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BMaker11 on 26 March 2014
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Goatseye said:
BMaker11 said:
Goatseye said:
lucidium said:
Give sora a gun and replace all Disney references with swear words and add a totally unnecessary cover system and it could work on Xbox.

A joke but sadly accurate.

top 10 PS360 have 8 shooters and 2 exceptions. You're on VG Chartz use it.

lucidium said:
Give sora a gun and replace all Disney references with swear words and add a totally unnecessary cover system and it could work more on PS3.

A joke but sadly accurate.

That's a little unfair, don't you think? To just go by "Top 10". Knowing CoD is a huge franchise that is also annual and GTA is GTA. It's disingenuous because 10M+ is rare for most games, but you have 2 franchises that are pretty much guaranteed to sell that much (1 of which comes out every year). Look below that, though. Red Dead, Skyrim, Uncharted, MGS, LBP, Batman, Final Fantasy XIII etc. I believe that's more indicative of what a fanbase likes, instead of narrowing it down to the "Top 10", which is littered with the biggest franchise of the 7th gen that releases every year.

It's unfair to call xbox the shooter console, when also outside of the top 10 there are Kinect games that sold well, Gears, Skyrim, Batman, Arcade games, Indies etc...

It's called the "shooterbox" not because of the sales of games, but because of what games are notable on the console. Skyrim, Batman, Indies.....those are available on both consoles, so they're no more definitive of one console over the other. I guess I was incorrect to  list Red  Dead, Skyrim, etc. in that regard. But compare both consoles. What games do you know the system for?

Because the drop menus are ordered by sales, this is just what I'm going by when I scroll down: for PS3, there's Gran Turismo, Uncharted, Metal Gear, LBP, God of War, Last of Us, Resistance, Motorstorm, Killzone, Heavy Rain, Infamous, Ratchet and Clank, Heavenly Sword, MAG, KH1.5, Virtua Fighter, Warhawk, Demon's Souls and Naruto, and that's just the over million sellers list.

On 360, there's Halo, Gears, Fable, Kinect stuff, Forza, Left 4 Dead, Crackdown, PGR, Alan Wake....and those were the only exclusive series I could find on the first page 200 games.

Look at the two lists. If we stretch the word "shooter", since you did so to say GTA is one, of 19 games or series that are only on PS3 and PS3 owner bought the most, 13 are non-shooters (I counted Uncharted, TLOU, Resistance, KZ, MAG, and Warhawk as shooters). Of the 9 games/series that are only on X360 and X360 owners bought the most, 4 of them are shooters (I counted Halo, Gears, L4D, and Crackdown as shooters). It hurts the 360 more because there's less to choose from, but near 50% of games or franchises you can only get on 360 (that you guys actually bought) are shooters. Hence why it's called the "shooterbox". Obviously there's games like N3 and Lost Odyssey, but those games aren't the perception people have when they think "Xbox", and the sales show it