ps3 Re5 blew out 360 version in japan

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Jaaau! said:

mrstickball said:

Jaaau! said:

Nice find, but if I understand correctly you post this to prove the ratio for RE5 sales PS3vs360 in Japan is "normal" or "expected"?

Yes, it's pretty much normal, or slightly in favor of the typical PS3/X360 ratio (which is around a 6.6/1 ratio). There are 3-4 ways you can look at the debuts of varous games. Some have done better (GTAIV), some have done much worse (Dynasty Warriors 6).

So a 2:1 ratio would have been "normal", and a 8:1 ratio would have been "normal" as well.  Good.  

Curious how some people here take software sales personally.  It's like some don't even want to see things and just quickly move on.  Considering installed base, the ratio for RE5 is high in favour of PS3.  That would be something nice to discuss on this site, instead some refuse to discuss it because somehow it hurts. 

Not quite. If you bothered looking at the chart I provided, no game over 200,000 units sold on the PS3 wound up with anything less than a 5.6:1 ratio (GTAIV), and most were at 10:1 or above. In this case, RE5 has out-sold every other by large margins on both the PS3 and X360. So you could take it from the 'wow! The PS3 has a higher attach ratio than the 360!' or 'Wow! The X360 hung in there despite the trends against it'!

Pick your position, because there are 2 sides to the argument. The PS3 having a better tier ratio on massive multiplat games is not unusual, as the PS3 sells games better at a rate of 6:1, which is twice as high as the 3:1 ratio of hardware sales, thus telling us that 'on average, the attach rate on the PS3 is 2x as high'. Of course, in this case, the attach ratio IS higher on the PS3, but not as high as average.