Is this the year Microsoft assaults casuals and ignores Sony?

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CGI-Quality said:

gameman said:

Final Fantasy XIII is multiplat in the US. and Europe, and I can find several threads where people thought MGS 4, LBP, Home or whatever will kill the Xbox 360. Then there is always the issue with new IP's like Gears of War was and Microsoft securing importants third party exclusives like Mass Effect and Bioshock. Gran Turismo is questionable at this point. It sold well on a 100 million installed base , but do you really expect it to sell 14 million on a 30 million installed base? a whopping 50% attach rate?????????  I mean GTA 4 didnt sell 18 million on the PS3 like it did on the PS2 simply because of installed base difference. 

 

Find these threads you speak of, otherwise I call bullshit....

Second, Gran Turismo is an established franchise that will sell big #s regardless of which Playstation it is on. As for FFXIII, it will still move a significant amount of PS3s in the (yes it is relevant) Land of the Rising Sun, where it ISN'T multiplatform.

Wanna try again?

 

You are forgetting the simple fact that most people who buy a PS3 buy it more for the Blu-Ray player than for the console. Sure, GT5 and FFvsXIII might move a few consoles, but i don't think it'll be anything drastic that will push the PS3 above the X360. It won't make the PS3 sell 8-10 million consoles to pass the X360. It might move consoles in Japan a lot, but Japan isn't that big an influence on sales at all, since US and EU are simply bigger.