PlayStation 3 Hooks 1.2 Million Holiday Buyers
1.2 million may be a fraction of the total Microsoft's bugling, but then Sony sold three-point-nine million PlayStation brand units in North America alone during the holiday window from November 23 to December 31. That's 1.2 million PS3s plus 1.4 million PSPs plus 1.3 million PS2s. With all the monkey-works manufacturing overhead, it's anyone's guess who turned the "purer" profit, but 2007 still rewarded eggs hedged in two or three baskets. I'm sure we'll see that borne out when Nintendo weighs in with likely record Wii and DS sales. (How many original Xbox's do you think Microsoft sold in 2007? Non-existent handhelds?)
We're starting to see data on the holiday beating administered by Nintendo. Reports are out that Nintendo's Wii demolished the PS3 in Japan last year, outselling Sony three-fold, 3.63 million Wii consoles to 1.21 million PS3s. That ratio held through the holidays, with Nintendo selling 774, 123 Wii consoles versus Sony's 232,421 PS3s. Microsoft brought up rears with a mortifyingly low 257,841 Xbox 360 sales. The latter number's for the entire year.
Look at Sony's PS3 sales another way and you've got the bestselling Blu-ray player in 2007, pretty much hands-down. Even though a fraction of PS3 owners actually employ it as a high-def movie playback device, the announcement that Warner Brothers is going Blu-ray exclusive (devastating news for HD DVD) coupled with reports that 2007 was a bumper sales year for high-def displays suggests Sony may be able to add additional non-gamer videophiles to its monthly numbers in 2008.
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so, how does that compare with the xbox360 at 1 year? it doesn't seem fair to make a direct comparison between the ps3 and the 360, when the 360 was released a year earlier.
at this same point in time, how was the 360 doing?
I'll bet just as poorly as Matt said it was. More PS3's are bought because more companies are becoming Blu-ray exclusive, and the XBox 360 doesn't double as an HD-DVD player very well (you have to buy an extension to use it).
On top of that, the features for the XBox 360 like WiFi, HD-DVD player, online gaming and even the hard drive size has to be bought.
With the PS3 the baseline hard drive is twice the size of XBox 360 (although the max is a small 80 GB while 360's is 120 GB). WiFi is integrated, and online gaming is usually free (depending on the game, but most of them are free).
Ontop of all of this, the 360 has restrictions on the hard drive (you can't install an operating system on it easily) and there is no web browser, while both of these are able to use on the PS3 (Ubuntu has a Cell version of their OS, and a web browser included from the start.)
Just my two cents. ^_^
Well,I own both systems. 6 months ago I swore by the 360 while my PS3 just kinda sat in my entertainment cabinet solving Parkinson's and waiting for NetFlix to deliver my next BluRay title.
But I guess I expected too much from HALO and was disappointed so much that I decided to give PS3 gaming a legitimate shot. I now hold a high rank in Warhawk (truly a fantastic game that doesn't get the respect it deseves). I also purchased Call of Duty for the PS3 instead of for my XBOX...I kinda feel that was a mistake, but it still runs nicely on the PS3. The PS3 media client and web browser are also getting a good workout; in fact, if it wasn't for Tampa Bay Lightning games, I would cancel my cable service as I'm finding that between College Humor, Youtube, and Reuters I get all the video I need. Now my 360 is collecting dust and it's not even solving cancer or waiting for a Hi Def movie...I feel kinda guilty. What if God had intended my PS3 to cure Alzheimer's? Sigh.
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