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

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starcraft said:

CrazzyMan said:

starcraft said:

TheRealMafoo said:
I think people are worried, because it's only tracking as well as the PS2 did. At this rate, it's doomed to only sell 120 million consoles. It needs a game to save it.

http://vgchartz.com/hwlaunch.php?cons1=PS2®1=All&cons2=PS3®2=All&cons3=X360®3=All&weeks=102

Hehe.

Try aligning regional launches.

For what purpose? Only TOTAL sales matter, since PS3 is doing ok in all regions. =) And will do better after MGS4 launch. =]]

Exactly. And on total sales, the PS3 is FAR behind the Xbox 360 and Wii and FAR behind where the PS2 was when we consider identical launches in all regions.

You PS3 fans like to say the Xbox 360 is only in front because it got a headstart. Well you cant use a different measure of success when you apply it to the PS2 vs PS3 race.

Actually, I don't think that's correct.  You could say that before, when the PS2's relative sales hadn't even come out in Europe or had only been out for a little while, but we're 18 months into the PS3's life.  The PS2 at that point had been out in all regions for 9 months.  Let it go.

Far more important is the asynchronous holiday season.  It's quite obvious that the PS3 graph is only comparable to the PS2's because "Christmas came early".  Observe that in about 8 weeks the PS3 will be in August, while the PS2 will be (on the comparison graph) entering a holiday season that gives it 6 million units in 7 weeks.  The PS3 will still be 4 months away from December and when it does get there it will not be selling like the PS2 did. 

In 8 weeks the PS3 can be selling better than ever and it will still fall far behind the PS2 on the comparison graph, never to catch up.