Americas Up! 12th November

[Michael-5]

pezus said:

Michael-5 said:

Yea, but the tie ratio between retail sales and systems is growing much faster on 360 then it is for PS3.

As for CoD fans caring about the outage, of the people on this forum and real friends who are CoD nuts, many of them talk about paying the extra $$$$ and switching. If current console owners are thinking of selling their PS3 and going 360, I can only imagine what newcomers to Call of Duty are thinking.

Doesn't matter how causal of a gamer you are, that PSN outage was huge. My 60 year old dad completly boycotted Sony after that and he doesn't even play games. Credit card information was stollen man. Even now the Sony stock is the lowest it's been in decades (with respect to inflation).

MW3 selling much better on 360 then PS3, to a larger ratio then Black Ops, shows that although PS3 has been able to maintain the CoD fans on it's past (or offset those lost with new gamers), PS3 hasn't been able to grow the fanbase anywhere nearly as much as 360.

I have actually not seen any evidence of that. Sure, the media blew the outage up so the casuals might remember it still because of that.

Of course, when the 360 outsells PS3 by a lot in America you'd expect the 360 version to grow a lot more. I still find it hard to believe that a game that sells more than 2.5m in one region can't boost PS3 at all. Surely it is strange that Wii had a bigger boost than PS3 when MW3 and Skyrim came out.

Sony said very few peoples credit card information was "comprimised." I think VGC had an article on that.

Personally I know Sony is a great company, I won't let one blemish ruin my reputation of them. Either way I refuse to put credit card into on my 360 as well, I don't like how you have to call to cancel subscriptions and the such.

As for 360 outselling the PS3 by a lot, PSN outages is my reasoning. I have no proof that CoD fans are ditching the PS3, and at best I can only say my opinion based on the CoD fans around me. This is why I opened with "Who knows what they are thinking."

I don't think figures will be adjusted by much, but I'm curious to see which platform MW3 sold better on in EMEAA. MW2 sold better on 360, but Black Ops did marginally better on PS3.