SOLIDSNAKE08 said:
Hyruken said:
I think a lot really depends on how well FF13 does and if those new console owners want to take the cheaper route to play it or not.
We are now what 4-5 years into this gen? I think the big bumps now only come from price reductions.
Those people who like God Of War will most likely already own a PS3 as it is difficult to imagine there would be no other games on it that appeal to them.
I don't think GOW3 will make much difference in terms of hardware increases.
The same goes for Yakzua 4. I just don't understand why people who love the series would not have bought a PS3 to play the third installment. Why would they skip number 3 and go straight to number 4? Surely can't be much of a fan of the series if you do that?
The bump will come from FF13. In UK for some reason the adverts on tv for it seem to only show 360 and they mention the bundle. I think someone else said that had happened in states too?
Meaning if MS are going to push hard FF13 then those people sitting on the fence who love the series but can't quite afford a PS3 will end up getting a 360 to play it. Makes sense right? If you were after lets say a new phone and one shop was cheaper then the other you would buy the cheap version, that is just how people are.
So i think it really is too difficult to tell. Japan has already had their ff13 bump, that has come and gone. Y4 bump there will be minimal. Y3 will have zero bump effect elsewhere simply because not many people have heard of it over here.
I for some reason have a feeling that you could be surprised at the gap come the end of the month. I think FF13 will do well both on 360 and PS3 and in terms of hardware sales due to that i would put it at 50-50, meaning nobody really gains much on the other.
I also think Bad Company 2 will have some effect due to the advertising and reviews it has been getting.
PS3 will win the month, that is a no brainer but i honestly would be surprised to see a 200k gap, i think it will be very close. |
to be honest, no matter how hard microsoft try to get the most sales of FFXIII, it just aint gonna happen. they could form the clouds in the sky to advertise the 360 version and it still wont outsell the ps3 version.
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The game itself probably won't but in terms of people buying consoles to play that game then it is a hard case to say people will buy the PS3 over the 360 to play it. Because if they cared as much as people make out then why had they not bought one already? As i said i think we are so far into this gen now (half the life of the PS2) that most people who really want a console now have one. Those who don't are on the fence wether to buy one or not. If they are buying a console to simply play FFXIII then i believe a lot of those people could end up buying the cheaper 360 deal to play it. So it would not surprise me at all to see a slight bump in sales for both 360 and PS3 because of this game. But i can't see it being anything like the 300k+ that some are saying.
If we look at FFXII sales we see that in its 1st week (including Japan) it sold 2.8m units which is massive. But if we take away the Japanese sales it sold just under a million. This was in 2006. PS2 sales for that week received a tiny bump. Reason for that is because most people already owned a PS2 by then. Because we are in the 5th year of this gen i wonder if the bump will be a lot less then say if the game was released in the first year of the gen sort of like how FFX came out a year after the ps2.
