Is the PS3 selling badly? Why do you think it is/isn't?

[Lost tears of Kain]

JeffLee said:

i don't think it's selling poorly for the following reasons:

 

1). devs watch sales or to be more specific, corporate overlords of devs watch sales, and what they see is the ps3 consistently matching and sometimes even exceeding xbox sales in the same time frame.... without any games or decent prospects for games. ps3's sold in june when the first good new titles were 3-4 months away and everyone was still playing Resistance and motorstorm. What do you think is going to happen when UT3, haze, uncharted, singstar, socom, etc. hit the streets?

 2). innovation, we have it, the xbox doesn't. What true innovations has the xbox put forward this generation? they showcased UE3 in gears true, but that's pretty much it. meanwhile sony is experimenting with motion sensing, motion capture (heavenly sword), realtime motion capture (playstationeye) and real-world model scanning for ingame areas (killzone 2). These things are actually new and visual improvements from the 'old school', not to mention gear's UE3 showcase has been outdone by the UEps3 in UT3, epic themselves said as much.

3). dev support, we actually got it. see: previously mentioned UEps3, Squarenix's white engine, Crytek's ps3 division ("going deeper then most people imagine", can we say CRYENGINEps3?), konami's work with mgs4, etc, etc.

4). Bungie. after halo 3 dies down, the 360 losses it's HUGE developer to halo wars (i am extremely doubtful of this games success) and their next unnamed project, which we won't see for another year and a half or longer.

5). lackluster 360 lineup for 08 due to 07 focus. how many people, who aren't forum whores, know much of anythign about huxley? alan wake? too human?  microsofts focus on announcing and advertising this year games only does nothing but make the 360's AAA selection look as shallow as a kiddie pool. 2008 will be on us sooner then microsoft seems to think and lots of great titles may be lost to an obscure opening season in the wake of bioshock, halo 3 and mass effect. meanwhile sony has wisely choosen to hype games like mgs4, killzone 2, lbp, etc. now. Does microsoft think that the year of halo 3 marketing did nothing for their system? advance notice builds hype, where's your viral marketers?

Sony's biggest problem right now is their marketing department, they need to get heavenly sword, warhawk, uncharted, R&c,, unreal tournament and haze on television screens this season.

 notice how i've been focusing on the 360? yea, as of now, it is my honest opinion that the ps3 doesn't stand a chance against the wii as long as this trend continues. it's futile to attempt to stem a river with a cork. Besides, i own Nintendo stock, so you could say i have a vested interest in sony aiming no higher then #2. ;)

 

 

 

 

 

1 If they are selling the same, devs will look at total user base, that and xbox is much easier to make for AND xbox has a huge attachment rate, and devs also look at that and while xbox does have some good games out, its big library will be this fall and again if it does not sell well a fter that you can make the claim that it did not sell good with a good library out.

2 Innovation can appear in any shape and form, including games, look at bioshock? mass effect? games can be just as innovative, also thats all fine and dandy, but not if it doesnt work out well, look at what sixaxis did to lair

Also sometimes you need to keep old innovations (rumble?) cause they are just as good as new

3 Im not going to touch this one because both sides have dev support and you can say xbox doesnt have quite a bit.

4, How can you be doubtful, its made by the people of age of empire, and they have spent alot of time on this game, plz give me a good reason why it will fail

5. Microsoft has stated over and over that they are focusing on this year because of the stellar lineup, while ps3 looks to the future, so yes it does look better, unless microsoft pulls some tricks out and hey who knows but its not like they dont have games coming (too human, cry on, fable2, halo wars, etc). HOw can you say they have wisely chosen to hype those games? Of course they will! those are there best games just like microsoft will hype halo3 mass effect bioshock etc. Also you knowtice that sony didnt hype games like lair etc at e3, its because it got bad reviews just like HS and hopefully it doesnt happen to Warhawk And that is EXACTLY why they are hyping next year because this year is not the best for ps3 games well at least compared to 360 and wii

In some areas you can be right but you need evidence, xbox has all those you listed. We need evidence that the dev support is truely stronger and that halo wars will really fail

In all you really look like a fanboy when you say WE, you should probably not state that you really do =(