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misterd on 11 January 2009
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scottie said:
Sardauk said:

I did read a lot of posting from the PS3 union saying that the 2009 will see the return (...) of the PS3 thanks to price cut and a better exclusivities list.

Now, I agree with the first point but not second one:

PS3 exclusivities have limited success so far. With MGS4 not even able to maitain stronger sales than a GOW2, or a LBP or R2 that are unable to bring momentum and helping justifying the price of the console.

More than that, even on the 360, (and except for HALO3 that will reach 9 millions copies soon), the majority of games that generate good sales figures and get 2008 awards are mostly multiplateform games (COD, GTA...)

IMO, exclusivities aren't system seller anymore, it only help generates good sales on a given plateform and maintain fidelity of the users.

 

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Fact is, exclusives do sell a system

 

The Wii has all the popular exclusives, therefore the Wii sells

The PS3 has few popular exclusives, so it doesn't sell

The 360 has few popular exclusives, so it doesn't sell

One problem with your argument is that 1) Wii sales have been selling at a pretty consistent pace (ie - selling out) both before and after those games are released (spikes at the time of release have more to do with increased shipments), and most of those series were available on the GameCube, and didn't stop that console from landing in third.

The other problem is that you can't really say the 360 and PS3 don't sell. The 360 has already sailed past XBox and GameCube sales, and, barring some freak turn of events, the PS3 will long before this year is out. The 360 also still has more platinum titles than the Wii.

With the PS3, the problem is not the games as much as the fact that it has no games that anyone wants to spend $500 to play.