PS3 surpassing Xbox 360 countdown: Let the end finally begin.

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pezus said:

Michael-5 said:

WebMasterFlex said:

I live in France, everybody buys PS3 for games. Nobody cares about the bluray thing. And that's because of the bluray that the PS3 was expensive. So the guy who say "but but but because of the blu-ray", because of the bluray the machine was too expensive at first. If PS3 was less expensive it would be higher...

You realize that PS3 is the same price as an X-Box 360 right now right? If it had no blu-ray, a lot of PS3 exclusive games (like MGS4) would not have stayed exclusive because then they would have designed the game for a smaller storage medium, thus making it possible to play on 360.

Plus, I don't think the price of PS3 would be any different with or without blu-ray. It's only cutting into Sony's profits.

You can't ignore the fact that many early PS3's were bought as cheap blu-ray players. If they were bought solely for games, then PS3's tie ratio (software sold per hardware sold) would be just as high as 360's, but it's not. In fact PS3's tie ratio is lower then XB's, PS2's, 360's, GCN's, and PS1's, and only just above Wii's (Which laregly sold to a more casual crowd).

Wrong. 

360 sales are way more skewed towards NA and UK which already buy more games per console than other regions where PS3 sells considerably better than 360.

PS3 tie ratio in USA: 11.2

360 tie ratio in USA: 10.7

PS3 actually has a better tie ratio there, but because of the much larger 360 userbase there the average WW tie ratio is higher on 360.

Not only that, but we're talking about a global tie ratio difference of only 1.2 games per console. So the average 360 owner has 10 games (rounded up) and the average PS3 owner has 9 games (rounded up). The difference is largely irrelevant. If PS3 tie ratio was 6 then you could level a claim that lots of PS3 were bought just for the Blu-ray.

And now that we are into digital sales in earnest for full AAA games as well as arcade titles tie ratio nbased only on disc sales has become completely irrelevant as a pissing contest thing. It's only ongoing value is in wondering about the ongoing viability of specialist video game retailers.