HappySqurriel said:
Every month you seem to get a little more bitter and delusional ... You (probably) shouldn't do a direct comparison of the systems with aligned launches on a worldwide basis to make any conclusions. The PS3 has 3 regions it can sell in (remember most third parties are regional) as compared to two for the XBox 360, the XBox 360 lived in 'the shadow' of the PS3 (and was bashed for being too expensive by Sony fans) until E3 2006, the XBox 360 was supply limited through a large portion of 2006 whereas the PS3 has been readily available since soon after launch, the PS3 has had a 1 Million unit boost from their launch in Europe, and the PS3 is much later to market meaning it has to catch up. The Wii has also had way more games announced since the platforms launched ... The PS3 had over 200 games announced as of January 1st 2007 when most people where asking what was going to be available for the Wii; since then there have been more games released on the Wii in 2007 and its 2008 release list almost matches the PS3's in size. Being that the Wii is going to start 2008 with 2 to 2.5 times the userbase of the PS3, and has development costs that are 1/4 to 1/2 that of PS3 games, I think it is going to see a large number of announcements in 2008. Finally, you can't assume that developers will choose to release a game to the PC, XBox 360 and PS3; the PS3 has a very different architecture, different APIs (XBox 360 and Windows XP/Vista have most games developed in DirectX), and has a much smaller userbase and is selling far slower in the regions where PC games sell well. On top of that the PC gaming market is both growing and shrinking, small budget "casual" games with graphics similar to Wii games have been steadily growing for about a decade whilst big budget "Hard-core" games with high end graphics have been steadily shrinking for about a decade; the general consensus is that people don't see the value in spending $500 for a graphics card to play the same games anymore. Edit: The MMO market on PCs is also growing but I doubt that will help the XBox 360 or PS3 being that the console is not well suited to a MMO game and would likely have a far inferior version. |
First ,the number of games announced for the PS3 this year is far superior to the WIi ones.We can play the counting game when you want .Basically all the games announced except some rare expceptions (World in Conflict ,MH3) from third parties are getting PS3 releases .The Wii cant even dream about this situation right now.Even if it managed so it would sistematically get the crap version .
Second ,doing a direct comparision aligning launches isnt totally possible but one way or another it must be done .The PS3 was released in Europe end march instead of november ,you must remember that .If it had been launched last november in Europe with the christmas campaign the actual sales would be near 3 million now for example .The 360 not selling in Japan doesnt give it a excuse so dont call me delusional .The worlwide sales are the worlwide sales and you cant say the 360 did better because " it only has two markets " .What about if it only had one market and did very well there ,would it still be an excuse to be beaten ?THe PS3 has three markets and the 360 only two ,and thats why in the end of the day even if it ends behind the 360 in NA it will beat it worldwide .No excuses here or "if it sold well in Japan " ,just the reality .PS3 is no doubt having a slow start and more painful than started first year .But I predicted it would be around 400 for this end of year a lot of time ago ,and from now on and with the stellar lineup of endyear and specially 2008 its sales there (and hopefully in NA as well ) will increase to levels when the 360 advantage in NA cant compensate .
Third ,third party games on the Wii are selling like crap .Dont expect so many announcements ,most development teams have their tech and development teams and ambitious projects and wont develop for a inferior machine .If that was the case all the developments would go to the PS2 or to average graphics card Pcs .Thats the way of development ,always forward .Maybe some will try quick cash-ins if the userbase is big enough on the Wii ,sure ,but cash-in arent usually very good games and once accustomed to way more powerful machines the developers wont squeeze their brains to manage the best of the Wii hardware to equal ,say ,Half Life 2 or Doom 3 on the Xbox.Specially when most of the WIi software sold is just Nintendo franchises .When some developers are saying that NIntendo is shaping the market to their own (and only their own ) benefice and that the users of the Wii are most casual gamers that are happy with a Nintendo game here and there they arent just speculating .
Fourth ,MMO on console havent been seen too often ,but with Sony agreement with NCS we will see some of those on the PS3 .
