Comments on: Xbox360 Outsells PS3 and Wii

By: greenthumb

greenthumb — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 22:50:46 +0000

I also said that Gears of War is maken people buy them or was you not smart enought to see that . oh I also said people are buyin them because they are on shelves did ya not see that either ? WTF um holidays

By: greenthumb

greenthumb — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 22:47:16 +0000

first of all I have gave the 360 props thousands of times a fanboy would say 360 blows or some sh*t like that dont lable me a gay a** term such as fan boy lmfao I’m a grown as man I have never said somethin stupid such as xbox sucks or Ps3 owns and if you wasnt as stupid that was part of the reason I started you need to read more or learn how to. PART of the reason

By: Frodos Hairy Foot

Frodos Hairy Foot — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 20:51:36 +0000

Amazon ONLY SOLD 3000 units at that price then the promo ended 26 secs after it started, because they were sold out. 3000 units not affect these sales figures… fanboys, get your facts right.

By: greenthumb

greenthumb — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 19:01:07 +0000

yeah there on shelves while no competition is there! what do ya think is gonna happen lol pluss its the holiday season so if im sure alot of kids will be pissed if they get “No” console to play . I still think most has to do with the Amazon sale I mean $100 for a 360 anyone would be dumb not to jump on that if they had the money. 360 has the most games out right now ,is in stores for the holidays so they are in the right place at the right time.

By: NewbSmasher

NewbSmasher — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 04:33:28 +0000

You honestly think the average consumer buys MULTIPLE game console systems? Please. People own multiple consoles are in the minority. I think some people will buy the Wii as a novelty secondary console…but only the extreme minority of gamers will own PS3 and Xbox360.

Also..the #1 reason 360 sales are doing so good is because last year there were none on the shelves. Well guess what…this year the shelves are stocked.

By: greenthumb

greenthumb — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 02:58:19 +0000

#2 gears of war , #3 its the only thang on shelves since you are pissed you didnt get a Ps3/Wii so what you do ? buy it and Gears of War and pick up your Ps3/Wii when they have more on the shelves

By: greenthumb

greenthumb — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 02:54:39 +0000

this is because #1 um black Thursday sell on amazon the core was $100

By: NewbSmasher

NewbSmasher — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 23:54:33 +0000

“This is obviously because Microsoft has virtually unlimited consoles available at the moment. If the case were the same for all 3, it would be a different story.”

Says who? People aren’t getting 360’s as a backup. They’re getting 360’s because they want 360’s. They’re the same people who WOULD’VE got 360’s last year if they weren’t sold out coast to coast.

By: NewbSmasher

NewbSmasher — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 23:52:15 +0000

“Sorry I just find that hard 2 believe since there is still more time until X-mas b4 people start getting desperate and buy the plan B system.”

That’s because XBoX 360 isn’t the ‘plan B’ system NIMROD. Last year there were MASSIVE 360 shortages all through the holiday season. This year though..MIcrosoft has the shelves fully stocked. Some people have waited to purchase their 360 (or receive one as a gift) until NOW. Don’t you get it?
My little brother for example…he’s in college, has no money, but is asking for a 360 for Christmas. He asked for one last year…but oddly enough my parents didn’t pay $1500 for one on Ebay.

Oh and by the way..I just picked up the HD-DVD drive for my 360…..AWESOME. Tim Burton’s ‘Corpse Bride’ looks absolutely stellar on my TV. And the HD-DVD drive comes with a free copy of King Kong in HD, and a pretty nice universal remote. It lights up and everything.

By: Zac

Zac — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 06:00:41 +0000

Yeah good point Anuban.

By: Anuban

Anuban — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 04:20:05 +0000

Well here is some “Official” news about the Wii. Seems it did damn well and now I wonder more than ever if MS is just full of BS … I will definitely need to see some real numbers from them now.

“Nintendo Officially Sells 600,000 Wii Units In First Week

Nintendo has sent out a press release announcing that their new Wii game console has sold 600,000 units in its first week in North America. In addition, sales of its flagship game, Legend of Zelde: Twilight Princess, have registered over 454,000 copies sold in the US in the first week.”

So if this is true then MS had to sell over 750,000 consoles in order to beat back both Nintendo and Sony. I really do find it hard to believe that the 360 could sell that many in one week considering it isn’t new.

By: Anuban

Anuban — Sun, 26 Nov 2006 01:48:41 +0000

I try and sometimes things come out okay … other times … well I can only say that I am only human just like everybody else.

By: STD

STD — Sun, 26 Nov 2006 01:43:11 +0000

Very good analysis Anuban.

By: Anuban

Anuban — Sat, 25 Nov 2006 19:33:00 +0000

Well until the actual numbers come out no one will know for certain no matter how incredulous it may sound. Gears is really a huge machine and we honestly don’t know how many of those million copies it has sold thus far are for new systems an how many are for existing systems. Remember, as popular as Gears is there are many people who DO NOT like or play TPS or Tactical shooters (some people don’t play shooters at all). So in this case it would just be prudent to wait for the results before continuing to refute this psuedo analysis.

By: Quartecks

Quartecks — Sat, 25 Nov 2006 19:00:30 +0000

Yeah right Microsoft sold a fourteenth of it’s total conaols sales in a week.

By: Paul

Paul — Sat, 25 Nov 2006 11:22:48 +0000

I have a xbox 360 and I’m really happy with I can see why it would be the top seller the graphics on it are awesome.

By: Zac

Zac — Sat, 25 Nov 2006 10:43:37 +0000

Wow Anuban, you’ve outdone yourself.

By: Zac

Zac — Sat, 25 Nov 2006 10:41:53 +0000

Of course it outsold them – there was more available.

By: Anuban

Anuban — Sat, 25 Nov 2006 08:06:57 +0000

More “concrete” info on launch numbers from an article released on the Firing Squad on Wed. I thought I had sent this in but maybe not.

“» Only 125,000 PS3s Shipped For Launch?

This Biz.GameDaily story reports on a new study by PJ McNealy of American Technology Research who states that Sony may have only shipped between 125,000 to 175,000 Playstation 3 consoles for its US launch last Friday, far less than the official Sony number of 400,000 consoles. Those figures include the 15,000 PS3 consoles that were shipped as demo kiosk units to retailers. Numbers for the Nintendo Wii were between 425,000 and 475,000 units for their US launch according to McNealy.”

Again I’ll keep digging and see what, if anything, more I can come up with.

By: Anuban

Anuban — Sat, 25 Nov 2006 08:03:04 +0000

OMG how lousy was my proof-reading?!

“Again manufacturing problems and system shortages are affecting them the way MS was affected.”

Ah much better. Now I will agree that there is no way the 360 sold 500K plus unit during the week other consoles were available … no matter how popular Gears has been proven to be.

Wii and PS3 combined sales for the U.S. must have been somewhere around 650K-750K, so again I can’t see MS beating those combined numbers during that week. If it did indeed happen … which we’ll know for certain in a month or two after all the numbers have been tallied … then I am completely BLOWN away by the allure of Gears which would be the only logical reason so many would have sold in that time period.