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Turkish on 29 January 2011
landguy1 said:

Still think that after seeing LBP2 sales(OK, not great), that it just shows that the PS3 still doesn't have a system defining game or games that make people(other than gaming nuts-not meant to be a bad thing) buy their system.  I have or have had almost every gaming console for the last 30 years or so. And every time i got one, it was due to some particular game or group of games.  I do have the PS3(by the way, it's the best bluray player that i have) and buy very few games for it.  I do usually wait til they are $30 or less.  But for the 360, i seem to buy more games right at release.  As usual, i will throw out my disclaimer that i am of course only one person - so therefore do NOT represent a large sampling.  But, am representative of a large group of people in their late 30s to mid 40s who have a batch of kids and multiple game systems.  My group is mostly the Lemming group that i talk about alot.  They like to buy whatever the general media or what they hear about at work.  They do NOT do lots of research on gaming systems, as if you don't get gaming at this age, you never will.  So they just follow the crowd...........

And thats exactly whats so great and what PlayStation has always been about.
There is not any defining game for the PS3, there are just so many. Not the 360 nor the Wii can match the PS3 exclusives, there is just so many variety.

360 is defined by shooters, Halo and Gears comes to mind, Wii is defined by casual games.

But PS3? There is Uncharted, GT, Ratchet&Clank, LBP, Resistance, GoW. Only in the racing genre are 3 different PS3 exclusives: GT5, Motorstorm, Modnation Racers. Variety is the key word. Look back at the PS1 and PS2, there is no defining game.

 

You buying every game on the 360 doesn't mean anything, you just buy multiplatform games. 360 is your preferred console. You can buy the same game on PS3 too.

 



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NotStan on 29 January 2011
jhuff394 said:

I'm thinking that when some of the big exclusives come out for ps3 this year, the gap will close....

The kinect hype has already died down and is clearly not the least bit interesting to Europe or Japan at all...

PS3 dominates Europe... It dominates Japan.... But Americans seem to have become attached to buying an American console....

In fact if you really think about it... Microsoft really needs to make sure the xbox keeps smackin the PS3 in America every month... cuz without its great U.S. numbers... It will fall second to ps3 world wide every month..

Y'know you could at least try to be less biased and more reasonable. It's unbelieveable you know. I am more and more baffled by your posts.



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Slimebeast on 29 January 2011

The shipment gap at the moment is rufly 3 million and it will keep shrinking.

The gap will be only 1 million or even less in X360's favor by the end of year.



Immortal on 29 January 2011
Slimebeast said:

The shipment gap at the moment is rufly 3 million and it will keep shrinking.

The gap will be only 1 million or even less in X360's favor by the end of year.


Wait, PS3 shipment numbers arrived? When?



 

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Slimebeast on 29 January 2011
Immortal said:
Slimebeast said:

The shipment gap at the moment is rufly 3 million and it will keep shrinking.

The gap will be only 1 million or even less in X360's favor by the end of year.


Wait, PS3 shipment numbers arrived? When?

I said rufly lol.



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Immortal on 29 January 2011
Slimebeast said:
Immortal said:
Slimebeast said:

The shipment gap at the moment is rufly 3 million and it will keep shrinking.

The gap will be only 1 million or even less in X360's favor by the end of year.


Wait, PS3 shipment numbers arrived? When?

I said rufly lol.

Well, considering both Wii and 360 were under expectations, I wouldn't be shocked if PS3 comes in at 5m-5.5m. It could also crush all expectations and ship 7.5m. Best to wait - I really don't think PS3 will do around 6m.



 

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Slimebeast on 29 January 2011
Immortal said:
Slimebeast said:
Immortal said:
Slimebeast said:

The shipment gap at the moment is rufly 3 million and it will keep shrinking.

The gap will be only 1 million or even less in X360's favor by the end of year.


Wait, PS3 shipment numbers arrived? When?

I said rufly lol.

Well, considering both Wii and 360 were under expectations, I wouldn't be shocked if PS3 comes in at 5m-5.5m. It could also crush all expectations and ship 7.5m. Best to wait - I really don't think PS3 will do around 6m.

