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twesterm on 10 March 2008
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krik said:
twesterm said:
leo-j said:
twesterm said:

I wish people would realize one or two games won't suddenly boost a console sells and pull it out of any kind of slump or whatever. Not saying the PS3 is in a slump, I'm just saying MGS4 isn't suddenly going t oboost sales by 10 million.

Want proof? Look at the Gamecube.


Want proof look at the ps1 when FF VII was released.


FFVII + a good library. Also, you can't assume every game will be a fluke.

When lets just say MGS4, the PS3 is going to have MGS4 and still a mediocre library.


PS3 has a mediocre library? Really? So what do you call the Wii's library? As far as I know PS3's library is pretty solid and will be even better in June when MGS4 comes out.

RockBand, GH3, Uncharted, R&C, CoD4, Resistance, DMC4 and Oblivion (just to name a few) + Haze + GTAIV + GT5P, are not what I would call a mediocre library.

PS: For my complete mediocre PS3 game collection see the link on my signature

 


 Oh I didn't want to get dragged into this but why not?

Everyone, everyone, at my work has a PS3.  Do you know how many of us have played it in the last month?  A few us, maybe 3 or 4.  Do you know how many of us have played it in the last 2 months?  Probably 6 or 7.  The last time any of ours PS3's really got any play was when Uncharted came out and that was really the last time.  Now this doesn't count playing movies, this is actually playing games.

I think some people may have played CoD4  in the last few months but those were just rentals, everyone else has it for the 360.  A few people bought Assassin's Creed for the PS3, but again, the rest went to the 360.  I only played my PS3 for the first time since early January this weekend to play Lost, one of the worst games I've ever played (which has nothing to do with Sony, just mentioning it's a terrible game).

I don't deny that the PS3 has some good games but they're kind of like the Gamecube: few and far between.  Really the only things everyone here uses their PS3 for is either a dust magnet or a movie player (which it is excellent at I admit), and then there are people who still haven't even bothered taking theirs home yet.  It's still just sitting unopened in their office (though that's only about three people).

Now I'm not saying that the above represents everyone, but working at a game studio you can assume that everyone here is some sort of gamer so 70+ people isn't a bad sample. 

Also just before say something, I'm not actually dogging on the PS3.  It does have some fine games and it has some fine games coming, just the library isn't anything that great as it hasn't been getting many really good titles lately and it doesn't have a lot of titles that keep people playing that aren't already on other systems.