BengaBenga said:
Pristine20 said:
BengaBenga said:
Pristine20 said:
I don't think 360 owners necessarily buy shitloads of software. Halo sold millions on the unpopular xbox as well. I think the problem with ps3 selling software is the highly varied nature of its userbase relative to the other consoles. This is why it's hard to get multi-million dollar sales with any single game on ps3. I explain in the OP of this thread:
http://www.vgchartz.com/forum/thread.php?id=47472
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Well, 360 does sell enormous amounts across the board, something both Wii and PS3 can't say.
Some million sellers: Halo, GTA 4, CoD4, Forza, Gears, Assassins Creed, GH3, Oblivion, Mass Effect, Fable, Saints Row, Fight Night, Dead Rising, Pro Evo, etc, etc, etc.
Pretty varied imo. Sure, a lot of shooters but certainly not exclusively. There are some games that underperformed on 360, but not a whole lot.
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Many of those other games became "million sellers" after their prices dropped. There are not that many games on the ps3 that don't cost $60. Even Eternal sonata thats older than my grandma released at $60. Notice I also said heavily "westernized games" not just shooters. This would include western RPGs like Fable and Mass Effect and heavily western infuenced games like GTA.
PS always stood above the rest due to it's JP support but it almost semms like the whole JP gaming industry fell right along with sony.
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You might be on to something here...
Still Japanese support is quickly switching to Wii. SE is the only major player staying behind. I do think PS3's "failure" is very tough on the Japanese developers, they now have to create that market on Wii. Sometimes successful (Fatal Frame 4), sometimes not (Tenchu 4).
360 though has lots of SE games and is relatively successful with that. JRPG gamers will definitely buy a 360, depriving PS3 of an important core PS2 usergroup.
And remember, the prices drop because the games have already made their money.
I can't really understand why the difference in software sales between PS3 and 360 is so big. I can only explain it by assuming the most hardcore gamers prefer 360.
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Nah. I'm as hardcore as it gets and I prefer the ps3. It may be because I've always been a PS fan though. I love JRPGs but haven't gotten a 360 yet. WHy? It may have more JRPGs than the ps3 but the consistency is still not there compared to the beast the ps2 was. In the ps2 era, I couldn't even keep up with the JRPG releases but now, I can easily name every JRPG that has been released on x360. PS2 still remains strong with Persona 4 coming next. I still have a bigger backlog of ps2 and ps1 JRPGs to play on my 60gb than I'll find on 360
Like I said I think it's the nature of the userbase. Also, xbox always had western RPGs, Bethesda and LucasArts only supported the xbox with their RPGs not the ps2. I'm talking ES and KOTOR (the really good ones). So the fans of such games already knew what console to buy.
More JP support will defiitely move to wii but it seems like most publishers are still confused on the type of games that deserve wii releases.
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