The OFFICIAL Feb 2007 NPD Thread

[Diomedes1976]

Tom_B said: Diomedes1976 said: Well february didnt see too much PS3 games until the end when F1 and Virtua Fighter 5 arrived .I think the march data should definitely improve the sales something ...games as NBA Homecourt ,Motorstorm ,Oblivion ,Armored Core 4 ,NBA College Hoops ,Flow ,Tekken Dark Ressurrection ,Dej Jam Icon ,Splinter Cell DA ....all come out in march .In any case actually outselling the other plattforms in unnecesary for the PS3 ,what it has to do is to create some ground for itself ,attract enough hardcore gamers to make it a viable plattform ,sell a lot of software (and without piratery this will be easier ) .....the masses will follow later when its price drops and the more casual games (Singstar ,Little Big Planet ,Eye of Judgement ) arrive . I see the point with Motorstorm and in a lesser extent with VF5, but the rest are multiplatform so I tend to believe that software is not gonna help the customer to pick a PS3 instead of the competition. I guess then march should be a really important month to PS3 with Motorstorm. Sony needs to catch up, cause MS has a lot of important games all distributed around this 2007. I can't see right now when PS3 is supposed to overcome the 360 in NA. At least this year. I'm not seeing it closing the gap either this year. 2008 who knows but this year...

Well for a dominant console the userbase number should arrive at 30-35 million .X360 has managed 5 million .For the 30 million people that have to choose a next generation gaming plattform right now having a lot of games is important ,even if they arent exclusive .To see a lot of games coming (and of hight quality as they are the best of the best of the X360 catalogue last year minus the Microsoft games (and capcom exclusives ) ) increases the confidence of the user toward a machine .Playstation has naturally been the plattform to play everything except the Nintendo and Microsoft games and seeing all the third party games arriving to the PS3 restores that feeling on the users .Besides ,the word of mouth counts ...if you are going to rent a game and there are 50 games out is always better that if you go and there are 5 ....even if those 5 are exclusive and 47 out of the 50 are multiplattform .PS3 has managed in just 4 months some games as Fight Night 3 ,Resistence ,Motorstorm ,Virtua Fighter 5 ,NBA Homecourt ,Splinter Cell DA ,Oblivion ,FEAR ,NBA College Hoops ,NBA 2k ,Call of Duty 3 ,Marvel Ultimate Alliance and many others the X360 struggled all a year to obtain .The software drought for the X360 last year was way worse that the PS3 situation right now .