PS3 has never shipped less than expected and won't this time. 5.5 million is the absolute minimum I can imagine and as the X360 shipped 6.3 mill in Oct-Dec and the last shipment gap was 2.8 mill (I think) the current gap would become 3.6 million - which is rufly 3 million.



Immortal on 29 January 2011
Slimebeast said:

PS3 has never shipped less than expected and won't this time. 5.5 million is the absolute minimum I can imagine and as the X360 shipped 6.3 mill in Oct-Dec and the last shipment gap was 2.8 mill (I think) the current gap would become 3.6 million - which is rufly 3 million.


lrn2round

3.6m is roughly 4 million.

So there!



 

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landguy1 on 29 January 2011
Turkish said:
landguy1 said:

Still think that after seeing LBP2 sales(OK, not great), that it just shows that the PS3 still doesn't have a system defining game or games that make people(other than gaming nuts-not meant to be a bad thing) buy their system.  I have or have had almost every gaming console for the last 30 years or so. And every time i got one, it was due to some particular game or group of games.  I do have the PS3(by the way, it's the best bluray player that i have) and buy very few games for it.  I do usually wait til they are $30 or less.  But for the 360, i seem to buy more games right at release.  As usual, i will throw out my disclaimer that i am of course only one person - so therefore do NOT represent a large sampling.  But, am representative of a large group of people in their late 30s to mid 40s who have a batch of kids and multiple game systems.  My group is mostly the Lemming group that i talk about alot.  They like to buy whatever the general media or what they hear about at work.  They do NOT do lots of research on gaming systems, as if you don't get gaming at this age, you never will.  So they just follow the crowd...........

And thats exactly whats so great and what PlayStation has always been about.
There is not any defining game for the PS3, there are just so many. Not the 360 nor the Wii can match the PS3 exclusives, there is just so many variety.

360 is defined by shooters, Halo and Gears comes to mind, Wii is defined by casual games.

But PS3? There is Uncharted, GT, Ratchet&Clank, LBP, Resistance, GoW. Only in the racing genre are 3 different PS3 exclusives: GT5, Motorstorm, Modnation Racers. Variety is the key word. Look back at the PS1 and PS2, there is no defining game.

 

You buying every game on the 360 doesn't mean anything, you just buy multiplatform games. 360 is your preferred console. You can buy the same game on PS3 too.

 


2 things:

1.  Never said that i buy multiplatform games.  I said that i have more interest in getting the 360 titles at release Vs waiting til later like i do on the PS3 titles.  

 

2.  Can't argue that the PS3 has a lot more AAA titles.

I guess my hope has always been that the PS3 needed a monster hit to give the system a higher presence in the market.  Like i said in the first post, i think that the PS3 is outside the mainstream thoughts for some reason.  The Wii owns that area for now and is starting to lose it.  Will the PS3 replace it or the 360?  People like to have a specific reason to buy game systems.  That's all i am saying.



jhuff394 on 29 January 2011
NotStan said:
jhuff394 said:

I'm thinking that when some of the big exclusives come out for ps3 this year, the gap will close....

The kinect hype has already died down and is clearly not the least bit interesting to Europe or Japan at all...

PS3 dominates Europe... It dominates Japan.... But Americans seem to have become attached to buying an American console....

In fact if you really think about it... Microsoft really needs to make sure the xbox keeps smackin the PS3 in America every month... cuz without its great U.S. numbers... It will fall second to ps3 world wide every month..

Y'know you could at least try to be less biased and more reasonable. It's unbelieveable you know. I am more and more baffled by your posts.

You are right...

It does usually end up sounding biased... but i did take note to say that xbox keeps smacking the ps3 in America.

I really do love the microsoft company and believe it or not, own both consoles...I guess I'm just bothered by the "casual" direction that the xbox 360 is taking...

It worries me that one day all games will be casual.... why bother spending massive money, massive development, and doing exteremly difficult programming  if much simpler games sell even more...

I like the Uncharteds and the Killzones and Crysis and Gears, and i dont want them to end.. and the way the industry is heading it seems like sooner or later these developers will realize they can make just as much profit with half the effort and resources.... ya dig?



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