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Now before I begin, I'll let you all know that all the numbers contained within this article are from OFFICIAL sources, namely Microsoft and Sony themselves. So with the numbers and links courtesy of GameBlews.... here goes nothing:
In Jan 07, Microsoft said they sold 10.4m XBOX360 Consoles (skip to the 6:30 mark)
In Jan 08, Microsoft said they sold 17.7m XBOX360 Consoles (Confirmed by Major Nelson)
This gives a year on year sales figure for XBOX360 of 7.3m Consoles sold in 2007.
Now lets take a look at Sony. This time only the one source:
Accoding to a press release, Sony sold 1.66m PS3 consoles in 2006, and a FURTHER 8.83m PS3 consoles in 2007. Clearly that means that the Playstation 3 has out-sold the XBOX360 in the first FULL year that they have been competing side-by-side.
Those are really interesting figures. Whilst we don't look at Wii, as we're sure they've outsold both by miles, looking at the two, could EA's predictions be coming into fruitition?
However let me give you another QUICK outlook on the figures, which wasn't mentioned in the article. The end of 2006 was the end of the 5th quarter in which Microsoft did business, and they sold 10.4m consoles as shown above. So if we take a look at Sony's position 5 quarters later 10.49m consoles sold. It really is neck on neck, with PS3 having sold around 0.04m more consoles (minimum) than their counter parts.... Seems to be good news for Sony...
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I have to say, though, that I'm impressed with Sony's numbers. I didn't expect them to shoot up that much within a year.
Now if you consider that Sony did this in a year where exclusives still aren't that great. Then you think about all the great exclusives that are to be coming out this year for the PS3 (or at least slated to come out). Then the idea that the PS3 takes 2008 looks very real.
I'm a bit confused, though. Going by the numbers, 7.3 million 360's sold in 2007...and going from 1.66 million to 8.83 million, the difference is roughly 7.2 million...so then how they did outsell?
Wow, there's a pleasant surprise.
Go Sony.
Most people think the 360 sold more just because it was released before. Which is unfair.
Still the numbers are staggering in 07 compared to 06. Although there was only 2 months of 06 from when it came out, so that isn't a fair comparison of sales in my opinion. Still the numbers don't lie, i can only imagine the sales the PS3 will have in 08 compared to 07. It must be doubled, since the PS3 sold in 07 to 06 by 7 to 1.
If you remember, Sony did recently say that they had reduced their estimate of 11m consoles SOLD by end of March to 9m.
But i also get what you mean though.
And it's making up in the games division, though frankly I doubt we'll ever see anything more popular than Halo 3 and Bioshock on PS3...we'll see.
Then don't forget FFXIII, MGS4, Killzone 2 and many others. Your giving too much credit to Bioshock.
Except Sony Defense Force.
The game was nothing special.
That crack about SDF was a joke, Krunal. It's probably a fake website, but it was the ONLY one to give a negative review. It's just too bad these hundreds of 'biased' reviewers aren't as objective as you guys. What a shame.
It wasn't special and Tek agrees, it didn't wow us. Except it ok. And there is biased reviewers out there, you can't possibly think otherwise.
Talk to you later man.
Let me tell you something. Halo 3 was rated 9.5 almost everywhere, yet when I played it, I failed to see the huge draw people saw in it. Reviews mean little.
It's probably because of the price drops.
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