"So far in 1009, compared to the same period in 2008, there has been 17 percent growth in sales for the Xbox 360."

Wow, in only 1000 years, there was a growth of 0 to 17%!!

That's really slow progression!

I would also be glad to hold off for a couple of week... eh what?

LOL, another typo courtesy of Tom's.

The trolls are on their way. Put on your flame suit.

Maybe they'll make up for the millions of RROD!

Considering the economic situation (and around world, not just in the US) those are still some pretty impressive numbers. Summer is when kids are out of school, families are taking vacations, and teens are working part time (or full time) jobs, all of which detracts from gaming. This is also of course irrespective of the fact that very few new titles (decent ones anyway0 have been released lately for any platform.

The argument about PS3 sales are that if Sony drops the price, sales will go up. Sony has been losing money on every PS3 version sold to date, but the bleeding is not as bad these days as production costs fall closer in line - at least that's what I understand anyway. Sony is also still failing to produce a lot of quality titles. They have a few killer proprietary games like Little Big Planet, the Motorstorm series, Warhawk, and Metal Gear, but that's just not going to increase sales.

Top that off with the fact that companies like Valve are thumbing their noses at the PS3, and you have more headaches for Sony. As a PS3 owner however, I don't regret the purchase. Only about 25% of my gaming is on it anyway, and any serious shooters like Crysis or L4D or racing sims like GTR2 go straight to the PC.

Microsoft just has better marketing and exposure as well as of course lots and lots of games. Hell when Halo 3 was all trumped up two years ago, it made me want to get an Xbox just for that game alone - apparently lots of people did. But having just bought the PS3 a few months before, that wasn't going to happen.

Well it's hard to sell more Wiis when practically everyone has one so I guess the 360 is gonna be the second system. Besides, at this point it hardly has to worry about the PS3 .

Good thing joystiq JUST posted an article about the ridiculously high failure rate of the XBOX 360 ----> 54%

Even with a product replacement plan who would want to buy this garbage?

http://www.joystiq.com/2009/08/17/ [...] ilure-rate

1009...

Seriously. Emailing to a co-worker and inviting them to read the article would have caught this error. Reading the article aloud would have caught this error. Reading the article in silence would have caught this error. Inviting a co-worker over to read this would have caught this error.

There are 5th graders who don't make stupid mistakes like this. It's just mind boggling how this place can claim to be a tech news site with such awful awful proof reading practices. Just downright pathetic. I go to anandtech almost exclusively now but I come back for a couple of days only to be reminded exactly why I left. Just pathetic.

Marcus, you really have no business writing articles if you can't slow down enough to re-read your article even ONCE without catching an error like that.

wtf? they are just games consoles, eventually everyone who wants one will have got one? of course there will be a decline in sales!

Whether or not something breaks is irrelevant unless its mission-critical. IE medical equipment, you want to be bullet-proof. A video game console? The only thing that matters is that they fix it when you call them. For example... my brother has an Xbox 360, and his two kids have PSPs. The 360 RRODed... and they replaced it (over a year old, but less than 3). The PSPs both broke (one has a faulty optical drive, the other has a bad analog board). It has been 1.5 years since purchase. Called Sony, and guess what, he's SOL.

At least on the one PSP I can replace the joystick assembly for cheap, but for the other unit the optical drive is costly enough that its easier to mail it to Sony for repair. I'd replace it with a used PSP, but there's no guarantee that one wouldn't develop its own problem. Plus they're both limited edition white star wars models (2000 series IIRC), and I don't feel like swapping drives (and maybe boards if I'm unlucky and its not physically the drive itself).

Well this year is almost over so it's pretty much irrelevent. I think the PS3 has the brightest future for the next few years. I still believe that when the price comes down, it will out sell even the Wii. My God their still selling PS2, so i think theirs plenty of time for Sony to be the King again.

Once Sony and Microsoft cut the price of their consoles sales will surge for a couple of months. Also whether or not something breaks is some what relevant as it can exaggerate sales numbers. Someones 360 breaks outside of warranty, they buy a new one. I personally know whose launch model 360 broke on them right outside of warranty. Talk about bad luck. They had to buy a new 360.

1009?! I laughed for a good several minutes. Wow.

Troll here and proud of it. Why is this thing still selling is it price or just because it has alot of games. Guess all those youngens it caters to got to have something to do. True gamers have a PS3/large HDTV led type and a high end gaming PC with 2560 x 1600 res anything less is for pussies and homos.

