Re: PS3 vs. 360..'exclusive' release calender

On Apr 28, 5:25 pm, "Tom" <no...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

MGS sold really well on
the PS1, then dropped off drastically with each release on the PS2, and
'drastically' is a mild usage here when compared to the PS1 version.

Uh... Metal Gear Solid and Metal Gear Solid 2 (the original not the
extended version or the Xbox version) have the same worldwide sales.
Metal Gear Solid came out 4 years after the first Playstation console
launched so the install base was pretty significant at the time. Metal
Gear Solid 2 came out 1 year after the second Playstation console
launched so the install base was not very significant yet.

In fact, as of October 2001, when MGS 2 launched in the U.S., only 20
million PS2s had been *shipped* worldwide. The game sold over a
million in the U.S. and over 2 million in Europe early on.

GTAIV will sell a lot of consoles as people who were waiting for it come
out will now go buy a PS3 or 360 just to play it.

GTAIV wasn't on the list, and that is a no brainer anyway, and I wonder why
it isn't listed. Having mentioned this game, it will more than likely push
more PS3s than 360s, IMO.

The list didn't include multi-platform games.

Halo did the same.

The first one? It was a bundle with the console when the Xbox was first
sold, and most wouldn't consider an IP to be a system seller and it wasn't
all hyped as it was a launch title. Gears wasn't launch (though it was
supposed to be), but was hyped and did sell consoles.

What are you talking about? There was no official Xbox Halo bundle, at
least in the United States, until 2004, 2 1/2 years after the Xbox
launched. They made a special green Xbox just for that bundle.

I bought my Xbox 1 week after launch at *the* launch center in Times
Square and the console was most certainly not bundled in any way,
shape or form. There were many retailers who forced bundles on
consumers but that would mean half the launch titles were bundled
items because most of these bundles included 3-6 games.

I remember being concerned I wouldn't get an Xbox for a while because
the console was sold out everywhere... except apparently the Times
Square TRU to my pleasant surprise. I was actually there to purchase a
GameCube and I happened to see quite a few Xboxes stacked up there so
I purchased that, too (each with two controllers, two games and memory
cards all of which I carried home by myself on the PATH train to New
Jersey early Sunday morning).

God of War will do the same.

Really, did People run out an buy PS2s because GOWII's release? Remember, it
sold less than two milllion, and how long has it been out?

How many of those two million have already made the jump to the
Playstation 3? Probably not a lot since one of the reasons you'd buy a
previous generation game is that you're not investing in the next
generation just yet.

Grand Tarismo. Etc. Basically everything in that list noted in the
article above EXCEPT the 2 games I mentioned. They are immenselly
popular games with cult-like followings that drive console sales.

I just pointed out that GT5P hasn't sold squat compared to it predecessors,
which by the way, is the second biggest selling series on the PS after the
GTA series.

What does GT5 Prologue have to do with GT5? GT5 Prologue is basically
a glorified demo. A LOT of gamers know this.

However, DESPITE this, GT5P bumped PS3 sales up a noticeable amount,
at least in the U.K.

You'd think people would be buying PS3s specifically for that,
but since its release in Europe 4 weeks ago, and here one week ago, the
sales numbers do not reflect anything that the PS3 hasn't been doing since
the beginning of the year. It isn't a system seller this time and GT5 won't
be either.

Actually, sales of the Xbox 360 and the Playstation 3 in Europe were
only a margin away from each other for most of the past couple of
months *except* when GT5P came out.

Very few people who didn't own a 360 would go buy one to play Fable2 (I
never even heard of it before I rented it on my xbox).

Did I not say that Fable isn't a system seller? Having said that, it still
was the 4th biggest seller on the Xbox, so it will do something I am sure.
People will buy a 360 for this game, but not anythig on a remotely noticable
scale.

Of course, a lot of people felt burned by the first Fable. It wasn't
that well-received because of the big promises that the developer
didn't deliver. I'm wondering if, like with MGS 3, there will be less
interest in the game because of the disappointments with the previous
one.

Very few people who didn't own a PS3 would go buy one to play Resistance 2
(it was a launch title that people played with nothing else around at the
time).

I didn't disagree with you on this.
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