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Squilliam on 27 December 2009
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patapon said:
Squilliam said:

"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."

They described God of War 3 as the most expensive game to code to date for them and its been stated by a few developers that they spend more money per 2nd party title than most third party publishers.

"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?."

The PS3 is probably selling well because its the sequel to the highest selling home console of all time. Its selling well in spite of the fact that their exclusive games haven't gone on to become mega sellers and not because they produce a range of different I.P. A game which doesn't sell huge quantities cannot sell huge quantities of consoles either and there are no true big system selling titles which have sold less than 4M copies and there are none which match Nintendos stable which have sold under 7M copies.

Blue- Wut? Where did they say that? Not attacking, I just want to know...

Red- Hasn't this generation of consoles taught us otherwise? That brand name pretty much means squat? The console seems to be selling due to a diverse portfolio of fantastic games... platformer, racing, third person shooter, action adventure, FPS, sports, RPG, the ps3 has pretty much the top in every one of those genres right now. But the userbase isn't frontloaded. Take the 360, Halo 3 reached mega sales A. Because it's a great game and B. most importantly because it's respective userbase matches the games genre. The ps3 doesn't really have a game that everyone can get behind... but it has many games that many people can get behind. 

Blue: Sorry it was something I saw linked through at www.beyond3d.com quoting from a Sony executive. Its something I regret not saving a bookmark for.

Red: They had a lot of software development sent their way exclusively at the start of the generation on the assumption that the PS3 would win. The fact that the library exists is in part because of the PS2 and PS1. Furthermore consumers all made the assumption that certain titles would be exclusive or at least release on the PS3. Look at FFXIII sales in Japan, a majority of their userbase bought a PS3 in part because of an assumption that FFXIII would be released for that system.

 



Tease.