that. so what's left? 20k ppl exp. with xboxs has way more credibility that your comment here here buddy. i personally have gone through 3 xboxs and hate it. the only reason i still play it is cause my circle of friends all has xbox. (i have a ps3 too and loving it)
How do you know it is 20k people experiences? How do you know it's not 20k butthurt fanboys? How do you know it's not some retard from 4chan with a script? How do you know that it wasn't their fault in the first place.
Online polls are like assholes, everyone has one and they are shitty.
It would help if there weren't all these weeaboo fucks in western countries that treat Sony as some kind of godly can-do-no-wrong company. It makes me sick. Sony is every bit as evil as Microsoft any way you look at it. I say fuck em' both.
Many (not all) of my electronics are Sony and they don't fail. Same goes for friends and family that own Sony products. Microsoft comps on the other hand have failed me time and time again.
All the 360 is; is a slim desktop tower. Any game that comes out on the PC shows up on the 360 and visa averse.
But Sony is very much overpriced against the competition(not only MS) with the same quality. From a practical standpoint, I'll buy another brand that is as durable and much cheaper than Sony can offer.
Just add a blue-ray driver on X360, then it's settled, X360 outsell PS3 again.
i thought you guys were happpy with HD-DVD! stick with the that dead format, since xbox cant even move on from dvd
This is about where Naruto comes in and say "BELIEVE IT"
Microsoft be trying to stuff their pridefilled cocks at Sony. Lololololol.
I have a PS3 60 Gig and Wii and haven't had any probs. My cousin has a 360 and it broke on him so he went out and bought a new one. No probs so far. He says some of his friends that owns 360s have failed on them too. Why do people continue to support a system that's defective out-of-the-box?!
The only reason the 360 will outsell the ps3 is because people keep buying new ones after getting the RROD over and over.
Well, good to see their optimistic, I suppose. Now let's see if he's right.
Yes...I mean they have to, with the failure rate of xbox so high, it's no wonder people need multiple xbox, leading to their high sale number.
That means that those people have a lot of money. Meaning that they don't care about the console but the games that are being made for the system.
I low how he jumps to confirm that yes, in fact, Microsoft WON this generation, as if it were a game.
"The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time."
-Henry Ford
So keep a close eye on Sony's sales figures MS, while your shit consoles all break down.
NINTENDO 64!!!111one!1!
we all read sankaku because our views are probably similar to Artefact right?
Down with Xbox! Doesnt even have a full version of vesperia on it
Lmao, such amazing bias.
Sankaku Complex confirmed to be ran by Chad Warden.
Lol. "We expect to fail"
I have both and i left my gaybox eat dust.There is too little game to play.Dont tell me Halo,Gears,or any crap game out there.I can play it on my PC.Gaybox just has shooting game and shooting game and at last u still shooting.
The games on PS3 is lots more better exclusive is awesome.Lot of different genre together.I foreseen xbobx will get the lowest sale in the history PS3 FTW.
I got to sell my xbox soon for another ps3 game.Noob console.
That was stupid. Buying a console that you don't like. That is a failed trolling attempt.
I won't buy a PS3/Xbox or any other console if I will become as stupid as that poster above me.
Well, a company's PR saying their console will perform better than another company. /rofl
Easy to say when the console came out a year before PS3. You had a year head start to monopolize the market for the "next gen" console war.
Have your battles consoles, the PC will win the war.
I can't believe how well the PS3 is performing in sales lately. I thought Sony was toast this generation. Then again, anything is possible with big enough price cuts. Wii and 360 both have more to offer per dollar than PS3.
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Just one question to both Sony and Microsoft: Whatever happened to outselling Nintendo?
Whoever posted this article did so in A VERY MISLEADING way and, obviously is biased towards the PS3(as are most articles reagarding the 360/PS3 on this site.The 360 will outsell the PS3 this generation(especially when the (Project Natal equipped 360's and 360 ad-ons are released next year/it's already an industry consensus).Not to take away from Sony or the PS3 which imo single handedly turned their situation around 360 degrees(no pun)when they designed and released the slim.The original PS3 was an ugly/clunky dust/fingerprint magnet...not so anymore, and that's part of the reason why PS3 sales have increased so much.
