deadhorse on 10 June 2007
| CrazzyMan said: deadhorse, well there is a little difference, when people want to buy ps3, they want to buy it mostly for AAA titles like Lair, HS, Ratchet, MGS4, FFXIII, getaway3, Uncharted, GT5, FFXIIIv, KZ2. But when it comes to x360 - geow, mass effect, lost oddyssey, halo3. other games are just like Forza 2 - 150k with 6 mln. userbase in usa. |
I may be misinterpreting you because of your horrible grammar(which I'm assuming you deliberately do to go with your name and give the impression of being "crazzy") but I'll respond anyway. It is true that there is a difference between the types of games people buy on Sony consoles versus Microsoft consoles. The 360s big games are mostly by American companies whereas the PS3's big games are mostly by Japanese ones. That is slowly changing, however. As you can see, there are quite a few Japanese RPGs planned for the 360 and other major Japanese companies are offering more support. In short, there is less of a difference between the 360 and PS3 than there was between the Xbox and PS2. While the difference may not be enough to have any effect on Japanese gamers(who want nothing to do with American games for the most part), it will have an effect on the American and European gamers, which is where most of the money is. Your average casual gamer who makes up the biggest portion of the game-buying population is not going to be able to tell the difference in the types of games on the PS3 and the 360. They will, however, see a system with as many or more good games that costs $200 less. And don't bring in the PS3 price drop, the 360 can drop it's price as well and still be $200 cheaper. It costs $800 to make a PS3, and it costs $400 to make a 360. Microsoft has the upper hand in the price game. I'm not even mentioning the Wii which is taking the rest of the market that the 360 didn't take from Sony. Only hardcore Sony loyalists are going to want to pay $200 more for a system that is doing horribly in sales(even the casual gamers know that Sony is getting its ass handed to it in the console wars). While there may be enough left over from the massive PS2 audience to sell some systems, it won't be enough for them to beat the 360 and the Wii.
