PS3 takes over Xbox 360. Or does it? And this will trigger the next console war ...-The Guardian (blog)

A little late with this one, but the figures are worth mulling over. U.S. research firm Strategy Analytics says that "active installed base" PS3 was behind with the Xbox 360. Apparently Sony machine reached 43.4 million by the end of 2010, compared with 42.9 m for the Microsoft console.

Wait a minute, probably, Steve Ballmer announced back in January that the Xbox 360 sales reached 50 million units, and it is not a man to get to the public over-excited. Oh and Sony stated in February that the PS3 was 47.9 million. So has someone's adding allow them? There should "see me" written in red ink at the bottom of the report, Strategy Analytics?

Not really. The key is in the phrase awkward 'aktywne base installed '. According to the blog posting on the website of the company's research: "our models of ownership apply assumptions about device life cycle retire to console sales figures on the basis of regional and global." Which means that these data are not based on raw data sales, one based on some algorithmic Visual Alchemy, which sort aims to determine how many consoles are played with and how many are collecting dust in cupboards, or propping open doors annoying. This is certainly the statistical equivalent of trying to track down the market and the Higgs Boson particle quantification and I'm willing to bet your Analytics strategy does not have the Hadron Collider in their basement. Although, of course, their mathematics may be significantly more article than the phrase "assumptions about device pensions" suggests.

In the meantime, however, a separate report with game retailer GameStop place European figures on 14.7 million units PS3 to million 13.7 Xbox 360s. In the United States, however, is the other way around, with the Xbox operating on the basis of user 25.4 m compared to its PS3 m 15.4. And of course Wii prospects for the future, is based around the world, 75.5 m.

I'm wondering where this leaves the 360 ...

Nintendo is almost certain that announces the continuation of the Wii E3 this year, which will not be groundbreaking because of bleeding edge technical data and the processing of raw land (Nintendo hardware never really is), but will certainly be more efficient than the current generation of hardware. This means that Microsoft will support the oldest architecture on the market. Even if its capabilities have been enhanced by the launch of Kinect, this probably is not a desirable condition for the corporation.

Microsoft has insisted that the Xbox 360 will have a life span of ten years, but of course, this does not mean we do not continue until the year 2015. Sony PS2 to PS3 supported (even if Microsoft dropped the original Xbox rather quickly in his haste to the era of HD) – if the generate proved something is this console multiple SKUs now can exist in harmony because demographic games expanded so massively.

But then the image is important, and staff development are undoubtedly itching to get their hands on a fresh generation of hardware. We already have internal high profile as Mark Rein fantasising over where lineage Xbox can go further, and Microsoft last job advertisements asking for staff, "responsible for defining and delivering the next generation console architectures from concept to reality" has left little to the imagination.

Was there a plan in place for 2013? And with the ground gaining PS3, this plan is a re-drawn? Whether you want to refresh, or generational replacement cannot be statistics, however, suggestive, be pushing us in this direction?

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