Biddles said:
It wasnt really the amount of exlusives its just the ones they have arnt that big anymore. They lost alot of major system seller franchises like GTA and Final Fantasy and things like Metal Gear and Resident Evil which were the most popular games. Now they have Uncharted, Little Big Planet, Resistance, Killzone, God of War, good games but they dont sell like what Halo or Gears of War or old PS2 games used to. The Xbox 360 has 90% of the games the PS3 has. If next generation is the same in that Xbox comes first and its significantly cheaper than the PS4 then Sony will be pretty much done, PS2 went from being on Top and Xbox being far underneath it to pretty much the same way around, that dominance is only going to grow, i dont think Playstation has a chance now in US. Same thing happened in UK and Australia Xbox has that market down now, the PS3 only did as well as it did because alot of loyal people waited for the PS3 and alot thought games like GTAIV and Final Fantasy XIII and others would come out just for the PS3 but that wasnt the case. The only thing thats keeping PS3 close to Xbox 360 in sales is Japan and the PS3 looks like its on its way out in Japan to so by the time a PS4 comes out it could perform even worse than the PS3 and if Xbox starts to take over more in US, UK and start to turn over some other major countries then Sony will be out. |
Last time I checked, the PS3 was doing better than the 360 in EMEAA along with Japan. I could claim the only thing making the 360 close to the ps3 is the Americas and the UK and I would be right, as opposed to your lie that Japan only kept the PS3 close to the sales of the 360. Obviously, if you launch at a cheaper price and earlier release date than the competiton, you will have an advantage. Even with this advantage, with aligned launches, the ps3 is tracking above the 360. My point was, Microsoft only has Halo that can entice their fanbase to buy their console, and Halo alone cannot sale consoles. If someone such as Apple, were able to get extreme 3rd party support, the Xbox brand would have no games and no reason reason for consumers to buy it. Sony has expanded their 1st party software devs and created many new ips that have potential to be very successful which gives them a better chance of surviving if something like this did occur. Of course, both would be doomed if something like that did occur, because of their overreliance on 3rd party software.
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