Baddman on 22 August 2008
| Sullla said: No, it's completely meaningless who comes in second. The only people who care about this are Internet fanboys. In order for second place to matter, there would have to be a huge dropoff between second and third place, enough so that the third place platform would no longer be receiving multiplatform third-party titles. But that will never happen this generation, because: 1) 360 and PS3 sell at virtually indistiguishable levels (+/- 10% of one another) 2) 360/PS3 must share their game libraries to recoup development cost of HD games. As a result, the two platforms have something like 80-90% of the same games, sell at pretty much the same rate, and are bought by the same demographics. The whole "competition" is pointless. The winner derives absolutely no advantage whatsoever. The XBox "winning" over the Gamecube had no bearing at all on this generation's Wii/360 fracas. At this point, either company spending itself into the red to "win" second place is mind-bogglingly stupid. I've said this many times before: the 360/PS3 "war" is the biggest farce in gaming history. |
QFT!
