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Microsoft on February: hollow victory for Sony, no Blu-ray for 360 |
Listed in: PS3, Xbox 360 Tags: Aaron Greenberg, Microsoft, NPD, Sony
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Following the sales results for February, courtesy of the NPD Group, the latest news that's making waves is that the Sony PlayStation 3 outsold Microsoft's Xbox 360 for the second month in a row. Sony's pretty stoked, but what does Microsoft have to say about it?
True to form, Microsoft isn't worried about the whole thing, according to a recent interview with Aaron Greenberg, group product manager for the Xbox 360. According to him, Microsoft expected the PlayStation 3 to outsell the Xbox 360 for February.
He scratches Sony's victory off to the current Xbox 360 shortage, which he expects to be over before April for Grand Theft Auto 4's release. With that reasoning, he says that February was a "hollow victory for Sony" since "the competition didn't show up [in February]."
As for HD DVD's demise to Blu-ray, Greenberg expresses they they aren't worried about it at all either, and restates that there are no plans for the Xbox 360 to adopt the prevailing format. With that, he takes a few jabs at Sony, saying that:
WeÂ’ll look at the sales data as closely as anybody else, but we donÂ’t expect [Blu-rayÂ’s win] to give a boost to PS3 sales, and we donÂ’t expect it to impact our sales. Frankly, we think itÂ’s the games that sell the consoles.
People bought Xbox 360s this holiday for Halo 3 and BioShock and Mass Effect and Guitar Hero and Rock Band. They werenÂ’t buying an Xbox to watch "300." If people are buying your video game system to watch movies, that should be a red flag for your business.
Via Next Generation
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nothing but bullsh|t....y don't u be honest 4 once and spit the truth.... like we got our ass fu
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I see in online forums and blogs that they didn't find the console where they live so maybe nis just here or maybe they are the fanboys of the 360 so I can't never know for sure.
The weird thing is that I understand Nintendo have shortage but Microsoft after 2 years? and that they didn't expect those sales of December?
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Yea, and supply shortages? ummm no. Unless San Diego was able to dodge such a shortage. But I'm still interested to see how the price slashing in Europe's going to affect the 360/PS3 competition.
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But then he goes on in most hypocritical fashion, "If people are buying your video game system to watch movies, that should be a red flag for your business."
When Sony's console is outselling your (Microsoft's) console.. that should be red flag to YOUR business....
If they don't have anything good to say, they should just keep their mouth shut.
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MS needs to get sheveles full of stock and then price cut. I thought they should of proce cut after the $400 PS3 price cut, but it's 3 months later and they still haven't. People think a price cut would show desperation, but MS has actually displayed good composure to hold out for so long. They have only made $100 worth of price cut in 28 months, and sony has made cuts $200 in 14 months. Even so, if they had shevles full of stock during Jan and Feb they probably would of outsold the PS3. But the sales numbers are pretty close now, and it's good. Bring on March.
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Give me a break. They're just sore at it and also at the fact that Blu-ray kicked HD-DVD and their hopes of getting their software into the nextgen movie market (cuz blu-ray developers are favoring Java based codecs *as well as Apple's h.264 codec* for HD video files instead of MS's VH1 - or was is VC1... either way, with the win of Blu-ray and producers choosing to use something other than MS's video codecs, MS has lost out on a massive cash cow and they're major p!ssed.) Having Sony sell more units than them this month just digs at their sour soul even more.
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they would have been right to bash the ps3 as something other than a games machine if the 360 itself didnt play movies
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PS1 won because CDs cost less to make and hold a lot more space then cartridges.
But, yeah. The 360 should try to go on with blue-ray. At least a external extension like the hd player.
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