4 ms·
The PS3 installed based is larger than the XBox 360 installed base: http://www.vgchartz.com/ http://www.vgchartz.com/ And the PS3 was released a year later tha
by magoghm 13y ago
The PS3 installed based is larger than the XBox 360 installed base: http://www.vgchartz.com/ http://www.vgchartz.com/
And the PS3 was released a year later than the XBox 360.
- mehrzad 13y agoWith Xbox Live Gold, Microsoft probably made more money, I'd say.
- KingLot 13y agoThat only means they lost more money that Microsoft did. Consoles are to games what shaving razors are to blades or printers are to cartridges. They sell them hardware for a loss and try to make it back on the games. The 360's attach rate is higher with people buying a lot of games and coupled with XBox Live Gold, made much more money than Sony did. Small wonder you have to pay Sony for PS+ for multiplayer now.
- pyre 13y agoAccording to the chart, we're talking 77.6M vs. 77.5M. That's really splitting hairs about who is 'first.' The part that's missing here is that those stats are after ~8 years of normalization. Many people that only bought a single console at first may now have two or three from that generation (i.e. could only afford one console, but over the course of close to a decade could save up and buy one or two more, especially after price drops). The PS3 was also one of the first BluRay players, and IIRC in Japan Sony is a more trusted brand than Microsoft (or at least was). These are all factors at play here.