Jereel Hunter on 12 November 2008
| Paul_Warren said: "Gears of War was a new I.P and it sold millions 1st/2nd and will sell millions more third time around." One of the problems with that statement is the fact that Gears 3 will most likely be the flagship title for the next xbox just as Halo 3 was for the 360, so it probably won't have any effect on increasing 360 sales and would quite probably take away 360 sales by moving them to the new MS console. Another factor is we don't know if Gears is the type of game that will result in the sale of more 360's or if like Fable II it will mainly only sell to those that already have a 360. "The issue for the PS3 is not the small gap now, its the trend which won't be arrested for at least another quarter, so you could say we haven't yet seen the peak lead for the 360 over the PS3 yet." The trend will stop having any real effect by December 25th of this year and the release of White Knight Chronicles in Japan. PS3 is going to own the HD console wars through March with games like InFamous and Killzone 2 (which has received big early pops from non gamer publications like Maxim), then with White Knight Chronicles and an exclusive big time racer coming in March. Finally with some price cuts and FFXIII coming out exclusively for the PS3 in June in Japan, you have the PS3 taking back its JRPG crown and cutting the 360's lead in half. |
I don't think a Japan-only exclusive comes anywhere close to "take back it's JRPG crown". Expecially since the PS3 never had this crown.
