Report: Global PS3 market share increasing

I bet the sales boost is due to the new awesome advertisements. The reason the PS3 started out slow was because of those terrible ads. Now, however, NOW WE ARE TALKIN!!

That has been the trend. But marketshare gain is far easier for the PS3, given that it was (and remains) in last place, while it is equally difficult for Wii, given that it needs to outsell PS3 and 360 together, whereas all PS3 needs to do is make sure that PS360 outsells Wii, and then they outsell 360 individually, and they get marketshare gain.

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i don't these analyses take into account market saturation and demographics. it's been proven that the majority of gamers are in their 20s and 30s, meaning most gamers earn their own income and have likely already purchased at least one console by this point. the numbers over the last few years showed the 360 selling better, so it's likely that the "first choice" for many was the 360. considering that this past year was the first year in which the 360 failed to sell more than the previous year, it's plausible that the market has somewhat become saturated with people planning to purchase a first console, that console more often being the 360.

another big factor in this is that gamers who earn their own income are probably more likely to not have to "choose" between competing consoles, and can afford both. now that PS3 has dropped in price and its value is more obvious, i'd wager that there's a lot of 360 owners out there "repeat purchasing" a console by getting a PS3 slim.

if any of this is true, then it might seem like PS3 is increasing in market share, but market share assumes that the market operates via mutually exclusive purchases, aka you buy one or the other. but my guess is that the market is changing such that owners of "core" consoles are more predisposed to owning both, so market share only says so much. it's like TV ratings.....if people could watch more than 1 channel at a time, then ratings would become worthless as a measure of how well a broadcasting company is doing.

sorry but in latin america, especially mexico the xbox 360 is the choice, waiting almost 3 years so we could have our own store is lame.

The balance is shifting. It's really interesting to see the dynamics of the Console Wars

I bought my ps3 because my xbox broke to many times

just sayin'

Expect even more market share increase when GT5 hits. GO PS3!

I got a PS3 because all the 360 "exclusives" are pretty much playable on the PC, thus giving me no reason to pick one up. Aside from that, It's like comparing an emachine to a custom quality built computer, You can tell me that the 360 is better all you want because of it's online blahblah blibbity blah, but all I have to do is look under the hood to see that you guys are just stupid emachine zombies who are letting the embarrassment of buying the wrong system speak for them.

Now the question is, will ex-microsoft employee mr. Gabe Newell still ignore the growing oh so tempting PS3 market, or invest in some PS3 development classes for his developers?

"The Xbox 360 is still ahead of the PS3 in North America."


*cough*cheapscrubs*cough*

I'm loving my PS3!