Will the PS3 and 360 gap grow or close in 2011?

[Michael-5]

DarkintheLight said:

Michael-5 said:

DarkintheLight said:

The gap is going to close for sure, MS is just out of ammo as far as games go, I don't see kinect having very good legs and you can only advertise so much before people get annoyed, ps3 has a ton of games coming the one thing about that is that most of them are sequels to a game thats already on ps3, (same with 360 and the few games it has) frankly I think the last guardian is going to be the best system seller, it's pretty much the only thing that stands out as not being more of the same out of pretty much every game thats going to be announced on the systems (wii and pc included) at any-rate ps3 has been outselling 360 pretty consistently yearly and this year the odds seem stacked in Sony's favor 

You realize, ICO and Shadow of the Colossus, the two other games from the same franchise only sold 1 million units? Shadow of the Colossus was hyped just as much, The Last Guardian won't be any more of a system seller then Twisted Metal.

Also we dunno MS's Kinect lineup, and MS always announces a big title mid year (Forza 3, Gears 2 in the past 2 years). So Kingdoms, Gears 3, Forza 4, some cool Kinect exclusives like Panzer Dragoon, and one more big title, and I think MS's lineup has just as much software as PS3. Even then on a salesfront, MS holiday exclusive lineup will outsell PS3's, the only mass media PS3 exclusive is Uncharted 3. If Rumors about a Halo remake are true, then MS has 3, 5 million plus sellers this fall (one may sell 10 million) compared to Sony's maybe 1.

People used your arguement in 2008 and 2009, and in the end MS only the PS3 Slim/price cut gave PS3 the edge in 2009, software has always been fairly even,

Forgot about twisted metal lol, while not selling much on their own they were pretty high praised and last guardian is being hyped pretty good I have a feeling it's going to sell alot better then it's predecessors and again it stands out more then most, though you are right about twisted metal it just slipped my mind since we know nothing about it, and I actually looked at MSes studios and 3rd party affiliations and they only have like 2 maybe 3 studios that might be working on full fledge games that has a chance of being released this year (that we don't know about) and I think you're forgetting that ps3 has over 20 exclusives most of which are atleast a million sellers, 5 doesn't = 20 and yes the individual 360 titles will probably sell more but I've always wondered if one of the reasons for that is lack of competition among exclusives and overall Sony's will bring in more sales, and although software support seems about even sometimes alot of the games that made it even end up on ps3 later which makes it uneven but people have sort attention spans so usually end up ignoring it 

Oh The Last Guardian, may become GOTY, I love ICO games, I'm just pointing out it's no system seller. It's a niche game, like Heavy Rain, which was also heavily praised.

As for how well it's going to sell, I dunno. Shadow of the Colossus was also mega hyped like this game, and it sold 1 million (but VGC doesn't have EMEAA data, so maybe close to 2 million?). VGC doesn't even have ICO sales data, but I bet that game sold under 1 million. Still 1-2 million is probably the best stis game will sell, and judging from Heavy Rains performance, I think thats about right.

As for the lead growing or shrinking, man you had a long run-on sentance. Anyway, I don't want to bring any hate, but I don't think Sony has that many more exclusive titles in it's lineup. They just have a lot more sequels, where MS has a bunch of new IP's that I've never heard of. E.G. Dungeon Heros, by Firefly studios is suppose to release in 2010 for the 360. Firefly is a new developer owned by MS, so how will this game fair? I unno. We know about how well Killzone 3, InFamous 2 and even the Last Guardian will fair, but what about Huxley, and FPS by a Korean company called Webzen is support to be exclusive for 360, but when is it coming out? and when/if it is released, will it be a hit?

The number of games Sony and MS have actually are about equel if you look into it, just you're probably nowhere nearly as hyped for Prey 2 or MechWarrior as you are Killzone 3, or LBP2.

Number of games aside, we only care about system sellers here, even a game as big as LBP2 failed to bring PS3 console sales above 360 console sales, so we know the only real contenders here are Forza 4, Gears 3, and Uncharted 3. Killzone 3 is getting about the same pre-orders as Marvel vs. Capcom 3 for PS3 or Bulletstorm for the 360, so I doubt it will make much of a console pushing impact, and well I can't think of anything else that will sell over 3 million units. Resistance 2 only just broke 2 million, and we really don't know much about Kingdoms for the 360. The Last Guardian, Twisted Metal and InFamous 2 are likely to all sell under 2 million, and only budge console sales by a bit, and realistically speaking multiplatform titles probably balance out the differences between PS3/360 (Modern Warfare 3, Crysis 2, L.A. Noire, Marvel vs. Capcom 3, Batman, Dead Space 2, Metal Gear Solid: Rising, etc).

Personally I think the difference will grow, unless Uncharted 3 tears apart Gears 3 in reviews (fans will compare as they are both 3rd person shooters). 360 has more console pushing titles, and if a Halo 1 remake or something else big is mentioned, 360 could have a very very strong fall. Ontop of that Kinect is looking to get some good software support (Already Project Dragon, Steel Batallion, and Gears of War Exile are announced for 2010). If 360 can manage to stay above PS3 on a weekly basis, it should dominate the PS3 come fall IMO.