| Dno said: All games that are for english speaking people are gonna sell good on xbox because of the install base and thats the only reason. So your saying that a system that sell good in a particular region is because a certain system might dominate there? Brilliant! I never knew that! But what you fail to metion is the ps3 has sold more units and at a faster pace then 360 (hardware) this year and there are no signs of slowing down... by time any of these ff games are released the install base for both will be much closer. Then we can compare a game like ff13 and sales on ps3 and 360. That year head start for 360 is what makes games like elder scroll sell more (plus the ps3 was not even out when that game dropped). The PS3 is still 5.5 million units behind the Xbox 360. At the current rate of PS3 "domination", the PS3 will surpass Xbox 360 sales in approximately 24 months. And for S-E, being able to release VXIII, or XIII on a system that has higher sales in the West, is a big deal. Remember: The PS3 has a 1.5m lead in Japan, which isn't the region Square is releasing XIII on. So that means that even when the PS3 passes the Xbox 360 globally (around July or August 2010), it still will not have done it in North America - a region targeted by Square's move. What you need to compare is GTA4... and what the ps3 is 1 million behind 360 with a 5 million lead on ps3? thats just not good and if the install base were closer then ps3 would be pushing much more software. Grand Theft Auto IV is 1,510,000 units behind on the PS3. Not 1m. And the lead in favor of the of the Xbox 360 is diminishing by 200 units/wk, as of last week, thanks to Sony selling 40,000 more PS3s per week. Of course, the week before, X360's GTAIV outsold the PS3 version by 4,000 units. |
And to finalize: The end result is even if you want to argue if the PS3 will be the better-selling, superior console in 2 years, or so, this does not negate the fact that the reasoning behind releasing a game multi-platform is still a better choice. After all, if you have 2 consoles: one that has more systems sold right now, and another that might have more sold when you release your game, you'd want to release on both, and make the most money, right? It seems that PS3 owners have the whole "we're going to be #2 in 2-3 years, so games should be exclusive to the PS3" mentality.
That doesn't work here, boys. We're arguing multi-platform existance on 2 very similarly selling systems. It's not like the PS3, if it does win, is going to do so by some ungodly margin. And as a company, what would you rather do: Bet on one system, or the other doing something insane to boost sales (and lets face it, neither company is really doing stellar in the HW department), or just release the game on both systems, and sell twice the units?
Back from the dead, I'm afraid.
