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fooflexible on 01 January 2008
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Sri Lumpa said:
fooflexible said:
Remember this wasn't about market share, sales, or business, this was what he felt was the best game system for gaming for 2007. And it's hard to not feel he's justified. 360 had a huge year, and if you like fps titles, then this probably was the best year ever for a system for shooters period. You had Bioshock and Orange Box for the two best single player experiences in fps gaming, and cod4 and Halo3 did the same for online. I also love Mass Effect one of my favorite games of all time, Assassin's Creed has been amazing too. I know that also a matter of opinion but thats alot of peoples opinion.

He called it winning 2007 so yes it is about marketshare, sales and business. If he had called it "Calling it: 360 was the best console of 2007" I would totally agree with him as Kotaku is a hardcore site and 360 was the best console for hardcore gamers last year (Wii was for lapsed/casual/new gamers but they don't go and read Kotaku so it wouldn't matter).

You can't go and declare something and then to justify it apply the definition for something else. There is a serious problem between the title and the article as the article doesn't support the premise of the title and the title is wrong on the face of it (how is selling more than twice as many hardware units as your main competition losing the year to them?).

One could argue that the 360 won because it sold more software but given that it only did so because of the small install base of the Wii at the beginning of the year and that the Wii software sales momentum has clearly overtaken that of the 360 (Worldwide, not quite yet in NA) unlike the PS3 that barely exceeded 360 hardware in the last few months and who might not once the holiday sales effect wear off (or might but the point is it is not clear) it is a tie at best as even if 360 sold more this year it clearly lost its dominance of the worldwide software market.

BTW, Happy newyear everyone and sorry for any mistakes/spelling... I didn't catch.

 


 Maybe he should of titled it different then so not to confuse people. But if it was what you say about market share then why didn't he once state the sales of these games? He didn't mention sales or marketshare, he mentioned the games he had fun playing. it was about experience. You don't think the Kotaku guys know the Wii and the DS are selling better? And what are Nintendo fans afraid of? That people who don't have a clue are going to read his article and run out and buy a 360 instead of the 2007s real winner the Wii/ds? come on, there is no point in stating the obvious, DS sold more then anything this year, Wii second. That's not a tribute to how many great hardcore games there are out there, it's a tribute to the variety of it's library and variety of it's appeal. Sad to say DS has way to much crap on it. Seriously other then a hand full of good games the DS is a barrel of crap, I mean look at any review site there are so many games with reviews below 5 out of 10.