Xbox 360 Owns Nearly Half of Console Market

[Astoria]

Yeah, but how many of those have been red-ringed and replaced by warranty/forced to buy a new one? I'm guessing about half.

Nice try, microsoft....

Yeah that was my thought. Many of those sales would be replacements for old ones. Also, the kinect is why you're having good sales? Really? That thing that I haven't heard one person say they want.

 

[Strazdas]

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".

 

[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

 

[OldNewNewOld]

oint finger at anyone believing this and laughing:

xbox 360: 67.5 million sold
wii: 95.8 million sold.

Now tell me in what numerical system is 67 bigger than 95?

 

[Rainboq]

On the topic of Win8, this is why I run Linux and Wine.

On topic: Bad numbers, silly PR people.

 

[More Fun To Compute]

I have an xbox 360. But it's broken. And even when it worked I never felt like Microsoft owned me.

 

[Dr. Octogonopus]

Oh microsoft and your crazy statistics you're like the Russian government of gaming
Also

Am I the only PC gamer who came to this article just to giggle at all the rampant fanboi-ism?

Seriously though it's just funny. Both systems are old now, have hit their ceilings potential wise, and are merely coasting along by being one notch above, "Casual gaming".

If your platform needs defending, it's not that great to begin with.

shouldn't calling a user of an opposing gaming system a fanboy be considered slightly fanboyish?
But if I called you a fanboy then by my own logic that would make me a fanboy aswell?
.....I see what you did there....well played sir, well played you have won this round

 

[Dr Jones]

Nope, still dont own an Xbox, have no foreseeable reason to buy one within the next 3 years and have have a awe-inspiringly fairly low opinion of the 360 anyway due to all the hardware malfunctions.

They won't ban Xbox from the US at this point, considering how popular it is.

Yet they banned opium, which was even more popular in its time.

Aaaand alcohol, though that shit quickly stopped <.<

 

[Aprilgold]

To point this out, it is not 47% of all consoles sold this generation, but essentially 47% sold this month. Last quarter Sony sold 1.9 million PS3's in comparison to 1.3 million Xbox's sold.

Oh microsoft and your crazy statistics you're like the Russian government of gaming
Also

Am I the only PC gamer who came to this article just to giggle at all the rampant fanboi-ism?

Seriously though it's just funny. Both systems are old now, have hit their ceilings potential wise, and are merely coasting along by being one notch above, "Casual gaming".

If your platform needs defending, it's not that great to begin with.

shouldn't calling a user of an opposing gaming system a fanboy be considered slightly fanboyish?
But if I called you a fanboy then by my own logic that would make me a fanboy aswell?
.....I see what you did there....well played sir, well played you have won this round

Its like liking one football team and then pointing out that because of X teams win that their fans have gone crazy. This doesn't mean that their team is better, it just a statement of a observation.

 

[Blaine Roushia]

Wow, I'm sensing just a little bit of hostility here.

I'll probably get mobbed for it, but unless someone can show me some numbers, i refuse to believe replacement 360's are making up a large chunk of sales.

 

[Madmanonfire]

If your platform needs defending, it's not that great to begin with.

That would apply to all platforms. Each one has something that it can do better than the other platforms. The same goes for fanboys. Each platform has its own fanboy force, and your post proved you're among the PC ones.

OT: Everything has pretty much been said already. The headline alone didn't seem believable and the lack of comparison data in the article doesn't help.

 

[Ashley Blalock]

I've also got to wonder how many of the sells were people having to replace older systems with the red ring of death. I recently had an out of warranty system get the three ring death code and I looked into how much it would cost to have it shipped off to Microsoft for repairs. Honestly I could see why some people just buy another system than to deal with that hassle and cost.

 

[medv4380]

I think the WiiU is a doomed machine, but not for the reason you're thinking. As it's designed right now, it's on par with the 360 and PS3. Microsoft plans on releasing their next console in 3 years. If the WiiU doesn't pick up as a super machine(which I don't really see it doing) right out of the gate, then I don't think it's going to catch up at all. Sony needs to stop jerking around their customers. While the PS3 isn't a bad console, it too long to get over the fact that the major selling feature was Blu-Ray.

Actually the Wii U will be far beyond what the PS3 and 360 are capable of. The Wii U has a large L3 eDRAM cache. Somewhere between 512MB and 1GB is what they are testing with. That one little change right their puts the Bandwidth though the roof when compared to the 360 and PS3. It also makes it easy to program for with multiple cores. Explaining the cost of a Cache Miss will be way over your head since you think that the Wii U is only at the PS3's level.

 

[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?