EU sales UP!!PS3 OUCH!

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darthdevidem01 said:

HappySqurriel said:

CrazzyMan said:

@NJ5,
http://vgchartz.com/hwcomps.php?cons1=PS3®1=------&cons2=PS3®2=------&cons3=PS3®3=Total+Other&start=39453&end=39621

GT5P - 85 - 106 - 143 - 129 - 106
GTA4 - 98 - 111 - 189 - 119 - 101
MGS4 - 88 - 93 - 111 - 84 -

it`s just strange...

 

What's strange?

People have been telling you for months that "System Selling" games did not work in the way you thought that they did ...

These games tend to have just as much of an impact leading up to the release of a big game as they do after, so the don't have a noticeable boost in sales except for the week of release. It is quite plausable that (over the next month or so) sales of the PS3 could drop to new lows because of the lack of highly anticipated established series on the horizon, and the summer slump.

I think we can come to the conclusion that the only system selling games are actually new IP's which become huge in success....i.e. Pokemon, GEOW, Gran Turismo, GTa 3, Wii series....so games that no-one expects much from that deliver and become a phenomenon.

I am hoping LBP will be just that

 

 

It won't be. Really, Sony is just going to have to eventually drop the price since the market for the price they have now is essentially hitting the saturation point. As for the market perception spiel, I don't know if adding motion controls like the Wii is going to solve the problem. Because the perception is right now, that the Wii is the place for motion controls, and anything else would be a cheap cash in. The problem with MGS4's impact, is that Sony has released so many different kinds of bundles in both Europe and Japan that they are no longer special to the consumer anymore.