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Turkish on 12 December 2012
smroadkill15 said:
I did some calculations myself. I added up all the exclusives that have sold over 1 million and this is what it looks like:

Ps3: 90.08

360:89.56

Very very close, less than 1 million difference. I didn't include Kinect Adventures for obvious reasons or any 360/PC titles so that means no Gears 1, Fable 3, L4D1&2, Alan Wake, etc. Of course these numbers will change, but this is what it stands at right now.


Very close indeed, with 1 year less on the market.



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EdHieron on 12 December 2012
hollabackenny said:
EdHieron said:
Squilliam said:
When you have to make a bunch of provisos to prove your point you really don't have a point. So when the entire Sony library becomes available via Gaikai should I make a thread about how much Sony sucks because they can't sell a single exclusive? That Sony is the most useless 1st party ever because their exclusive sales in the current generation exclusive sales were approaching zero?




Yeah, right after the supposedly huge ip Alan Wake fails to sell anything at all and it's demonstrated that as a whole Gears, Fable, and even Forza dramatically underperform.


Gears dramatically underperforms? What? 

Yeah, it does.  For supposedly being this gen's Halo none of the games in the series have sold anywhere near as well as the Halo games and when everything is said and done The Uncharted games will be neck and neck with its sales or maybe even a little higher.



Jaywood2010 on 12 December 2012
EdHieron said:
hollabackenny said:
EdHieron said:
Squilliam said:
When you have to make a bunch of provisos to prove your point you really don't have a point. So when the entire Sony library becomes available via Gaikai should I make a thread about how much Sony sucks because they can't sell a single exclusive? That Sony is the most useless 1st party ever because their exclusive sales in the current generation exclusive sales were approaching zero?




Yeah, right after the supposedly huge ip Alan Wake fails to sell anything at all and it's demonstrated that as a whole Gears, Fable, and even Forza dramatically underperform.


Gears dramatically underperforms? What? 

Yeah, it does.  For supposedly being this gen's Halo none of the games in the series have sold anywhere near as well as the Halo games and when everything is said and done The Uncharted games will be neck and neck with its sales or maybe even a little higher.


Delusional?




       

hollabackenny on 12 December 2012
EdHieron said:
hollabackenny said:
EdHieron said:
Squilliam said:
When you have to make a bunch of provisos to prove your point you really don't have a point. So when the entire Sony library becomes available via Gaikai should I make a thread about how much Sony sucks because they can't sell a single exclusive? That Sony is the most useless 1st party ever because their exclusive sales in the current generation exclusive sales were approaching zero?




Yeah, right after the supposedly huge ip Alan Wake fails to sell anything at all and it's demonstrated that as a whole Gears, Fable, and even Forza dramatically underperform.


Gears dramatically underperforms? What? 

Yeah, it does.  For supposedly being this gen's Halo none of the games in the series have sold anywhere near as well as the Halo games and when everything is said and done The Uncharted games will be neck and neck with its sales or maybe even a little higher.


That's because it's Halo! Come on. 6 million is very successful for any franchise. That's like saying Battlefield was a flop because it only sold 12.5M against COD's Near 30M of that same year. 



EdHieron on 12 December 2012
JayWood2010 said:
EdHieron said:
hollabackenny said:
EdHieron said:
Squilliam said:
When you have to make a bunch of provisos to prove your point you really don't have a point. So when the entire Sony library becomes available via Gaikai should I make a thread about how much Sony sucks because they can't sell a single exclusive? That Sony is the most useless 1st party ever because their exclusive sales in the current generation exclusive sales were approaching zero?




Yeah, right after the supposedly huge ip Alan Wake fails to sell anything at all and it's demonstrated that as a whole Gears, Fable, and even Forza dramatically underperform.


Gears dramatically underperforms? What? 

Yeah, it does.  For supposedly being this gen's Halo none of the games in the series have sold anywhere near as well as the Halo games and when everything is said and done The Uncharted games will be neck and neck with its sales or maybe even a little higher.


Delusional?


Definitely not delusional.  When Gears was first being hyped back in 2006 it was either being hyped as the Biggest game since Halo or the Halo Killer by Mucrosoft themselves.  When you look at the numbers for Halo and Gears though, you find that none of the Gears games really sold at anywhere near Halo levels.

Sales of Halo games on Xbox 360:

Halo 3 Year Released:  2007   Games Sold:  11.67 Million

Halo:  Reach Year Released: 2010 Games Sold:  9.97 Million

Halo 4 Year Released:  2012  Games Sold:  5.52 Million

 

Sales of Gears games on 360:

Gears of War -- Year Released:  2006 -- Games Sold:   5.98M

Gears of War 2 -- Year Released:  2008 -- Games Sold:  6.56 Million

Gears of War 3 -- Year Released:  2011 -- Games Sold:  5.67M

 

In comparison to sales of the Halo games, the Gears games pale in comparison as a matter of fact none of the Gears games have even hit a respectable 8 Million Units sold.

