It's a rainy night in Melbourne, the winds are a blowin and my nose is a snowin (cold). I got bored and started randomly checking the sales of some of my favourite games and I've come to the realisation that gamers on the PS3/360 have slightly different taste compared to each other. So I'm going to provide some examples:
PS3 gamers enjoy fighting games more than 360 gamers
Street Fighter IV (PS3) 1.71 million vs Street Fighter IV (X360) 1.46 million
Tekken 6 (PS3) 1.66 million vs Tekken 6 (X360) 0.82 thousand
BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger (PS3) 0.41 thousand vs BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger (X360) 0.26 thousand
360 gamers enjoy WRPGS more than PS3 gamers
Fallout 3 (PS3) 2.27 million vs Fallout 3 (X360) 3.26 million
Dragon Age: Origins (PS3) 0.92 thousand vs Dragon Age: Origins (X360) 1.69 million
Notable 360 WRPG exclusives: Fable 2 with 3.72 million and Mass Effect with 2.27 million.
Notable PS3 WRPG exclusives: None available.
PS3 gamers enjoy Racing games more than 360 gamers
Need for Speed: Shift (PS3) 2.13 million vs Need for Speed: Shift (X360) 1.51 million
Burnout Paradise (PS3) 1.41 million vs Burnout Paradise (X360) 1.28 million
Midnight Club: Los Angeles (PS3) 1.32 million vs Midnight Club: Los Angeles (X360) 1.46
More recent releases:
Split/Second (PS3) 0.25 thousand vs Split/Second (X360) 0.22 thousand.
Blur (PS3) 0.21 thousand vs Blur (X360) 0.20 thousand.
Notable 360 Racing exclusives: Forza 2 with 4.02, Forza 3 with 2.98, Project Gotham Racing 4 with 1.97.
Notable PS3 exclusives: GT5: Prologue with 4.84 (as of December 2009), Motorstorm with 3.52 and Motostorm: Pacific Rift with 0.96.
360 gamers enjoy Shooters more than PS3 gamers (FPS only)
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (PS3) 8.47 million vs Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (X360) 11.48 million
Battlefield: Bad Company 2 (PS3) 1.80 million vs Battlefield: Bad Company 2 (X360) 2.49 million
Call of Duty: World at War (PS3) 4.17 million vs Call of Duty: World at War (X360) 6.46 million
Notable 360 shooter exclusives: Halo 3 with 11.13, Halo: ODST with 5.58 and Perfect Dark Zero (X360) with 1.32.
Notable PS3 shooter exclusives: Resistance: FOM with 3.71, Killzone 2 with 2.37 and Resistance 2 with 1.92
PS3 gamers enjoy Hack n Slash games more than 360 gamers
Bayonetta (PS3) 0.72 thousand vs Bayonetta (X360) 0.66 thousand
Devil May Cry 4 (PS3) 1.31 million vs Devil May Cry 4 (X360) 1.25 million
Darksiders (PS3) 0.72 thousand vs Darksiders (X360) 0.69 thousand
Dante's Inferno (PS3) 0.66 thousand vs Dante's Inferno (X360) 0.55 thousand
Notable 360 Hack n Slash exclusives: N3: Ninety-Nine Nights (X360) with 0.38 and N3 II: Ninety-Nine Nights with 0.02 ('m sorry if I missed something, can't really find anything)
Notable PS3 Hack n Slash exclusives: God of War 3 with 2.93, God of War Collection with 1.44, Heavenly Sword with 1.43.
The diversity goes on and on. JRPGs for the PS3 gamers and Strategy games for the 360 gamers. Platformers for PS3 and SHMUPS for the 360. If you want to add any other genre comparisons between the two, go ahead. So why do you think the two platforms have such diverse audiences?
Bet with Conegamer and AussieGecko that the PS3 will have more exclusives in 2011 than the Wii or 360... or something.
