2008 Year of the PS3 ? - No big games anymore for the XBOX 360 and Wii ?

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Munkeh said:

mrstickball said:
...Weren't we supposed to be amazed at the 1m+ selling capacities of Lair, Heavenly Sword and Warhawk?

The PS3 has *maybe* 3 real good, exclusive IPs to counter MS's 3-4 exclusive IPs. Bad part is, X360 has the difinitive Grand Theft Auto 4, which just about counters every smaller IP that PS3 will have.

So next year, it'll be a stalemate between the PS3 and X360.

What you forget is that GTA has always been a PS franchise, so I feel that many people will be more inclined to get that version. Also (assuming the 40GB has back-compat) I think that many people will "upgrade" from PS2 to PS3 at that time (with the help of KZ2 maybe) as they are used to the PS controllers, they get their back-compat and many other great games.

Also, Warhawk has sold about 200,000 (just under) in retail in US alone in 1 month. Worldwide, the figure is probably more like 350,000 including download, and with the $40 (no headset) bundle coming soon (so says a rumour) it can sell at least 600,000 this year worldwide. I think that Sony should sell PS3s with this bundled in, or pre-installed on the harddrvie

Really? Because I think that people will get it for the 360 more, you know, the whole exclusive content thing. I'm sorry to say just sony fucked themselves early with this one. Whenever people come into my store that I would label as "casual" gamers they are all very money conscientious, they ask me how much systems run for and I tell them. 250 for wii, 130 for DS, 350 for 360. They stop me right there with their eyes wide open "three hundred fifty dollars?" THen I say "at least you don't want a PS3, 600 for one of those suckers (We don't have any new 60 gigs anymore) and they just laugh and buy a DS (or wii if we have one) I literally get people coming in off the street asking me what's my favorite console and I tell them Wii60, I explain to them my reasons and they see them as valid. WHen people come into my store asking o buy a PS3, I try my hardest to convert them over to get a 360. I normally end up convincing about 90% of people to get a 360 instead by just telling them straight facts. This is how this gen is, you've got one console in a league of it's own and you have two consoles competing for raw power & game library. The 360 having a better game library and the two being roughly the same as far as power specs go, it's pretty much one of them will win and one of them will lose. And you can argue about the future all you want, but all you can go by right now is the present, and the 360 is mopping the floor with the P$3.