XBox 360 - 40M Units Sold by the End of Next Year!!!

[Paul_Warren]

I don't know why you people keep trying to support the notion that the 360 has a lot of high quality phantomware titles in development. How many of its games can actually be considered to even be high quality in 2008?

Gears of War 2 but not as good as the first game.
Fable II good but not great.
Ikaruga
Braid

And that was about it because Ninja Gaiden II, Tales of Vesperia, Lost Odyssesy (if your expectations for the game was that it was a Final Fantasy Killer, if you just expected the game to be a medium quality pre Final Fantasy rpg as seen in most console generations prior to when the first FF game comes out and shows what AAA rpgs are in each generation then your expectations for LO were met), Too Human, and Infinite Undiscovery all failed to meet expectations.

The PS3 had MGS 4-- received 10s at IGN, Famitsu, and Play Magazine.

The best version of Grand Theft Auto IV -- highest rated game of this gen. 

Little Big Planet  -- second highest rated game of this year only beaten by GTA IV.

Resistance 2 -- better than the first one which can not be said to be true of Gears 2.  Received the same score from IGN as Gears 2.

Valkyrie Chronicle -- Highest rated jrpg so far this gen.  IGN scored it higher than Fable 2.

And only 1 game that arguably failed to meet exepectations in Haze. Although one is full of it if they say expectations for Haze were as high as they were for games like Infinite Undiscovery, Too Human, or Ninja Gaiden II.

In 2009 The PS3 will have God of War III, White Knight Chronicles, InFamous, Team ICO Project, Final Fantasy XIII by July in Japan, Killzone 2,  Jak and Daxter:  The Lost Territory, Ratchet and Clank Future 2, Gran Turismo 5, and the announcement of a 2010 release date for Hideo Kojima's special project. And the 360 will have a couple of mid to high 8s in Recon and Halo Wars, a 7 to 8 at best in Alan Wake; and a bunch of games that 360 fans are going to scream about how much better they are than anything that will ever be on the PS3, and then when they they are released quality publications like IGN will be there to give them the 6s, 7s, and low 8s that they deserve as the vast majority of exclusives that are coming to the 360 in 2009 are from studios that have never even had one console game to their credit.

 

     The PS3 knocked one million units off the 360's lead in this generation in 2008 and in 2009 it will knock three million (2 million with games that aren't called Final Fantasy and another 1 million with Final Fantasy XIII in Japan) off of whatever lead that Gears 2 and Fable II have managed to get for the 360 by 1/1/2009.

So, since the 360 is going to be beaten by the PS3 by 3,000,000 units in 2009 do you really expect it to sell 40 million consoles by the end of that year?