Console sellers!!

[TWRoO]

gera4390 said:

TWRoO said:

MGS4 is't a true system seller... I suppose it was a minor system seller though.

A system seller first of all nearly always has to be the first on the system.

Wii Sports is arguable the biggest one of all time now, Mario Bros on the NES was back then. GTA is a huge one, Gran Turismo is pretty big, although Mario Kart is bigger (MK64 managed to outsell the PS1 GTs, and MK:DD had an immense attach ratio for the lowly GameCube)
Wii Fit is a seller too, as well as the obvious and many DS titles (which is why it is doing so incredibly) those being Mario Kart again, Mario Bros again, Nintendogs, Brain Training, the mighty Pokemon... and on DS at least, Animal Crossing.
Halo is a system seller too, I would say up there with Mario Kart.

Final Fantasy, Dragon Quest and now Monster Hunter are system sellers in Japan (in the same way that GTA/Halo are only system sellers in the West)


ANd what you said at the end about Halo is wrong.... Halo 3 was a big system seller, so while another Halo on the X360 will not make anywhere near the system selling impact, that doesn't stop Halo as a franchise being a system seller (as a theory, Halo 4 coming out on the next MS console would be a system seller)

MGS4 was big, it made some great things for PS3, PS3 would't have been the same of there was no MGS4 of it would have gone multiplat, MGS4 was the only big reason to get a PS3. As I remember PS3 >360 since MGS4 released, but MS counter it with a pricedrop. Just for the MGS4 effect.

Is this some kind of competition to get the most "MGS4"s into a reply?

Besides the Ps3 was outselling the X360 before MGS4 as well: http://vgchartz.com/hwcomps.php?cons1=Wii&reg1=All&cons2=PS3&reg2=All&cons3=X360&reg3=All&start=39537&end=40055

What I see, is a PS3 outselling X360 by about 50k or 25-30%.... GTAIV as a platform seller had been working it's magic long before this of course, but in the run up to GTAIV the X360 caught up somewhat and they were selling roughly even (though PS3 still in the lead)... GTA players are majority casual PS2 owners (ie last gen had a PS2 with just 3 games, all of them GTA) and as such the X360 recieved a better boost because it was a cheaper way to get GTAIV. Metal Gear Solid 4 came out with a "last chance to get a Backward compatible PS3" model, and managed to spike PS3 sales with a short lasting effect for a couple of weeks.... After MGS4's 2nd week, the PS3 was already doing comparitively worse at outselling X360 as it was before GTAIV (about 40-45k or 25%)

That is not system seller material.... you can generally tell a system seller by the fact that the game at least makes an attempt at 10 million sales... usually succeeding.