Darc Requiem on 13 August 2008
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Kyros said: Lets see, the 360 has larger userbase. But a shrinking lead (with the exception of the last two weeks) so if we are talking about "momentum" this speaks for the PS3. In other words the 360 has the biggest userbase and it has the momentum right now. The PS3's biggest remaining exclusive launched and like all the other big PS3 exclusives the sales spiked and came back to earth. The PS3's biggest remaining THIRD-PARTY exclusive launched. Gran Turismo 5 is arguably its biggest exclusive. You are actually correct with this one. Gran Turismo 5 is the biggest remaining bullet in the PS3 gun. The biggest remaining exclusive for the PS3 was announced for 360. The biggest remaining third-party exclusive that has its largest market in Japan was announced for 360 outside of Japan. Cool. Unfortunately for Sony most consoles are sold out side of Japan. The largest markets for Sony's Playstation brand have historically been Europe followed closely by North America. The biggest and most popular JRPG makers, Square Enix and Namco, are favoring the 360 over the PS3 when it comes to exclusive content. A very expensive privilege for MS I am sure. Which doesn't change the fact that the 360 has a 650k userbase in Japan so it effectively doesn't exist on that island. BTW the PS3 has 2.3m sold in Japan or almost four times as much. Whether they paid for exclusivity is immaterial, and for the majority of the titles it debatable. No one, well no one thats sane, ever thought MS would have any chance in Japan, but if Sony continues to lose hardware moving franchises to MS it will continue to make Japan a non-factor for the HD market and tilt the focus major Japanese third party developers towards the West where MS is strongest. Do you really think that the PS3 would only have 2.3 million units sold if it had the JRPG lineup that the 360 has? |
