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TICTAC9910 on 26 December 2009
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Noobie said:
TICTAC9910 said:

Just for the record Gran Turismo is a bigger franchise than Halo. This gen Sony have made lots of new ip's rather churning out sequels. Of those new ip's Uncharted 2 looks like it could be a 5million seller. LBP has massive legs and looks like another premier franchise. And lot of 1, 2 million sellers. And established ip's which will start hitting next year. MS put all there efforts into 1 or 2 titles with huge marketing campaigns etc while Sony instead go for the quantity/diversity as there killer.

But i feel Sony drop the IP or forget about it when its the time to reap benefit from it.. Nintendo is having Mario, or Mario Brothers in every other IP n they are reaping huge sales.. no matter what one say u they are getting lot of profit due to this. 

I was seeing Sony's IP list somewhere and i was astonished that they had so many IPs n quite a few of them are great but they just dumped them. Thats not good.. If MS is getting 10M from a HALO IP every year than its quite a lot of profit for them too.. 


Sony have always been different to Nintendo and MS in how they handle there 1st party. They've never gone out and put huge resources behind single games to create totem pole franchises. Every gen theres alway been new franchises and old ones discarded.  Next fall we'l likely have 7 or 8 million+ sellers from Sony but none that have megaton sales. I think thats there business model having quality exclusives in most genres rather than putting everything behing one or two franchises to sell consoles. I would say it's a very successful business strategy because why else would the PS3 be selling so well when 95% of all excusives are Sony ip's?. I think i can remember an interview a while back where they said this was the case. Heavy rain designed to hit a bit of a new market, modnation racers to, LBP also Eyepet aswell etc. When you look at it it's striking how many Sony games arent mainstream hardcore titles.