Although i m sure many PS fanboy will be saying that its a win for Sony but so far it is not.. They have sold 40% of the total shipment of the game and the hardware boost is nothing much either in my view.. a modest boost..
Whereas XBOX got huge software sales which means lot of revenue and also equally large boost in UK and good boost in America also.. and we have to remember that XBOX already have more than twice the owners in these countries...
So in my view this means few of the Sony PS2 GTA owners did jump onto the XBOX..
The game which sold 17 million copies of software on PS2 is hardly going to sell half of that on PS3... if it had been exclusive for Sony it would have atleast have sold like 2 million copies for PS3 in NA alone...
So by loosing exclusivity and time exclusivity Sony lost
- large portion of Software sale (means revenue)
- GTA name is now no more synonym with Playstation brand
- lost a reasonable amount of hardware boost.
- lost the quality of the game...
So i m just wandering, definitely Sony PR will be putting a positive spin on the numbers but would they internally really be giving it a thought that may be just may be
- Exclusives are still important... especially important one.
- just may be hardware is not having so much worth now...
- software including games is very important and they r too lazy in erecting that infrastructure.. may be if they had HOME out by now and GTA IV had the HOME integrated into it, it might have given them couple of hundred thousand more sales...
Come on its over 2 yrs now, and they still lack basic services on the PS Network... they need to get top priority to it now.. so that if a multiplatform games get release then Sony should have some extra positive points to show to the buyers, after all they r charging a lot more on the hardware.
It is not like i m anti-sony... i m just saying that i can't be happy for an A+ grade student to recieve C in the latest semester.
