PS3 has outsold Xbox 360 in Europe since October
By Nilay Patel 
posted May 7th 2008 8:12AM
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Not entirely true. "Total Sales" can have various meanings for different businesses :
Total sales in a year
Total sales in a quarter
Total sales in a month
Total sales since launch
A much better description is "sales since launch" or "life to date sales"...anything less and it raises the question of whether we are getting a deliberately loaded message which may paint an innaccurate picture.
Go look up any profit and loss statement for any large company. You'll see a line for total sales or gross sales. That is not since the inception of the company. Its for the analysis period, which is Year To Date.
I failed to see any type of number (other than console price) in that article
I can tell any girl I have a porn star dick as long as I dont whip it out
Pretty sure they would want to avoid you with such claims... Unless they actually want herpes.
"I can tell any girl I have a porn star dick as long as I dont whip it out"
Let's keep it that way.
Why is using a PS3 as mostly a BD player only a bad thing?
Fact is, the PS3 is a fantastic BD player and probably still the best value BD player on the market.
Owning both a PS3 and a 360 I could care less which one sells most, all I care about is having a great BD player (with one or two games) and a great gaming system (Xbox 360) with a superior gaming ecosystem.
Sony fails, stop pulling crappy statistics out of your ass.
Well, I hope they keep pulling out crap from their arse, because anything else would be... rather bizarre.
Congratulations to Sony, however, I thought this was debunked a long time ago. I thought Sony led for 2 months and then Xbox was on top again. Maybe I just wasn't up to date, but I could have sworn...
Suck on them balls hd dud fanboys!
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Actually thats not true, Vegas 2 had an update one week after it came out when I bought it.
So lets say that you are not connected to PSN. Does that prevent you from playing the game in whatever broken state it was in? Of course not. You DO NOT NEED PSN to play games. If you want to update it, sure. But there's no online connectivity requirement. People could be playing games without ever connecting to the PSN especially if they picked it up thinking PSN was only for multiplayer and didn't want to connect up their PS3 to their router. The PS2 didn't require the network card and any uneducated person picking up the PS3 could just connect it to their TV and buy games to play. I don't know how I can be any more clear on this.
No I get it, and you are right, network isnt necessary. But for most gamers it is because where else are we going to get the most competitive play for console only games? Plus what happens when there is a major glitch in the programming of the game that causes freezes, wouldnt you want to do a simple update to fix that?
Sure, updates. But I'm not a "competitive" gamer. I prefer co-op if I multiplay. I'm sure I'm not alone. XBL stresses competitiveness with achievements and ratings. That, along with my distaste for Microsoft's business practices, has cemented the fact that I will never own an Xbox.
Ya, you are not alone, but then again the people XBOX makes the most money off of are all the sheep that pay for XBOX live. Great program no doubt, but it shouldnt cost a yearly fee in my opinion. I beleive at this point you we have to see both sides of the argument and agree on both? Since by doing so proves no one wrong.
"Finally someone get the message. This people just dont understand what "Total Sales" means"
"We have sold more PlayStation 3s throughout Europe than Xbox 360 even though they launched 16 months before us."
Where is this information in the blog/article we all just read?
"Sony announced today that European PS3 sales had topped the five million mark, and that the PS3 has been outselling the Xbox 360 sur le continent since October"
'Outselling since October'. Not outsell TOTAL (which, don't get me wrong, its not out of the question and is most likely going to happen).
"The ps2 outsold the 360 in many occasions, so your "the market is saturated" theory is false"
You completely glossed over the $100 price of a PS2 VS the $400 price of an Xbox 360. The market IS saturated w/ PS2s... it outsold because of lower cost AND was an alternative to when next-gen consoles were difficult to find. How many 360 players picked up a PS2 with their 360s for the hell of it? I almost did! That's like saying a Honda Civic outsells a BMW 5-series. Um. Yeah. No wonder. On top of that, those occasions you refer to happen to be the Christmas holiday. How did the PS2 sell before and after?
And you know what? In a few years when the Xbox 360 is down to $100 and more people are going to start picking it up... there's going to be some dumb statement somewhere about "Xbox 360 outselling the competition!" and I will be just as critical then as I am now.
I have no doubt that the PS3 is going to reign... they just got really bungled and too full of themselves at the gate. But when these companies... any of them... start making mountains out of molehills, there's no reason why we need to believe their hype. Every company spins.
the market is nowehere near saturated, it isnt a valid arguement .you know this to be true.
"We have sold more PlayStation 3s throughout Europe than Xbox 360 even though they launched 16 months before us."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7386879.stm
Well it is the best Blue ray player on the market....to bad the gaming sucks balls on it..
It's about Blu-Ray. Stand-alone BR players are ridiculously priced and the quality is basically a joke. Why not get a PS3 when it's far more cheaper than BR stand-alone and isn't full of crappy bugs and slow load times.
I don't have a PS3 or an Xbox, nor did I side with BR or HD-DVD during the wars. I game on my PC gaming rig. However, this is a no-brainer. Should BR manufacturers start to put out affordable, quality stand-alone players, this might actually hurt the PS3 sales. Does it matter though? Sony is BR. As long as profit margins are good, Sony doesn't care either way.
I've yet to buy due to crappy BR players. I don't mind the price too much but the bug filled, getting ready to be obsolete players (non-Live 2.0) will not get me to purchase JACK until they get their act together.
The studios are not helping by releasing sub-par at best, BR movies. So sad...
My $$ are waiting!!!!
I have one simple thing to say.
Sales != Greatness
Just ask Transformers (the video game).
Lets not look at sales and say this > that. Because it doesn't work that way.
xbox is dead in europe and japan...america is the only place keeping it alive...
Don't you have to wait until the end of the year to find out if it is/was the "year of the PS3?" This isn't the Chinese zodiac after all. GO RATS! Especially after the PS3 was suppose to be the big seller when it launched? Then it was suppose to be the big seller in 2007?
I'm glad to hear things like this.It makes me glad to be a future PS3 owner.