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Primebuster
04/22/09

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so, essentially, with a 4 month headstart, the PSP beats the stuffing out of the '360 by 2.5 million units. BUT the '360 is only beating the PS3 by 1 million units with a 1 year and 3 month headstart. Considering the PSP is closer to the price of a 360 and the ps3, is easily £100+ more expensive than the 360.

The 360 isnt doing as well as i thought it was.

I hate to say it though, but damn, those ninty figures are fricken impressive.

Although I do understand this is referring to PAL alone, it's probably a different picture worldwide.
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Mike Newlad
04/22/09

@Primebuster: The only place where the 360 is dominant over the PS3 in terms of sales since launch is America. The thing is, America is also the biggest market in the world (at least for 1 country) so it helps keep MS's sales figures looking nice.

The 360 had a 15 month lead over the PS3 here in the UK and yet only has 1 million more consoles sold. What more that year was a year without Wii or PS3 sales. It was a year where MS could really say they had the best console on the market by a mile.

Then when you look at the price point over the last year you will see that the 360 is like half the initial price of a 360. Maybe this is a sign that people in most parts of the world are willing to pay good money for a product that doesn't break down every two minutes/charge us subscriptions for things that are free everywhere else/etc.
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bonaparte
04/22/09

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Are these figures just for sales at game stores, or are they meant to represent the full install base across the markets in which GAME operates?
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mind in rewind
04/22/09

@bonaparte: I could tell you the answer, or you could read the article.
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Shiryu
04/22/09

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"Leaving out notable countries such as Germany and Italy, who will probably launch their own sales numbers aggressively across Europe at a later date."

Meanwhile in the East, Japan will launch an agressive pie chart attack on neighborhood countries.

Ah, World War 2... when will we ever learn?
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WhatTheFrag
04/22/09

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The DS aspect not really surprising - it's what I believe Nintendo considers the true successor to the original gameboy - will it last as long that's going to be interesting to see (probably will considering it's 5 years since launch).

Anyways the interesting aspect of the pdf was what Game believes are the Key 'bold' releases for this year - the games they seem to be betting on are EA sports active, pokemon platinum, infamous, sims 3, harry potter, tiger woods 2010, wii sports resort, nfs:shift, fifa10, cod:mw2 and assassin's creed 2. I'm guessing they'll be focusing a bit of their advertising pull on this.

Not only that they are wary about which console will come on top in the end as they mention - multiple platforms winning for this generation - which honestly can happen I guess if wii sales decline enough for the others to capture but I'm guessing they're just making conservative estimates.
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-MasterDex-
04/22/09

@WhatTheFrag: The Wii will still probably come out the winner, even if sales were to decline. The real battle is between the 360 and PS3 this generation with the Wii being in a completely different market for the most part.

What I think will happen is that after a price drop on the PS3, sales will increase sinificantly and it'll close the gap between itself and the 360 but because of the 360's early release, the PS3 won't be able to equalize.

I also expect Wii sales to take a bit of a dive just as this generation draws to a close.
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CockroachMan
04/22/09

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No surprises here.

The bigger image should be on the top of the article, I saw only the small one at first and tried to read that :P
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lolgreg
04/22/09

@CockroachMan: Haha me too.
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BarbeQueQ
04/22/09

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Wow, that's quite surprising - in a good way. Looks like the PS3 sold almost as many units as the xbox360. And the 360's been out since 06(Dec 05). The PS3 since 07(March).

Also, lulzwtfbbq? @ DS sells.
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Pombar
04/22/09

@BarbeQueQ: Europe's long been Sony's stronghold, for all they treat us like crap.
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Ironfistchinmi
04/22/09

@Pombar: Classic abusive relationship. Treat 'em mean, keep 'em keen!
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-MasterDex-
04/22/09

@Ironfistchinmi: What can we say, us Europeans are suckers for punishment.
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