PlayStation 3 can still win.

[Biggerboat]

URNotE said:

Biggerboat said:

mitsuhide said:
1)If the PS3 was dead in the water it wouldn't be selling and Sony would be giving up (like SEGA).

2)If MGS4,Killzone2,GTAIV,FFXIII,LBP,Wardevil,GT5 etc etc are all AAA titles(which they will be)

1)It's debatable whether the PS3 is selling. It continues to flounder in Japan and the GBA is slowly creeping up on it in the US, not sure how it's doing here in Europe though I heard that a big chunk of it's install base is made up of launch units. You can't really compare Sony and Sega, the latter being almost insignificant in terms of size and financial clout. I'm pretty confident due to PS3, Sony has haemoraged multiple times the losses Sega ever did with DC.

2)I thought after the disappointments of Lair & Heavenly Sword people would be more cautious before deeming unproven games AAA before release, guess I was wrong.

1...actually the ps3 is still on the same track as the 360 in its lifecycle..... its selling below average in japan i admit.. the gap between it and the wii is closing as of recent which actually does mean somethin if you read between the lines......

 

2...I admint i was one of the people who hyped lair and heavenly sword... but why wouldnt I??? For what possible reason would i want  a game to Flop for a system i own???.. but when i think about it now why would those two games be AAA system sellers??? why???? No reason at all.. not even BioShock did that for the 360.... its very rare that a New IP becomes a system seller... Gears of War Did it.. but the timing was perfect for it.. which is why the timing is perfect for MGS4 Killzone GTA and all the other games named by the other guy... .. last time i checked none of those games were unproven exept Wardevil and LBP

1)The thing is though that devs don't care about what consoles are selling at respective times in their life cycles they care about what their install bases are now. If the PS3 doesn't start gaining on 360 why would any sane dev choose to exclusively put their game on that system? Wii has fallen away in Japan recently but I think this will be remedied by Mario Galaxy, it's much easier for a game to be a system seller when said system is cheap!

2)I specifically bolded the games which aren't established. Killzone is definately not proven as it's prequel was very ordinary. If KZ2 is considered AAA then so is Red Steel 2 and an abundance of other upcoming sequels which had less than stellar 1st installments.