Please Mind the Gap... which is now 5M! (HD-Twins ONLY)

[Lord N]

Legend11 said:

Metallicube said:
Ugh, really wish PS3 would just pass 360 already and take its prized position of 2nd place so I can stop hearing about it...

It won't happen.  Every time it looks like Sony is about to catch up (eg. shamelessly copying Xbox Live's features) Microsoft does something to separate them again.  Next year it will be Halo Reach and Natal's launch which will be flooded with advertising dollars.  The sales differences we're seeing now that are making some Sony fanboys puff out their chests in pride will look laughable when Natal launches and the 360 starts outselling the PS3 by such margins that even the blindest fanboys will see that the race is over.

 

I'm not going to say whether or not the PS3 will pass the 360(whether or not it does is irrelevant as whoever ends up in 2nd place will be a far distant second and the gap between second and third will be negligible, but Halo Reach and Natal aren't going to do much for hardware sales.

At the most, Halo: Reach will boost hardware sales for a few weeks, and then things will return to normal. That's basic what happened with GTA:IV, and that was the most-anticipated and most-hyped game of the generation, so why would Halo: Reach do any better? There's also the fact that the game appeals most to the 360's core fanbase(core and hardcore gamers), so most people who are going to buy it probably already have a 360.

As far as Natal goes, when has an add-on that was released in the middle of a generation ever had a serious impact on hardware sales? Power-glove, Eye-Toy, Sega 32X, Sega CD? It's also funny that you berate Sony for "shameless copying" of Xbox Live and then turn right around hail Natal as the second coming of Christ.