MARCUSDJACKSON on 05 September 2011
| Reasonable said: By this stage, with many sales in many countries, it should be pretty obvious that both the 360 and PS3 are home to a fairly varied demographic base. They are not identical of course, the somewhat different ratios of sales, etc. pointed out by many in this thread show that, but they are fairly similar (not really a surprise given probably 90% of their games and features are the same, in fact probably 95% or so) and in most cases you'll see similar sales on each (particularly in ratio to install base). The PS3 probably has more diverse main game exclusives at the moment (MS really only has Halo, Gears and Forza as active main franchises it seems to me at the moment while PS3 has Killzone, Resistance, LBP, GT, inFamous, etc. etc) while PSN/XBLA titles are spread across all genres really and cancel each other out IMHO. So they're not the 100% same and you won't see identical genre sales ratios, but they are very similar and you'll therefore see a lot of similarity. The main difference regarding demographics I can see is more geographical - the PS3 has sold to more countries while the 360 is heavily skewed to English speaking countries, however for the most part this doesn't massively affect genre sales except in a couple of cases IMHO. There is no doubt the 360 with its strong US/UK base has a higher percentage of shooter fans, but the sales of CoD on PS3 show it has plenty of shooter fans too. Similarly the PS3 probably does have a higher percentage of JRPG fans, but again its not black/white and JRPs can sell well enough on 360 too. The difference is therefore the active percentage of demographic on each relative to the genres released for each rather than some simple black/white 360 is all shooters and PS3 is a even split over all other genres myth the OP is referring to. |
hey guy's this is reasonable, and so is his post.
