It isn't about the console wars. Playstation 3 pulling itself ahead of the Xbox 360 in sales means more than throwing wadded up sales charts at each other (though the Playstation fans have handled the lead in the HD console race with a lot more maturity). The importance behind this event is the implied principles.
While the report is technically unofficial, the Ps3 and 360 have been neck and neck for a long time. The Ps3 released an entire year later than the Xbox 360 (and a year and a half in parts of the EU). The Xbox 360 had an exponentially worse failure rate than it's 7th gen counterpart (and while many were fixed with warranty, they were not completely replaced with something more reliable, leaving several consoles with a similar chance to eventually die post-warranty), to the point that the ps3 may very well have more working consoles out there anyway. Even if the report is wrong and the ps3 is still climbing a few 100K, does it matter if more people are enjoying working Ps3s?
Thus, even if they're perfectly even or off by a little yet, the fact remains; the Ps3 sold as much as it did and in LESS time.
So what are these principles? While the ps3 couldn't reach lofty sales of a system that sold to retirement homes, families, and other groups that made for a Wii with a smaller attach rate, it appears to still be king to the core gamers.
A system that has provided more true exclusive games, an open HDD format, free online play, took a risk with a big disc format, took a risk with unique hardware, etc.....managed to do that well with less advertisement, a higher price, media that clearly gave it more flak, etc.
A system that did all those things can still be popular with so many things working against it. THAT is why it matters.
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And while ideas like exclusive games, free online, etc may not be important to everyone, I think I speak on behalf of Playstation fans that a lot of people do!
Yeah and the thing is Xbox will always get content first and Xbox is way better at delivering a sustainable online service. I think Xbox also looks to the future as well, using Skyrim for an example of a game that could still handle a complex game when PS3 still lagged behind!
U said nothing why it ACTUALLY matters. Because everything worked against it? Huh? What should that say? Exclusvies or Free Online? These are reasons why it matters? No, it just matters, because you are a Fanboy. Thats all. Simple as that.
Poor poor PS3, all was against you...even the baaad media.
Yeah, it sucks having a father who sold 120 Million consoles.
After reading this blog I have still yet to see why the ps3 pulling ahead of the 360 at the end of this generation matters. Its 5 years too late IMO. If this happened earlier, developers would have paid more attention to the ps3 version of multi platform titles and we might have seen them try to create some naughty dog level quality games since the cost benefit would have been there.
lol! it certainly mattered when the 360 was ahead,and now it doesn't?,flip flop!