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irstupid on 29 December 2008
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konnichiwa said:
Squilliam said:
konnichiwa said:
You could be right but I don't know if MS has at this point enough new kind of games that can attract more customers.

Its not the games, its the price really. Every system has games, its not really a point of distinction. The Xbox 360 is actually selling in Europe, infact its outselling the PS3 currently (Surprisingly). Essentially now that its found its feet in Europe the sales will be up significantly as Europe is now a bigger market than the United states for hardware and the Xbox has traditionally done very poorly in that market.

 

 

 Nah price has a smaller effect on the sales then games. I give it a small chance that it will do 16 million next year with only the games that are announced now.

Your both sort of right and sort of wrong.  Squilliam is right in that every system has games and konnichiwa is right that the system selling is about games.  But Suilliam is wrong in price being a factor, and konnichiwa is wrong in future games being a factor.

 

Sure the promise of games and assumption of games coming to a system is what draws in the core gamers right away.  You know knowing that when you buy the system you are guaranteed these games.  Nintendo (mario, zelda, ect.) Sony (GT, GoW, ect) Microsoft (Halo).  And then the assumption of PS2 had GTA, FF, and others so PS3 will have them and exlusive as well.  These rules only apply to early buyers of the core well informed gamers.

 

When it comes to the rest of the 100 million PS2 owners the casual gamer they buy based on word of mouth (whats popular) and when going into store what games they see that look fun.  So it does not matter at all what game are coming out in 09'.  These games are not on shelves and thus affect the buyer in no way shape or form.