kowenicki said:
platformmaster918 said:
sales2099 said:
platformmaster918 said:
sales2099 said:
1.6 million gap.
PS3 outselling 360 by 50 k each week on average.
7-8 months is 1.8 million. Thats around August 2013. Unless MS does a LONG OVERDUE 360 price drop.
Best case scenario for PS guys is August 2013. Worst case is after November.
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don't forget all the exclusives coming out in Q1 & Q2 (beyond, LoU, GoW, Sly, Puppeteer, Ni No Kuni). PS3 could get some big spikes from a couple of those. Also I think Sony has some room to maneuver with the cheaper slim. They will cut price if Microsoft does I feel.
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Nah casuals wont be swayed by core games this late in the gen. Core gamers allready made their choices.
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So God of War and Last of Us won't provide any sales spike? I guess Halo and Gears don't help Xbox when they have a release anymore...oh wait.
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No. They wont. Go check some history. You MIGHT get a slight bump, but no spike of anything major.
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The problem with that is, you just see a temporary slight increase in sales but that doesn't factor in the long term benefit that a big esteemed game has on hardware sales. e.g. Someone decides to buy a ps3 or xbox because of playing on a friend's call of duty game that's already been out a year. It DOES affect the long term trends as well. That's why 2011 was such a good year for ps3 sales despite it being around for 5 years- the games were shifting the hardware consistently through the year.
