How long until PS3 Totally outsells 360?

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Legend11 said:

Lets try a Western based franchise that doesn't typically do well in Japan... GTAIV may do decent in Japan, but It's doubtful it would be enough to make a huge impact in the total numbers...

Call of Duty 4

360: 5,043,312
PS3: 2,551,430

That gap in sales of 2.5 million is just a little bit more impressive than the 40 thousand for DMC4.

Guitar Hero 3

360: 2,429,475
PS3: 921,048

Wow.. Another game where the 360 version significantly more than the PS3 version... 1.6 million more...

Madden 08

360: 2.15 million
PS3: 0.77 million

Hmm.. Amazing attachment rate for PS3 too bad the 360 version still outsold it by 1.38 miilion...

Now take your time in figuring out which system is able to produce more multi-million sellers or have games that sell above 3 million... The Xbox 360 has had 5... The PS3 has.. let me total this up... 0. And to top it off 2 of the PS3's top 3 sellers were pack-in games for a significant amount of time.

GTAIV will likely have at least 4-5 million in sales if not more on the 360 and it's hard to believe that the PS3 will suddenly become a software beast and sell 8-10 million copies of the game anytime soon. Add in the fact that the 360 version is getting exclusive episodes which will keep it on people's minds at the end of this year and next year as well...

 

Madden 08 is of no interest to anybody outside the US, so it logically follows the ratio between the hardware sold in the US. CoD4, like most other FPS are preferred to be played on the PC here in Europe, so again no surprise there. 

How about looking at the sales (by 29th February) for Burnout Paradise, selling

360 466,836
PS3 427,292

or Need For Speed: Pro Street

360 1,132,628
PS3 1,050,887

As for the DMC4 sales, after sales declined in Japan, the game has actually been selling almost equal numbers for PS3 and 360 for several weeks. So I'd say that for a game that is released on both consoles and appeals equally to players of both consoles in all regions (outside of Japan) we might see somewhat similar sales for both versions of GTAIV, even if the install base of 360 is bigger.