What type of logic is lumping  ps2  and psp. Besides. Sony does not have the money microsoft has. Have a good day.

Ping _ii:  Reading comprehension issues It appears.  The term 'genre' would mean that yes I believe Fable 3 will outsell GOW 3 comfortably and may actually finish as the highest selling exclusve rpg this gen.  Pokemon excluded of course.  Reach should easily triple KZ2 sales and double KZ3 in the shooter genre.  Disagree if you want but ease up on attack mode please.  The topics I discussed are all involved in the OP and were mentioned in previous posts.   I should have specified which moderator I guess but I obviously wasn't talking about you.  MakingMusic is a person and a fan as well as a moderator but his/her contention that the recent sw surge on PS3 was a permanent state of affairs seems highly suspect for the reasons detailed above.

Nothing I've said is unreasonable and I will wait for some sort of published survey or study before conceding that the new 360 sold a slightly higher percentage to existing owners.  Likewise if the tie ratio ever drops by even half a percentage point against Sony sw or the total sw gap ever shrinks to 50-60 million then you will have something to brag about and I can eat crow.  It won't imo. 

I have predicted elsewhere that GT5 will sell 10.5 m lifetime and Reach 12.5 and I expect those to be far more accurate than the lunacy coming out of some of the PS3 fans.  Hope GT5 does that well for you and your fav. box   I never bet here or in real life but I believe I am entitled to state my opinions anyway.  I certainly wouldn't bet that Fable3 which might hit 5m would beat out GT5 that should do twice that.

It's providing gamers with more content.  How relevant this is between PS3 and 360, not much.  But as a gamer, I look across all options to enjoy gaming.  So there's plenty on the PSP and still the PS2 to serve regardless of how much money Microsoft has.

Neither are video game fans who live on VGChart forums, but who am I to talk right?

Also - I think we're forgetting a lot of 360 exclusives have had very large scale sales, particularly Halo and Gears of War - where they handily blow away that of SCE's publications.

To publish significantly more exclusive games, and just managing to sell more games than your competitor?  I don't think that's anything to bust open the champagne for in the Sony camp.  More games = more publication costs.  You want fewer games, with large scale sales for each on average.

Basically Sony mostly just cares about their games. They've made it clear their focus is their IPs. They flood their console with quite a few 1st party titles that compete with sales of 3rd party.

http://kotaku.com/216256/sony-lost-ps3-exclusives-says-requisite-stupid-things

To the contrary, MS has put a focus on bringing great 3rd party exclusives to the 360 and support them. They even throw money around to get them.

As a consumer I know which of those options I'd prefer!

How can anyone seriously take the link you posted as support for your statement is beyond any reason.  Trenton said:

"We really feel like we're well positioned to contribute platform-defining games from a first-party standpoint, and we're not dependent on third-party community to the degree that a Microsoft would be. That being said, you would be crazy to say that you would never entertain or not welcome exclusives. It's just a question of how deep into your pockets do you have to reach to secure that? Desperation breeds deep pockets. Confidence breeds the opposite. When it makes sense, you do the deal. When it doesn't, you pass."

It means that they will take advantage of a 3rd party exclusive when they think it's worth the investment while learning to be more independent.   It still doesn't mean that "developers have chosen to side with the 360 for exclusivity of certain titles" just because SONY has more studios and titles that Microsoft.  And just because a console maker looses a game as an exclusive doesn't mean it's not coming to that same console as a multi-platform game.  This isn't the case either.  The PS3 still has its share of third party exclusives for whatever reasons whether you want to deny that or not regardless of your personal preferences.  And in regards to extras, games like Batman:AA, RDR, Toy Story, and the newest UFC have all have simultaneously releases on both the 360 and PS3.  And all PS3 versions of those titles received PS3 exclusive content.  And that's not including upcoming games like Metal of Honor, Mafia II, and Portal 2 which all will be getting PS3 exclusive content.  Stop being so one-sided, man.

I would prefer more gaming options that apply to me as a gamer provided that they are of quality.  Thankfully, that has been the case.  WHY would I want to say to myself, "WOOOOOOW!!! That game made sooOOooOoo much money.  That mean it's has to be teh awesome, I'm gonna teh like it, and I wil play it foreva..."  Nope.  I'll stick with reality.

Could you do a list for the entire life SW sales of PS3 versus 360?