Sony making more money from software than MS.

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Jordahn said:

CrazyHorse said:

Rawnchie14 said:

Also - I think we're forgetting a lot of 360 exclusives have had very large scale sales, particularly Halo and Gears of War - where they handily blow away that of SCE's publications.

To publish significantly more exclusive games, and just managing to sell more games than your competitor?  I don't think that's anything to bust open the champagne for in the Sony camp.  More games = more publication costs.  You want fewer games, with large scale sales for each on average.

As a consumer I know which of those options I'd prefer!

I would prefer more gaming options that apply to me as a gamer provided that they are of quality.  Thankfully, that has been the case.  WHY would I want to say to myself, "WOOOOOOW!!! That game made sooOOooOoo much money.  That mean it's has to be teh awesome, I'm gonna teh like it, and I wil play it foreva..."  Nope.  I'll stick with reality.

Well of course, I didn't mean to imply otherwise. Although Rawnchie is right in that fewer games with greater sales is more desirable in terms of making profit than a lot of games with average sales it's not quite that straight forward. The fact that Sony has so many first party titles is one of the biggest appeals of the system and one of the reasons I think the system will enjoy another long life cycle. Obviously I'm not claiming that Sony wouldn't absolutely love to have Halo though!