Xbox 360 had good sales!

Interesting but it only shows CANADIAN sales numbers as there was a Canadian deal on the 360 Premium with 3 free games including GoW for 449 CDN bucks.

In Canada Microsoft Game Studios was offering a three game deal with a system with a 20GB hard drive and an extra controller at one retailer for $449.99. One of the free games was Gears of War and when that sold out gamers could get the new Splinter Cell, Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter and Xbox Live Arcade: Unplugged.
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Nintendo and Sony Get Caught in Microsoft's Xbox 360 Mousetrap : Breaking News : Video Games : Games : Sympatico / MSN

We may not know the total USA numbers for the 360 in comparsion with the PS3 and wii for last weekend. Most likely gamers who cant get their mitts on either a PS3 or wii will go for the 360....

but then its my 2 cents tossed in...
 
sablescort said:
Interesting but it only shows CANADIAN sales numbers as there was a Canadian deal on the 360 Premium with 3 free games including GoW for 449 CDN bucks.



Nintendo and Sony Get Caught in Microsoft's Xbox 360 Mousetrap : Breaking News : Video Games : Games : Sympatico / MSN

We may not know the total USA numbers for the 360 in comparsion with the PS3 and wii for last weekend. Most likely gamers who cant get their mitts on either a PS3 or wii will go for the 360....

but then its my 2 cents tossed in...
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Yeah! It is good timing for Microsoft to sell it first before Wii and PS3. Also bad timing for PS3 and Wii to sell before Christmas. PS3 and Wii should sell in spring time, but too late.
 
sjones4dad said:
Yeah! It is good timing for Microsoft to sell it first before Wii and PS3. Also bad timing for PS3 and Wii to sell before Christmas. PS3 and Wii should sell in spring time, but too late.
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Remember 2000 and 2001? PS2 was out first in October 2000 and then we had xbox and GCN out in November 2001. Sony had the first advantage with the PS2. Thus the domination of the 6th generation of consoles (and the 5th-gen too) belonged to Sony.

Now the key to winning the 7th generation console war and the control of this generation ultimately lies with M$ and how they will keep the momentum going in order to win it. To me it seems M$ is doing almost everything right with the 360.

I think it is Ken Kutaragi's ego that will ultimately be the kiss of death for the Pureisutēshon Surī. Exclusives like GTA 4 and *cant remember shit what that medevial game from UbiSoft is* that would have been Sony's for 6 or so months, is now being shared with M$ because Kutaragi had his thumb up his ass and it opened the door for M$ to take the exclusives away from Sony.

Loot: Dispatches From the Console Wars, Part III

Moore's job, however, was made easier by the fact that for the greater part of this year, PlayStation chief Ken Kutaragi hadn't finalized the business terms for independent publishers on the PS3. And without that, he was reluctant to greenlight any expenditures on Western third-party exclusives. In previous generations, Kutaragi's slowness hadn't been much of a problem because the first two PlayStations launched in Japan 8-12 months ahead of North America, leaving plenty of time to nail things down with Western publishers. But with the PS3 launching in North America just a week after Japan--and a year after a fiercely competitive Microsoft--Kutaragi's tardiness became a major issue.
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So in a nutshell Sony just lost the 1st part of the 7th gen war by being too late to approve any exclusives thus giving 'em away on a silver platter to M$.

So we'll wait and see a few years down the road who will emerge the 7th generation's victor. Don't count the wii out yet as Nintendo is wooing a different breed of gamer-women and casual gamers and if the wii sales to casual gamers as compared to us hardcore 360 and PS3 gamers increases, Nintendo could be back on top of the game heap with a 5 year old hardware!
 
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