PS3 will still most likely win this console war

[QUOTE="Warfust"] Use all the facts in your argument. The part that is damning to the PS3 is NOT the sales numbers themselves. It is the fact that they have SYSTEMS SITTING ON THE SHELVES. The Xbox 360 was sold out, and THAT is the difference.Kane04

LOL

if thats true go clame you 1.200USD for each one you find, i can easily find more than 4 stores were there are more than 20 X360 sitting there.

PlayStation 3 enjoys record pre-orders

Advance orders for Sony's highly anticipated PlayStation 3 console have broken all records, with high street stalwart Woolworths revealing it has been taking one order every 20 seconds during the past week.

The state-of-the-art PlayStation 3 will go head-to-head with Microsoft's Xbox 360 when it hits the shops on March 23 and Woolies, one of the first stores to accept pre-orders, has admitted it has been staggered by the demand.

Gerry Berkley, Woolworths' head of games, said, "It's the hottest gaming system since the PS2 launched in 2000 - demand will outstrip supply."

With a retail price of £425, the 60Gb PlayStation 3 costs £125 more in the UK than in the US, but this has failed to deter those determined to try out Sony's latest dream machine.

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/gaming/a42660/playstation-3-enjoys-record-pre-orders.html

The XBox 360 has been out for almost a year and half. Of course you're going to find them on retail shelves. :roll:  All the hype happening in the U.K. is the same hype that happened in Japan & the U.S. No difference. There are all hardcore gamers who are pre-ordering the PS3 in the U.K. and people out to make a profit. Once the PS3 is out for 30days or more in the U.K., lets see how many are sitting on retail shelves. What you are experiencing is what has already happened in the other markets. Even though Sony is launching 1 million PS3 in the U.K., I'll be surprised if they sell out.

[QUOTE="GloverD"]Do do do dooooooo do.... do do doooo.,... PS3 Pre orders in europe Average 1 per every 20 seconds.........blackace

Yeah.. same thing happened here in the U.S. and about 1/2 of them ended up on Ebay and then were returned less then 30 days later. Basically what you are saying is meaningless.

when the PS3 launch outsold the X360 launch lemmings said:
 - "thats meaningless, if there were more X360 at her launch it would have sold more than the PS3 did, the fact that it had a more sucessful launch than the X360, and a better one than the PS2 doesnt prove anything"

what are you gonna say when the PS3 overtake X360? cows are ignorants?, if they were smart they would have bought a X360?...

[QUOTE="Grive"][QUOTE="magus-21"]Again, in that generation, Nintendo basically shoved its customers and its developers onto the PS1. As dumb as Sony's been, they haven't been asking developers to pay MASSIVE licensing costs to the point where games would have to cost $70-80 like Nintendo did in the N64 days, and Sony didn't stick to a format that was very clearly outdated and expensive (i.e. cartridges)magus-21

Yes, it has lost developers. Maybe not many of the larger developers like Konami, Capcom or Namco, but several of the smaller developers aren't making games for the PS3 yet. Many of the larger companies have decided to only release 1-2 titles for the first year just to see how sales go. You really need to do some research on these things.

The XBox 360 has been out for almost a year and half. Of course you're going to find them on retail shelves. :roll:  All the hype happening in the U.K. is the same hype that happened in Japan & the U.S. No difference. There are all hardcore gamers who are pre-ordering the PS3 in the U.K. and people out to make a profit. Once the PS3 is out for 30days or more in the U.K., lets see how many are sitting on retail shelves. What you are experiencing is what has already happened in the other markets. Even though Sony is launching 1 million PS3 in the U.K., I'll be surprised if they sell out.

blackace

my point is, at this rate the PS3 will overtake the X360 by the end of the year.
now dont get me wrong, i dont hate the X360, last gen i had a Xbox, its just i dont find a motive do stand up for the X360 cuz pretty much every body here is up for the X360. so ill defend the PS3.

the PS platforms were allways my favorite, and i got hurt when the MS kill the Xbox too soon, so this gen im only gonna buy a PS3.

the fact that every body is bashing the PS3 prove that the internet, press and other stuff like that didnt change, the Sony platforms were allways bashed, said to be losers at the beggining, and the prove that they were wrong is here:

TOP 3 BEST SELLING CONSOLES OF ALL TIME

PlayStation 2 - 115,36 millions
PlayStation - 106,49 millions
NES - 60 millions

there was never anyone bigger than the PlayStation, never ever.