MS' Project Natal is going to turn the way we play games on it's ear, and bring true interactivity to gaming(without controlers!).Sony and Nintendo's similar projects are said to not even come close in comparison.We'll find out next year.For all we know if Sony and MS don't market/price their things the correct way, we could easily see Nintendo right back at #1.Tough doubtful, things could end up going that way.
Microsoft: You may have won the battle Sony!!!
But we will win the war!!!
*Shakes angry fist and runs away with villainous laughter.
Thats bullshit. Only one thing matters - how much consoles were sold entirely in the whole world in all time. Other statistic is plain meaningless.
You are ALL forgetting the one reason that the Xbox 360 is better than any console and the PC. At 3E, we saw Project Natal and Milo. When Natal is released, there is going to be a male and FEMALE verson of Milo. (Mily?)
Fuck you all, I'm taking my Natal powered loli and running the hell home. XBOX 360 FOREVA!
BeTTER DAN MAI PC? Lawl, fuck that. Project Natal could and probably will be used for PC use too.
That is all good with me. But you like have virtual loli. Good day, sir.
You do realize that wasn't a real game, right? It was just a tech demo to show what Natal could do.
It's a shame, really.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milo_and_Kate
And that's why I love my PC.
I'm not sure this constitutes your article title, though it certainly grabs attention. It's fairly obvious that the Slim's surge in sales will bring the system a strong short-term boost, especially at a time when there's nothing overly exciting for the Xbox coming out. $300 blu-ray player is nothing to sneeze at!
PS3 is currently exulting from the love of Uncharted 2, Demon Souls, and the ever looming God of War 2, whereas Xbox has ODST. Everything else worth interest is a multi-platform title, so there's obvious quite a skew there.
Though now that I think of it, what exclusive titles is Xbox looking forward to these days? I can't seem to think of many, but I'm sure there's some?
It has, hmm... Forza 3, GTA: Episodes from Liberty City, something of "Tayutama: Kiss on my Deity" (console), Samurai Shodown: Edge of Destiny, Left 4 Dead 2 (console), Mushihimesama Futari Ver 1.5 (which is REGION FREE)... and that's about it for this year, stuff like Mass Effect 2 (whose exclusivity is now in question, BTW), Alan Wake and Splinter Cell: Conviction are slated for the first couple months of 2010.
Oh, and Fable III. Forgot 'bout it.
I just hope Alan Wake doesn't end up like Too Human. Years and years in development only to release and be mediocre at best.
bleh...
sonay= we're too good for you
(when you're actually just average)
microshit:we're soooo better than you
(when you actually suck balls)
same difference.
anyway people that bash competitor on a regular basis truly need psychological counseling for their superiority complex...
And what's Nintendo?
neintendo=if you don't get it,it's too innovative for you.
...oh and buy the new pokaymoan.
Nintendo: We're going to the bank.
Playstation 3 FTW!!!!!
xbox is a shitty system anyway.they should just cancel it before they lose even more money
Remember when Sony was selling the PS3 at a massive loss?
Yeah I guess they should've just canceled it, too.
whatever just give me some games, i don't care about the console wars
+1
^
Truth
the only reason xbox360 has as many sales as it does is because everyone has to buy 2 before they get one that works
u forgot to mention the "...for a while" at the end.
...and what does that say about the PS3?
Yeah, stfu.
obviously it says the sales figures for the 360 should be halved and that the PS3 kicked its ass
Games are a selling point, which the 360 has shown numerous times, though not all the time, is the better version than the PS3. But then again, this is due to developers being lazy fucks, developing on the 360 first then throwing a shit port to the PS3.
The thing that has me wanting a PS3 is bluray, though not until I get a new HD TV, and Team ICO's new game. I'm gonna go ahead and blame developers for not getting me to buy a PS3 faster.
Also, PC is the best choice.
@ ChaosAngelZero yeah, about the ps3's blue ray, that's a selling point for the ps3 so it passes, but bout the xbox? is the rrod a selling point for it? uh huh...
