| *Sound Of Rain said: To be honest both Sony & Nintendo have nearly nothing for PS3 or Wii for Holiday 2011. PS3 has Rathcet And Clank & Uncharted 3 Drakes Deception and Wii has Zelda Skyward Sword, Kirby Returns To Dreamland, and Fortune Street. Microsoft is the only one who has a decent Party 1 lineup...Gears Of War 3, Forza Motorsport 4, Halo Combat Evolved Reamke, Kinect Games. We all know that the Wii gets a big boost during the Holiday like most Nintendo products but with Kinect, 360 should get a better Holiday boost than PS3 as well. PS3 isn't outselling 360 by a huge amount and Wii isn't too much behind 360. Wii has the previous hits that should carry it again this Holiday...Mario Kart Wii, New Super Mario Bros. Wii, Wii Fit Plus...you get the deal. Also, Wii will be the cheapest its ever been this Holiday because now that its already $150, many places will probably sell it for $100 from deals. IMO, Handhelds will domiante in Japan anyway while 3DS dominates Worldwide this Holiday...but from a Home System view I expect PS3 to be #3. |
PS3 has outsold the Wii by a Million and the 360 by a bit more. For the last Week it outsold the 360 by 45k and the Wii by 63k. That's fairly big for a single Week. Anyway, you're talking exclusives.
Wii really does only have Zelda that's big, Kirby is there and as of right now, price isn't a factor for Wii. It's been dirt cheap here (and everywhere else) now for Months. Mario Kart Wii, despite being bundled with the Wii in a number of places, will be massively overshadowed by Mario Kart 7. Which brings me to the 3DS, which will have all Nintendo's attention this Year. Look at E3 for your perfect example of Nintendo's focus. You talk of it having a big boost during the Holidays, but those boosts have been in Years where Wii has actually been selling really well and had numerous games releasing during the Holidays. This Year... No.
360. Where to start... There's a whole big bunch of new games releasing for the system as you say. Gears 3 is already huge. Forza isn't a huge franchise in all honesty, Forza 3 "sold" 4.93 Million units... With over 1.5 Million of those being bundled. Halo is Halo, we all know what it's like in America. It'll give MS a reason to make more bundles. As for Kinect, I see nothing new and innovative releasing for it. Without a pricecut, it's not doing nowhere near as well as last Year.
PS3... It has Uncharted as we all know. Ratchet. Final Fantasy XIII-2 in Japan was missing from your list, will have a special exclusive HW bundle. Ni No Kuni is missing from your list, will have a special HW bundle. It has a whole bunch of Move games (While Move isn't anywhere near as big as Kinect, it's big in the smaller markets of EMEAA). Team ICO Collection, Splinter Cell Collection, Atelier Totori.
Now what you ignored in your post, were 3rd party games. 3rd party games are hugely important, for a number of reasons - One of these reasons is of course, keeping interest in your console. FIFA 12, Battlefield 3, Modern Warfare 3, Dark Souls, Skyrim, Arkham City and Assassin's Creed Revelations are all fairly big to huge games releasing on PS3 and 360 this Year. All will give boosts. The Wii has Just Dance 3 that'll give it a boost.
It's probably gonna be the total opposite of what you say it will be. PS3 will be ahead of the 360 either significantly or it'll be close. Wii will be lagging behind.
