PS3 may never catchup to the 360

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Stats87 said:

sieanr said:
Why do people persist with the whole "MGS4 is a killer app" banter? The series has been seeing diminishing sales and its not something that appeals to the mainstream. The only place you see MGS being touted as such is gaming forums, especially ones filled with Japanophiles.

diminishing based off one game? You realize it is often the case that the sequel doesn't do as well as the one before it for that generation. (of course there are exceptions)

MGS2 sold 7 Million units, whereas MGS3 sold 4 mill and Substinence sold an additional 1 Mil. A key difference is that MGS2 was hyped to no end, MGS3....not so much. (i didn't even know it was released when it first came out)

MGS4 reminds me more of MGS2, it is the first on the console and people are very curious as to how it will play out. I also see it having a huge marketing campaign/push by Sony.

Lastly, MGS fans are definitley out there, MGS:PO/PO+ has sold well over a million on a handheld that is known for craptacular software sales.

 

 

 

I'll just talk about diminishing returns and say this - Diminishing returns should not be acceptable or the norm. Sorry. We should not expect something that sold 7 million units to sell less. Am I right in thinking that Halo 2 outsold Halo 1? but Halo 3 is so far the lowest selling? A Successful game should be followed by a similarly or more successful game, the same with movies. However companies get sloppy, budgets get bigger, they try to get fancier and sales go down. Do you think they invested more money in MGS 2 or MGS 3? I bet it was MGS 3, but they had less returns on it. Following the same line, unless they return to the games roots, or get back to what people really enjoyed #4 will fare even worse. Those sort of things also provoke companies into taking so-called exclusives and making them multi-platform , unless they were foolish enough to sign a contract (which I believe alot of companies got away from after the last gen).