The Divnich Tapes: How PS3 Is Catching Xbox 360

Jesse Divnich from Gamasutra writes:

"Throughout this week, simExchange analyst Jesse Divnich is presenting exclusive Gamasutra analysis of January's hardware and software trends, using data from The simExchange, NPD, IGN GamerMetrics and GameTrailers. First up - despite alleged shortages, how the Xbox 360 is being overtaken by the PS3."

"While Sony declared a victory, Microsoft claimed that a hardware shortage hindered its January sales. To what extent a hardware shortage played is not calculable, but previous NPD and predicted simExchange trends indicate that the PS3 was in the process of catching up, regardless of any shortage."

[avacadosnorkel]

If the PS3 outsells the 360 for February, Shane Kim is gone.

[marinelife9]

I saw a couple of corner backs pull up with a "bad hamstring" when they got burned by Randy Moss for touchdowns.

[PSWe60]

"an increasing amount of PS2 owners are staying loyal to the Sony brand"

120 million strong

[gEnKiE]

M$ just can't admit they been outsold by the PS3 without coming up with some excuse? I bet anything that M$ will be back up in sales this month. Nothing to do with shortages or anything but just the fact that January was a good month for the PS3. Possibly because of all the talk about Blu-Ray. Oh well, atleast we can celebrate the one month where the PS3 shined.

[Anything but Cute]

But I'd like to think that at some point PS3 sales will stay good. Because of the rising demand of Blu ray players and of course the most hyped games of 2008.

[ICUP]

When it all said and done the Playstation console will come out on top again.

3PEAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Nostradamus]

If its sales ever start to slow, they always have the option of a price drop, since they havent used that card yet.

Wii's for $150 would go like hotcakes.

[travelguy2k]

Can you imagine how dated the Wii graphics will be in 2 more years. By then the PS3 will be $250 and the Wii $150, but who wants to play on a 3 year old machine that gives you an experience of a 7 year old console Gamecube 1.5. Especially when by then there will be allot more HDTV sold and blue ray will be almost mainstream.

[Iron Man 2]

LOL Dark Sniper finds it funny that PLAYSTATION®3 is outselling the Xbox 360 without any of the big guns being out yet,MGS4 will work magic for Sony and PLAYSTATION®3 once it's out in a couple of months,Dark Sniper suggest all PLAYSTATION®3 owners to pre-order and buy MGS4 on day one of it's release,Dark Sniper has already pre-ordered MGS4 from his local gameshop and he can't wait to get his hands on MGS4

$niper

[sabbath420]

You are one of the lamest posters out there bro. You are a true blindly devoted sony fan. Not a game fan. And you sound about 10. The list only shows a couple of good sony excluseive titles. But surely not enough to put the xbox down. And the others are eather lame or on xbox. Sure you will have some good games for your movie player soon, But how long have you been waiting? I think if you look real hard you will find that xbox has a lot of great exclusives also.
And why do you talk in 3rd person? Dark sniper think dark sniper a bung hole wiper...

[Anything but Cute]

Seriously, I think they try. But January made them look real bad. I think they lost some credibility for a while, until people forget and start fighting over VG chartz again.

[Hitman_Legend]

Has VG Charts ever been credible?

[name]

When the PS3 outsold the wii in japan nintendo cried shortages too. Shortages are the new "I was drunk".

[skitzoid]

Excellent. I laughed so hard I almost fell of my chair. I used the old I was drunk line myself a time or two.

[hotshot127]

so if the ps3 outsells the 360 again this febuary and then by then by march, when bluray is officially the only hd format on the market, the ps3 will gain so much momentum and then if sony cuts the price to 299.99, they could possibly continue to outsell the 360.......IN AMERICA through out the whole year.

but this is just my opinion

[ICUP]

l am hope SONY to cut 50.00 on all console SKU three week before GTA 4 come out, market the sh!t out of GTA 4 on PS3 and last another 50.00 before the hoilday sale or black friday. :)

[Bathyj]

The scary thing is that sounds so logical.

With the current momentum unless Sony drowns kittens and puppies at GDC they're almost guaranteed to out sell XB in Feb and March, both World wide AND in the good ol USA.

And if that happens what to stop them? All the big guns will be trickling out by then and Sony will never look back.

But this is just my opinion

[Genesis5]

Here comes the PS2 crowd goin' next gen. Call me an a-hole if you want, but I don't think they'll be converting to the 360. Might be bumpy roads for MS this year. Well console wise anyway. And no I'm not drunk!

[Nykamari]

This is going to be fun! The Select Few didn't BELIEVE the hype of the HotBox And Never JUMP-ON that B.$. We stayed LOYAL to the Brand that made GAMING what it is TODAY! You all will see the effects inside BEAUTYFUL and EPIC GAMES. And if the HotBox include BLURAY for games they will have taste on HOW TO PAYB3YOND!

Peace (Kaos)Nykamari