Microsoft: PS3 Likely Outsold 360 in Feb.

[Inspector Jihad]

Originally posted by: Imp
Great. Now we just need more games. I've got 4 now, and other than Heavenly Sword, which I won't pay full price for, and Resistance, which I don't feel like playing right now, I've got nothing. I've turned the rear-power switch off my PS3 cause I haven't used it in 2 weeks. Partly cause I've got work to do, and mainly cause I've got nothing to play.

do you have warhawk?

 

[Thraxen]

Originally posted by: Imp
Great. Now we just need more games. I've got 4 now, and other than Heavenly Sword, which I won't pay full price for, and Resistance, which I don't feel like playing right now, I've got nothing. I've turned the rear-power switch off my PS3 cause I haven't used it in 2 weeks. Partly cause I've got work to do, and mainly cause I've got nothing to play.

If you like golf games Hot Shots Golf 5 will be out next week... I think it's actually going to be called Hot Shots Golf: Out of Bounds here in the US. You can grab a demo off the UK store.

 

[tdawg]

Originally posted by: Slew Foot
The HD/Bluray thing put me over into the PS3 camp. Ill probably be picking one of them up this year to complement my Wii.

While I have an HD-DVD add-on for the 360, since Blu-ray one, I will be picking up a PS3 mainly for that ability, as it is the cheapest, most future-proof (upgradeable to profile 2.0 and beyond?) Blu-ray player available. I'm completely sold on HD movies and am confident I will never buy another standard definition dvd.

 

[Eeezee]

By "shortage" they mean you can only see a handful of Xbox 360s anywhere you go instead of 500 of them lining the shelves (or sitting in a big pile in Best Buy, etc.)

People could buy them no matter where they went, they just couldn't buy 5 each. That's hardly what I'd call a "shortage"

 

[Eeezee]

Originally posted by: PliotronX

Originally posted by: Dari

Originally posted by: mugs
PS3 is starting to move up. Last 3 or 4 people who asked for advice on buying a console here ended up picking the PS3. A common theme seems to be that the reliability issues are really hurting the 360. It held me back for over a year.

Yep, I really wanted to get a 360 but I really don't want to deal with an unreliable product. I'm seriously looking at picking up a PS3 in the near future. Sony is making all the right moves.

The Falcon component version will very likely help with the reliability issues. The GPU was shrunk by half-node (80nm) as well as the CPU shrunk to 65nm. Total system power consumption is cut by 40% which redcues heat within the problem areas. I've not read of any Falcons having the RRoD yet. Nearly all 360's on shelves have been Falcons since the start of the year. Later this year will be seeing the Jasper version which will have the 65nm GPU. I wish they'd ditch the x-clamp though. The labor of installing the heatsink with nuts and bolts would be far cheaper than the mass replacements they've had to endure. Not to mention their image has been tarnished.

I'll buy a 360 if we see failure rates dropping by Christmas. It's too early to say for sure whether the Falcon version is more reliable (they could still be using shoddy manufacturing processes). The horrible failure rates really turned me off (even if I love Dead Rising).

I might also be willing to ignore the failure rates if the Pro bundle drops to $300 by Christmas (at which point the 360 will be price-competitive with the Wii)

 

[Eeezee]

Originally posted by: destrekor

Originally posted by: Aikouka
Good to mention that most of the top games were sold for the 360 .

Well do recall, while the PS3 has been selling better... it's still ways behind in general sales. This can 1) be attributed to slow sales during the first year due to high cost, and 2) it's a year behind in market availability in comparison to the 360... the PS3 has been enjoying good news and good sales lately, and they are beginning to market the upcoming hot titles that will surely push a few more sales.

+

That's what makes Microsoft's spin so funny. "We have the most games!" Of course you do, you released a year earlier than anyone else!

 

[Queasy]

Originally posted by: Eeezee

Originally posted by: PliotronX

Originally posted by: Dari

Originally posted by: mugs
PS3 is starting to move up. Last 3 or 4 people who asked for advice on buying a console here ended up picking the PS3. A common theme seems to be that the reliability issues are really hurting the 360. It held me back for over a year.

Yep, I really wanted to get a 360 but I really don't want to deal with an unreliable product. I'm seriously looking at picking up a PS3 in the near future. Sony is making all the right moves.

