360 is taking a nose dive.... :D

Onthexbox.com - News

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In its earnings statement for the quarter, Microsoft said it shipped 700,000 Xbox 360 units during the period, compared to 1.8 million in the fiscal fourth quarter of 2006 -- a fall off of 61%.

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oh and then there's this couple fo tidbits...

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Microsoft introduced the Xbox 360 in November 2005. It has since shipped 11.6 million of the consoles. The company is doubtless looking forward to the holiday 2007 season and hoping that new game releases like Halo 3 revive the Xbox 360's flagging fortunes. Microsoft on Thursday said overall profits in the fourth quarter increased 7% to $3 billion, while revenue increased 13% to $13.4 billion.

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Worldwide PS3 sales at 4.48 million - news - play™

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Back to the present, however, and at the end of Q1 worldwide sales of the next-gen system stand at 4.48 million units.

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of course there's that other link i posted about ps3 sales up 135%

oh i didn't post this to rub it in '360 sucks' btw...

just to show everyone who said i was wrong when i said ps3 will catch up, that i was actually right... if that makes sense :confused:

its catching up pretty quick aswell... considering the head start 360s had

Meh sales of any console are going to lessen as time goes on on top of that the 360 has probably one of the best holiday line ups of game releases in the history of gaming this year. I think many people are saving up/waiting until the holidays and I'm sure 360 is going to sell immensely well in a few months.

any game systems sales jump durring holdiays :p

PS3 already lost when it had to make the price cut, just so they could get some consoles sold

If rumors of a $100 360 price cut across the board come true (which they should) PS3 will never catch up. Seriously if you can get a core 360 for $200 and a premium for $300 why bother with a PS3?

Everyone has ignored the fact the PS3 has been given a price drop... which is actually one of the earliest price drops for a system relative to the initial release...

I meant it as a bad thing for Sony, actually.

Any console that has had a price cut this early, despite the rise in sales, is still doing bad.

I'm very interested in these things, and from a neutral perspective, using the data provided here (NPD: US game sales up 22 percent in June - PlayStation 2 News at GameSpot), this is what I came out to have Sony's profits be with/without the sale increase and the price cut.


Assuming that 98,500 (100k to round) units would have been sold this month, and that each unit originally was 600$ (500 w/ cut)....

Price Cut Only: $50,000,000
Sales Increase Only (135%): $81,000,000
Both: $67,500,000
Neither: $60,000,000

Well you can obviously just ignore the first two numbers. It looks like they will make 7,500,000 more using my numbers, amazing what $100 can do on a grand scale...

Granted through all of this, though, Sony is still losing money per console sold.

do you really want to talk about ignoring stuff?

cuz yal seem to ignore a 30-33% failure rate within 360....

that ain't happening with ps3...

Failure Rate: Xbox 360 High As 33% - Sony PS3 & Nintendo Wii Less Than 1% | ripten

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Failure Rate: Xbox 360 High As 33% - Sony PS3 & Nintendo Wii Less Than 1%

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i guess we're just gonna have to wait yet again.... when ps3 sales TOP 360 however... you can either choose to say fine i'm beat or i'll instantly ignore you... fair enough you say right now anything can happen, but after ps3 has been released a year later and surpassed 360 (which i honestly believe will happen) i've proved my point...