Microsoft Concedes Console War, Declares 2nd Place
In a reversal of its "we're winning if you don't count the Wii" policy, the company behind the Xbox 360 has acknowledged the success of Nintendo's sold-out, remote-waggling wonder box and instead declared victory over rival Sony and its PlayStation 3.
In his best PR voice, Microsoft VP Don Mattick told BusinessWeek, "I'm not at a point where I can say we're going to beat Nintendo ... [but] we will sell more consoles this generation than Sony."
As of March of this year, worldwide console sales are listed below. Since then, the Wii has come close to 30 million sold and the PS3 has topped 14 million, but Microsoft has not released numbers for the same period.
- Wii - 24.45 million units
- Xbox 360 - 19 million units
- PlayStation 3 - 12.85 million units
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replySo do we start the official 'how long until 360 slips into third' betting pool today?
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You overestimate the power of BluRay. People will not be rushing to BluRay while the media is so expensive. Also, too many people don't have an HDTV. And Sony won't be able to control the price. It's only a matter of time before some ultra low cost builder does to BluRay players what Apex did to DVD players.
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I dunno I love it as both a video game console, a Blu-ray player, and as a multimedia console (streaming music/videos/pictures, web browsing, etc). I would never agree with underestimating Blu-ray after watching Transformers in Blu-ray the other day, it looked and sounded amazingly good.
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Except, you know, for the fact that 99% of consumers don't care about high def optical formats.
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LoL...
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I don't see the humor. Most people still don't own high-def televisions, and even more than that are still happy with standard DVD since it looks pretty damn good upscaled on a HDTV. I know that we're all tech geeks here, but that sort of enthusiasm simply isn't present in the overwhelming majority of consumers. That's why, with the exception of the PS3 and it's owners, sales of Blu-Ray hardware and titles has been pretty miniscule. The demand simply isn't there.
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nm, this post http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=17860961#itemanchor_17860961 makes the reason you lol'd clear.
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No, I actually agree with your point. The humour was just in the statistic you used. I'm guessing you were using it more as a term of speech though as opposed to something actually based in reality, like in a "99% of cats prefer Whiskeys™ cat food" kind of way.
So yeah, that's actually why I lol'd, it just tickled me. I probably should have posted more than a "lol" to save you jumping to conclusions and going off on a rant though, so sorry about that. But don't think that looking at my post history means you know me, I've never even owned a PS3. I'm not a fanboy of the PS3, or anything else really.-
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Microsoft will never let the PS3 overtake the XBOX 360. I think they will practically give the thing away before that happens (they are already being very aggressive on price cutting). You will probably someday see a $99 XBOX360.
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I don't think it really matters if the PS3 does or does not sell more or less units of hardware or software, or anything else to be honest (unless of course you have a vested interest). But for the sake of needless fanboyism, who really gives a flying fuck at a rolling donut who comes out on top? I prefer the PS3 of the current line-up (excluding PCs), and always will regardless of sales figures.
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