The Falcon component version will very likely help with the reliability issues. The GPU was shrunk by half-node (80nm) as well as the CPU shrunk to 65nm. Total system power consumption is cut by 40% which redcues heat within the problem areas. I've not read of any Falcons having the RRoD yet. Nearly all 360's on shelves have been Falcons since the start of the year. Later this year will be seeing the Jasper version which will have the 65nm GPU. I wish they'd ditch the x-clamp though. The labor of installing the heatsink with nuts and bolts would be far cheaper than the mass replacements they've had to endure. Not to mention their image has been tarnished.

I'll buy a 360 if we see failure rates dropping by Christmas. It's too early to say for sure whether the Falcon version is more reliable (they could still be using shoddy manufacturing processes). The horrible failure rates really turned me off (even if I love Dead Rising).

I might also be willing to ignore the failure rates if the Pro bundle drops to $300 by Christmas (at which point the 360 will be price-competitive with the Wii)

That 'insider' at 8bitjoystick pegged the failure rate for the Falcons at less than 10%. Still higher than the 3% norm but much better than the original version. After the European price drop last week, I'd expect a US price drop before GTAIV comes out.

 

[StrangerGuy]

Originally posted by: bl4ckfl4g
R4 is raping DS software numbers. I wonder what they are gonna do about that.

One can safely assume R4 buyers only bought the DS because the R4 exists.

No R4 = No DS sold = $0 to Big N
One R4 = One DS sold =$$$ to Big N

Nintendo is probably too busy counting the cash to worry about the R4...

 

[bl4ckfl4g]

Originally posted by: StrangerGuy

Originally posted by: bl4ckfl4g
R4 is raping DS software numbers. I wonder what they are gonna do about that.

One can safely assume R4 buyers only bought the DS because the R4 exists.

No R4 = No DS sold = $0 to Big N
One R4 = One DS sold =$$$ to Big N

Nintendo is probably too busy counting the cash to worry about the R4...

I guess that matters to the software developers like Square.

 

[Gothgar]

Originally posted by: Queasy

Originally posted by: Eeezee

Originally posted by: PliotronX

Originally posted by: Dari

Originally posted by: mugs
PS3 is starting to move up. Last 3 or 4 people who asked for advice on buying a console here ended up picking the PS3. A common theme seems to be that the reliability issues are really hurting the 360. It held me back for over a year.

Yep, I really wanted to get a 360 but I really don't want to deal with an unreliable product. I'm seriously looking at picking up a PS3 in the near future. Sony is making all the right moves.

The Falcon component version will very likely help with the reliability issues. The GPU was shrunk by half-node (80nm) as well as the CPU shrunk to 65nm. Total system power consumption is cut by 40% which redcues heat within the problem areas. I've not read of any Falcons having the RRoD yet. Nearly all 360's on shelves have been Falcons since the start of the year. Later this year will be seeing the Jasper version which will have the 65nm GPU. I wish they'd ditch the x-clamp though. The labor of installing the heatsink with nuts and bolts would be far cheaper than the mass replacements they've had to endure. Not to mention their image has been tarnished.

I'll buy a 360 if we see failure rates dropping by Christmas. It's too early to say for sure whether the Falcon version is more reliable (they could still be using shoddy manufacturing processes). The horrible failure rates really turned me off (even if I love Dead Rising).

I might also be willing to ignore the failure rates if the Pro bundle drops to $300 by Christmas (at which point the 360 will be price-competitive with the Wii)

That 'insider' at 8bitjoystick pegged the failure rate for the Falcons at less than 10%. Still higher than the 3% norm but much better than the original version. After the European price drop last week, I'd expect a US price drop before GTAIV comes out.

yeah, with the Bluray win in the HD wars, Microsoft really needs to do a decent price drop...

If they dropped each version down 50 bucks, I bet we'd see a huge surge in their sales.

That'd put the arcade at cheaper than the Wii, and the Pro at 300 bucks... It would be a great deal for anyone into gaming.

 

[DaveSimmons]

In Sony's spin, year-over-year is the key number:

PLAYSTATION®3 (PS3?) outsold Xbox 360 for the second straight month with 280,841 hardware units sold in February, 10% higher than Microsoft (according to NPD February 2008 sales data). Year-over-year this represents 120% sales growth.

Around this time last year the PS3 cost $600, sales numbers were dropping fast, HD-DVD looked like it might win, and people were making "another nail in the coffin of PS3" posts with a straight face.

PS3 might or might not keep outselling the 360 in the US this year, but it's looking tremendously less doomed.

 

[MarkW]

I've had the ps3 for about a year now.
But its nice to see the ps3 picking up a bit. I, for one, am very excited of the upcoming game releases.

March : Hot shots golf 5
April : Gran turismo 5 prologue and GTA4
May : Wipeout HD
June : Metal gear solid 4