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Forums - Sales - 360 vs PS3...Q4 2010 to be similar to Q4 2008?

SOLIDSNAKE08 on 18 March 2010

all sony need to do is release GT5 at the time mirosoft cuit the price.



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jarrod on 18 March 2010
Rainbird said:
kowenicki said:
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S.T.A.G.E. said:
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Microsoft doesn't need a price cut to beat Sony in sales on the way to Q4....their top AAA titles are launching Q4 against only one top Sony title. A price cut would bury Sony for the rest of the year.

I think we need to see the final lineups before we start making comments like that

Halo Reach is going to be selling Xbox 360's from September through next year and Fable 3 is capping the year off. the middle of the year is dominated with three 360 AAA's  in Splinter Cell in April,  Alan Wake is n May and Crackdown 2 is in June. Mass Effect already owned January. I forgot to even mention Natal. Sony only has (in truth when we are talking about heavy hitters) GOW3, GT5 and move this year....unless they have a really good E3. I cannot wait to see what they and Sony and Microsoft have to say about capping off the year having invested in both of their systems.

I doubt Sony will release any other heavy hitters this year (I would only consider GT5 and Halo Reach heavy hitters of those titles though.), but we will definitely see more games coming out. Evolution Studios (Motorstorm) and Media Molecule (LittleBigPlanet) haven't released a game since 2008, Studio Liverpool have only done WipEout HD and its expansion (which, while fairly big, is still only a PSN game), Insomniac (R&C and Resistance) usually release a game a year (and so Resistance 3 might be inline for the holidays) and then there are all the games for Move (including the new Ape Escape), where Sony have hired some new studios to create some games. Finally, the next Killzone is heavily rumored for a late 2010 release. Also, I have no idea what is happening in Japan, other than that they are making Ape Escape, GT5 and The Last Guardian, but they should definitely be doing other stuff as well.

All in all, calling the holiday lineup is pretty hard to do at this point I think

Oh, and Crackdown 2 may or may not have been delayed (everything is a little cryptic on that, read #7 in the link) and ModNation Racers is releasing this spring (and will most likely be a great game, according to Naz's preview anyway).

EDIT: Reading through some posts, I forgot that Twisted Metal and Agent will be on the way as well (not to mention FFV13, though I very much doubt it will release in 2010. Maybe we will hear something from it at TGS).

I think studio liverpool have been working on the move stuff.... or was it a co-incidence that the guy demoing the stuff at the GDC was a scouser?.... scouser being a person from liverpool for those not up on these matters

Could be, I haven't heard anything, though it would be a shame to say that I actively keep up with all the studios

I know Studio Cambridge are doing that TV Superstars thingy.

iirc Studio London's doing Move Party and Sports Champions.  Studio Liverpool could be doing Move Fighter maybe?  The Shoot's from some 3rd party (Cohort Studios?) and Slider's from Japan Studio (though knowing them, actually developed externally by some company).



thx1139 on 19 March 2010

I find it comical that people still believe that GT5 is going to change console sales dynamics.

Tell me why the 4.5 million people that bought GT5P are going to buy a new PS3 for GT5.

Tell me what percentage of the 40million PS3 owners purchased a PS3 for the core Playstation games that includes GT series. I bet a good amount.

Tell me how many people that planned on getting a PS3 for GT5 were pushed over the edge already by another title or received the PS3 as a gift. I bet a good amount.

Look for GT5 to make an impact it needs to push millions of consoles not a couple 100K.

So when it releases we may see a 1 week bump for the final GT fanatics to get a PS3, but for the most part GT5 will just be a game that sells fantastically and helps the PS3 continue to sell at the current level it is selling.

GT5 isnt a market changer like a price cut is.
GT5 isnt a market changer like Natal could be.
GT5 isnt a market changer like Move could be.
Xbox Slim isnt a market changer either. Although the cost reductions which result in price reductions could be.



Its libraries that sell systems not a single game.

thx1139 on 19 March 2010

@pezus and these Car lovers that have to have GT5 ignored GT5P

I dont think so



Its libraries that sell systems not a single game.

thx1139 on 19 March 2010

@pezus,

So then all those people that purchase a PS3 for GT5 really wont help Sony much because they wont be purchasing much of any other software.



Its libraries that sell systems not a single game.

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S.T.A.G.E. on 19 March 2010
gurglesletch said:
S.T.A.G.E. said:
geddesmond2 said:
Most Halo fans already have a Xbox 360. So Halo reach won't have a big impact on sales. Just look at the small impact Halo ODST had for the 360. I reckon a price cut is the only thing that will put microsoft ahead but with Microsoft trying to push Natal aswel I think a price cuts out of the question for them.

Also I bet anyone here that Sonys going to have at least 4 exclusive titles for this fall and one of them being GT5

How do you know that most Halo fans already own a 360. Exclusive doesn't mean heavy hitting as well. The 360 has plenty of exclusives which I haven't mentioned as well because they weren't AAA.

Maybe because Halo 3 has sold more than 10 million copies.

Halo 3 may have sold more than 10 million copies, but the 360 has a much larger installed base now. Regardless of what you think some PC gamers are starting to buy consoles. If Sony drops the sku of the 360 before Reach comes out....it would be a huge test to your logic that 10 million is all a main Halo franchise title can do.