PS3
Although hardware sales disappointed some, software still kept flowing on the PS3. It may not have been able to amount as many as 360 or Wii this season but it still got its fair share and going into 2009 it will continue to get a fair share if not an uneven share in its favor.
Before entering Black Friday week or data up to the week ending November 28, 2008, the PS3 had 19 million sellers. Up until the week ending January 3, 2009 it obtained 5 million sellers which puts it at 24 total. These include:
Star Wars: The Force Unleashed
Fallout 3
Resistance 2
Madden 09
LittleBigPlanet
Recently before this week it had obtained PES 2009, Call of Duty: World at War, and Fifa 09 which shows just how many it was getting. Most of these titles just had steady legs or strong openers. LBP, however, essentially became the PS3 title to own during the holidays along with CoD: WaW which is why it's sales are well above a million.
However, PS3 won't stop there. Within the next 12 weeks it plans on tacking on quite a few more million sellers. They include:
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Vegas 2
Soul Calibur IV
Need For Speed: Undercover
Guitar Hero: World Tour
Other games that have a shot in the next 12 weeks include Motorstorm: Pacific Rift, Farcry 2, and Tomb Raider: Underworld.
The first 12 weeks of 2009 won't be lackluster for releases either. Such titles as LOTR: Conquest, Street Fighter IV, Killzone 2, The Godfather II, and Resident Evil 5 all have a great should all go platinum one way or another.
There's obviously a chance I'm missing some titles but of course I'll never know until I see more sales data. PS3 is going to have a lot of platinum sellers considering it's hardware userbase compared to the rest of the crowd. As it grows, so will the million sellers and we'll see titles surprise us.