And what about the game discs sales numbers, uh genius? why would "XRRoD 360" owners be buying about four times as many games as "PS<3" owners, when PS2 owners used to buy about as many games as the original Xbox's ones, if not more, uh?
Wouldn't it be, perhaps, that 360 hardware sales numbers actually aren't that much affected by defective and refurbished consoles, and that PS3 hardware sales are actually artificially inflated by those who only buy it for playing movies, uh??
Give this "astounding" "revelation" some time to sink in...
I love Kashiwamochi Yomogi's drawings (if I got the name correct) :D
Frankly it is near impossible for sony to catch up when comparing sales FOR THE ENTIRE GEN
360 had a year headstart and PS3 had a extremely slow start with inferior ports and good exclusives only coming in 2 years after release.
even with 2009 and 2010 in sonys hands the gap is simply too big for sony to catchup.
who cares about sales, like you said x360 have headstart. i admit m$ success in deceiving gamers and even up to make them a loyalist contracted extended to 3 years warranty. with that 54% failure rate, from half of it may have rebuy it again, and again, and again, and that what boosting x360 sales.
and also about pirated games. this what boosting x360 console sales. many people attracted by cheap pirated games.
what matter is quality. ps3 win that. most people don't need to buy it again and again like x360.
You do know that the whole 54% failure rate started with an ONLINE POLL? The same pole that said 3% wouldn't buy a new Xbox 360? Now ask yourself, isn't these numbers just a little funny? Just a TINY bit?
Someone got owned
not if you actually do the math.
sony's at 25 mil sold to customers (which is what sony tracks).
the 360 is at 32 mill SHIPPED (which is what MS tracks). most analysts agree the 360 is more realistically only at a little over 30 mil actual sold through because obviously the 360 isn't sold out, so a chunk of that shipped number includes the units sitting on store shelves around the world.
that means the 360's lead worldwide sits at only about 5 mil at this point. meaning that the 360s vaunted 1 year head start, that you yourself point out, has already been shrunk from 10 mil units to half (the aforementioned 5 mil).
MS hasn't been sitting comfortably with its lead, its lead has consistently shrunk over the past 3 years.
if Sony were to outsell MS by ~3 mil each over the next 2 years. that 1 year head start has already gone poof and Sony takes the lead.
is outselling the 360 by ~3 mil each over the next 2 years easy? no its not.
i will grant you it would require 2 bad years for MS (which at this point, will probably rest on the reception of NATAL since MS has at this point abandoned their strategy of securing exclusives in the traditional sense and placed all their eggs in NATAL's invisible virtual basket, and hoping its success spurs more NATAL-based exclusives), and 2 good (though obviously this will vary depending on how poorly MS does) years for Sony.
hard yes, but it is impossible? even near impossible? not really. outselling one another by 3 mil is large but not THAT large of a margin, and like i pointed out, depending on how NATAL actually pans out for MS, it could even shift well into the plausible range.
NPD tracks sell-through, not ship-to, and they give the 360 higher sales numbers than the PS3's.
Debunked, any?
Great story bro. In short, the 360 is a game console and the ps3 is a grill that cooks over 9000 penises.
Wow, done convincing yourself now?
I got a degree in Engrish, Spanglish, and Latin. Make confussion that resides in the brain location doesn't, he does.
@anon at 20-10-2009 00:10
loser,just admit it,you got verbally pwned XD
i mean:"done not trying to read or did the word math turn off the brain switch at the first sentence?"
lmao XD
What math? You threw around some made up numbers like they were fact, then masturbated onto your PS3.
done not trying to read or did the word math turn off the brain switch at the first sentence?
anon @ 04:54 does have a point and dont forget about what sony has in plan with that new controller, at E3 i gotta say that controller was more impresive than natal.
This!
Yup, what Canti said.
xbox sucks anyways with its lack of features and limited freedom compared to the ps3. but i don't think the ps3 is gonna beat the 360 here in NA, i mean come on there's dead space, halo 3 odst, and a bunch of other wicked games.
Limited freedom? What? You mean since I can't hook a shitty bluetooth headset to the 360, all of a sudden I'm living in the gaming equivalent of China? A good bluetooth headset is 50 dollars, a Xbox 360 wireless headset is 60. OH NOES! I R TEH REPRESSED!
