Another salvo has been fired by Sony, just off the bow of direct competitor Microsoft. As Sony said during their press conference at Gamescom, effective immediately Sony has dropped the price of the PS3 to $249 for the 160GB model and $299 for the 320GB model. With Microsoft still charging $299 for a 250GB model, time will only tell what their next step will be to counter this and maintain their high market share. Click READ MOAR for my opinion on the matter.
With this price drop, Sony has cemented itself as the best value in the market (for the time being). The Wii doesn’t even do 720p resolution, let alone actual HD, and the Xbox 360 is extremely proprietary in nature and is missing the ability to use optical media larger than 10GB. As much as Nintendo was touting the Wii U at E3, I’m not sold and will most likely NOT be spending my hard earned money on it (I was already burned by Nintendo when I was a first adopter to the Wii). Microsoft has a more inexpensive unit, which comes without a hard drive, but I don’t know very many people that are dropping money on for the cheap entry (if you want to add HDD functionality it’s pretty much the same as buying the 250GB unit). Without the ability to utilize Blu-Ray discs, MS finds itself falling behind the Sony almost as fast as the original lost footing against the PS3. MS will need to step up their time table for their next model in order to maintain their position in the market. The next unit will NEED to utilize a large format optical disk as its main source of information as Digital Distribution will not be viable for quite some time (say what you will, but you know it’s true). The ball is now in Microsoft’s court, I can’t wait to see what their answer will be.
*UPDATE*
Lifespan to date so far:
Xbox 360 PS3 Wii
January 2008 230,000 269,000 274,000
February 2008 254,600 280,800 432,000
March 2008 262,000 257,000 721,000
April 2008 188,000 187,100 714,200
May 2008 186,600 208,700 675,100
June 2008 219,800 405,500 666,700
July 2008 205,500 225,000 555,000
August 2008 195,200 185,400 453,000
September 2008 347,200 232,400 667,000
October 2008 371,000 190,000 803,000
November 2008 836,000 378,000 2,040,000
TOTAL: 3,295,400 2,818,900 8,001,000
I think Xbox is doing PERFECTLY FINE and LAUGHING at sony. Agreed with the Blue Ray FINE but there is OBVIOUSLY a reason for the sales numbers lol
hahahaha that fucking chart didnt work the Bold is the so called xbox sales since 2008
I wasn’t saying that the 360 hasn’t sold well, but all charts that I have looked at show that the 360 is only ahead by a few million consoles. History shows that a significant price drop dramatically increases sales (just look at the sales of the crappy 3DS last week). I think Microsoft is going to lose it’s footing soon.
Chart fail
chart posted, yo! And remember Booze, that reflects an additional years worth of sales. If you look at it that way, MS has lost a lot of momentum already.
WE CAN LIKE AND DISLIKE YEAH!!!!
ha ha yeah I’ll give it a shot, try not to abuse the power!
WHERE DID IT GO!
Where did what go?
The dislike shit and like shit
Still here as far as I can tell, I know it doesnt work so well with IE. So check your browser and make sure you have flash updated.
It doesn’t come up on the android browser too.