Black Friday: How Xbox 360 beat Sony PS3 explained by Blorge
Filed under: Gaming, Sony Playstation 3, Xbox 360 | By: Alan Ng
Posted on: December 4, 2008 | 8 Comments
Following from the Black Friday weekend sales, Microsoft has come out and released a press statement saying that the Xbox 360 had outsold the PS3 three-to-one.
While the PS3 had various bundles on offer during Black Friday weekend, the Xbox 360 didn’t really alter prices for its console, but consumers still bought more Xbox 360s than PS3s according to Microsoft.
It looks like Septembers price cut for the 360 has really paid dividends for Microsoft over long term sales, since the price cuts, the console begun to sell very well according to the monthly figures.
If the PS3 doesn’t announce a price cut soon, it looks as if it might have quite a bit of catching up do with Microsoft, because at the moment consumers are just heading out and picking up the cheapest deals they can find.
What do you think about this?
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I think that it is unfortunate that Sony owns the truly more robust system but is losing in sales. I guess that marketing has everything to do with it. Also Microsoft seems to be buying up all the good game titles. Sony needs to get back on their “A” game.
If Sony would just release some A+ titles instead of all the poor Ports and have some actual adertising instead of hundreds of commercials for the bad game Mirrios Edge and offer a competitive price they would do much better..
MGS4 and Warhawk are great but not going to be enough..
Probably because no one really cares about overpriced Bluray disc’s, one of the only reasons I thought PS3’s were better than Xbox’s. Online legal distribution and services like netflix/redbox will kill the requirement to actually purchase physical video media, just like it has in the music world. Illegal distribution was always there, it’s not a major factor, those “customers” were never customers in the first place. Only major stumbling block is the “caps” on “unlimited” internet access that Comcast and others have recently instituted to cover their own ppv and ondemand services.
SONYs big DEMO for the last 4 weeks on there Playstion Store……DRuM ROLL………Moto GP 2008 whew! Wow! Thats gonna move some units…
If LITTLEBIGPLANET would have decent controls (Being able to move in and out of the foreground and backround) (Jumping without it running 5 inches to endless cheap deaths) people would have bought it…
But Sony doesnt listen to its users and the Forums are fixed as they delete even the slightest negative feedback (Damage control), they are run by a bunch of idiots..
Too bad the system has some much wasted potential…
people are cheap - the cheaper unit wins, despite the fact that more than 30% of xboxs blowup in the first year of ownership - even knowing that i almost bought an xbox - why? because I’m really CHEAP!
and i doubt most of the consumers really know much about the differences between the units
The thing is POS3 is finally showing it’s true colors! It is not a great gaming consol it is a high end DVD player! As of today Sony has done nothing to grab market share except have a Blu Ray player on their machine. If that does not change people will lose faith in the upcoming video game consoles product by Sony.
I’m based in the UK, and i’ve litterally seen NO PS3 advertising at all.
Xbox 360 ads are on every channel and nearly every ad break.
I’ve actually seen more PSP adverts than i have PS3 ads.