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DMeisterJ said:
@ lafiel

Yeah, he seems to leave out all of the games that don't coincide with his wrong theory.

@ Crahsman

You seem to be a bitter individual who can't handle the fact of someone who looks for the truth, and doesn't believe fanboy rants from people who leave out information that makes thheir theory fall apart.

Fanboy!!! LOL

Unlike you I can handle the fact that although I love all Final Fantasies 1 - 10, With the 3 main people behind why they were good gone they now suck quite bad. 12 was awful and 13 wiont be much better.

I'm no fanboy and also I didnt ignore other sales, sales forPes and Fifa arent available on 360 at mo for some reason.

My point is the sales dont help with devs, and to devs sales are evrything!!!



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selnor said:

Good to see PS3 sales increase over christmas. I expect them to drop to last throughout the year again though.

However, Look at the game attachment sales on this site. Gaming wise for Sony this is serious trouble.

Call of Duty 4 has sold 4.3 mill on 360 and only 2.6 mill on PS3.

Uncharted has only sold a measily 1 mill.

Ratchet and Clank 750,000

The orange box is also dire on PS3.

My point is I take an educated guess that 30% of PS3's are sold purely for the Bluray films. It's the cheapest way to view Bluray. And these people arent interested in the games side.

This poses a big problem for Sony. Developers will be reluctant to bring everything to the console. And with these attachment rates so far behind 360, Microsofts machine remains firm favourite for devs first choice. And for that matter It's definately the gamers system. It's a shame because the PS2 was so good. Hell I still play mine now. Another problem Sony have is that the porn industry is and will always be exclusive to HDdvd because Sony turned them down(same thing happened in betamax era). So HDdvd will never fade away because of the porn industry.

Where Sony go from here I dont know?


Firstly I think the PS3 will actually outsell the 360 total for 08'. Huge exclusives, blu-ray gaining ground, possibly another price cut, strength in Japan and Europe.

1 million is not measly.  (Also The game will probably reach 1.5-2.0 million lifetime.)

Although I agree that a percentage of PS3's are being bought as Blu-ray players, I think 30% is far too high a figure. My guess is the figure is about 3-4%. This is just a guess however, as is your own figure.

PS3 software is doing fine. In Europe in particular it's doing great.

About the porn part:

"Sony dismissed the claims, saying it has no control over the licensing of Blu-ray, and has no problem with the adult industry using the format. "There's no prohibition against adult content," Lisa Gephardt, a spokeswoman for Sony Corp. of America, said. "We don't tell people how they can use the licenses they get from the Blu-ray Disc Association."

"Big-time porn studio Vivid has announced its first Blu-ray porn movie"

http://www.theinquirer.net/en/inquirer/news/2007/01/17/blu-ray-loves-porn-after-all



 

From my personal experience, the PS3 is being bought by a lot of people with its Blu-Ray movie and Media Center functionality as their primary motivation; this isn't saying that they are not buying games as well, but (once again, from my personal experience) they seem to be buying less games than XBox 360 and Wii owners.

Now, it is difficult to measure how statistically important these sales are because you would have to figure out how many games were being sold per user for every system and then adjust these numbers based on what should be expected based on the quality of the library.



Okay rocketpig

You want to denounce bundled games?

Let's take out Wii Sports and Play, and see how many millions the Wii software has moved.



its kinda a gime--it was marketed as a cheap alternative to the more expensive blu ray players, but it wont hurt them really



 

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@ Selnor

What does FF have to do with me being a fanboy. You have the guy from ME as your avatar, so by that same token, you are a MS fanboy? Okay then, thought so.



seinor is provocative joke &360 fanboy. He knows deep down inside the 360 is slowly but steadily loosing the battle, so he is just trying to have fun as long as he can.
Let him have his last moments.

Ps3 has sold more consoles worldwide than 360 for the last 4 weeks, and software sales improve all the time. Maybe it will take longer for the ps3 to overtake the 360, than his 360 will breake (because that's gonna happen any day now), but before the end of the year when half of the 360s no longer works, their software sales will sink to rock bottom.

How many sold 360 will still work at the end of the year???



Lost my faith in VGChartz. Too many stupid and ignorant Americans, even as moderators.

It's a shame, really. "The Boss" should do something radical about this Americanization, but it seems hardly feasible, so my days here are numbered.

 

DMeisterJ said:
Okay rocketpig

You want to denounce bundled games?

Let's take out Wii Sports and Play, and see how many millions the Wii software has moved.

Without those two games, the Wii has 14 Million sellers, that have combined for over 35 Million units sold;  the PS3 (including bundles) has 7 Million sellers that have combined for 12 Million units sold.



HappySqurriel said:
DMeisterJ said:
Okay rocketpig

You want to denounce bundled games?

Let's take out Wii Sports and Play, and see how many millions the Wii software has moved.

Without those two games, the Wii has 14 Million sellers, that have combined for over 35 Million units sold; the PS3 (including bundles) has 7 Million sellers that have combined for 12 Million units sold.


Beat me to it. Besides, I believe all bundled games should be removed when talking about software sales. No one makes any money from them and therefore, they're irrelevent.




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Im sure the difference (in COD4 and AC sales) have nothing to do with the 360's much larger userbase. Nah, nothing.



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