Then stop using your PS3, large HDTV and high en pc for gaming cuz you are a pussy and a homo and by your definition you can't play with that.

If the PS2 is still selling it is because of the huge game catalog it has and its cheap selling price.

Too bad the PS3 has neither.

By the time the PS3 manages to outsell the Wii & 360, we all be playing in the XBOX 4 or the Wii 3 lol.

So yeah, I agree with you. Sony still has PLENTY of time to became the king of that generation again, so keep waiting buddy. Too bad we all be 2 generations above lol.

I bet more sore loser PS3 fanboys are coming to flame here because the 360 is kicking PS3s ass, so to them I will say this: Sorry losers but the truth is that the PS3 sucks. Very expensive, very little games (and with more developers quitting day by day), just a few gamers actually playing on it, shitty multiplayer network (yeah it's free but you get what you pay for, that's why Xbox Live blows it out of the water), most games are 720p instead of 1080p like most 360 games (just take for example Redfaction, it is 1080p for 360 but only 720p for PS3; even Killzone 2, its killer app, is only 720p; yeah I know it sucks to be you), it doesn't have Netflix support, and its main competition is not the Wii nor the 360 but the PS2!!! lol. What a shitty console. The only good thing about it is that it can play blu-ray and that's it.

Later tards.

Well if you look at the numbers released. Total wii game console sales sits at 52.62 million while the 360 sits at 31.5 Million , and PS3 is 23.91 million. Now current estimates of Global population is 6.778 Billion. Plenty of room for growth.

Sorry about the end of that quote some how the beginning of mine got mixed in with the quote

First of your a fan"boy" and you need to grow some bolz and get ur shit straight instead of showing that if you are older than even 14 and posting this you are a lost cause.
2nd to let you know true gamers play, dont troll.
Last but not least a true gamer would have stopped mentioning BR which you didn't but the fact you combined a PS3+HDTV means you arent even aware that PS3 came in HD about a year too late, you were just too busy jacking off and saving money for your PS3 that whole extra year

I played a little with the Wii, man I thought it sucked as much as the DS that I borrowed from a friend. I really can't see myself spending that kind of money on something so kiddie and dated.

I bet a good number of those are replacements for dead boxes though. And dead boxes isn't a good thing: it may help out with sales now, but it will kill the industry in the long run.

What on earth does that has anything to do with the issue being discussed here?

I have nothing again PS3 or XBOX360 but I LOL each time I see someone saying that the Wii is dated compared to them.
Look at Sony and Microsoft, they are all trying to copy the Wii idea of motion sensitivity (which is not bad, look at project Natal).
PS3 and XBOX360 could have done much better with a bit of creativity/originality.

A "sale" would indicate that the unit was purchased at some POS with actual money, either debit, credit, check or cash. Replacement units are not counted in "sales" numbers.

I purchased a wii, but once the novelty wore off and my wife got tired of Zelda, it just sat there. I own a 360 as well and found that the games I wanted that were on both platforms looked better and had more features on the 360 (i.e. Content, HD, multiplayer, etc). So I bought the 360 versions of the games. The wii is a great product for the casual, family or party gamer. I ended up selling it to a family that enjoys using it almost nightly.

At this point Sony lost this generation. No shame in it, look at Nintendo and the gamecube. It just means that Sony has more incentive to build the next console to win. Microsoft is getting better at the console game though and I am glad for it. They have been able to add so many useful features that will be standard amongst the consoles for the next generation. I hate to see the old vanguard die off, I prefer healthy and robust competition. I sometimes wish Sega would come back.

>>"So far in 1009, compared to the same period in 2008, there has >>been 17 percent growth in sales for the Xbox 360."

>>Wow, in only 1000 years, there was a growth of 0 to 17%!!

>>That's really slow progression!

Don't knock it. Even at 1% growth, simply considering the fact that they could keep selling the thing for 1000 years would make it the greatest console in history... lol

it may kill xbox in a big way if Sony goes and lowers the price of the PS3 to $299.00. that's the same price as the elite or pro model

The only thing that will save Sony now would be to license an XBOX360 emulator to play XB360 games!

If the cell processor is so capable then this should prove it!

@ scryer_360, what does that matter. The same can be said for people that need to purchase another PS2 because it broke....

At least Microsoft continues to improve the 360 as revisons are made. What has Sony done, they remove features!

Have you ever thought that Microsoft can and will do the same? MS has scheduled a price reduce in the elite version of the 360.

So it defectively renders useless the PS3's price reduction.