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fauzman on 24 July 2011
Runa216 said:
fauzman said:

I think you have pretty much hit the nail on the head. Additional reasons are that a greater number of casual gamers tend to buy ps3s because of its greater multimedia capabilities (blueray) and dont buy games as much whereas xbox is preferred by the more hardcore gamers. Also, from what i understand the ps3 has generally been more attractive as a family friendly game console with its singstar/R&C/LBP games than the xbox (though this now has kinect) along with nintendo and these people wouldnt tend to buy very many games.


it's actually kind of funny how many people forget that Viva Pinata is actually kind of a big deal on the 360, and it also does really well with the lego series (especially Indiana Jones) 

Isnt the lego series multiplat? Viva Pinata may be a big IP for xbox gamers but is it as popular and well known as the sony IPs I mentioned?



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fauzman on 24 July 2011
S.T.A.G.E. said:
fauzman said:
Runa216 said:
It's logically a balance of things.

1 - Marketing - Seriously, the amount of money Microsoft puts into marketing is insane, and it shows. Everyone and their aunt knows about Halo in spite of it being a good but not great game, Gears of War is hailed as some sort of messiah where it, too, is a decent but not special game. Sony always said they aren't willing to match Microsoft's marketing budgets, and that they prefer to just make a quality title and allow people to make their own choices.

2 - dispersion - I was doing the math and Sony has a considerable amount more exclusives than Microsoft, and they are equal or higher quality, too. because of this, paired with Microsoft advertising the hell out of Gears and Halo, it ensures the sales are more concentrated. (though PS3 exclusives still sell really well: Uncharted, Resistance, LBP, Motorstorm, MGS 4, God of War, and Gran Turismo are all selling quite well)

3 -Microsoft caters to trends - Let's face it, when you think Xbox, do you think platformers or puzzle games? No, you think manly space marines shooting and cutting their way through alien hoardes. the FPS Genre is 'in' right now when it comes to more 'mature' gamers, and the Xbox excells at that, where the PS3 draws in fans of all genres with ease. It has Racing, FPS, platforming, action/adventure, and RPG fans all backing it, so no one game or genre gets a lot of attention.

4 - America=Xbox - Look at sales, the Xbox is a juggernaut compared to the PS3 in America...which happens to be the biggest gaming community in the world. couple that with america's gun fetish and the Xbox's FPS obsession, and voila! it's just a combo made in heaven.

though many others have said it, I agree: the Xbox doesn't sell more games by a wide margin, but games like Halo and Gears of War sell so damn many that it makes it look like that. the truth is that PS3's sales are more evenly dispersed and therefore appear less impressive. I like to see it as it's more balanced.

I think you have pretty much hit the nail on the head. Additional reasons are that a greater number of casual gamers tend to buy ps3s because of its greater multimedia capabilities (blueray) and dont buy games as much whereas xbox is preferred by the more hardcore gamers. Also, from what i understand the ps3 has generally been more attractive as a family friendly game console with its singstar/R&C/LBP games than the xbox (though this now has kinect) along with nintendo and these people wouldnt tend to buy very many games.


Actually...this used to hold true until the Kinect came out. The casuals like the 360 better by leaps and bounds and the core are buying more PS3s now because it is the least appealing console to the casuals.

Yes, this holds only till kinect came out (which i had already mentioned in my previous post) but as its only been around for a short time i think the ps3 still has the greater number of casuals.



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Lostplanet22 on 24 July 2011
RolStoppable said:
fauzman said:
Runa216 said:

it's actually kind of funny how many people forget that Viva Pinata is actually kind of a big deal on the 360, and it also does really well with the lego series (especially Indiana Jones) 

Isnt the lego series multiplat? Viva Pinata may be a big IP for xbox gamers but is it as popular and well known as the sony IPs I mentioned?

Lego Indiana Jones and Kung Fu Panda were heavily bundled, so the sales of these games aren't a good measure of how appealing the Xbox brand is to families.

Well viva pinata was also bundeled:

and you saw a lot of those  for like 5-10 Euro



 

BHR-3 on 24 July 2011

i believe it has something to do with amount of features the 360 exclusive have the amount appleas to a wide range of games

look at a games like gears and halo this gen

coop campaigns (really early with gears at 06 got the ball rolling)

other things like survival type modes that are playable even offline with those games, appeal to gamers that like solo play and even have no online thats why COD goes the extra mile with its offerings like zombie mode, spec ops, combat training

amount of marketing can also play into this aswell



                                                             

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Jay520 on 24 July 2011
Black_Scurge said:
I mean look at modern warefare that game is casual centeral yet people act like it's hardcore 


Call of Duty is the hardcore game for casual gamers and vice-versa 



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Black_Scurge on 24 July 2011

Check out my comparison thread about MS and Sony published games on ps3 and 360

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=132040&page=1#

have all the games published by both companies(minus ones released before ps3s released), and the total sales of all of them combined might shed some light on this topic



S.T.A.G.E. on 24 July 2011
Jay520 said:
Black_Scurge said:
I mean look at modern warefare that game is casual centeral yet people act like it's hardcore 


Call of Duty is the hardcore game for casual gamers and vice-versa 

This. I wouldn't call Call of Duty a casual game by any stretch of the imagination. Battlefield takes more skill and its a more varied game in mechanics but still thats a moderate and higher level game and add to it the fact that its fast paced. I think the reason first person shooters sell so well is more cultural in the west.



MessiaH on 24 July 2011

You are right, but this is not only exclusives. I would say the majority of 3rd party multiplatform games sell more on the xbox360 than the ps3. Not always, but usually. An idea I came across that could be compleely wrong as I have no proof of it being true is the average user demographic and subsequently the average user age of each console. I am under the impression that the ps3 is more supported by an older crowd than the 360. Older people tend to have more responsibilities beyond just schooling. Anything from having a job to raising children can get in the way of gaming and so ps3's crowd are more selective of their games and purchase less.

This is simply my impression and could be completely wrong. if the user demographic for both systems was similar, I would have to attribute it to lower marketing by sony.



fauzman on 26 July 2011
MessiaH said:
You are right, but this is not only exclusives. I would say the majority of 3rd party multiplatform games sell more on the xbox360 than the ps3. Not always, but usually. An idea I came across that could be compleely wrong as I have no proof of it being true is the average user demographic and subsequently the average user age of each console. I am under the impression that the ps3 is more supported by an older crowd than the 360. Older people tend to have more responsibilities beyond just schooling. Anything from having a job to raising children can get in the way of gaming and so ps3's crowd are more selective of their games and purchase less.

This is simply my impression and could be completely wrong. if the user demographic for both systems was similar, I would have to attribute it to lower marketing by sony.


You are right in that most multiplats sell more on the xbox but part of the reason for this may be that the xbox has fewer exclusives than ps3 so the xbox gamers tend to spend more on multiplats than do ps3 gamers (who spend more on ps3 exclusives). From what i understand of this year, the ps3 has sold more software than xbox even though they are selling less multiplat games.



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