Spectrumglr said: ok, have you ever considered the possibility that MS could answer to PS3 price drop? i think that for the whole 2008 standard Ps3 will be 100$ more expensive than x360 premium...and you have to consider the x360 core (quite appealing for casual gamers) that will be even cheaper (and 150$ or so between 2 products is something that definitely counts...especially when one of the 2 consoles goes under 200$: more than a possibility for x360 core during 2008).
As for the exclusives it all depends on this holiday sales: if PS3 doesn't manage to (consistently) reduce the userbase gap from X360 why in the world should a 3rd party developer decide to leave the X360 out? you should remind that x360 has already proved that a single high quality game can sell up to 5 million copies (GoW) over a user base of 10 millions (this leaving aside the fact that till now 3rd parties devs, apart from some exceptions, has probablay made money only on x360: how many PS3 games have WW sales in excess of 600k? how many games for x360 have sales in excess of 600k? you can draw conclusions)...to me this is enough for making a 3rd party developer thinking more than twice before leaving out x360, don't you think so? My opinion is that X360 won't loose exclusive at least for the whole 2008...then time will tell but at least for the next year i think that from this point of view X360 is safe...till you can't prove the oppsite there aare still 6 millions more x360 and reducing this gap is not an easy task (as actually the gap hasn't reduced much form PS3 debut). |
There is also the other thing that Gears of War demonstrates, you can have a highly anticipated, high quality game released on your system that is well marketed and sells amazingly well and yet doesn't cause sales to skyrocket ... There has only been a handful of games released since the SNES days that have sold more copies than Gears of War but that didn't mean that the XBox 360 received a huge sales boost.
