How did the 360 (MS)drop the ball, with a year head start?

It just does not make any sense to me. Here we have a console with a year head start over the PS3, but yet only has only a 2-mill lead over the ps3 (world wide sales). When and why did the 360 (MS) drop the ball? Now we have lots of articles about how badly kinect is.

have to look at market share over last gen 360 is a huge success.

Because, it had a years head start.

It's reached the end of it's life, roll on the xbox successor.

PS3, step up to the throne.

I don't see them as dropping the ball at all. The 360 still dominates (over the ps3) in all the countries that matter to me (The US, Canada, The UK). It also still has games that I like better, and the better online experience. If it were not for Japan, Sony would be getting destroyed.TBoogy

Don't forget the middle east where pirating games is pretty much the only way to play, so the xbox dominates there too because its easily hackable.

Microsoft is not dropping the ball. The 360 has been a great success. Not many hardware can survive big competition, hardware failure, and still find homes in the hearts of the consumers. Microsoft has done a good job on there console. It is beginning to show some wear and tear now but its been having a very nice long run. They took a pretty fair chunk of the market for themselves I say.

Microsoft is not dropping the ball. The 360 has been a great success. Not many hardware can survive big competition, hardware failure, and still find homes in the hearts of the consumers. Microsoft has done a good job on there console. It is beginning to show some wear and tear now but its been having a very nice long run. They took a pretty fair chunk of the market for themselves I say.

jedikevin2

I feel the same way, i think it's all down to loyalty as Americans took the American made product and the Japanese took the Japanese product, and as we all know China and Japan house a massive portion of the modern worlds customers.JohnF111

How does 3.6 round to 2? :SIndie_Hitman

:lol:good question

So stealing a huge junk of the market off Sony is doing something wrong!! I do wonder sometimes. MS have done very well this gen even with RROD giving it a bad name it still sells as many as the ps3. If anything we should be looking into how Sony fell from glory.Duckyindiana

easily it didnt, /thread

Here we have the PS3 which is in dead last as the successor to the PS2 and PS1, and the 360 is the one that "dropped the ball"

Microsoft is not dropping the ball. The 360 has been a great success. Not many hardware can survive big competition, hardware failure, and still find homes in the hearts of the consumers. Microsoft has done a good job on there console. It is beginning to show some wear and tear now but its been having a very nice long run. They took a pretty fair chunk of the market for themselves I say.

jedikevin2

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Microsoft is not dropping the ball. The 360 has been a great success. Not many hardware can survive big competition, hardware failure, and still find homes in the hearts of the consumers. Microsoft has done a good job on there console. It is beginning to show some wear and tear now but its been having a very nice long run. They took a pretty fair chunk of the market for themselves I say.

hoosier7

i dont really see the head start that black and white to be honest, Sony have had a whole generations head start to win over their fanbase, aswell as a large headstart with the PS2 over the xbox, this ultimately showed in 2007; looking at the games the 360 was offering, yet the PS3 still outsold it by over a million WW, what more could MS of done? they were really up against it and people give them far less credit than they deserve. just look at the 360s overall console sales compared with last gen.

Here we have the PS3 which is in dead last as the successor to the PS2 and PS1, and the 360 is the one that "dropped the ball"

Raymundo_Manuel

this topic sure backfired fast

I think Sony dropped the ball to be honest.

I don't see them as dropping the ball at all. The 360 still dominates (over the ps3) in all the countries that matter to me (The US, Canada, The UK). It also still has games that I like better, and the better online experience. If it were not for Japan, Sony would be getting destroyed.TBoogy

I wouldn't say Microsoft dropped the ball, in fact both Microsoft and Nintendo have gained compared to last gen. The only company that has dropped the ball has been Sony. The PS3 isn't a worthy successor to the PS2 imo.Anjunaddict

[QUOTE="hoosier7"][QUOTE="jedikevin2"]

Microsoft is not dropping the ball. The 360 has been a great success. Not many hardware can survive big competition, hardware failure, and still find homes in the hearts of the consumers. Microsoft has done a good job on there console. It is beginning to show some wear and tear now but its been having a very nice long run. They took a pretty fair chunk of the market for themselves I say.

ohthemanatee

MS has gained marketshare. sony is losing marketshare. Pretty simple actually.

xbox actually improved playstation fell off and got smoked by nintinendo out the gate

360 dropped the ball. It missed a huge opportunity to take leadership over this gen. Now headed towards last place. PS3 dropped the ball. They went from dominating two gens successively to scrounging for 2nd place. The only one that hasn't dropped the ball is wii, but then relies solely on gimmicks. Unique gen but the next will be even more interesting.Indie_Hitman

MS actually gained marketshare.

[QUOTE="ohthemanatee"][QUOTE="hoosier7"] It was kind of enevitable they would take some market share, surely it's to be expected that if a billion dollar company enters a market it's going to be very tough to compete against.crusadernm

MS has gained marketshare. sony is losing marketshare. Pretty simple actually.

not enough games during 2009 and constantly going back to halo

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[QUOTE="ohthemanatee"] you'd think so, yet, last gen Microsoft had a pretty pathethic market shareTintedEyes

MS has gained marketshare. sony is losing marketshare. Pretty simple actually.

[QUOTE="crusadernm"]

[QUOTE="ohthemanatee"] you'd think so, yet, last gen Microsoft had a pretty pathethic market shareTintedEyes

MS has gained marketshare. sony is losing marketshare. Pretty simple actually.

if by more you mean less, then sure

[QUOTE="Anjunaddict"]I wouldn't say Microsoft dropped the ball, in fact both Microsoft and Nintendo have gained compared to last gen. The only company that has dropped the ball has been Sony. The PS3 isn't a worthy successor to the PS2 imo.hoosier7

[QUOTE="TintedEyes"][QUOTE="crusadernm"]

MS has gained marketshare. sony is losing marketshare. Pretty simple actually.

ohthemanatee

if by more you mean less, then sure

no sony just has moreTintedEyes

no sony just has moreTintedEyes

actually it's the one with the less market share

[QUOTE="TintedEyes"] no sony just has moreohthemanatee

actually it's the one with the less market share

[QUOTE="TintedEyes"]

actually it's the one with the less market share

ohthemanatee

[QUOTE="TintedEyes"]no sony just has moreIronBass

Sony has more market share over the gaming industry. Xbox has more in the "console" portion.Fightingfan

And less in the -current gen- home console market.

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[QUOTE="TintedEyes"]

actually it's the one with the less market share

TintedEyes

[QUOTE="TintedEyes"][QUOTE="ohthemanatee"]

[QUOTE="TintedEyes"]

actually it's the one with the less market share

ohthemanatee

not psp, consolesTintedEyes

windows is not a consoleTintedEyes

this is system wars not console wars

if we get to bundle in last gen consoles like the PS2 then I see no problem in bundling in Windows