Playstation 3 likely to catch up with Xbox 360 by the end of 2010.

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richardhutnik said:

Dinges said:

So I've thinking about sales and what could happen the next couple of years regarding PS3 and the xbox 360. Maybe it's just an open door but I think, in contrast with the 360, the PS3 have some system sellers left that are sequels of popular PS1/2 games which can account for big sales.

• Final Fantasy XIII and & FFIV: in Japan these games should have a massive impact. Probably good for about 1 million of people going to get the PS3 for these games.
• Gran Turismo 5. Need I say more? A couple of million people waiting to for this game to buy the system
• God of War III. Maybe not as massive as the games above, but it still should attract 500K.
• The Last Guardian. Even smaller than God of War, but it's probably gonna be a unique game that'll attract fans of the former ICO games.

All in all these should get at least 4 million new gamers to the Playstation 3. And with the recent numbers of PS3 continuously selling more than the xbox 360 I think the Playstation could end up second in line behind the Wii. 

 

 

Using titles as a basis for a system catching up salewise implies that people who don't own a system, will buy it to play a game released for it.  Please tell me how many people who don't own PS3s now, are going to buy a PS3 for "The Last Guardian"?  I would say the same for "God of War III" also.

well this is just ignorant.  this is precisely what happens when a hotly anticipated title releases.  why else do we see sales spikes for big releases?  coincidence?  even halo odst had a small spike.  by your logic it would have made no difference, especially since fans already had a 360 for halo3.

 

the truth is the franchises from the ps2 which are debuting on the ps3 will see very large spikes.  ff, gt5, and gow3 will all be system sellers.  the impact will only be seen for a couple of weeks, but that's the way the data is.    sales data is pretty predictable.  as a mathematician i think it is so interesting to study.  it's almost like the numbers have a mind of their own.