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I'm going to say that GT5 will sell at least 12 million LTD. Not including Greatest Hits edition.

I also think that Uncharted 2 will get a Game of the Year edition. As will Modern Warfare 2. Both of which will spur sales.
If Uncharted 2 doesn't get a GotY edition, then it will get Greatest Hits treatment.



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Stanislav.Ten said:
Icyedge said:
Stanislav.Ten said:
 

First of all, I do not idolize Microsoft, if I could I would change many things about 360, but I am just giving you the list that you have asked for, second of all. I was just saying that there would be no reason for PS3 to have such high sales(16m), because my opinion differs to yours and I have provide the facts as to why I think PS3 won't have as much sales considering the fact that unless there is another price cut planned for this year, more customers will purchase a cheaper alternative - 360.

 

As I was saying, the main reasons for the PS3 MAJOR success last year were:

*Price cuts, large price cut in UK

*Release of Slimmer model which caused discontinuation of older models, therefore affected the prices of the old models as stock was cleared.

*Lineup has somewhat affected the not yet decided people.

And PS has a MUCH larger fanbase, after all, PS1 and PS2 did shift around 250-300M consoles in their lifetime.

Your right and your list support my claim in saying you are exagerating. With the list you posted I dont see how it support your statement of:  "On the 360 front however, there is unrest as several exclusive titles have been announced,".

Why not, the exclusives that I think will sell well, and I guarantee 3-4M lifetime at LEAST

 Alan Wake, Halo Reach, Mass Effect 2(Might be doubtful a bit here, but is a highly critics acclaimed game), SC:C, Crackdown 2, Fable III and probably more that will be announced at E3, as I have mentioned it would be a good idea to wait until E3 but the list is considerably better in comparison with the 2009. More exclusives would mean that the consoles can suck away the customer base from the other one. As I said it is possible that Sony will pull off another 13M year, but 16m is being a tad bit too optimistic!

Yes the list is better from 2009, 360 have great games released and coming. The thing is, why are you specifying its on 360 front only, you even said, in a previous post that the PS3 library would stale at some point. But PS3 have as much exclusives released and coming. What I know is both have great lineup. I know that because im interested and get informations on both libraries. Some (not all dont worry) of your statements make abstraction of the reality. In doing so it make you seem like what we call  a "fanboy" at some point. Would be great if you can work a bit more on your post in the future. Instead of basing your judgment only on a part of the reality your better suspending it or getting information on the subject ;).



Icyedge said:
Stanislav.Ten said:
Icyedge said:
Stanislav.Ten said:
 

First of all, I do not idolize Microsoft, if I could I would change many things about 360, but I am just giving you the list that you have asked for, second of all. I was just saying that there would be no reason for PS3 to have such high sales(16m), because my opinion differs to yours and I have provide the facts as to why I think PS3 won't have as much sales considering the fact that unless there is another price cut planned for this year, more customers will purchase a cheaper alternative - 360.

 

As I was saying, the main reasons for the PS3 MAJOR success last year were:

*Price cuts, large price cut in UK

*Release of Slimmer model which caused discontinuation of older models, therefore affected the prices of the old models as stock was cleared.

*Lineup has somewhat affected the not yet decided people.

And PS has a MUCH larger fanbase, after all, PS1 and PS2 did shift around 250-300M consoles in their lifetime.

Your right and your list support my claim in saying you are exagerating. With the list you posted I dont see how it support your statement of:  "On the 360 front however, there is unrest as several exclusive titles have been announced,".

Why not, the exclusives that I think will sell well, and I guarantee 3-4M lifetime at LEAST

 Alan Wake, Halo Reach, Mass Effect 2(Might be doubtful a bit here, but is a highly critics acclaimed game), SC:C, Crackdown 2, Fable III and probably more that will be announced at E3, as I have mentioned it would be a good idea to wait until E3 but the list is considerably better in comparison with the 2009. More exclusives would mean that the consoles can suck away the customer base from the other one. As I said it is possible that Sony will pull off another 13M year, but 16m is being a tad bit too optimistic!

Yes the list is better from 2009, 360 have great games released and coming. The thing is, why are you specifying its on 360 front only, you even said, in a previous post that the PS3 library would stale at some point. But PS3 have as much exclusives released and coming. What I know is both have great lineup. I know that because im interested and get informations on both libraries. Some (not all dont worry) of your statements make abstraction of the reality. In doing so it make you seem like what we call  a "fanboy" at some point. Would be great if you can work a bit more on your post in the future. Instead of basing your judgment only on a part of the reality your better suspending it or getting information on the subject ;).

