Yeah! And then beat him at Killzone 2, blindfolded, with one arm.

Whilst having our ball hair tweesed out by a pair of deranged blind crackhead strippers.

Well in my personal opinion those games sell worse due to their nature - FPS style, it is a common knowledge that the US tend to like shoot 'em ups, closely followed by us, the Europeans. Japanese on the other hand, hate them - or most of them do anyway. If you look at the sales of the common JRPG - Final Fantasy XIII you will see that on the release week the Japanese alone have brought over 1.5M copies in the first week, whereas America and Europe matched about a third of that, each.

Comparing that to the infamous monster on PS3 - MGS4, MGS4 has scored 1.7M in the first week, 480K of which were in Japan, after that the sales have begun to deteriorate as is the case with most games, considering that the Japanese had created the same boost, the sales would have been borderline 3M on the first week(2.8-2.9) giving it a good boost and possibly putting it ahead of the Gears 1 or even Gears 2 given time and Japan adaptation.

Same could be said with many other games that are exclusive to PS3, most tend to be FPS which only mainly sell to Europe and US whereas the JRPG/RPGs tend to sell well in Japan, so technically.. Combining both of them together to make a hybrid FPS/JRPG would be a good thing right? Wrong, Resonance of Fate has failed in that aspect.

There are two different markets in PS3 industry, and it is impossible to touch both to achieve the maximum sales for the software. However if those exclusives that you have listed would have been launched worldwide on all platforms, including 360 I would be willing to bet that the sales on 360 would be at least equal or higher than the ones on PS3, simply because FPS is a bigger market for the 360.

Conclusion: You can't get the much needed sales boost from the Japanese if you want to keep the others satisfied, attempting to keep both parties satisfied will just result in a massive flop.

As someone has mentioned racing on the other hand.. Seems like an aspect that will interest both and will probably rival the Halo franchise, although the Halo franchise now stands at around 28M sales worldwide including all of the Halos on consoles.

Once the sales for SC:Conviction are out,
I MIGHT be willing to bet that I will eat my hat(I will purchase one for such occasion)if the sales of MGS:Rising are higher on PS3 than on 360.

P.S Above are my opinions and speculations

GT5 will likely pass or get halo numbers, and god of war 3 will slow get to gears.

and ps3 userbase it's more diverse, they don't alll like shooters.

JRPGS sell better on the ps3

Yeah because more Japanese own the PS3. 360 only has some 1M units in Japan considering Sony has 5 or even more times that it is not surprising the JRPG would sell a lot better. 360 fan base is diverse too, although everyone seems to like FPS there are many who like other type of games while loving the good ol' shoot 'em up - RPGs, adventures etc.

(P.S Above are my opinions and speculations) duly noted. but i agree.

cgi guality: "I've said it before, I'll say it again, Gran Turismo cancels out Halo, which just leaves Gears. Gears is the kicker for Microsoft this gen, and that deserves credit. Otherwise, their exlusives sell on par with each other."

I believe this says the GT IP completely negates the influence Halo has had on sales trends this gen? I replied indirectly which seemed more polite that; The total Halo 'hd' (meaning this gen) sales would be 30 million. This referred to Reach, ODST, Wars and Halo 3 of course. Is that the part that you say is just opinion? I stand by that and barring the 7 or 8 m 'flop' so many here at vgc want from Reach it will come true.

One GT title might do a third of that and Sony are unlikely to get another one out this gen. Past performance is an important indicator to me. Sorry, I should have spelled all that out but the inferences seemed fairly obvious. The 3 published titles mentioned were at 17.5m two weeks ago and ODST had moved up to no. 29 ww at 33k+.

The last paragraph besides an attempt at humour was a quick look at some 360 wrpg sales compared to the top sellers on PS3. If 3 would rank top 20 then obviously (to me at least) the 'shooterbox' claim would be called into question or partially disproven? Or perhaps not. Thank you for your constructive criticism oh exalted chartz god and I will endeavor to be less obscure.

xbox 360 is a beast. that's about it.

ps3 users are watching movies on that thing. for real, for real.

This. Better exclusives too, IMO.

Ps3 users with a smaller install base are buying more software than 360 for a while now, for real. Wheres the beast?