America up!

[mrstickball]

Pristine20 said:

mrstickball said:

Pristine20 said:
So ps3 won the RE5 battle even after being pegged as the "inferior" version LMAO. Looks like 360 only has it's high attach rates when it's selling it's multiplayer shooters.

Given the fact that RE5 sold about 250,000 extra units in Japan on the 1st week, the deck was kind of stacked. However, with Europe being =/=, I would expect the 360 version to eventually beat the PS3 version, thanks to a huge (and most likely to grow) lead in the US.

 

This reads off like a cop out. The predictions I've been reading on this site seemed fairly sure that the 360 was either going to equal or surpass the ps3 version when US data came in even on week one. I won't be too sure about a significant beating though. When it's not a multiplayer shooter, the ps3 really hold it's own even with a much lower userbase. Just take a look at our last major AAA multiplat---SF4. The ps3 and 360 versions are essentially tied even with the 360 selling approximately double the ps3 version in the US.

When Japan shows a significant interest in a game, the ps3 version suddenly becomes waay more significant even though it's userbase is much lower.

The problem is your singing the heralds of PS3's first week, which had it's best market in Japan. When that happens for a 360/PS3 game, it usually doesn't end up very good, unlike SFIV which it's primary market wasn't Japan.

If you want to gloat over a few people that were dumb about 1st week sales, that's fine. But given the skewing of sales - large NA gap, no Euro gap, large JP gap, it's pretty obvious where it's going to go. The PS3 version of RE5 may sell another 50,000-60,000 units in Japan in it's entire life....That's really not telling of PS3 platform domination, considering the fact that NA will account for a very significant portion of RE5 sales when everything is said and done.

And for every SFIV, I could give a Guitar Hero or Lego game example, and prove the exact opposite: That the 360 does very good on games that aren't shooters.

Come back in 3 weeks. If the PS3 version is still leading by anything discernable, you may have a point. But with a 160k week-1 gap in America that is unlikely to ceede to the PS3, I don't think this one is gonna be too close in the end. The 360 will wind up with a 500,000 unit worldwide gap. Which won't be bad, given the fact that Resident Evil has always been a Playstation franchise, and this is the first RE that a MS system has ever got. Heck, being in the same area is quite a feat for it.