Microsoft misleading on Xbox 360 sales.

[shaka]

Microsoft is sending out press releases to journalists claiming that the Xbox 360 is selling more copies than the PS3 version. TechRadar has done the numbers and says that Microsoft is misleading people and that actually, per console, the PS3 version is selling more...

http://www.techradar.com/blogs/article/gta-iv-xbox-vs-playstation-359413

Typical microsoft

 

[vectradriver]

I'm sorry, but 20% more copies is 20% more money. For a business, that counts and in that way, is doing better than the PS3 version. Is it that hard to fathom?

 

[G.T]

So...

"Gamers have voted with their wallets, and the results are in. The Xbox 360 version of 'Grand Theft Auto IV' has sold more than 100,000 copies, or 20 per cent more than the PlayStation 3 version in the UK since the game's release last Tuesday 29 April."

Then...

Let's do the maths. 413,000 PS3 copies of GTA IV......

Compare that to the 514,000 Xbox 360 copies sold in the UK......

So Microsoft's claim is absolutely true. Copies per console ratios do NOT come into the equation at all here because Microsoft didn't mention ratios at all.

I can understand how they worked it out though that the ratio is less for Xbox, but again, MS based it on fact that it sold more copies.

 

[dylansan]

I'd say they didn't lie, but purposely mis-led us. No big deal since this doesn't really affect anything important as far as I know.

 

[Joey D]

I'd say they didn't lie, but purposely mis-led us. .

Welcome to marketing 101. Don't lie but skew things in your favour, all companies do it, not just Microsoft.

 

[Wolfe]

Welcome to marketing 101. Don't lie but skew things in your favour, all companies do it, not just Microsoft.

I bet shaka would disagree as far as Sony is concerned, but then again, I know he isn't going to return to this forum until he decides to post yet another blatant troll thread.

 

[Tornado]

XBox 360 kills babies, probably definitely causes cancer.

 

[G.T]

XBox 360 kills babies, probably definitely causes cancer.

... I find that website amusing more than anything.

Don't get me wrong, I still think MS is sometimes misleading and are a pain in the backside for wanting to control everything, but the attack on that claim from MS on the copies of GTA just isn't needed.

I bet shaka would disagree as far as Sony is concerned, but then again, I know he isn't going to return to this forum until he decides to post yet another blatant troll thread.

Indeed.

 

[shaka]

XBox 360 kills babies, probably definitely causes cancer.

Stay on topic,

microsoft are corrupt bastards, they also paid alot of fat guys from the popular websites like ign,gametrailers and gamestop to overated xbox 360 games and give bad scores to PS3 games.

you know an xbox fanboi with to much time on his hands just like many of the xbox fanbois trolling here the GT forums.

 

[ROAD_DOGG33J]

you know an xbox fanboi with to much time on his hands just like many of the xbox fanbois trolling here the GT forums.

The only one doing any blatant trolling on this site is you. You might want to read the AUP really well, if you want to stay on this site.

 

[Tornado]

Stay on topic,

Making fun of your ridiculous notions quite technically is on topic.

microsoft are corrupt bastards, they also paid alot of fat guys from the popular websites like ign,gametrailers and gamestop to overated xbox 360 games and give bad scores to PS3 games.

Example?

you know an xbox fanboi with to much time on his hands just like many of the xbox fanbois trolling here the GT forums.

Wait, did you just call me an XBox fanboy?

 

[G.T]

you know an xbox fanboi with to much time on his hands just like many of the xbox fanbois trolling here the GT forums.

Change Xbox to Playstation, and this sentence perfectly describes you.

By the way, it's spelt "fanboy"