Since Sony integrated full BBC iPlayer support into the PlayStation 3 as part of its v3.00 firmware update, the console has become the second most popular platform for iPlayer viewing.
@Mushashi, I agree it was outselling PS3, I just don't see how we can pinpoint it at 3 to 1. 360 could've been higher or lower than 3 to 1. I'm sorry if I come off in a bad way about this.
I don't think ratios are that great, though I see it's all we have to deal with currently, as comparisons between systems - especially last week -require hard #s as PS3 supply was probably very low in stores at the same time the Elite dropped.
Rest of news article provided % increases for X360 for previous 2 weeks. I think it is safe to say that X360 was outselling PS3 for the previous week, we just cannot say exactly by how much. With these data, you should be able to approximate the relative sales for both systems prior to slim launch.
"The news follows a climb in Xbox 360 sales of 43 per cent last week, due to the price cut for the Elite model to GBP 199.
This week, sales for the Elite were still up in the region, said Chart-Track, an increase of 29 per cent over last week's growth."
@mrahaju, Still not making sense to me. If sales of something are 3 times that of something else at this point in time, that doesn't tell you anything about what the sales were a week before. Hypothetically, PS3 could have been even higher in sales a week ago even though it is 3 times the sales now. A sales comparison between items now tells us nothing about past sales.
It could've been last week PS3 100,000 360 95,000
This week PS3 300,000 360 100,000 (3 times higher)
or last week PS3 50,000 360 200,000
this week PS3 400,000 360 133,000 (3 times higher)
All that math tell us is that 360/3 = X for this week.
Let's say that PS3 sales before PS3 slim = X. We know that Y, which is PS3 sales during PS3 Slim launch = 999% improvement from X = 9.99X + X = 11 X. We know that 11 X = 3 * X360 sales, which means that X = X360 * 3 / 11 or roughly X360 / 3.
The actual number should be X360 / 3.5, but I rounded it up to X360 / 3.5
@mrahaju, How can you make the claim that PS3 was outsold by 360 & Wii by 3 to 1 before PS3 Slim's release, simply from hearing that it outsold those two 3 to 1 this week?
In what is probably the most successful console re-launch in history, over half a million PS3 "slims" were sold last week worldwide according to our preliminary data - this represents over a 400% increase week on week (and a number of retailers in the US had already started selling the new model PS3 last week).
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