Playstation 2 Outsells both Xbox and Gamecube

Laurens writes "Despite various claims of both Microsoft and Nintendo, this article by the Los Angeles Times has the first independant salesfigures on all 3 next-gen consoles. And it seems the good ol' PS2 sold best this holiday season." I'm an hour into FFX and don't foresee turning my PS2 off much this week. Can't talk now. Must see Lord of the Rings, and then play more FFX. Is this a great time to be alive, or what?

Comments

Re:It's been out longer

[cwebster]

boy, it shows you took the time to read the article, the numbers discussed in the article were constrained to the following dats

nov 11 - dec 8 : PSX2
nov 15 - dec 8 : XBOX
nov 18 - dec 8 : GC

using only the sales between those dates, the figures were genreated, and while PSX2 has a whole week more time than the GC, the numbers indicate that had the times been equal, Xbox would have come out on top, followed by psx2, then GC.

i agree though (as does the article), initial sales are nothing, and the psx2 comparision to these 2 launches doesnt mean much, lets look at sales a year and a half from now and see how they are doing.

Great time to be alive

[Syberghost]

Yeah, terrorists are slamming crowded jetliners into crowded skyscrapers, some nut is sending deadly diseases in the mail, the economy is in a recession that's putting thousands of our fellow geeks out of work, and Americans are dying in a war, but at least we've got neat video games.

There can be only two

[WickedClean]

Look at the past history of the console market. Only two major units have ever been going on at once, while others get left behind. This time around, I think the GameCube is going to get left. Compared to the PS2 and XBox, the GC just sucks. I've not seen anyone walk out of the local stores with one, and the availability of games is nothing compared to PS2 or XBox.

In the local Circuit City, they have demos of all three sitting side by side, and I've yet to see anyone even bother to play the GameCube.