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txrattlesnake on 27 May 2009
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Viper1 said:
txrattlesnake said:
Viper1 said:
txrattlesnake said:
theRepublic said:

http://vgchartz.com/forum/post.php?id=2202853

     How long did it take the Wii to catch the 360?  It seems like it didn't take it anywhere near three years.

With dramatically better exclusives on PS3 than 360 the PS3 could start to overtake the 360 much quicker than you speculate.  Especially if there aren't any significant games or only a few Rare games being placed on the 360 at the same time the PS3 is making up the majority of those sales.

But it's about PS3, not Wii.

When PS3 starts selling like Wii at its best, then you might have a point.


     It might not be selling as rapidly as Wii at that point in time but when you have God of War III, new games from Insomniac, and other PS3 studios, Trico, Final Fantasy XIII, Versus XIIII, (especially if they get exclusive Kingdom Hearts 3), Kojima's next projects, and the other exclusives I've mentioned here, plus almost the same games that the 360 gets from Western developers while games like Gears 3, Fable 3 etc, are headed to 720, then PS3 would be selling well enough in that range.

You're right.  Because Lair, Heavenly Sword, Uncharted, GTAIV, MGS4, Resistence 2, LittleBigPlanet and Killzone 2 all pushed the PS3 to stratospheric sales.

 

Oh wait....

As far as Uncharted goes, Sony won the holidays '07 and had the best selling hd console in January '08.  GTA IV was on multiple consoles.  It's sold over 10 million copies, so that would have had quite the effect as an exclusive.  MGS 4 put the PS3 ahead of the Wii, but there weren't enough other similar quality exclusives for ps3 released around the same time to continue the momentum as there was for the ps2 during holiday 2001.  Killzone 2 had more of an effect than you're willing to give it credit for, and I belive its still in the top 50 games, but again there weren't enough other games to push keep the momentum going in the West.  However, the combination of White Knight Chronicles, Yakuza, and RE5 pushed the PS3 over the Wii in Japan for almost three months in a row.  If Yakuza can push the PS3 above the Wii for three months, then GT5, FFXIII, followed shortly by Trico, Uncharted II, God of War III, Tales of Vesperia PS3, Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2, followed within a few short weeks by another and exclusive Final Fantasy and a new exclusive from Kojima plus all the games those will bring in their wake and the crowning jewel of a (possible) exclusive KH 3 on PS3 Christmas 2010 would do much, much more to 360.