I've seen someone say it didn't matter, the 360 sold more when it mattered....early in the gen till the mid way point.
Saying what happened later didn't matter...not realizing that momentum that Sony ended last gen with was a carry over to this gen....
The way Sony and MS ended last gen is exactly how this gen went:
Sony, core games, gaming
MS: Kinect
To say how last gen ended didn't matter is amazing, lol.
This is an extremely myopic and/or biased view.
For one thing, as shown above there is no conclusive evidence PS3 outsold the 360, and IMO the evidence there is is 50/50 at best, as Microsoft was still clearly ahead in 2014, they even released the Xbox 360 E console model in 2013. Complaints about Microsoft's lack of transparency on the final figures are somewhat moot given Sony was even less transparent until these numbers released now.
And Microsoft were vastly ahead in the US and in the west as a whole. The only reason the PS3 was even anywhere near the 360 was Japan, where PS3 sold ~10.5 million and 360 sold essentially nothing. despite Microsoft giving it a push, they just couldn't get over the Xenophobia. Take that away (which Sony were essentially happy to in many ways anyway, handing the keys to the Playstation kingdom to the west to deliver a western-first x86 PConsole in the PS4, which they even launched later in Japan) and 360 was well ahead of PS3 everywhere else as a whole.
As for Kinect, well Sony tried their own hand at a Wii Remote ripoff too, it just failed so they mostly let it die. Microsoft screwed up hard with always online and a more expensive less powerful box, and Sony managed to pick up a lot of previous 360 owners essentially just by making a better Xbox.
Such a weird split last-gen with Xbox dominating the English world and PlayStation everywhere else.
The DS and Wii were the actual #1 and #2 of last generation in almost every territory (360 outsold the Wii in the US eventually and that's about it).
Probably.
This is a great post.
Also keep in mind, that Ps3 actually did not really have more stream than Xbox 360 lately.
last 2 reported quarters for Xbox 360
3.5 million in Q4 CY2013
0.8 million in Q1 CY2014
83.7 million total as of 31rd March 2014
equivalent Ps3 quarters
1.1 million in Q4 CY2013
2.0 million in Q1 CY2014
but anything beyond that date is unknown, because Microsoft stopped to report hardware numbers.
Yeah to me it still looks like a toss up which sold more, if pushed I'd lean to 360 based on what you've shown here too.