4 ms·

PS3 ended up selling more than double what Xbox was sold "only because of extreme end of cycle resurgence"? Cmon It's true the devs have become more comfortab

by nixass 2y ago

PS3 ended up selling more than double what Xbox was sold "only because of extreme end of cycle resurgence"? Cmon It's true the devs have become more comfortable develeoping games as the console matured but that's about it. Xbox was always flop comparing to PS

busterarm 2y ago
Where do you get "more than double" from? Are you looking at the current generation or the PS4/XONE generation? For PS3 vs 360, the PS3 sold 87.40M units to the 360's 85.73M.
merb 2y ago
PS3 sold more because of blue ray support, but in the games compartment they were basically on par
app13 2y ago
They're right. Toward the EOL the PS3 had a big resurgence as THE console of South America and Southeast Asia due to highly available used games, console jailbreaks etc. and of course FIFA.
- kd913 2y ago
  Isn't that kind of the ideal cycle though? From what I recall, consoles operate on the gilette model, ie the console is sold at a loss and games are the breadwinner. In this case, better to reduce early sales which are sold at a loss (production being expensive, significant R&D, scale being low), maximise at the end of the life when i assume they are maximising profits per console due to scale and R&D already being covered.
  - crazygringo 2y ago
    Consoles haven't been sold at a loss for a long time. They're not the Gillette model at all, though a lot of people still think they are. So, no -- it is never better to reduce early sales. You want to sell as many units as possible, as many games as possible, as many accessories as possible, as soon as possible. (Also, as the same console does becomes cheaper to manufacture over the years, the price tends to go down as well.)
causality0 2y ago
It's not double, it's 87.4 million units vs 86 million units. And he's right about multiplatform games. I can't think of any games that ran better on the PS3 than the 360, and a lot that ran better on the 360 than the PS3.
ErneX 2y ago
PS3 did not sell double the 360, they sold almost the same amount of units.

by nixass 2y ago

busterarm 2y ago

Where do you get "more than double" from? Are you looking at the current generation or the PS4/XONE generation? For PS3 vs 360, the PS3 sold 87.40M units to the 360's 85.73M.

merb 2y ago

PS3 sold more because of blue ray support, but in the games compartment they were basically on par

app13 2y ago

They're right. Toward the EOL the PS3 had a big resurgence as THE console of South America and Southeast Asia due to highly available used games, console jailbreaks etc. and of course FIFA.

kd913 2y ago
Isn't that kind of the ideal cycle though? From what I recall, consoles operate on the gilette model, ie the console is sold at a loss and games are the breadwinner. In this case, better to reduce early sales which are sold at a loss (production being expensive, significant R&D, scale being low), maximise at the end of the life when i assume they are maximising profits per console due to scale and R&D already being covered.
- crazygringo 2y ago
  Consoles haven't been sold at a loss for a long time. They're not the Gillette model at all, though a lot of people still think they are. So, no -- it is never better to reduce early sales. You want to sell as many units as possible, as many games as possible, as many accessories as possible, as soon as possible. (Also, as the same console does becomes cheaper to manufacture over the years, the price tends to go down as well.)

causality0 2y ago

It's not double, it's 87.4 million units vs 86 million units. And he's right about multiplatform games. I can't think of any games that ran better on the PS3 than the 360, and a lot that ran better on the 360 than the PS3.

ErneX 2y ago

PS3 did not sell double the 360, they sold almost the same amount of units.