DFC: PS3 unlikely to finish in 3rd place

[Erik Aston]

ssj12 said:True, but it did sell a ton of consoles because of those games alone. What happens when theres several of those games. Warhawk will sell a ton of console becuase theres a huge audience that loves online only games. Heavenly Sword. Uncharted. 

So do you think Warhawk, Heavenly Sword and Uncharted are all going to be huge new franchises? Maybe if they can all do 5-million + copies, it will matter. Sony already have Gran Turismo, which can do over 10-million copies, Final Fantasy, which can do 8 million copies, plus MGS and GTA which can both do 5-million copies. Add three more games in that range and you get...

Name	Console	Publisher	Japan	America	Others	Total
	Super Mario 64	Nintendo	1.92	6.87	3.10	11.89
	Mario Kart 64	Nintendo	2.24	5.52	2.11	9.87
	GoldenEye 007	Nintendo	0.13	5.77	2.19	8.09
	The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina Of Time	Nintendo	1.46	4.08	2.06	7.60
	Pokemon Stadium	Nintendo	1.37	3.16	1.35	5.88
	Super Smash Bros	Nintendo	1.97	2.93	0.65	5.55
	Donkey Kong 64	Nintendo	1.10	3.31	0.86	5.27

 

...damn.

 

I don't mean to be an ass, but hopefully this highlights the absurdity of a PS3 comeback on the back of just a few games. N64 had 4 games on roughly the scale of Halo 2, and only sold 8 million more consoles than XBox.