I also believe it will be a closer contest this time around for all systems.PS3 has yet to release their hit exclusives,It seems like the developers are starting to utilize the power of the 360,and the Wii effect has yet to wear off and might not.So I see it a lot tighter this time.I own a 360 and really want it to succeed.I would be interested in buying a PS3 if it weren't so $$$$.I thought nintendo was going down the same path as Sega when the Gamecube was doing so horribly,but it looks like they got something going with the Wii.I see it within a 5 year range as follows;

1)360

2)PS3

3)Wii

only my opinion.

[QUOTE="blackace"]

The XBox 360 has been out for almost a year and half. Of course you're going to find them on retail shelves. :roll:  All the hype happening in the U.K. is the same hype that happened in Japan & the U.S. No difference. There are all hardcore gamers who are pre-ordering the PS3 in the U.K. and people out to make a profit. Once the PS3 is out for 30days or more in the U.K., lets see how many are sitting on retail shelves. What you are experiencing is what has already happened in the other markets. Even though Sony is launching 1 million PS3 in the U.K., I'll be surprised if they sell out.

Kane04

my point is, at this rate the PS3 will overtake the X360 by the end of the year.
now dont get me wrong, i dont hate the X360, last gen i had a Xbox, its just i dont find a motive do stand up for the X360 cuz pretty much every body here is up for the X360. so ill defend the PS3.

the PS platforms were allways my favorite, and i got hurt when the MS kill the Xbox too soon, so this gen im only gonna buy a PS3.

the fact that every body is bashing the PS3 prove that the internet, press and other stuff like that didnt change, the Sony platforms were allways bashed, said to be losers at the beggining, and the prove that they were wrong is here:

TOP 3 BEST SELLING CONSOLES OF ALL TIME

PlayStation 2 - 115,36 millions
PlayStation - 106,49 millions
NES - 60 millions

there was never anyone bigger than the PlayStation, never ever.

When PS3 launches in the UK, it'll add even more sales.  When the PS3 has been out for a good year everywhere, we'll see a very large increase in PS3 hardware and software sales.mc2k4

You hope, but you keep forgetting that huge sales will continue for the Wii and XBox 360 as well. Both consoles also have huge titles coming out that people can't wait to get their hands on. A lot of the exclusives that were only on the PS3 will be on the Wii & XBox 360 and those systems will probably be less then what they are when the hot titles get released.

[QUOTE="Darth matt"]I remember SEGA having a pretty strong brand name in the 90s. Failure can happen to any company, deal with it.magus-21

That's of course assuming that the only thing wrong with the PS3 are some "superficial PR screwups" made by Sony reps. 

Ps3 is going to obliterate the competitionAgentA-Mi6

as allways :P

[QUOTE="blackace"]

[QUOTE="GloverD"]Do do do dooooooo do.... do do doooo.,... PS3 Pre orders in europe Average 1 per every 20 seconds.........Kane04

Yeah.. same thing happened here in the U.S. and about 1/2 of them ended up on Ebay and then were returned less then 30 days later. Basically what you are saying is meaningless.

when the PS3 launch outsold the X360 launch lemmings said:
 - "thats meaningless, if there were more X360 at her launch it would have sold more than the PS3 did, the fact that it had a more sucessful launch than the X360, and a better one than the PS2 doesnt prove anything"

what are you gonna say when the PS3 overtake X360? cows are ignorants?, if they were smart they would have bought a X360?...

Well it's true. If the XBox 360 launched with 2 million units it would have easily beat out the PS3 in launch sales. You keep forgetting that PS3 were piling up on retail shelves the 1st week of Jan 07. The XBox 360 couldn't be found until almost April. My comments make a lot of sense, whether you like it or not. I never said the PS3 would never take over the XBox 360. I actually have said the opposite several times, but for that to happen the PS3 price would need to drop to a price where casual gamers could buy it. So go and find my other posts where I say this. :roll:

[QUOTE="blackace"]

The XBox 360 has been out for almost a year and half. Of course you're going to find them on retail shelves. :roll:  All the hype happening in the U.K. is the same hype that happened in Japan & the U.S. No difference. There are all hardcore gamers who are pre-ordering the PS3 in the U.K. and people out to make a profit. Once the PS3 is out for 30days or more in the U.K., lets see how many are sitting on retail shelves. What you are experiencing is what has already happened in the other markets. Even though Sony is launching 1 million PS3 in the U.K., I'll be surprised if they sell out.

