PS3 outsold x360 in 2007 ?!

This is a post from another forms someone else posted.. I find it very interesting that after all the badmouthing and net FUD people have done against PS3.. the numbers show it sold more then x360 in 2007.

This is culled from the various quarterly reports etc:

XBOX360
Q3 Q4 Q1 Q2
Jan-Mar Apr-Jun Jul-Aug Oct-Dec
2005 1.5 1.5
2006 1.7 1.8 1.0 4.4 8.9
2007 0.5 0.7 1.8 4.3 7.3
17.7
PS3
Q4 Q1 Q2 Q3
Jan-Mar Apr-Jun Jul-Aug Oct-Dec
2005 0.0
2006 1.7 1.7
2007 1.9 0.7 1.3 4.9 8.8
10.5

From

http://www.scei.co.jp/corporate/data/bizdataps3_sale_e.html
http://www.xbox365.com/news.cgi?id=GGPLPuPuPu01261653
http://www.dailytech.com/Microsoft+Records+Record+Profits+Despite+Slow+Xbox+360+Sales/article7082.htm
http://www.microsoft.com/msft/earnings/FY07/earn_rel_q4_07.mspx
http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=17106

Shows that while the PS3 is getting stomped in the US, worldwide it\'s actually doing pretty okay. (8.8 million to 7.3 million.)

i find it ironic that 1st year ps3 sales beat 2nd year 360 sales.

then again, your avid 360 fanatic refuses to acknowledge there\'s a world outside of the US and sales don\'t matter.

[GmanJoe]

i find it ironic that 1st year ps3 sales beat 2nd year 360 sales.

then again, your avid 360 fanatic refuses to acknowledge there\'s a world outside of the US and sales don\'t matter.

Just like this mongoloid that refuses to acknowledge the greatness that is  Uncharted. Uncharted >>>> Gears of War

Just like this mongoloid that refuses to acknowledge the greatness that is  Uncharted. Uncharted >>>> Gears of War

but there will be Gears of War 2 heheh http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=91936

[BizioEE]

Not surprised...and 2008 will be really a great year for PS3, just my forecast !

The popularity the Playstation brand has managed to maintain has really helped  for Europe plus the fact that Japanese are hard to convince to go for the 360.
The negative press, false media and exaggeration of everything that went wrong  with the PS3 should have really killed the console.

On top of that it seems that Sony also has some dynamic contingency plan and patience with the product. The reduction of costs of the hardware according to some reports is large. I had concerns before the PS3 was released that it would end up like the saturn because lets face it:

They took almost every mistake SEGA did with the Saturn and put it in the PS3. The only difference is that Sony does react according to the behavior of the market, instead of sitting there doing nothing, expecting that the competitors will fail and the market will work on their favor.

The PS3 doesnt do bad in US but it sure has a large gap from the 360.

I expect that once games such as GT, FF and MGS appear the PS3 could surpass in yearly sales the 360 for 2008. The 360 has had a tremendous build of games in 2007, most of the big titles were released then. The list of anticipated games is smaller currently (it is remained to be seen what MS has in store at this years GDC). I am expecting Sony to reduce the worldwide gap but it is questionable whether it will surpass the total 360 sales because of its strong presence in the US.

I think that it is an advantage that MS won the US market since it is a more uniform market. The European market is fragmented, and the Japanese market is small, which makes harder to predict how much the PS3 can do in software sales, or how the consumer behaves.

Quite telling, PS3s start-up year outsold 360s best year, the best year in the history of Xbox. So yeah, 2008 will be interesting, considering how powerful the PS3 looks in terms of software.

but there will be Gears of War 2 heheh http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=91936

I am really curious to see what GoW2 will do visually. The first looked so good, that you wonder what kind of improvements they can do for the second.

I\'ll start caring about sales numbers, once I see some of the profit that these companies make. Until then, I just buy whatever appeals to me and don\'t care what the numbers mean.

/shrugs

Depends on how you look at profits and the kind of stakeholder you belong to.

Depends on how you look at profits and the kind of stakeholder you belong to.

No it doesn\'t.
Unless I see profit from sales, they mean nothing to me.
It really is that simple.

Ok whatever