Xbox 360 Owns Nearly Half of Console Market

[Terminate421]

2. Loss of the Xbox360 will have traumatic results to the market. And before you say "Oh you could just switch to PC games or PS3 games". Fuck that. The Xbox is a great system that allows many media functions for a small fee. Which I am happy to pay.

Too lazy or stupid to move to PC or PS3? and because you said so laws no longer apply and jsut because you are happy to pay more means everyone should? "fuck that".

What?!?

I'm sorry but what?!? I said "fuck that" because I liked my Xbox and its service, I didn't WANT a PS3 and I have a laptop for PC gaming anyway. I wasn't lazy, I wasn't stupid. I liked the service that the Xbox gave me for a mere 50 bucks a year, if you can't afford that and yet you can afford the system AND games, then there are bigger problems here.

Besides, the Xbox has, in my mind, better exclusives and features.

Thanks for clarifying that I'm not the idiot here. Please actually read what I am saying before attempting to insult me.

 

[kyogen]

That's an estimated 47% of total console sales in the US market only, Escapist. Both of the sources listed make that perfectly clear. Your article does not.

And I'm still skeptical of those numbers.

 

[hooksashands]

Blah blah blah We have all your moneyz! Give us more money! Want to play with your friends? That'll be $50 extra. Wait, did I say $50? I meant $60! It's not like Youtube is free to use or anything, which is totally why we made our shitty Youtube app gold members-only. Oh, did you want to watch that video you bought from our marketplace? First, download and install this obsolete Zune license checker. No you can't play anything on your hard drive while offline. Give us more money!

Seriously. Fuck this company.

Captcha: see red

 

[medv4380]

That's an estimated 47% of total console sales in the US market only, Escapist. Both of the sources listed make that perfectly clear. Your article does not.

And I'm still skeptical of those numbers.

Week of May 19th
North America Sales
PS3 49,615 - 34.1%
360 69,441 - 47.6%
Wii 26,617 - 18.3%
Tot 145,673

World Wide
PS3 137,034 - 42.9%
360 119,057 - 37.3%
Wii 63,413 - 19.8%
Tot 319,504

Life Time
PS3 64.5M - 28.4%
360 66.8M - 29.4%
Wii 95.8M - 42.2%

And that's just raw sales. That does not account for the replacement sales that the 360 has from RRD.

 

[TK421]

Thats impressive being that its their second console. Although im sure alot of that maybe came from the fiasco that was PS3. I had the PS1 and PS2 and Xbox, loved them both to death, but the cost of the PS3 was at launch made the 360 more viable option.

Indeed. I got a 360 simply because it was cheaper. Now that I have both, I vastly prefer the PS3 in every way, but there was no way to know that at launch, so $600 was too much to ask for me.

 

[TK421]

I liked the service that the Xbox gave me for a mere 50 bucks a year, if you can't afford that and yet you can afford the system AND games, then there are bigger problems here.

I disagree. I can't afford the extra $60 a year, but I can afford the games. You know why? Because I spend that extra $60 on a game not the ability to use the functions my game already has.

This is why I saved up six games' worth of money to buy a PS3, so I wouldn't have to put up with that crap anymore.

 

[kyogen]

That's an estimated 47% of total console sales in the US market only, Escapist. Both of the sources listed make that perfectly clear. Your article does not.

And I'm still skeptical of those numbers.

Week of May 19th
North America Sales
PS3 49,615 - 34.1%
360 69,441 - 47.6%
Wii 26,617 - 18.3%
Tot 145,673

World Wide
PS3 137,034 - 42.9%
360 119,057 - 37.3%
Wii 63,413 - 19.8%
Tot 319,504

Life Time
PS3 64.5M - 28.4%
360 66.8M - 29.4%
Wii 95.8M - 42.2%

And that's just raw sales. That does not account for the replacement sales that the 360 has from RRD.

Thank you, but source please. And have you had a look at the sources cited for the article?

 

[Kroxile]

Lol, the M$ fanboy butthurt is pleasing to me.

This article is bullocks plain and simple. The Wii won this console generation by a loooong shot and the PS3 really isn't that far behind the 360 as the kind people who have already posted the numbers have shown.

Besides, when you take out all sales from all the RROD replacements I'd be willing to bet that the PS3 is in 2nd place quite firmly anyway.

 

[Warforger]

Most of those sales come from people who had to replace their Xboxs after the RROD

I have had mine for years, don't plan to replace it until the next-generation consoles come out.

Well there's that and the fact that most multiplatform games tend to sell the most on Xbox so if there aren't more Xbox's there's certainly more Xbox people buying games than other consoles.

In the US and the UK, the PS3 is more popular in Asia and the rest of Europe than the 360.

But yeah anyway as everyone's said repeatedly, no. of 360s shipped worldwide =67 million, no of PS3's shipped worldwide =63+million, no. of Wii's = 90 million

There is basically no difference between 360 sales and PS3 sales

Oh no I wasn't talking about systems, I was talking about sales of multiplatform games. Usually how it goes is 1. 360 2. ps3 3. PC. It's why say getting BF3 is better for Xbox because there's always going to be more support, it makes sense for PC because the game runs better and there's more freedom, whereas on the PS3 all you pretty much seem to benefit from is one disc.

 

[BrotherRool]

Most of those sales come from people who had to replace their Xboxs after the RROD

I have had mine for years, don't plan to replace it until the next-generation consoles come out.

Well there's that and the fact that most multiplatform games tend to sell the most on Xbox so if there aren't more Xbox's there's certainly more Xbox people buying games than other consoles.

In the US and the UK, the PS3 is more popular in Asia and the rest of Europe than the 360.