 

As far as the sales of games in the "Uncharted" series go:

Uncharted -- Year Released 2007 -- Games Sold 4.44 Million

Uncharted 2 -- Year Released 2009 -- Games Sold:  5.97 Million

Uncharted 3 -- Year Released 2011 -- Games Sold 5.25 Milllion

 

Taking into account the difference in consoles sold this gen between Sony and Microsoft, the number of Uncharted games sold can certainly be said to be neck and neck with the number of Gears games sold.  And since the PS3 will pass the 360 in total sales at some point during the next two years, it's quite possible that the sales of games in the Uncharted series will surpass the number of games sold in the Gears series.



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hollabackenny on 12 December 2012
EdHieron said:
In comparison to sales of the Halo games, the Gears games pale in comparison as a matter of fact none of the Gears games have even hit a respectable 8 Million Units sold.

You mean like how GT5 is the only game to have passed 8million for PS3? What a valid argument. Especially since both consoles are roughly tied in sales, you'd think a game in the big Uncharted series would  hit a "respectable" 8 million....



Barozi on 12 December 2012

Really not going to add much to the topic, but to get a better picture you should try to sort out the bundles.

Forza 2-4, Fable 2 (or was it 3 ? or both ? I don't remember),Uncharted 1-3, Resistance, GT5, LBP, Infamous 1+2, Motorstorm & Ratchet & Clank ToD.

Also:

Dance Central - 2.91m (not 2.01m)
Dance Central 2 - 1.83m
Kinect Sports Season 2 - 2.11m
Guitar Hero 2 - 2.09m (plus missing EU sales so ~2.5-3m)

Console Exclusive:
Call of Duty 2 - 1.81m (plus missing EU sales so ~2.5m)
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 1.48m (plus missing EU sales so ~2m)


Really though ioi fucked up all of the older EU sales on the 360. I hope he fixes them soon.



EdHieron on 12 December 2012
hollabackenny said:
EdHieron said:
In comparison to sales of the Halo games, the Gears games pale in comparison as a matter of fact none of the Gears games have even hit a respectable 8 Million Units sold.

You mean like how GT5 is the only game to have passed 8million for PS3? What a valid argument. Especially since both consoles are roughly tied in sales, you'd think a game the big Uncharted series would  hit a "respectable" 8 million....


Gears is supposed to be the 360s biggest selling exclusive other than Halo, so its numbers are quite low to be in that position.  Uncharted isn't even supposed to be the Playstation 3's second best selling exclusive.  If GTA IV and FF XIII had remained PS3 exclusives, they would both have had higher sales than Gears or Uncharted.



Barozi on 12 December 2012
EdHieron said:
hollabackenny said:
EdHieron said:
In comparison to sales of the Halo games, the Gears games pale in comparison as a matter of fact none of the Gears games have even hit a respectable 8 Million Units sold.

You mean like how GT5 is the only game to have passed 8million for PS3? What a valid argument. Especially since both consoles are roughly tied in sales, you'd think a game the big Uncharted series would  hit a "respectable" 8 million....


Gears is supposed to be the 360s biggest selling exclusive other than Halo, so its numbers are quite low to be in that position.  Uncharted isn't even supposed to be the Playstation 3's second best selling exclusive.  If GTA IV and FF XIII had remained PS3 exclusives, they would both have had higher sales than Gears or Uncharted.

Right "if".
Also GTA was never a true exclusive.



hollabackenny on 12 December 2012
EdHieron said:
hollabackenny said:
EdHieron said:
In comparison to sales of the Halo games, the Gears games pale in comparison as a matter of fact none of the Gears games have even hit a respectable 8 Million Units sold.

You mean like how GT5 is the only game to have passed 8million for PS3? What a valid argument. Especially since both consoles are roughly tied in sales, you'd think a game the big Uncharted series would  hit a "respectable" 8 million....


Gears is supposed to be the 360s biggest selling exclusive other than Halo, so its numbers are quite low to be in that position.  Uncharted isn't even supposed to be the Playstation 3's second best selling exclusive.  If GTA IV and FF XIII had remained PS3 exclusives, they would both have had higher sales than Gears or Uncharted.


GTA hasn't been exclusive to PS since 2003. And what is supposed to be PS3's second best selling exclusive? Whatever it is, it must be dramatically underperforming.