Let's name three things the Xbox 360 has that no other system does.

[QUOTE="spiderluck"][QUOTE="Heil68"]i lol'd..TLHBO. arkephonic

Lol, I live right near Microsoft Headquarters, and I saw a MS employee walk out of Best Buy with 60 Xbox 360 / Kinect bundle consoles that he just purchased for a MS work party. I laughed and asked the Best Buy employee about it, and he said that they do it all the time. The employee I was talking to was the head guy of the little game division of that particular store which is right near MSHQ, and he said that they intentionally buy from retail stores rather than get the systems direct from MS in order to inflate sales numbers. No joke.

Plus, I don't mean to pee on your Xbox 360 sales parade, but...

The Xbox 360 launched November 21st, 2005.

It's been on the market for 79 months, or 6.58 years.

In 79 months, it's sold 67 million units.

That's 10.18 million units sold per year on average.

The PS3 launched November 17th, 2006.

It's been on the market for 67 months, or 5.58 years.

In 67 months, it's sold 65 million units.

That's 11.65 million units sold per year on average.

So I mean, you can't really hold the fact that the PS3 launched a year later against it. It can't exactly compete when it doesn't exist yet. By the looks of it, the Xbox was last place in sales last gen, and it's last place in sales this gen. Market trends don't go by total sales, they go by a sales / time available ratio. For example, when people analyze Call of Duty Modern Warfare (insert number here) sales, they don't wait until it's been out for 7 years, they see how much it's sold in its first week, its first month, the pace in which it sells, etc. They don't sit around for 3 years and then make comparisons.

Oh, and that's a console that launched at $600 dollars selling at a faster rate than the Xbox 360 :lol:

I mean come on, either Xbox is doing something wrong or Sony is doing something right, or maybe a combination of both.

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[QUOTE="ElephantSwag"] What is this tournament app you speak of?spiderluck

It was at E3 2012, but not many seemed to hear about it (kind of a sleeper).

http://news.teamxbox.com/xbox/25798/Xbox-Live-Hosting-Tournaments-Via-Virgin-Gaming-App/

http://eon.businesswire.com/news/eon/20120604005599/en/Virgin-Gaming/Xbox-LIVE/Xbox-360

look at these two dumbasses... Virgin Gaming has been holding tournaments on both 360 and PS3 for over a year.

Plus, I don't mean to pee on your Xbox 360 sales parade, but...

The Xbox 360 launched November 21st, 2005.

It's been on the market for 79 months, or 6.58 years.

In 79 months, it's sold 67 million units.

That's 10.18 million units sold per year on average.

The PS3 launched November 17th, 2006.

It's been on the market for 67 months, or 5.58 years.

In 67 months, it's sold 65 million units.

That's 11.65 million units sold per year on average.

So I mean, you can't really hold the fact that the PS3 launched a year later against it. It can't exactly compete when it doesn't exist yet. By the looks of it, the Xbox was last place in sales last gen, and it's last place in sales this gen. Market trends don't go by total sales, they go by a sales / time available ratio. For example, when people analyze Call of Duty Modern Warfare (insert number here) sales, they don't wait until it's been out for 7 years, they see how much it's sold in its first week, its first month, the pace in which it sells, etc. They don't sit around for 3 years and then make comparisons.

arkephonic

Xbox 360 is not last place in sales, the PlayStation 3 is, silly.

Oh, and that's a console that launched at $600 dollars selling at a faster rate than the Xbox 360 :lol:

I mean come on, either Xbox is doing something wrong or Sony is doing something right, or maybe a combination of both.

arkephonic

[QUOTE="spiderluck"][QUOTE="MicrosoftRules"]

It was at E3 2012, but not many seemed to hear about it (kind of a sleeper).

http://news.teamxbox.com/xbox/25798/Xbox-Live-Hosting-Tournaments-Via-Virgin-Gaming-App/

http://eon.businesswire.com/news/eon/20120604005599/en/Virgin-Gaming/Xbox-LIVE/Xbox-360

Obviously_Right

look at these two dumbasses... Virgin Gaming has been holding tournaments on both 360 and PS3 for over a year.

