MARCUSDJACKSON said:
i know, i was trying to be obvious, and it looks like i was lol. i thought they had a PS3 for $179. yea i hope PS3 gets a price drop. i think the move(again you could be right) was to make profit before droping price. i think all those exclusives will perform well. from 500k, and up. but ye, to keep momentum, a price drop would definitely do that. |
Heavy Rain did over 2 million and with a good reputation (everyone I recommended it to loved it) and some advertising (never saw one ad for Heavy Rain tisk tisk yet again Sony marketing) Beyond could do 3 million with Ellen Page attached. Last of Us could do 3-5 million with ND and judging by preorders (plus it will stand out as unique and hopefully be bundled come holidays). GoW is GoW and has multiplayer plus GoW 3 is undertracked so 4-5 million. Puppeteer I have no idea (unknown dev, new IP, don't know launch window although I suspect first half). Sly is doing good preorders and I think it could do Sly 2 numbers (<2 million). Ni No Kuni I suspect to be big in Japan especially but I don't follow JRPGs so I have no idea what to expect.
They should drop PS3 price at E3 once all these games have given them their hardware boosts and they fully reveal PS4. This would be the perfect time and then holiday bundles can have old games and PS+ for $150 or a new game (LoU, PSAllstars, GoW: Ascension, or a new third party game that fall) for $200. Remember they had no big exclusives (Starhawk, Twisted Metal, and LBP Karting weren't advertised at all and recieved very little support) aside from MAYBE Allstars this year which flopped. Couple that with no price drop and it's easy to see why PS3 went down so much. They could easily get 10m next year with these things. I mean there was really NO incentive to get PS3 this year if you hadn't already. $199 is a huge deal just like $299 and every other $100 drop ($50 ones not so much) so it could see a huge jump from that compared to the $250 one 2 years ago.