Kane04

my point is, at this rate the PS3 will overtake the X360 by the end of the year.
now dont get me wrong, i dont hate the X360, last gen i had a Xbox, its just i dont find a motive do stand up for the X360 cuz pretty much every body here is up for the X360. so ill defend the PS3.

the PS platforms were allways my favorite, and i got hurt when the MS kill the Xbox too soon, so this gen im only gonna buy a PS3.

the fact that every body is bashing the PS3 prove that the internet, press and other stuff like that didnt change, the Sony platforms were allways bashed, said to be losers at the beggining, and the prove that they were wrong is here:

TOP 3 BEST SELLING CONSOLES OF ALL TIME

PlayStation 2 - 115,36 millions
PlayStation - 106,49 millions
NES - 60 millions

there was never anyone bigger than the PlayStation, never ever.

I don't see that happening. At least not this year. In 2008 after the PS3's price drop, they'll have a chance to catch the XBox360..maybe. Gotta wait and see if the Wii stays hot or not though. We'll know for sure around this time next year.

Sony pushed Sega out of the market with the Dreamcast because they had more resources$$.It almost happened to Nintendo.Microsoft doesn't have this problem and will hopefully be into the console gaming for a long time.R.I.P. Dreamcast.

Sony pushed Sega out of the market with the Dreamcast because they had more resources$$.It almost happened to Nintendo.Microsoft doesn't have this problem and will hopefully be into the console gaming for a long time.R.I.P. Dreamcast.

godzillavskong

I don't think Sony did anything. The only one who killed the Dreamcast was SEGA. The system was far from a flop and I thought it was doing just fine until SEGA pulled the plug on it. I have most of the games for the Dreamcast anyways. I probably own about 85% of the games that were released for the Dreamcast. It's gotta be almost 200 or so titles. Still the Dreamcast had one of the best launch of any console with the titles it released.

The PS3 will fail at life.................miserably XenoNinja

PS3 will beat XBOX 360 yes. But Wii is going to be #1 this gen.

-supercharged-

Are you crazy? By the way, the Xbox 360 has been out much longer and made much more money than the Playstation 3 or thw Wii. Yes, Sony is a huge brand name, but do you remember how many times their systems broke. Two of my Playstion 2s broke and my first playstation broke. My xbox amd Xbox 360 have never broken and I've had them for a very long time. Xbox 360 since christmas 2005 and my first xbox at christmas in 2003 or 2004, not sure. Anyways though, The Xbox 360 will win the war, Wii in second place. As for the Playstion 3, I think it'll fail sooner or later.

I agree , sony will win this warZam_basic

Sony will not win, not with a $600.00 console, and no software. Every day M$ and nintendo outsell the SONY they guarentee that the devs will port everything and that will kill the PS3.

You re on denial...

[QUOTE="AgentA-Mi6"] Ps3 is going to obliterate the competitionKane04

as allways :P

Here's a quick history lesson for cows (:) ):

Every console priced over $300 has failed.

Consoles traditionally enjoy their best sales at the $200 (and below) price point.

The first console to reach 10million units sold has always won that generation and enjoyed the best developer support.

Cows should be begging Sony for a price cut for the PS3. ;)

I remember SEGA having a pretty strong brand name in the 90s. Failure can happen to any company, deal with it.Darth matt

[QUOTE="-supercharged-"]

PS3 will beat XBOX 360 yes. But Wii is going to be #1 this gen.

Fatality1565

Are you crazy? By the way, the Xbox 360 has been out much longer and made much more money than the Playstation 3 or thw Wii. Yes, Sony is a huge brand name, but do you remember how many times their systems broke. Two of my Playstion 2s broke and my first playstation broke. My xbox amd Xbox 360 have never broken and I've had them for a very long time. Xbox 360 since christmas 2005 and my first xbox at christmas in 2003 or 2004, not sure. Anyways though, The Xbox 360 will win the war, Wii in second place. As for the Playstion 3, I think it'll fail sooner or later.

[QUOTE="-supercharged-"]

[QUOTE="Spartan070"]Nintendo has more recognition and always will as lond as they are in the console and handheld race. Plus a lot of those "multigenerational franchises" like RE and GTA are now multiplat.LosDaddie

So?

How many copies of GTA: SA sell on the PS2 compared to the XBOX? Oh ya that's right no XBOX game even broke 10million copies sold :lol: While GTA: SA sold what 14+ MILLION?

I can guarantee you that a higher percentage of Xbox owners bought GTA SA than did PS2 owners.

It's the attach ratio that counts. ;)

Of course they have a higher ratio. They had no other game to play besides Halo.