Sullla said:
I love posts like these, where fans of a particular system will actually argue AGAINST their own platform as a way of saying that next year's sales will be better. "The other guy's console had ____ awesome games come out last year, and they've got nothing good on the horizon. Whereas my system's games were terrible, so when ____ games come out next year, sales will go through the roof!" Where else would you see Sony fans talking about the greatness of Halo and Forza, while downplaying Heavenly Sword and Uncharted? What a reversal! This is really a variation on a common theme we see all the time on these sales forums. Fans of a given console build up ___ game before release to be the second coming of Jesus, then when it debuts to mediocre sales, immediately respond by saying, "I never expected it to sell anyway." It's absolutely hilarious. On topic, as I said before, expect the consoles to sell about what they did this year in 2008. Anyone expecting sales to double for any platform, or even increase by more than a third, should expect to be disappointed. |
And I'm not trying to pick on Peter Potamus or Sony in general; ALL console fans are guilty of this. See Metroid Prime 3, Ratchet and Clank, and any 360 JRPG for recent examples. Please quote me on how I thought that Uncharted, HS, Lair, Warhawk and R&C would be complete successes. Oh, you can't? Oh, well. Maybe next time, you can prove that I said these things about MGS4 or FFXIII, and maybe I'll be wrong. And I doubt that, why?
Of all of the PS3 games I have mentioned, how many were sequels to million selling franchises? One. How many from the 360? Three, and one being one of the highest selling XBox games of all time. All i'm saying is when you put unproven IP's against IP's that have shown in the past they can sell very well, advantage almost always goes to the proven IP's. I never said that the 360 line up would be weak, but compare it to 07, there's no comparison.
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