Why is the 360 still selling as it has been?

[billy.amick]

Jadedx said:

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.

360 has over 100 million sellers, 29 of them are shooters, less than half so keep your shooters comment to yourself troll. BTW, there are 6 shooters in the 360 top 20, same for ps3.

Add the FPS, 3PS, Sandbox Shooters and RPG Shooters and you get only 37 games but when you figure sales percentage it comes out to 48.1% still not quite a shooter box unless you remove heavily bundled games from the equation and the % rises to over 50 when you just remove half the bundled sales. 

Now consider the weekly Xbox live most played game list almost every week the list has at minimum 7 shooting games. 

The 2009 yearly list had 9 of 10 filled with Fable 2 being the one exception.

So while the 360 does have diversity among its games 37 shooters make up 50% of game sales in the top 100. They also dominate the majority of the time played on XBOX Live Microsoft's biggest revenue stream on the gaming front.

So like it or not for a significant portion of gamers the 360 is the shooterbox, and this is even more pronounced in North America. But is that really a bad thing?