forevercloud3000 said:
I love it when people try to denounce my claim yet have no real argument. how about you give some concrete reasoning for a MP game selling better then an exclusive one and we will talk. Halo 3, an exclusive game for 360 that has out sold majority of MP games this gen(8.6 million). It was only barely out sold by COD4 which is somewhere around 10-11million(PS3+360). That is less then either systems entire userbases seperate. GTAIV was also around 11million. GTAIII sold 11.6 million while still exclusive to PS2 alone. DMC4 sold almost 2.5 million. DMC 1 sold 2.77million as a PS2 exclusive. Ok, Now lets tally up. What are the most successful Games? Halo3(8mill) Gran Turismo 3 A Spec (14mill) Final Fantasy VII10-11mill) Gears of War (5.5mil) New Super Mario Bros. (16mill) Mario Kart Wii(11mil) Crash Bandicoot 2 (7.5mil) Jak and Daxter(3.5mil) Metal Gear Solid (5.6mill) Pokemon Red/Green/Blue (31mill) God of War (3.2mil) Kingdom Hearts (5.5mill) WOW would you look at that. Majority of the best known and best selling franchise leaders are all exclusive titles. Who would have thunk it? Now lets got to the Top 5 selling franchises of all time!
3/5 are exclusive franchises to a console or another (except FF of late but they do nto factor into statistics) What does this Prove? That making a game Multiplat does not equal better sales. Now What Have we learned? |
Just curious, what will the talking points be next year when GTA4 pushes past that 11.6 M, and DMC4 has eclipsed 2.77M?
Also, you may be right that hardcore fans of the series would have bought a PS3 to play FF13, but you're missing the much larger segment of the population that is unwilling to purchase a new console for one game, but would happily pick up the game for the system they already own if it were available. I will buy FF13 for 360 when it comes out, but would never have even considered picking up a PS3 just to play it.