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enditall727 on 26 August 2011
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d21lewis said:
Heavenly_King said:
 


1. All fighting games sell better on the PS3

2. All JRPG sell better on the PS3 (when are relased at the same time on both consoles)

3. "unique/rare" games sell better on the PS3 (Heavy Rain outsold Alan Wake)

4. All action-adventure games sell better onthe PS3  (with the exception of ninja gaiden because it was released first in Xbox)

Most racing games sell better on the PS3 (need for speed, burnout, split second)

And if you consider that the PS3 has a smaller userbase then it means that PS3 users dont like FPS an TPS as much as 360 owners.       If you consider that most PS3 users owned a PS2, it has some logic.   PS2 was king because you can find in the system all kind of games.

1.  Soul Calibur 4: 360/1.43m PS3/1.21 

2. I'm actually having a tough time coming up with a JRPG that released at the same time besides FF13.  Usually, the 360 gets it first and then the PS3 gets it with bonus features.

3.  Heavy Rain outsold Alan Wake.....but Alan Wake was basically a Silent Hill with a big dose of Resident Evil.  It wasn't a cinematic game like Heavy Rain.  One could argue that L.A. Noire was, though (sales of L.A. Noire virtually identical on both platforms). 

4. & 5. Seem pretty accurate.

At the same time, when I actually looked at the totals, it seems that many games in these four genres appear to do pretty good in sales (often better than the PS3 version) but get a huge boost from Japan and EMAA.  So, where the 360 dominates, it sells more games.  Where the PS3 dominates, it sells more games.  Who would have known?  Also, you named five genres (If you count "unique games" as a genre.).  Since Heavy Rain is an exclusive, how can we compare its sales when there is no 360 counterpart (Alan Wake is definitely no Heavy Rain)?  What about Sports, Sandbox, Party, Music, etc?  What about Kinect vs. Move?  What about downloadable games?  What about action adventure games that aren't fast paced hack and slashers like Bayonetta?  What about adventure games. WRPG's, or Survival Horror?  If 360 wins or competes in all of these other genres then how can you stand by your stereotype?

And for the off topic thing, the Xbox only sold 24 million consoles in its lifetime.  The Xbox 360 has sold over 55 million consoles so far.  Do you think it's possible that at least some of the people that bought an Xbox 360 are people that didn't own an original Xbox (like me)?  Do you think it's possible that some of them may have been PS2 owners and brought their diverse tastes in games with them (again, like me)?

We could debate how well Sony's exclusives have done when it comes to selling PS3's but that would be off topic.  I'll just refer to a quote I read in the latest issue of Game Informer.  It said that "Console ales in the last three months of the year are equal to or greater than the other nine months combined."  Something to think about.  A console could sell well all year long and then get beaten out for the year just because of the Holiday Season.  Hmm....


Final Fantasy 13,Resonance Of Fate and Record Of Agarest War Zero

microsoft made sure to snatch up every other JRPG that came out with that "12 month 360 exclusive" thing they do to make it look like the 360 sell's jrpg's better than ps3