Retard.
well, dead space came out on ps3 too and halo 3 is the worst in the series. If anything I'd say 99 nights, gears of war and zegapain are the only 360 titles that are any good at all.
I expect water to be wet.
woot @ random
Instead of ignorantly proud of sales figures, how about fix the damn hardware/RRoD problem first instead of screw more money from new buyers that are not aware of the damn 360 has a failure rate of over 54%?
The high failure rate is allegedly not a feature of the latest production revisions.
*feature*
Even though I love my 360 I honestly have to agree, since Microshaft are money whores and are going to do whatever they can to make more, even if it means leaving a defect in so they can charge for repairs, or even get another sale.
And even IF they removed the RROD or even improved the 360, it doesn't mean a new thing won't come along to effect the new batch. Just like the E74 error with the jasper models.
Microshaft is "FAR" too worried about sales and console install base than they are about actually fixing a problem that effects millions...
Its sad how they don't actually care about their consumers.
Microsoft were worried to rush the 360's launch so as to not get steamrolled by the PS3's mindless hype machine (if you don't agree with this description of pre-E3' 06 expectatives towards the system, then you either are a Sony fanboy or you just don't care all that much about new systems coverage, if you are of the latter category then I somewhat envy you) and get a small advantage for the hard times to come if they wanted their system to actually move form the PlayStation brand's shadow.
And, after many court cases, they realized they'd actually lose money if they didn't "care about their consumers" (for once, at least), then the RRoD-specific three year warranty extension was announced.
Pure business logic, really. And a big fucking blunder that's already been solved, so it would be wise, not to mention mature, to just shut up about it since it's no longer relevant plzkthx.
They don't charge a thing for RROD repairs. Not even a cent for shipping.
It's TYPICAL how they (and many other companies) "don't actually care about their customers."
Hey dumbass, since when do companies care about their customers? They care about your money, that goes for all of them out there.
If we get proof of that, I might actually buy one.
That isn't true since I have one of the newer ones and my first one failed in less than a month. I have been afraid that this one is going to die also so have been limiting my time on it.
M$ philosophy "If it's broken, let them buy again."
Is that why there is a 3 year warranty? Fail anon.
Oh of course, once Sony rolls out the non disk-based emulator for the PS3s without backwards compatibility, it's okay for them to charge us for games we already have, right?
And don't say "But you don't know!" If you honestly believe Sony won't jump at the chance you make you pay for a digital version of a game you already own, get your head examined.
$ony philosophy "If they already own it, let them buy it again."
+1 to above comment, at least Microsoft doesn't shove a new format down our throats ever 6 months...
wow thats sad
Yep, it's the classic "I *meant* to do that!" defense used for epic failures.
I expected you to do that! You just activated my trap card!
What's sad is that They're not mentioning the fact that the 360 had the same price drop. Theoretically, the 360 should've done much better than it did last month.
BTW, that guy should think twice about taking on a Japanese company in a game of Baseball Metaphors.
What? What is sad? Do people read any further than the headlines anymore?
What? That they expected ps3 to have a sales jump once the price was lowered?
Who cares about a sales jump then. What will matter is what the sustained performance of the ps3 is over multiple months/years. I'm sure M$ isn't planning to sit back and do nothing at all if ps3 continues to outsell them over an extended period (more than just a few months)
What's sad is uploaded images just jumped 500. Now I have to look for my place. ;;;____;;;
seriously ! I know T~T I was skimming through them aswell, wtf happened ?!?! Dx
He mean piracy I guess
reason why PS3 did not sell is because it's not piratable.
pirate rules XBOX.
+1.0
WTF are you talking about? Self-burned game? What?!
dun forget X-Box 360 can play self-burned game, it might be the reason why X-Box 360 can keep on selling out while PS3 sale drop & stop, cuz people don't want to spend too much money on Real Blue Ray Disc Game for PS3...
I'm waiting for Mega Man X9, if it release for PS3 only then I'll buy PS3, otherwise X-Box 360 or Wii would be cheaper choices...