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Farsala on 05 October 2014
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LudicrousSpeed said:
Farsala said:


@bold Disagree. Out of the 10m sellers all xbox games excluding kinect have shooting mechanics, while out of 10m sellers for Sony they have 1 game that does not have shooting mechanics.

Exclusives above 5m for MS: All Halos ( shooters) ,All Gears (shooters), Forza 3 (racing), Kinect sports (Sports)

Exclusives above 5m for Sony: Uncharted 2 and 3+ TLOU (shooters), MGS 4(Stealth shooter?) , GT5 (racing), LBP (Platform), God of war 3 (Action- Adventure)

MS focused on shooters for Xbox 360, while the PS3 had a more varied library. If you were looking for a shooterbox then xbox 360 would be perfect, while if you wanted a good platform or action adventure game then PS3 would be ok.

Note: Sony released some PR saying that God of war 3 sold/ shipped 5.2m in 2012. http://www.scei.co.jp/corporate/release/pdf/120605d_e.pdf

Well when you exclude the stuff that disproves your point, it's easy to make your point. See look:

If you exclude GT5, ALL of PS3's top 8 selling titles are shooters. All of them.

And does it really say a lot about the buying habits of Xbox fans that Fable 3 misses your criteria by like a hundred thousand units? When you start to exclude and put minimums all you're doing is making a biased point.

Also CoD kind of should have sold better on Xbox last gen, after all it got one of the best ones (CoD2) that PS3 never got. So the franchise got off to a slower start on PS3, but by the end PS3 fans love shooters just as much. One glance at the top sellers proves it. "Shooterbox" is just a slight to Xbox gamers people use while they play Uncharted and Last of Us.

If we include the entire library of sales, then the xbox will look more like a shooterbox then the PS3. However I am too lazy to go through every single title. Simply with going by my comparison shows what exclusives MS and Sony focused on. Fable 3 can be added, as I added God of war 3. But it would not change the outcome. And I honestly do not know if MGS4 is a shooter or not. And I also forgot kinect sports.

 

7/10 exclusives at fable 3 or above are shooters for MS,  While 3 or 4 out of 7 exclusives at 5m or above are shooters for Sony.