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Microsoft: “Sony will struggle” With PS3 Home, Has 360 Won?

By: Daniel Chubb | September 22, 2007 | 11 Comments

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Not so surprisingly, Microsoft has had yet another dig against Sony, who announced at the Tokyo Games Show (TKS) that their highly anticipated, interactive online service Home, has been delayed until Spring 2008.

John Rooke, Microsoft’s UK marketing manager for second and third party Xbox 360 games said: “I think Sony will struggle”.

He also revealed:

“We hope to have 10 million users online by E3″, a significant bump up from the 7.1 million they have now. Rooke talked about why he thinks Xbox Live has become so successful:

“Lots of people complained when we launched Xbox Live about our rigorous standards, but it has meant that now we can offer a complete service that works every time, for everyone.”

Has Microsoft already won over the online side of games consoles? Does the PS3 have a chance? 

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  • Ugo

    Out of the 7.1m people who have Live accounts only around 2m have gold ones. If you think I’m lying just ask yourself why Microsoft never release individual figures. Why do they only ever release the total including Silver accounts? There will be more people playing online on the PS3 next year than the 360 no matter what that dimwit thinks.

    At the end of the day he doesn’t want to admit that Home will be successful because its free and it makes Live look like a total rip off. Its far easier to just ignorantly say it will be rubbish and throw some deliberately misleading stats around.

    It will be more popular than Live without a doubt for the simple fact that its free.

  • Eugene

    Even if only 2 million was gold, do you not think that Halo 3 will raise it significantly?

  • Adam

    Halo 3 is gonna sell more than the entire installed base of the PS3 in a week

  • GroverFD

    I think few ppl realised the _real_ state of the X360 is alot more dire than articles like this proclaim. Even from MS itself:
    http://www.next-gen.biz/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=7222&Itemid=9
    X360 Sales Now (Sept): 11.6 Million
    http://arstechnica.com/journals/thumbs.ars/2007/04/26/xbox-360-losses-shrink-but-so-do-shipments
    X460 Sales March: 11.0 Million

    Somehow, no matter what anyone says about the X360. MS’s own information states 600,000 in a 6 month period. This is utterly poor Worldwide!! With the PS3 selling 4 million in the same period, who can seriously say the X360 has some sort of gain over the PS3.. Id be very surprised if the X360 sales boost from Halo 3 much at all – look at the top selling games on X360 – ALL FPS. THey are catering for the market they already have, not some market thats waiting to buy a X360 just for Halo. Thats plain fantasy after 2 yrs of sales.

  • david

    I think the powers at Xbox realise that the advantage they have regarding units sold/games available will quickly evaporate over the next 6 to 12 months.
    Ultimately, the PS3 has to be the better option. The specs speak for themselves…

  • chris

    Who are these poeple that talk about the 360 being in a ” Dire” state. Don’t these people read or listen to any reports. The 360 is not in any trouble, just look at the sales figures for both the PS3 and 360. The 360 has out sold the PS3 for months. Yes the levels are not that of the Wii but very few things are :) …

    Where did GroverFD find the 600,000 in 6 months, last week alone in the US they sold 88,000. I take it you are not a 360 fan :) , which is OK but you know as well as every one else the PS3 is having a very bad time, yes maybe in the next 3 – 5 years it may start to pick up, but with the hardware flaws I am not too sure. I do have one so I do have some experiance with it, it is to slow when you have a lot on the screen is slows down. I have never seen this on the 360 all games are smooth and crisp. I have read things regarding the Video Mem size and how it is linked to the CPU this can’t be good fo0r the long turn…. but we will see.

    @David you are talking silly, there is still a big advantage which will only get bigger and in the end all games will come out on 360 even FF13 you will see, there are already rumours about a 360 version ( There is no smoke without a fire) :)

  • chris

    Oh and just to answer your question about if the 360 has won, in my opinion it won the day it was released ( a year befor the PS3) as the PS3 will not dominate this time and by new gen it will be all over for sony. Which will be a shame but it happens to every one. Doesn’t it saga…

  • One

    @ Chris
    FF13 was confirmed for PS3 only at TGS. Also the 360 is outselling the PS3 basically in US only, where its not blowing it out of the water. The PS3 is outselling the 360 in Japan by such a wide margin its not even funny. The Wii is blowing both systems out of the water though.

    It’s true. The 7.1 million subscribers to XBLA include gold, silver and old regular Xbox users as well. How many accounts are just 360 accounts? How many are just gold?

    Neither system has been selling that great between the 360 and PS3.

    @GroverFD
    Thank you. How many people are going to buy a 360 for Halo 3 that didn’t already want to buy one for Gears of War or Bioshock? I’m not saying no one is going to buy a 360 for Halo 3 but how many? Gears help pushed 4.4 million 360′s in November last year. I don’t Halo 3 can do that because maybe just maybe most of the people who want to play Halo 3 have a 360 already. I see like 400,000 360′s sold for September but that is just a guess and that’s not good enough for Halo 3.

  • Pat O

    Microsoft won the online battle years ago. Sony has never taken online gaming seriously and obviously still maintains that attitude, and I can’t blame them, it doesn’t seem profitable enough. Sony needs to focus more on getting good games out to the market, and I think that’s what they are doing.

  • Ryan

    xbox 360 sales may be boosted by halo 3 but aftre the hype has gone down the ps3 will be selling more and will ultimatley win

  • Ryan

    also you guys should be playing your own consoles instead of arguing. and if you ask why i’m doing this its because i’m in school with nothing better to do