NPD numbers: 360 is their best bet.

[Reasonable]

Barozi said:

Jo21 said:

Squilliam said:
Isn't Europe starting to show that for certain genres the 360 is getting equal or greater sales? Obviously Soccer is out but for games like Fallout 3 I believe the 360 leads inspite of a smaller userbase.

generally its ps3 > in europe.

fallout 3 is a exception the difference isn't as huge either way.

Not with shooter:

Cod4 360 > Cod4 PS3

Army of Two 360 > Army of Two PS3

R6 Vegas 2 360 > R6 Vegas 2 PS3

BF Bad Company 360 > BF Bad Company PS3

Dark Sector 360 > Dark Sector PS3

Condemned 2 360 > Condemned 2 PS3

 

I guess the flip side of this is that this would appear to confirm 360 in Others is seen as for hardcore shooters and not other genres (I'm assuming from your post that you found only shooters on 360 outperform PS3 versions in Others while PS3 version of games from other genres outperform 360).

Explains why MS seems to have gone crazy in UK at least with ads trying to convince me that families sit and play a 360 while having a laugh together.  I'm afraid I don't believe them though.  The only families I can imagine sitting down in front of a 360 are those who thought they'd bought a Wii and are just realising their error.

Still, can't fault them for trying.  Unless they shake off the shooter image MS will never see sales like Wii or PS2 or PS1 IMHO.