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Munkeh111 on 27 June 2009
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Mendicate Bias said:
Steroid said:

I would lose? I cannot lose I own all 3 consoles this gen feel free to bow.

 

As for the answer to your question it's quite obvious is it not? Halo 3 for example MS spent 50 milliion on advertising alone.

More Money= More ads I thought this was a simple concept.

 

Halo 3 only had a $10 million advertising campaign, don't throw around ridiculous numbers without proof.

http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/09/12/1912212

Also in regards to your other comment about Lost Odyssey, there have been no jrpg's this generation that have surpassed it in sales and there probably won't be any until the release of Final Fantasy so please try to stop trolling.

Finally in regards to the OP I think to answer this question we have to look back at the previous generation. Even with the Playstation 2 the only exclusives that really sold phenomenal amounts for Sony were MGS, GT and Final Fantasy. The rest of Sony's games had good sales but nothing indicitive of the massive userbase lead they had for last generation. On the other hand even with a much smaller userbase MS was able to take a series like Halo and have it sell far better than any PS3 eclusive to date. Now in this current generation with MS having the userbase advantage this sales trend has become exponentially greater. With Final Fantasy now a multi-plat I think the only game Sony has capable of doing extraordinary numbers is GT5 barring the release of a new IP that captures gamers attentions on the same level as Halo:CE. I'm not sure why this is the case, maybe the type of people Sony attracts to its console are people that are more content with owning a single game or are more interested in the technical aspects of the console and not the gaming aspect?

This leads me to wonder, if Killzone 2 had been release for the 360 how well would it have sold?

Just a quick point, the top selling jRPG in Japan is White Knight Chronicles, with 350k, so when that is released WW it will likely eclipse LO...

I agree with your point that Sony just has loads of different franchises in every single genre, which generally only get to around 3m. The problem has been the loss of exclusivity of Final Fantasy XIII, meaing that you do not get all jRPG fans coming to the console, and GTA IV, which would have moved many more PS3s. According to VGC, last generation, aside from Gran Turismo, the top selling SCE published PS2 game was Eye Toy play at 3.86m. So with FF and GTA gone MP, many other good selling 3rd party exclusives are lost, and Sony has yet to find a franchise to make up for this.