But yeah anyway as everyone's said repeatedly, no. of 360s shipped worldwide =67 million, no of PS3's shipped worldwide =63+million, no. of Wii's = 90 million

There is basically no difference between 360 sales and PS3 sales

Oh no I wasn't talking about systems, I was talking about sales of multiplatform games. Usually how it goes is 1. 360 2. ps3 3. PC. It's why say getting BF3 is better for Xbox because there's always going to be more support, it makes sense for PC because the game runs better and there's more freedom, whereas on the PS3 all you pretty much seem to benefit from is one disc.

I know you were, the point is, the chances are you're from a country where the 360 has superior popularity (just because of the demographics of the Escapist and that those countries tend to be English speaking), whereas if you go to other countries.

For example, in Germany the PS3 absolutely dominates software sales, to a much higher extent than the 360 does here
http://www.amazon.de/gp/bestsellers/videogames/ref=sv_vg_0
In their top 10 there isn't a single 360 game.

What I'm saying, what you're seeing isn't a higher percentage of 360 software sales because games sell more on the 360, but that you're looking at it from the perspective of a country with high 360 popularity, the situation is completely reversed in the non-English speaking parts of the world, where the PS3 tends to be popular.

I mean Japan they often don't even bother selling the 360 version

 

[Spector29]

*sigh*

Nintendo still owns my soul (and wallet) as long as they keep making Fire Emblem games.

 

[CoL0sS]

With all the problems I've been having with my PS3 and a giant middle finger I've got every time I tried reaching Sony for help I'm considering extending the same courtesy and switching to Xbox. Then again it's Microsoft....Fuck, PC it is

OT: The numbers Mason! Look at all the pretty numbers! Anyways, I always thought Wii was the all-time best-seller.

 

[Falseprophet]

Xbox 360 Owns Nearly Half of Console Market

Own a console? Odds are, it's an Xbox, says Microsoft Marketing Officer.

This is why gaming journalism isn't respected.

I have a lot of issues with mainstream journalism. But at least your typical mainstream news source is smart enough not to report corporate press releases as actual facts. They'd have worded the headline as "Xbox 360 Owns Nearly Half of Console Market, MS Marketing Exec Claims", or at the very least used the irritating CYA question mark at the end of the headline: "Xbox 360 Owns Nearly Half of Console Market?"

 

[RhombusHatesYou]

snippage

Unless MS have had some major breakthroughs with dynamic recompilation, 360 games on PC is a pipe dream for most.

However, the keyword in the original statment is 'Windows 8 devices'...

It's well known Microsoft wants to make an inroads into the mobile device OS caper and reportedly Win8 is the first edition of Windows that's RISC based version isn't a complete piece of shit. Also with the newest ARM architecture (the CPU architecture of choice for mobile devices, for them what don't know) now able to support 64bit and several flavours of System on Chip (SoC) ARM CPUs (some going as small as 28nm manufacture form), it's looking like MS might be aiming at getting Win8 onto high performance tablets as the OS of choice and using XBL as, amongst other things, it's app distro.

Or maybe MS are just shitwaffling and will eventually release the min specs necessary for emulation in the hope they've talked the feature up so much people will ruish out to go upgrade to spec instead of telling MS to go fuck themselves... it's not like they haven't grossly misjudged the PC community (not just gamers) before.

 

[RhombusHatesYou]

But overall this feels like good old fashioned spin to me.

Like a record, baby.

 

[medv4380]

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Thank you, but source please. And have you had a look at the sources cited for the article?

vgchartz.com

The article is using MS which is manipulating the numbers to make it sound better than it is. The 360 is last(excluding the wii) in the weekly world wide sales, and is only a little bit ahead of the PS3 in life time sales. That number doesn't take into account RROD replacements that were out of warranty and their have been a few. Everyone I know who bought a 360. The weekly sales are also only as good as they are because Nintendo announced their Wii U, and that signaled the end of this console generation. Anyone putting out a game for the Wii has had that in development for a while, and any AAA title had been moved over to the Wii U. This is, in part, the cause of the 20% drop in game sales due to their being fewer games to buy the last few months. So the 360 is still selling after implying that the 360 replacement wouldn't be launched any time soon. In fact looking at the number the only reason the 360 is "defying" gravity is because the kinect was launched with it and is selling similar to a separate platform in terms of sales like the Wii Fit Balance Board.

MS and others should be aware that claiming "victory" when other are winding down so they can ramp up for the next cycle is a bit deceptive. They are also probably lieing just like Nintendo did a year or so prior to the Wii U launch. So MS has probably learned to mimic the best lier of the all.

 

[Ashley Blalock]

Thats impressive being that its their second console. Although im sure alot of that maybe came from the fiasco that was PS3. I had the PS1 and PS2 and Xbox, loved them both to death, but the cost of the PS3 was at launch made the 360 more viable option.

Indeed. I got a 360 simply because it was cheaper. Now that I have both, I vastly prefer the PS3 in every way, but there was no way to know that at launch, so $600 was too much to ask for me.

At the time it was also unclear that Blu Ray would win the format war. Between the original cost of the PS3 and not knowing if the Blu Ray player on it would end up as useless I also went with the cheaper 360.

Looking back on it now perhaps the PS3 would have been the better choice in the long run, but yea dropping $600 just for something to play games on was a load of cash back then.

 

[CaptainMarvelous]

Just going to agree with everyone else, account for Red Rings, the Wii kicked all of the ass (somehow) and the numbers are clearly off. Still, can't have every article researched thoroughly >_>

 

[Johnson McGee]

That number is pretty useless. Does it account for sales from xbox owners replacing defective units? does it account for the fact that there have been many promotions that give away xboxes? does it consider people who have more than one console? etc.