Mon, Dec 15, 2008 | 15:46 GMT
November NPD graphed and plotted
Matt Matthews’ relentless NPD analysis continues, with his latest Gamasutra feature carrying with the usual dump of graphs, words and numbers.
We’re almost at the full year, so this is a good one to watch. We’re sure there’s a page through there without a graph on it, however. We’ll let it go this time, Matt.
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Posted in: America, Retail, Trade
Tags: matt mathews, november npd
8 comments
#1
Blerk
15/12/08, 3:51 pm
When Microsoft cut prices again, this time in August 2008, Sony began to lose ground and has ended its second year about twice as far behind the Xbox 360 as it was when it launched in November 2006.
Ouch!
#2
Retroid
15/12/08, 4:27 pm
Ouch indeed.
Posted bits of this up on EG…. it really isn’t looking good for the PS3, is it?
#3
G1GAHURTZ
15/12/08, 4:27 pm
No.
#4
sennasnit
15/12/08, 4:38 pm
I would almost agree that the US seems lost to Sony at the moment, however, world wide figures are much more promising, not compared to the Wii, but the gap to the 360 is much closer, which is quite good when considering it released a year later.
#5
airdom
15/12/08, 4:43 pm
Heh, the PS3 will probably win over the 360 in the long 10 year run(maybe), but its gotta pick up a hell of a lot of steam by then.
#6
G1GAHURTZ
15/12/08, 4:47 pm
Yeah, I might buy one in 10 years, when it’s got some good games.
#7
DaMan
15/12/08, 4:54 pm
doesn’t look good really. like, at all
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#8
onyxbox
15/12/08, 10:36 pm
360 is cheap as chips and MS have 2 360 adverts in every advertising break on TV.
The games are superb too and the online makes communication and playing games ‘together’ with friends and absolute breeze.
Sony on the other hand have brand recognition but that’s not going to help them if the console is out of reach and the general feeling is that ’360 is better anyway’.
I’m not sure what Sony can do at the moment. Games like LBP are fantastic but Sony need something massively popular like CoD6 to be exclusive and at the same time try and get the price more in-line with MS’s offering.
MS aren’t going anywhere (they seem to have an unlimited amount of money and its not an option to lose the set top box war) and I really hope Sony don’t fall too far… they do IMO bring some cracking titles to it’s audience.
I enjoy titles on both machines and I’d like to see a 50/50 split this gen with PS3 and 360.