PS2 OUTSELLS xflop 3-shitty AGAIN IN JUNE

In article <4Urug.14401$78.4253@tornado.texas.rr.com>, Skykid <somewhere DeleteThis @nowhere.com> wrote:
>Ranger wrote:
>> Skykid wrote:
>>
>>>Swam Mollen wrote:
>>>
>>>>Blig Merk wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>The full official numbers will be out next week. The PS2 just keeps
>>>>>kicking xflop 3-shitty ass month after month. No wonder Sony does not
>>>>>consider xflop 3-shitty to be any sort of competition.
>>>>>
>>>>>"NPD has also revealed a figure of 277,000 unit sales for the Xbox 360
>>>>>- above previous estimates, but still below the PlayStation 2 total
>>>>>of 312,000 units."
>>>>>
>>>>>The xflop fanbitches will sob the excuse that, of course, the PS2 is a
>>>>>lot less expensive. But the factor they keep avoiding is these hardware
>>>>>sales have game sale tie-ins associated with them. These people are not
>>>>>just buying a PS2 without any games. And games are where the money is
>>>>>made.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Precisely, and with only 33k sales between the two, and the 360 valued
>>>>at twice the price and upwards, there's far more revenue being
>>>>generated around the 360.
>>>
>>>Well, yes the Xbox360 is going to generate more gross revenue but you
>>>have to remember that Microsoft is losing money on every Xbox360 sold.
>>>Their only means at this point to earn positive net revenue is by
>>>selling lots of Xbox 360 games and signing up Xbox360 owners to their
>>>premium Xbox live service. Which by the way has massive overhead in
>>>itself. So, to boil it down, Microsoft is only really making money on
>>>the Xbox360 games that are being sold.
>>>
>>>Sony is making money on both the PS2 console sold and the games that are
>>>being purchased. So, Sony has much higher net revenue on each PS2 sold
>>>than Microsoft has with every Xbox360 sold.
>>>
>>
>>
>> But then again, once Sony releases the PS3, they'll be in the same boat
>> as Microsoft (i.e. subsidizing a portion of the unit's cost to their
>> customers).
>>
>
>But, Sony still has PS2 hardware and software net revenue to help things
>out. Over time, it will become marginalized as the PS3 is released.
>
>Regards,
>SK

Plus the fact that the developers and Sony can count on the majority of their
PS2 titles to still sell in great numbers to the 100 million installed base of
PS2's and also useable on the PS3. Many will buy a PS3, a few PS3 titles and a
slew of PS2 $19 titles at release.

In article <1152924968.670171.73740.DeleteThis@75g2000cwc.googlegroups.com>, "TheGame" <n0n0n0n0n0.DeleteThis@excite.com> wrote:
>OK maybe... but explain how DS consoles and games consistently outsell
>PSP and games in US, and especially in japan? As "sophisticated" as PSP
>is, bottomline its a console first. If the games don't sell, 3rd
>parties will bail.
>

DS sells so well due to the fact there are tens of thousands of people who get
off on games such as that pet dog game. Hours O' fun strokin your doggy with a
stylus...... NOT!


>Jordan wrote:
>> The PSP is a pretty sophisticated piece of kit and the DS is,
>> essentially, a childrens toy. They are priced accordingly so it's not
>> quite accurate to compare apples to apples on that...
>>
>> To say nothing of the fact that Nintendo essentially re-launched the DS
>> in a modified form that it should have had all along.
>>
>> - Jordan
>