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Pristine20 on 02 March 2009
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S.T.A.G.E. said:
Pristine20 said:
S.T.A.G.E. said:
Soul_tech10 said:
simple, the ps3 userbase is too small. if 100 million ps2 owners have still not bought a ps3 its obvious why software sales are like that. The only question is: Why does the 360 have better software sales with the HW of both the ps3 and 360 itself amost the same?

 

 Because a higher percentage of the Xbox 360's users actually buy games and purchase premium from Xbox Live. The majority of PS3 users don't play videogames judging from PSN sales and game sales. the sales could be spread out amongst various genres, but that still doesn't explain why they don't have over 6 M sold at all for an exclusive. Xbox had over 8 M copies of Halo 3 by the time they were at 20 M.

Halo is just one of thse series that breaks through the mold because it probably has sold over 30% of the whole xbox line.. I don't think even the ps2 had something like this. You have to understand that ps3 is really ps2 with a much lower userbase. If you judge it that way, you'd realize that it performing decently software-wise

 

 

 Actually dude...the 360 resembles the PS2 more than the PS3. Thats the essence of why I purchased it. Just think about it for a moment and get back to me. The PS3 resembles the Xbox last gen. Trust me on this.

No it doesn't. 360 has higher attach ratios than ps2. It doesn't resemble the ps2 in any way. It may have acquired some ps2 IP's but remember that the ps2 never had a decent FPS save for killzone which many thought was mediocre. It had JRPGs popping out left and right not one every now and then. I know it's the library you're thinking about when making this comparison thats why I'm going on that tangent. Ps2 had  a huge casual "fillerbase". 360 has next to no casuals. They're not the same at all.

However, my comparison was based on attach ratios which is really the underlying subject of this thread. If you look carefully, ps3 has even performed better than ps2 with some IPs. Ps3s casuals are the blu-ray only section.

 



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