Sony's shooter gambit--success or failure?

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I guess that would depend on how much mitigation you consider worthy of notice. Technically having a single game in this genre does have a degree of mitigation. In much the same way that if I were to inherit five thousand dollars it would mitigate the economic difference between me and a millionaire. Basically it is a very soft word with little to no meaning unless you apply some kind of hard scale.

I would say mitigate yes, but not by as much as you would imagine. The 360 still has more AAA titles, and definitely more titles that scale over eighty percent. The difference is basically that the PS3 isn't as barren as it once was, but the PS3 library is still no substitute for the 360s library. This was bound to happen all along it would I mean its not like the PS3 wasn't going to get some shooters.

Now will the PS3 greatly mitigate the advantage this year. Probably not Microsoft has an answer for Resistance in Gears, and as was noted Haze was an utter failure. MAG and Killzone 2 will arrive next year, but it is possible that Huxley will be the 360s answer to the former, and Microsoft still has two powerful shooter franchises in play for the latter. So I do not see the PS3 launching ahead in any fashion.

I would also say that Resistance isn't so much the success that others make it out to be. Remember this was a launch title for a console that had a pathetic launch year library. So you have to take the sales into consideration. Even Red Steel topped a million on the Wii, and that title had an average score of 63 according to Metacritic. In other words do not use the exception as a rule for expectations. According to this site The Orange Box panned on the PS3, and that title actually averaged three points higher on Metacritic. This in the middle of October when the console had a larger install base, and a better lower price.