Why is the 360 still selling as it has been?

[d21lewis]

TheFlyingDutchman said:

Michael-5 said:

Why are people buying the PS3? Both the 360 and PS3 look cool, offer sick games, and the only real difference between the two is blu-ray. Also Arcade 360's are $199, and HD gaming that cheap is pretty appealing.

Yeah just Blu-Ray ... right!

The PS3 has exclusives in many different genres, the x360 mostly has shooters, shooters, shooters and a few others.

The ten best sold x360-games include 7 shooters, 2 action/adventures and 1 music game (with Halo: Reach and COD: Black Ops coming up the last 2 will probably clear the way for a 9 out of 10 shooter-list with GTA IV having a lot of shooting in it), while the ten best sold PS3-games include just 4 shooters and Resistance: Fall of Man will be kicked out of the list by LBP or Uncharted2 within a few weeks.

Just because shooters are selling well doesn't mean that's all they have.  360 has all sorts of games.  Platformers (Limbo, 'Splosion Man, Banjo Kazooie), sims (Viva Pinata), RPG's (Lost Odyssey, Blue Dragon), racing (Forza, Need For Speed), Puzzle (Tetris, Puzzle Quest).  In fact, it has everything that the PS3 has except for a few exclusives (just like the PS3 has everything the 360 has except for a few exclusives).  The difference between the two isn't as pronounced as you think.

Hell, I probably have around 100 games for my 360 and probably 10 of those are FPS's (if you count Bioshock or Condemned--and you shouldn't).