[QUOTE="spiderluck"][QUOTE="MicrosoftRules"]

It was at E3 2012, but not many seemed to hear about it (kind of a sleeper).

http://news.teamxbox.com/xbox/25798/Xbox-Live-Hosting-Tournaments-Via-Virgin-Gaming-App/

http://eon.businesswire.com/news/eon/20120604005599/en/Virgin-Gaming/Xbox-LIVE/Xbox-360

Obviously_Right

look at these two dumbasses... Virgin Gaming has been holding tournaments on both 360 and PS3 for over a year.

You're a liar and just trying to cover your PS3, nice try. Anyone with open eyes can see the dates in the links: June 4th, 2012 from E3 2012.

Plus, I don't mean to pee on your Xbox 360 sales parade, but...

The Xbox 360 launched November 21st, 2005.

It's been on the market for 79 months, or 6.58 years.

In 79 months, it's sold 67 million units.

That's 10.18 million units sold per year on average.

The PS3 launched November 17th, 2006.

It's been on the market for 67 months, or 5.58 years.

In 67 months, it's sold 65 million units.

That's 11.65 million units sold per year on average.

So I mean, you can't really hold the fact that the PS3 launched a year later against it. It can't exactly compete when it doesn't exist yet. By the looks of it, the Xbox was last place in sales last gen, and it's last place in sales this gen. Market trends don't go by total sales, they go by a sales / time available ratio. For example, when people analyze Call of Duty Modern Warfare (insert number here) sales, they don't wait until it's been out for 7 years, they see how much it's sold in its first week, its first month, the pace in which it sells, etc. They don't sit around for 3 years and then make comparisons.

arkephonic

[QUOTE="Obviously_Right"]

[QUOTE="spiderluck"] Sweet ...MS once again leading the wayspiderluck

look at these two dumbasses... Virgin Gaming has been holding tournaments on both 360 and PS3 for over a year.

Don't listen to him; this is a partnership between X360 and Virgin Gaming. Straight from their site: http://virgingaming.com/corporate-information/press-releases/XBOX.html

[QUOTE="Obviously_Right"]

[QUOTE="spiderluck"] Sweet ...MS once again leading the wayMicrosoftRules

look at these two dumbasses... Virgin Gaming has been holding tournaments on both 360 and PS3 for over a year.

You're a liar and just trying to cover your PS3, nice try. Anyone with open eyes can see the dates in the links: June 4th, 2012 from E3 2012.

As you can see they've been doing this since 2010.

Now shut up please.

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[QUOTE="Obviously_Right"]

look at these two dumbasses... Virgin Gaming has been holding tournaments on both 360 and PS3 for over a year.

Obviously_Right

You're a liar and just trying to cover your PS3, nice try. Anyone with open eyes can see the dates in the links: June 4th, 2012 from E3 2012.

As you can see they've been doing this since 2010.

Now shut up please.

That's the old way they did it. Xbox Live will be partnering up with them and this news comes from E3 June 4th, 2012; shut up please. http://virgingaming.com/corporate-information/press-releases/XBOX.html

[QUOTE="Obviously_Right"]

[QUOTE="MicrosoftRules"]

You're a liar and just trying to cover your PS3, nice try. Anyone with open eyes can see the dates in the links: June 4th, 2012 from E3 2012.

MicrosoftRules

As you can see they've been doing this since 2010.

Now shut up please.

That's the old way they did it. Xbox Live will be partnering up with them and this news comes from E3 June 4th, 2012; shut up please. http://virgingaming.com/corporate-information/press-releases/XBOX.html

So what?? Do you think Virgin Gaming are going to change the entire way they structure their Tournaments through their websites just because of this??

This is an app that will allow Gold members to enter into Tournaments through their Xbox, thats it.

Even then its going to suffer from the same issues apps like Youtube did, why use a cumbersome controller when you can use a Mouse & Keyboard?

[QUOTE="spiderluck"][QUOTE="Obviously_Right"]

look at these two dumbasses... Virgin Gaming has been holding tournaments on both 360 and PS3 for over a year.

MicrosoftRules

Don't listen to him; this is a partnership between X360 and Virgin Gaming. Straight from their site: http://virgingaming.com/corporate-information/press-releases/XBOX.html