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Have Microsoft solidified themselves as a gaming giant equal to Sony?

Damn right J man 144 25.81%
 
They are getting there 170 30.47%
 
They arent even close 117 20.97%
 
Hell to the No 92 16.49%
 
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Johann on 16 March 2010
Hus said:
yo_john117 said:
 

They already do that.

And I don't know why everyone is looking into the past.  We are talking about right now, the past is water under the bridge.

Ok lets look at right now.

PS3 is out selling 360.

Sony hardware is 33.6% of the market, MS 13.9%

Sony is the 3rd highest selling publisher, MS does not even make top 10

Software sold on Sony hardware is 2.59 millon, on MS hardware 2.04 million.

Why do people keep ignoring posts like these?

Sony sells more hardware than MS. Sony sells more software than MS.

What else do you people want?!



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Hus on 16 March 2010
Johann said:
Hus said:
yo_john117 said:
 

They already do that.

And I don't know why everyone is looking into the past.  We are talking about right now, the past is water under the bridge.

Ok lets look at right now.

PS3 is out selling 360.

Sony hardware is 33.6% of the market, MS 13.9%

Sony is the 3rd highest selling publisher, MS does not even make top 10

Software sold on Sony hardware is 2.59 millon, on MS hardware 2.04 million.

Why do people keep ignoring posts like these?

Sony sells more hardware than MS. Sony sells more software than MS.

What else do you people want?!

I have no idea what they want, i dont know how nuts they have to be to spin things aroun in some crazy fashion where in gaming MS is bigger then Sony. 

 



S.T.A.G.E. on 16 March 2010

Microsoft hasn't quite done it yet. Despite the fact that they have more name brand games than Sony doesn't finish the job just quite yet. The game changer will be whatever the decisions about buying out companies are. Microsoft needs to own at least 10 known gaming and worthy gaming companies before they can shut out Sony. Sony has 17, but Microsoft pumps out more with a very small group of companies under 1st party rule. If they had 10 known companies Sony would be eating dust.



Hus on 16 March 2010

How about this. Since MS launched the 360

38.5 million Xbox 360s sold.

Since then Sony has sold

32.8 million PS3s
50.5 million PSPs
43.9 million PS2s

So MS's 38.5million vs Sony's 127.2million

ohh yahh so equall.



Pingu on 16 March 2010
WilliamWatts said:
Hus said:
WilliamWatts said:

PSN sales don't count. Their list sucks, your list sucks since they both suck you'll have to find something better to argue about.

wehh wehh wehh still can't list anythign from MS wehh wehh wehh.

 

Why the hell do I care about MS? I was just saying that relative to Nintendo both suck in terms of impact so therefore you should find something more productive to argue about.

Wii Sports + Wii Fit + Mario Kart Wii + New Super Mario Brothers = more important than all of Sony's games ever produced in their entire history. If I was to put Nintendo on the same graph as Sony and Microsoft I would have to break the scale so that you could even see Sony and Microsoft on that said graph. So next to Sony's pretty poor efforts this generation and Microsofts lack of ability to perform in this area saying one flea is a little bigger than another is pretty irrelevant.

So no I don't need to even click on the Xbox 360 link above to come up with any response.

Nintendo has absolutely nothing to do with this thread, why do you have to change every PS360 thread into nintendo



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jarrod on 16 March 2010
SpartanFX said:
Garnett said:
You know this site is ran by Sony fans when they choose "Not even close", to them i say

"Who has a 5 million lead? Aww to soon??" then i LOL

well to be fair the question is Sony Vs MS and NOT PS3 vs X360.Sony had almost 40% of revenue in gaming last week whereas MS had only 13 %.

 

to you I say 

"who has 3 platforms on the market???" :P

Well, in total disclosure, "gaming" isn't limited to consoles and handhelds either.  Seems to a little unfair to include PSP, but exclude PC.

Then again, Microsoft has seemingly done everything in their power to kill PC gaming the past few years too. :P



slowmo on 16 March 2010
BoneArk said:
Micro$oft are getting there only because $ony shot themselves in the foot with that ridiculous price when the PS3 launched.

Funny how everyone ignores the huge damage to sales Microsoft did with the RROD fiasco.  The PS3 would be dead and buried by now if RROD hadn't been an issue.  It's stupid playing the ifs and buts scenarios as every company makes mistakes.



jarrod on 16 March 2010
Hus said:
DirtyP2002 said:

 

The only segment where MS is not as big as Sony are handhelds, because they are not in that business.

 

So in 1st party development they are equall ? and they both own equal amount of game franchises ? or they publish equal amount of games.

LMFAO

They have fewer internal studios and put out less games, but their 1st party games seemingly sell better at the same time.   It's just a different publishing philosophy (fewer games than sell better), one that Microsoft was pretty vocal about shifting to this gen.

As far as game franchises that MS owns though, they really do have a huge amount of popular legacy brands from Rare and various other studios that are going unused (Crimson Skies, Battletoads, Flight Simulator, Snake Rattle N' Roll, Age of Empires, Blast Corps, MechWarrior/Assault, Shadowrun, Killer instinct, Sabrewulf, Knight Lore, Rise of Nations, Starlancer, Conker, Black & White, R.C. Pro Am, Midtown Madness, PGR, Wizards & Warriors, Jet Force Gemini, etc, etc).  In that regard they may actually be comparable to Sony (who also has a lot of dormant brands).



archbrix on 16 March 2010

Not yet equal to Sony; Sony beat Nintendo for two generations whereas Microsoft still haven't proven they could do that, or sell well over 100 million consoles... twice!

Still, Xbox 360 has proven far more successful than I would have ever thought a Microsoft games machine would be. After all, any other company would have thrown in the towel after the tremendous financial losses caused by the original Xbox (a BILLION $ a year).



huaxiong90 on 16 March 2010
jarrod said:
Hus said:
DirtyP2002 said:

 

The only segment where MS is not as big as Sony are handhelds, because they are not in that business.

 

So in 1st party development they are equall ? and they both own equal amount of game franchises ? or they publish equal amount of games.

LMFAO

They have fewer internal studios and put out less games, but their 1st party games seemingly sell better at the same time.   It's just a different publishing philosophy (fewer games than sell better), one that Microsoft was pretty vocal about shifting to this gen.

As far as game franchises that MS owns though, they really do have a huge amount of popular legacy brands from Rare and various other studios that are going unused (Crimson Skies, Battletoads, Flight Simulator, Snake Rattle N' Roll, Age of Empires, Blast Corps, MechWarrior/Assault, Shadowrun, Killer instinct, Sabrewulf, Knight Lore, Rise of Nations, Starlancer, Conker, Black & White, R.C. Pro Am, Midtown Madness, PGR, Wizards & Warriors, Jet Force Gemini, etc, etc).  In that regard they may actually be comparable to Sony (who also has a lot of dormant brands).

Besides Halo, what 1st party games sold better than the PS3 games? I'm gonna leave the PS2 and PS1 out of this, but what 1st party games for Microsoft have outsold Sony's 1st party games besides Halo?



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