Ah I guess I should have provided a list of the exclusives that I have read of on PS3 as well, well excluding the JRPGS(Which sell poorly in the West and mediocre in Japan - same for 360);

GoW3, GT5(Not yet decided, doubt it'll be 2010), Heavy Rain - The sales have staled dramatically already, Twisted Metal - that got a few people excited and I have played those games on PS1 - not bad racing games, MAG, FFIV(But it's also for PC), FFXII Versus, The Last Guardian, White Knight Chronicles

To conclude the list, the "juggernauts" or the ones that have made an appearance in the past and were found wanting are:

GoW3

GT5(not yet announced)

FFXIII Versus

Newcomers -

Heavy Rain

The Last Guardian

White Knight Chronicles

Imo Heavy Rain had a fun concept I have no clue why the sales are so poor on PS3.

Now if you think about the juggernauts, they are great and will guarantee up to 1-2M sales on FW and a lot more LT, except ofcourse there are fewer of them than last year - KZ2, Uncharted 2, Ratchet and Clank, inFamous, Remake of GOW I and II and many more

What did 360 have in 2009? Halo 3 ODST, Forza 3 and.. and that's it really.

The point that I am trying to make is that it is not 100% certain that the lineup for PS3 will be poor this year until we see the E3 but it is highly likely that it will be worse than that in 2009 whilst the 360 would have better lineup than in 2009(Like that's hard to top, poorest year to date imo).



 

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Doubt it. Unless in some way GT5 can explode PS3 sales. But Ps3 will definitely need Wii like sales to achieve this, and i just cant see this happening



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holiday GT5+price cut and if move is successful then maybe
if Sony don't do a price cut I would like to see mandatory game bundle with games like GT5, Uncharted 2, GoW3, Modnation, the Last Guardian, FFXIII/FFvXIII, Modern warfare 2\CoD7 etc to help sales and possibly new SKU with a bigger HDD



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probably not. vgc has 12.5m ps3s sold from may 09 - mar 2010. currently, vgc has ps3 at 34m. it may be argued that the slim launched on september with a nice price cut and that ps3 sales would increase for may - aug. but take note that from may 08 - aug 08 the ps3 sold 2.3m as compared to 1.6m units sold from may 09 - aug 09.
base on those figures, the ps3 would probably sell at best 13m from may - march 2011 making total units sold 47m.
to reach 50m, sony would have to 1) bundle gt5 like crazy 2) have another price cut 3) market ps move like crazy to make sure it actuallly sells 5) release at least 2 AAA exclusive titles to compensate for sales boosts caused by uncharted2 and gow3
if they do all that, they could probably sell the extra 3m to make 50m



Stanislav.Ten said:

Ah I guess I should have provided a list of the exclusives that I have read of on PS3 as well, well excluding the JRPGS(Which sell poorly in the West and mediocre in Japan - same for 360);

GoW3, GT5(Not yet decided, doubt it'll be 2010), Heavy Rain - The sales have staled dramatically already, Twisted Metal - that got a few people excited and I have played those games on PS1 - not bad racing games, MAG, FFIV(But it's also for PC), FFXII Versus, The Last Guardian, White Knight Chronicles

To conclude the list, the "juggernauts" or the ones that have made an appearance in the past and were found wanting are:

GoW3

GT5(not yet announced)

FFXIII Versus

Newcomers -

Heavy Rain

The Last Guardian

White Knight Chronicles

Imo Heavy Rain had a fun concept I have no clue why the sales are so poor on PS3.

Now if you think about the juggernauts, they are great and will guarantee up to 1-2M sales on FW and a lot more LT, except ofcourse there are fewer of them than last year - KZ2, Uncharted 2, Ratchet and Clank, inFamous, Remake of GOW I and II and many more

What did 360 have in 2009? Halo 3 ODST, Forza 3 and.. and that's it really.

The point that I am trying to make is that it is not 100% certain that the lineup for PS3 will be poor this year until we see the E3 but it is highly likely that it will be worse than that in 2009 whilst the 360 would have better lineup than in 2009(Like that's hard to top, poorest year to date imo).

When you put it that way, it makes more sense. Thanks for the clarification. Between, Heavy Rain sales are excellent you know. Its already higher than 1 Million in less than 2 months.



50million at the mid 2012 year is most possible



                                  

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Kenoid said:
50million at the mid 2012 year is most possible

50 million at 2012 is guarunteed! It should get it at the latest mid 2011.