| Michael-5 said: Wii and 360 tend to be significantly more popular in the Americas region, and in this region holiday sales are noticably more impactful. In 2010 360 was outselling PS3 3:2 in the holiday season, which was largely due to Kinect. Also Ms tends to have a strong holiday lineup. Gears of War 3 and Forza Motorsport 4 might not be too much, but those are both 5 million plus selling games, and add in some unique Kinect software ,such as Codename D, Prject Draco, Steel Batallion, Gears of War Exile, Rise of Rightmares and Wipeout, and we should expect 360 to have a very strong holiday season. Nintendo doesn't have as much software, but Zelda, Pikmin, XenoBlades, Tales of Graces, and likely another Just Dance should be enough to hold strong sales, especially for fall. I mean last few falls the Wii has had a few close to 2 million weeks. PS3 should stay #1 for at least until E3. However, I said the exact same thing a month back about 360 being #1 till E3. So who knows, but I think PS3 will hold first until E3. The important question is will fall 360 sales be enough to match PS3's yearly sales, or will PS3 slowly catch up overall? Every year we always see a dramatic shift, 2010 saw a small boost from Kinect, 2009 saw a major boost from Slim and 2008 saw a small boost from a 360 price cut. Who knows what will happen in 2011. I agree about 3DS, I guess Nintendo only meant to say 4 million shipped to retailers by April 2011, which did happen. As for DS, I was a little disappointed with Picross 3D, the older Picross DS is better IMO. I tend to play a lot of casual games on my DS too, and like you I missed out on Mario Kart. Gameboy Advance and Gameboy were better for the hardcore, like I said before. I mean I almost exclusively played RPG's and strategy games on the GBA, but on DS I've gone more casual. The big games for me were the Pokemons, Metroid Prime Pinball, Advance Wars, Fire Emblem, Picross DS, Brain Age, and Starfox. As for the 3DS, I'm not too crazy about the software like you. To me it looks like a lot of N64 ports, and some downgraded console HD games. I bet they will be fun, but I need more then Mario Kart and Kid Icarus to sell it to me. However, a lot of the software looks like it will be out by this fall, so I expect the 3DS to have a strong fall, even at its $250 price point. It's nice to hear from you, you always give an opinion, not just a biased two comment point, and you always observe gaming from your perspective, and never claim your perspective is the truth. i.e. Your future predictions, and likes are what you feel, and you never say it as if the world will conform to youre views. A lot of people on this website are just too into game sales, tend to have a biased view of the market, and never get into their own opinion. |
Yeah I see PS3 staying #1 until E3 as well.(With the exception of discount weeks like apparently the Wii is having.) I think that yearly sales will come down to what is shown at E3 to be honest. All 3 are so close in sales and it will all depend on the games, and when each get a Price Cut.(All 3 should get 1 in 2011) As of now the 360 is stong in America but its sales place(#1, #2 or #3) will depend of how strong it will get in America. We all know that its unnoticed in Japan and isn't doing to well in Others either. Like you said though America has the strongest impact during the Holiday period. As for Wii I don't really know if it can come back in Japan or Others. In Japan it seems that no matter what Nintendo puts out it does next to nothing for Wii sales there. They have seemed to officially moved on to the PS3. I expect Wii to still see a decent Holiday in Japan and outsell the PS3 but for all of 2011 I think PS3 wins. Others also seems to have moved on to PS3 at least for the moment but with the constant stream of PS3 games coming PS3 may stay high there until the Holidays when Wii again should overtake it. PS3 should still win in yearly sales in Others. In America the Wii should be fine though. When games start releasing again the sales will be high and with a Price Cut should remain high. Again, I think 2011 will depend on what is announced at E3.
I never played the 1st Picross...I did enjoy Picross 3D though. With the 3DS I actually don't mind the remakes too much. I probably won't buy Zelda OOT 3D, but Starfox 64 3D looks nice especially since StarFox 64 is the only Starfox game I have ever liked a lot. I am a big fan of Resident Evil, Paper Mario, and Animal Crossing so I am happy with the current planned line-up. Plus I really enjoy 3D so thats an added benefit. I did hear a rumor however that said Animal Corssing 3D wasn't a real game and was just a tech demo...that would suck LOL. Also, do you have a 3DS yet?
By the way, yeah you are easily the best person to have a conversation with on this site. Nearly every other person I have a conversation with tells me to shut up and that I am wrong LOL.
