Xbox 360 vs. PS3

[astroglide]

http://gamesindustry.biz/content_page.php?aid=12661

here's the ms quote claiming they'll never do hddvd-based games with the 360

[astroglide]

http://arstechnica.com/articles/paed...revolution.ars

links to known specs for the xbox 360/ps3 and conjecture about the revolution

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PS2 has sold 4 times as many consoles as xbox. This is the only data I can find to back this up atm, but I have heard other numbers quoted very similiar to this. They continue to sell more, even in the US (I couldnt find any data more recent, but the total sales are the most inmportant and these can't have changed too much in the past 6-10 months).

A market share this huge will be extremely hard to overcome. A release date a year ahead of the PS3, will help, but even if microsoft doubled their market share, they would still be way behind globally.

So far, this hasnt been a console race, it has been a slaughter. This isnt like ABC vs CBS, this is closer to ABC vs TBS, in terms of market share. Saying TBS has a vastly superior fall lineup, assuming this is comepletely true, is mostly irrelivent in the overall win or lose ratings because there is too much ground to catch up.

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this is absolutely, damn near 100% due to it coming out so much sooner. Every single time that I asked why someone would buy a new ps2, after theirs inevitably broke, instead of the better xbox... the response was "cuz I already have all the games"

another reason is that so many consoles broke. As a store manager, I could name you hundreds of customers that bought two or three ps2s. Not to mention how many people bought the "thin" ps2 which had no fan or proper heatsink, and actually caused FIRES in cars in houston.

[SomethingClever]

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after theirs inevitably broke

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I never heard about PS2s breaking more than you'd expect...

I bought one of the very first ones and it's still going strong to this day.

[stabn]

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after theirs inevitably broke

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I never heard about PS2s breaking more than you'd expect...

I bought one of the very first ones and it's still going strong to this day.

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A fair number of xbox broke as well. Supposedly the failure rates of both products were not abnormal for the industry.

[pokerdirty]

sony officialy retarded

I know this is absolutely not going to matter to anyone, but I feel like I should spill.

When I was managing, we went to vegas for a mini-e3 just for our company.

Nintendo and Microsoft both blew our minds, totally took care of us and made sure we went home really excited about the profit.

Sony starts off by saying "We are not a game company... we are an entertainment company" Well [censored] that. from that point on I really didn't listen much, except that I got the distinct impression that they "knew" they were big dogs, and didnt have to work on keeping their customers.

This is more evidence of it.

[astroglide]

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sony officialy retarded

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that's a terrible move. the boomerang pads scare me much more than a revolution controller too.