It's a rainy night in Melbourne, the winds are a blowin and my nose is a snowin (cold). I got bored and started randomly checking the sales of some of my favourite games and I've come to the realisation that gamers on the PS3/360 have slightly different taste compared to each other. So I'm going to provide some examples:

PS3 gamers enjoy fighting games more than 360 gamers

Street Fighter IV (PS3)  1.71 million vs  Street Fighter IV (X360)  1.46 million

Tekken 6 (PS3)  1.66 million vs Tekken 6 (X360)  0.82 thousand

BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger (PS3)  0.41 thousand vs  BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger (X360) 0.26 thousand

360 gamers enjoy WRPGS more than PS3 gamers

Fallout 3 (PS3)  2.27 million vs Fallout 3 (X360) 3.26 million

Dragon Age: Origins (PS3) 0.92 thousand vs Dragon Age: Origins (X360) 1.69 million

Notable 360 WRPG exclusives: Fable 2 with 3.72 million and Mass Effect with 2.27 million.

Notable PS3 WRPG exclusives: None available.

PS3 gamers enjoy Racing games more than 360 gamers

Need for Speed: Shift (PS3)  2.13 million vs Need for Speed: Shift (X360)  1.51 million

Burnout Paradise (PS3)  1.41 million vs Burnout Paradise (X360) 1.28  million

Midnight Club: Los Angeles (PS3)  1.32 million vs Midnight Club: Los Angeles (X360) 1.46

More recent releases:

Split/Second (PS3)  0.25 thousand vs Split/Second (X360) 0.22 thousand.

Blur (PS3) 0.21 thousand vs Blur (X360) 0.20 thousand.

Notable 360 Racing exclusives: Forza 2 with 4.02, Forza 3 with 2.98, Project Gotham Racing 4 with 1.97.

Notable PS3 exclusives: GT5: Prologue with 4.84 (as of December 2009), Motorstorm with 3.52 and Motostorm: Pacific Rift with 0.96.

360 gamers enjoy Shooters more than PS3 gamers (FPS only)

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (PS3)  8.47 million vs Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (X360)  11.48 million

Battlefield: Bad Company 2 (PS3) 1.80 million vs Battlefield: Bad Company 2 (X360)  2.49 million

Call of Duty: World at War (PS3)  4.17 million vs Call of Duty: World at War (X360)  6.46 million

Notable 360 shooter exclusives: Halo 3 with 11.13, Halo: ODST with 5.58 and Perfect Dark Zero (X360) with 1.32.

Notable PS3 shooter exclusives: Resistance: FOM with 3.71, Killzone 2 with 2.37 and Resistance 2 with 1.92

PS3 gamers enjoy Hack n Slash games more than 360 gamers

Bayonetta (PS3)  0.72 thousand vs Bayonetta (X360)  0.66 thousand

Devil May Cry 4 (PS3) 1.31 million vs  Devil May Cry 4 (X360) 1.25 million

Darksiders (PS3) 0.72 thousand vs Darksiders (X360) 0.69 thousand

Dante's Inferno (PS3) 0.66 thousand vs Dante's Inferno (X360) 0.55 thousand

Notable 360 Hack n Slash exclusives: N3: Ninety-Nine Nights (X360) with 0.38 and N3 II: Ninety-Nine Nights  with 0.02 ('m sorry if I missed something, can't really find anything)

Notable PS3 Hack n Slash exclusives: God of War 3 with 2.93, God of War Collection with 1.44, Heavenly Sword with 1.43.

The diversity goes on and on. JRPGs for the PS3 gamers and Strategy games for the 360 gamers. Platformers for PS3 and SHMUPS for the 360. If you want to add any other genre comparisons between the two, go ahead. So why do you think the two platforms have such diverse audiences?

I find that the 360 crowd purchase more or less the same games whilst the PS3 crowd is more diverse.

PS3 gamers seem to like games that are different and kinda weird. I wouldn't call them more diverse compare to 360 gamers, but they are definitely more open to new things.

no they really are. But you gotta consider this

Would the average french person like the same games the average American would like? I really doubt it. And i think thats the reason for such sales.

The is no mistaking the PS3 is more diverse when you consider this. I will say this the average american gamer is going to like the same kinda games as the next average american gamer. Which may be the reason why the 360 sells so well in one genre then an other.

The 360 is more of an American console while the PS3 is a WW console. And the world as a whole is more diverse then America

I think the Racing category is pretty even. Shift has low numbers because it came out around the same time as Forza 3. Otherwise the other multiplatform racers and exclusives sold about equal when combined. Obviously that'll change with GT5 :P.

I think the difference spawns from what's available on the consoles. The 360 has more WRPG's available. Therefore people who enjoy WRPG's are likely to grow their collection on that platform.

The PS3 has most of the JRPG's the 360 has with extra content as well as a few exclusive ones. In addition to the Playstation brand is pretty much known for it's JRPG collections. Therefore collectors of JRPGs would naturally migrate to the PS3 to continue their collections spanning back to the PS1 and 2 days.

Shooters are pretty even actually as they seem to be the top selling genre on either platform.

There are a couple of reasons for the difference in the fighter genre. First, the PS3 is known to have a more fighter friendly controller. Second, the games listed there are either new to the Xbox install base or are developed and styled towards an audience where the PS3 install base is much larger (ie. BlazBlue and Japan).

Hack'n'Slash is a combination of all the above reasons. The history of quality hack'n'slashers available on the Playstation brand, the intended audiences of the games released and the install bases of the consoles in those regions, exclusives of the same genre on the given platforms (360 doesn't really have any since NG isn't exclusive anymore), etc.

360 has 4-5 million more consoles out though

As a Ps3 owner I hate first person shooters and WRPGS .

As a 360 owner I love shooters and WRPGs.

Generalizations are cool when your bored, but each console has gamers of all kinds.