MS: 360 sold 310,00 last week, 2:1 over PS3, sony: Nuh-uh

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@ravenight

I haven’t seen any stats on software sales, but I don’t remember much selling well on the 360 until the end of last year, and the PS3 is now starting to get some sales.

The first 1.5 years of the 360 there were tons of PS3 fanboys and industry analysts proclaiming the 360 was d0med because the software attach rate for it was TOO HIGH. Yes, TOO HIGH! Just like the people who made that claim.

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@shadarr

The PS3 is not just a loss-leader to get people to buy games, it’s also to get people to buy BluRay movies. People who buy it for the BluRay may well be more important to Sony than people who buy it for games.

And that right there explains a lot towards why the PS3 is failing as a game console especially when compared to the dominance of the PS2 in the last generation.

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@Hiro_Antagonist

… but only if you measure success in consoles sold.

Jesus. Not even then. The PS2 utterly dominated last generation. Now, if everything comes up roses, the PS3 might achieve parity with the 360? There’s simply no way to look at taking that amount of momentum and blowing it as anything other than an abject failure.

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@shadarr

Except that they get money from BluRay movies sold too. Sony would probably be happy to “lose” this generation’s console war if it meant winning the HD format war and replacing DVD as the standard.

The PS3 is not just a loss-leader to get people to buy games, it’s also to get people to buy BluRay movies. People who buy it for the BluRay may well be more important to Sony than people who buy it for games.

Sure, that’s fine.

But I think this conversation was comparing the PS3 against the 360 as a games console. When we talk about the 360 ‘beating’ the PS3 or vice versa, I don’t think anyone cares if people are watching HD movies – we care about what kind of games are coming out for the system, and which system has critical mass in the gaming department.