Squilliam said:
Rpruett said:
sieanr said:
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I knew Halo 3, Gears of War 2, etc would be great games fueled by positive reviews and wonderful sales. Almost everyone else did too. To the Playstation brand, Gran Turismo / God of War are arguably their two biggest games for their system and very comparable in that regard. True or False? Why is this labeled as some excuse or delay tactic? The PS3 still has plenty of good games out currently. But thus far have really only released one of the three aces it has in it's deck (MSG4).
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Get some perspective. While God of War is popular and well reviewed, its never sold anywhere close to GT or the other big PS titles, like MGS and Final Fantasy.
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Final Fantasy isn't exclusive anymore to the Playstation brand (Or I could/would have used it) Sure it was a big game (As I'm sure it will remain). I'm aware God of War didn't push tons of sales.
But as for this generation of exclusives (MGS4/God of War III/Gran Turismo 5/ Final Fantasy / Tekken) were probably the biggest Playstation exclusive franchise. With Final Fantasy going multi-platform as well as Tekken and MGS4 being released already. God of War III / Gran Turismo are easily two of the best Playstation franchise yet to be released.
Metal Gear Solid / Gran Turismo / God of War ......... Franchises will stack up pretty well with Halo/Gears/Fable series. Which was the point.
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Thats pretty egotistical to say that.
Halo as a franchise would be between 15-20M sales by the time GT5 is released in this generation. Halo 3, Halo ODST and Halo Wars and yet the generous estimates pin GT5 at 10M sales.
Gears at present has sold more than 2.5* MGS4
Fable 2 looks like its going to be the biggest WRPG on a single platform.
You also forgot Forza 2+3 which will sell extremely well also.
Face it, at the top end of the scale the Xbox 360 is far bigger and will remain that way.
Very soon the Xbox 360 will have 6 5M+ and 1 10M+ sellers. The PS3 barely has one 5M+ seller and no other games looking to threaten that mark any time soon.
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This is a good point, but I think he was making more of a general point about the potential appeal of those games in the market, rather than talk about sales numbers... and obviously it was oversimplified (only including three games from each console). The sales performance of those big three definitely seems much stronger for Microsoft this generation, though -- and there's no doubt they deserve it, outselling the PS3 2:1 in the US so far this generation. If that's not domination I don't know what is.
