Why do people keep claiming MGS4 is PS3's saviour?

[el_rika]

dbot said:

eliasg said:

Gears of War 2 will have a greater impact to XBOX 360 sales than MGS4 to PS3.

*I am talking about the difference the week before the realese day...

2 reasons why Geow2 will not have a big impact on console sales:

1) Geow1 was released on the 360.  If it was released on the original xbox you could safely argue that there is a core group of gamers waiting for its HD 360 release to buy a console.   Much like the large numbers of consumers that are waiting for MGS4 to release on the PS3.  (Similar to the Halo 3 effect on the 360).

2) Geow2 does not bring anything new to the platform.  It will be a great game but it's still another shooter.  I doubt there are any xbox fans that skipped the release of Halo 3 but will buy the 360 for Geow 2.

 

true

..the first release of a high profile title on a new console generally sells more software and hardware than the next one(s). I think this is the case with MGS games, FF games, GT games, and this applies especially to hardware.

GeoW2 will move very few HW units compared to MGS4.