How much will the PS3 outsell the Xbox 360 by next week?

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MikeB said:

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MikeB said:
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Like I said before once MGS4 hits I don't see much chance of the 360 outselling the PS3 worldwide again. However the 360 still has millions XBox fans in North America and Europe who still haven't upgraded towards the 360, this despite nearly all popular XBox games already received sequels (only Fable 2 and the multi-platform game Starwars remaining, coming out this year and there's GeOW 2, so this year should still be fine overall).

Platformers have definitely become niche.

I also think its safe to say the "only people that buy 360's are Xbox owners" argument has passed with the 360 receiving just as big (little) a boost from GTAIV as the PS3 along with this news:

http://www.vgchartz.com/news/news.php?id=1284

 

New Super Mario Bros sold over 14 million copies, that's more than Halo 3 and Gears combined.

Nobody is saying "only" XBox owners buy 360s. I actually made a point that I expect lots of people to upgrade still, the entry pricing and games library probably isn't the issue. Apart from the shitty reliability the 360 also seems a much nicer console than the uglier and bulkier original box.

I do think when most these people upgraded, saturation will slowly start to kick in and I don't expect much from the 360 saleswise in 2009.

I'm pretty sure I remember you saying the same about 2008.

As for New Super Mario Brothers?  I think we can safely say people's portable tastes differ substantially from home console tastes.  In any case, wouldn't the mainstay Mario platformer of the DS conform to being the dominator of the niche of platformers?

So far the only three platformers of this gen have released to awesome, disappointing, decent and mediocre sales respectively for SMG, R&C, Viva Pinata and Kameo.  It shouldbe noted that R & C received some EU bundling, and Viva Pinata received a substantial amount of bundling worldwide.

Banjo Kazooie: Nuts and Bolts may be the final chance to see if non-Mario/Nintendo platformers can do well on home consoles without being bundled.