PS3 vs Xbox 360 exclusive sales!

[Mr Puggsly]

mantlepiecek said:

Mr Puggsly said:

mantlepiecek said:

To be perfectly honest its unfair because PS3 had no 1 year headstart either, so them selling less should be obvious since they have comparable userbase.

If PS3 was selling like past Playstation consoles there would be no reason to use this excuse. I mean did original Xbox and Gamecube fans make excuses like this?

Also, PS3 just doesn't have any franchises as big as Halo. Head start or not, that why 360 has a huge edge in software sales.

There's no way xbox or gamecube could have made similar arguments because of the bolded "comparable userbase". Difference of 2.8 million - 4 million is not going to affect software sales that much.

And PS3 does have big franchises as Halo, GT 5 and prologue both have sold relatively well. MGS4, God of War 3 and Uncharted 2 have also sold well, around 4 million that is awesome considering its been like a year since GoW and 1 1/2 since Uncharted 2?

Apart from Gears and Halo 360 doesn't sell that many exclusives either, they are usually bundled like forza 2 and 3. Kinect sports did sell well though.

Head start is one reason why 360 has more overall software sales and in turn more exclusive sales. By the time this gen ends I am sure Sony will have more comparable exclusive game sales.

No one's making excuses, just stating facts.

Well maybe I didn't make it clear. But I was sorta saying PS3 had an even bigger advantage than a 1 year headstart. It had the advantage of being a Playstation. Had Sony not weighed it down with price, it would have outsold the 360 and you wouldn't be using the excuse of a head start.

I'm looking at the Halo franchise as a whole this gen. So far Halo accounts for 27 million games sold on the 360. In the end the Halo franchise is gonna sell over 50 million games on the 360. Assuming we see atleast one more major Halo game this gen. No Sony IP has ever accomplished that. Therefore Halo is bigger than any IP Sony has.

You forgot to mention Fable is a great selling series. Forza 3 sold almost 2 million in its first 10 weeks and over 3 million without bundling. So even without bundling Forza is bigger than IPs like Killzone, Resistance, Infamous, etc. Other MS IPs have had modest sales. But not everything Sony puts out is a big seller either.