PS3 overtaking the (Dead) 360 Anytime soon? Not really...

[Ail]

rocketpig said:

Ail said:

rocketpig said:

masterb8tr said:
As the ps3 has more AAA games this year, its very likely that it will get a boost in sales.

I count one for each system. MGS4 and Gears 2. Resistance definitely isn't a system seller and Killzone has just as much a chance of sucking as it does being great. If you want to include R2 as a system seller, you then have to toss in Halo Wars for the 360.

While I think MGS will move more consoles than Gears, the PS3 lineup isn't head and shoulders over the 360 and it's going into the holiday season without any massive franchises to push sales.

How exactly is Gears 2 a system seller too as most of the people that will buy it have Gear 1 and a 360 already ?

The game recently passed 5m copies. The second one looks to be improved in several ways.

Using your logic, Vice City was not a system seller for the PS2 because GTA III sold well and everybody already bought the system for that game. The same thing could be said for Halo 2.

It just doesn't make sense. Massively popular sequels to games released early in the system's life (and released when the console was much more expensive, to boot) still move consoles if they're good (and Gears looks to be pretty good). 

You really believe there is a significant number of gamers out there that would be convinced to buy a 360 by Gears 2 but they weren't by Gears 1, Halo 3, Bioshock ?

Difference between Vice City and GTA3 is the genre wasn't beaten to death on the PS2 between the release of the 2 games...There's at least a couple shooters coming to the 360 every year, at this point it's going to be hard to expand the 360 demand based on those games...

 

Besides I hate to steal one argument of the PS3 haters but here it is.

The 360 has a very good game library( more games than most people can buy), the PS3 not so. So the PS3 has a much easier job attracting buyers with new games.