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@ robjoh

Actuly it does hur Sony more than Microsoft because Microsoft has a lead now, and they are showing better software sales. If Xbox360 continue to have better sales than PS3, we might get a time were most software is both on PS3 and xbox360 but xbox360 has some more unique game. Of course so far it is far from true, but everything can happen.
The development costs of top projects from multi-platform game designers have increased dramatically, so without special exclusivity deals with either Microsoft or Sony they will port games to as many platforms as possible. Such companies usually use cross-platform middleware, so if the middleware's platform are optimized for platform specific advantages this may translate into platform specific advantages, but middleware developers and thus users probably won't be able to get the most out of the system. So I think *if* XBox 360 games sales for the long run will significantly outperform PS3 game sales, this will not result in fewer game ports, but this would likely result into developers not spending much time on PS3 specific optimizations.



Naughty Dog: "At Naughty Dog, we're pretty sure we should be able to see leaps between games on the PS3 that are even bigger than they were on the PS2."

PS3 vs 360 sales