Hardware sales figures revealed - PS3 and 360 both sell 11 million

[Lefein]

I'm curious as to how well Kinect fared during the holidays. Could MSes approach of targeting the casual gamer be working for them? It would be interesting information to have, at least.

[radgamer420]

I'm curious as to how well Kinect fared during the holidays. Could MSes approach of targeting the casual gamer be working for them? It would be interesting information to have, at least.

I would say yes since Sony was closing the gap until Kinect launched. Then 360 sales started pulling away again.

[Sufi]

However, if your a western game developer you probably aren't going to care about Japan since it's unlikely any of your games will sell well there, if at all. In such a case you would want to focus on the 360 since it has a significantly larger userbase.

Likewise, if you're a Japanese game developer odds are you're making games for the Japanese market and not the west. Thus you would want to focus on the PS3 since the 360 is virtually dead there.


It "evens out" if all you care about is who sold the most. If you're a game developer it's definitely not even. You'll lean one way or the other based on what markets your game is going to be released in and what your expected sales will be in those markets.

That's a matter of opinion. I know many who would disagree.

Doesn't change the point I was making, which is who sells the most world-wide only matters to fans of the systems, not anyone else. Businesses, both 1st and 3rd party care about making money. Sony and MS care about profits more than raw systems sold and game developers and publishers care about specific markets and supporting each market seperately rather than lumping the whole planet into a single market.

You have excellent points but then you must also mention that a good portion of the US sales of the 360 are due to the recent rise of Kinect.

The gap is still there but is the demand as strong as it is for the PS3 here? Is the trend still towards 360 if you take out the (Kinect) non-gamers? Games would still likely sell more on the 360 in US due to having such a large gap however that's also due to the fact that it receives less games to choose from.

It seems to me that if you want to try something new, PS3 seems to have the user base that tries everything. These things are also important and people generally don't pay attention to it and look at numbers only.

[mynd]

I'm curious as to how well Kinect fared during the holidays. Could MSes approach of targeting the casual gamer be working for them? It would be interesting information to have, at least.

They annonced 18 million units sold (total since launch), how many of them in the holidays is anyones guess.
But I think everyone would agree they have opened up another market.

[Yungstar 2006]

someone thought it would be like this....



by now.

[Inzane2050]

someone thought it would be like this....



by now.

Looks like it was made by a three-year-old with an Etch-n'-Sketch, muahahaha! Indeed hilarious!