This is very interesting if true, as it will include the quite largish Microsoft price drops on the XB360 that took effect on 14th March. With GT5:P just out, MGS4 just along the road, and a very strong lineup in general from Sony, are Microsoft really hoping that they can stop this from now on with the promise of future GTAIV downloadable content alone? Because until Gears of War 2 comes out towards the end of the year, I can't see much what options they have now. Another price drop?
UK 360 and PS3 sales rocket during bumper Easter
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This is very interesting if true, as it will include the quite largish Microsoft price drops on the XB360 that took effect on 14th March. With GT5:P just out, MGS4 just along the road, and a very strong lineup in general from Sony, are Microsoft really hoping that they can stop this from now on with the promise of future GTAIV downloadable content alone? Because until Gears of War 2 comes out towards the end of the year, I can't see much what options they have now. Another price drop?
PS3 = The best £400 i've ever spent.
Xbox 360 = best £300 i've ever spent
That's because you haven't bought a ps3 
lol. true true. well i presume.
To be honest it was'nt the best thing ive bought for £300. Xbox>XB360
To be honest it was'nt the best thing ive bought for £300. Xbox>XB360
Probably not much differenceI just bought a ps3 so I can play my mates on-line.
MGS Snake Eater has sold 7 million copies world wide.
GTA San Andreas sold 12 million in its first six months and is now up to over 21 million units.
The GTA series is massive, and its going to take quite a bit more then the new Metal Gear title to knock Microsoft "off its fecking perch"
GTA San Andreas sold 12 million in its first six months and is now up to over 21 million units.
The GTA series is massive, and its going to take quite a bit more then the new Metal Gear title to knock Microsoft "off its fecking perch"
GTA is not exclusive to Microsoft, and many, rightly or wrongly, associate GTA with Playstation. For Microsoft to really benefit from this and get people to buy XB360s because of GTAIV IMO is a tough ask. Sorry, but the Premium/Pro and Elite XB360s are still poor value in comparison to the 40GB PS3, and nobody seemingly wants the Arcade Pack. Moot point anyway, as Microsoft hasn't been sat on the top perch in Europe (we are talking about the two HD consoles here)) for quite some time, with the UK market being where it has performed the best. In certain mainland European countries, PS3 has been outselling XB360 by a ratio of up to 3:1 on the hardware level.
Xbox 360 poised to overtake Wii
Analyst reckons Microsoft's machine will outsell Nintendo's for the year ending March 2011 in the US Back in September 2010 Microsoft made the bold claim that "there's been a mid-generation leadership change" in the hardware market. Now it looks like it might just have been right. Speaking in an investor note, Cowen and Company analyst Doug Creutz has predicted that if current sales trends persist, Xbox 360 is poised to outsell the Nintendo Wii for the 12 months ending March 31st 2011. Microsoft announced last night that it sold 535,000 consoles in the US last month – a record-breaking number for a non-holiday month. It would be the first time the Wii have been trumped over an annual basis in the US since the machine launched. “This illustrates the significant shift that has gone on over the last year in the console space,” Creutz explained. “The Wii was outselling the 360 and PS3 combined on a trailing 12 months basis as recently as January 2010, and was outselling the 360 alone by two-to-one in December 2009 and 1.5:1 in October 2010. “Over the last three years, total US Xbox 360/PS3/Wii hardware unit sales have remained relatively consistent in the 17-19m unit range (18.2m as of February), so this does represent a share shift as opposed to just a decline for the Wii. “We believe the significant shift in hardware sales towards HD consoles is a positive ongoing development for the US publishers, who earn the majority of their sales on the Xbox 360/PS3.”
Xbox 360 poised to overtake Wii | Games Industry | MCV
Analyst reckons Microsoft's machine will outsell Nintendo's for the year ending March 2011 in the US Back in September 2010 Microsoft made the bold claim that "there's been a mid-generation leadership change" in the hardware market. Now it looks like it might just have been right. Speaking in an investor note, Cowen and Company analyst Doug Creutz has predicted that if current sales trends persist, Xbox 360 is poised to outsell the Nintendo Wii for the 12 months ending March 31st 2011. Microsoft announced last night that it sold 535,000 consoles in the US last month – a record-breaking number for a non-holiday month. It would be the first time the Wii have been trumped over an annual basis in the US since the machine launched. “This illustrates the significant shift that has gone on over the last year in the console space,” Creutz explained. “The Wii was outselling the 360 and PS3 combined on a trailing 12 months basis as recently as January 2010, and was outselling the 360 alone by two-to-one in December 2009 and 1.5:1 in October 2010. “Over the last three years, total US Xbox 360/PS3/Wii hardware unit sales have remained relatively consistent in the 17-19m unit range (18.2m as of February), so this does represent a share shift as opposed to just a decline for the Wii. “We believe the significant shift in hardware sales towards HD consoles is a positive ongoing development for the US publishers, who earn the majority of their sales on the Xbox 360/PS3.”
Xbox 360 poised to overtake Wii | Games Industry | MCV
Most of that is down to you, Biscuit.
I think I should be paid some dividends.
People who own Xbox in Iceland are considered eccentric. I don't get them.
What do people in Iceland own instead? A sledge?
The fact of the matter is there is fewer and fewer people to sell a wii to so it isn't really a surprise that sales are slowing down as it closes in on the market limits.
I just sold my 360, bucking the trend.
A PS3. And for your information England has had way more snow than we have.
PS3 gaming online is free. Xbox is not. Xbox doesn't have anything open for Icelanders and have never marketed themselves here. Therefor way way more people own PS3
Well maybe you should have thought about that before naming your country Iceland.
So the reason no one own's an Xbox in Iceland is because online isn't free? The same as it isn't in the rest of the world? I struggle to believe they marketed themselves any less than Sony did.
Live is only 50 quid a year and owning both consoles I can say that it is about 50 times better than PSN.
So I dont begruge it at all
Yeah, I have a PS3 and a 360. The 360 is just better for online gaming.
Nintendo should make the Wii break as regularly as 360's do, that way they'd sell way more to people like Biscuit.
What do you mean people like me?
People who buy the same console over and over again
Yeah but all my consoles work, albeit some are banned from online.
I assumed they'd broken, that's actually worse!
They were. I just know how to fix them. For my personal use I have 2 Flashed consoles, 2 standard and 2 J-Tag's. The rest are just ones I need to get round to selling.
And yet still bought new ones?
I'll never understand you Timmy
I'll never understand you Timmy
EDIT: did you post that before my edit? the new ones i've just left standard. And in fairness the J-tags paid for themselves and about 10 other consoles.
I did post that before your edit you sneaky scamp, I've no idea what J-tags are but I've decided they are naughty.
Ever so naughty.