Firstly, you may think the title of this thread is based solely on sales of GTA4 on both the 360 and PS3 and who will come up trumps. Well it is and it isn't.
My main point is who will benefit overall from the release of GTA4?
Yes, the 360 may very well have more sales overall after the first bout, but what about sales of consoles for people wanting to play the game?
What about those people without a 360 and PS3 and want to play GTA4, what console will they buy?
This is just my opinion, but I can see Sony winning hands down on this front. I can see more PS3 shifting due to the release of GTA4 and in the end may see more game sales after a year or so, but straight after release, I can see games sales being much better on the 360 at the start.
Who knows how it will affect the sales of both consoles, but I just cannot see the people that want to play GTA4 buying a 360 to play it on. It's more likely to be PS2 owners that haven't upgraded and I reckon the PS3 is the more likely platform for them to play it on.
Also, in the most extreme case, could this be the first true sign of the death of the 360 and the taking off of the PS3?
The PS3 is already nearly 2 million ahead of the 360 based on a lifetime scale and with big titles such as MGS4 due out in a few months and what GT5P has already done and will do for the NA audience and then we can some big hitters coing in the 2nd half of the year...namely Killzone2, Resistance 2 and Motorstorm Pacifica to name a few, it seems that the 360 is resting everything on Gears 2 in November.
What do you think?
Prediction (June 12th 2017)
Permanent pricedrop for both PS4 Slim and PS4 Pro in October.
PS4 Slim $249 (October 2017)
PS4 Pro $349 (October 2017)
