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naruball on 08 September 2013
Goatseye said:
naruball said:
Goatseye said:

I still don't understand why a whole nation decides to ditch titles like Halo,Gears,Forza and XBLA.
To me that's kind of missing a generation right there.
Do they have a unified center of intelligence that's connected to all the gamers? It looks like they have a singular taste for everyone.


You mean like how jrpgs don't sell well in the West? 

Wanna compare them to FPSs in Japan? TPSs? WRPGs? Western Sandbox games?

Sure, have you checked sales of Call of Duty, Halo and Gears over the years in Japan? They're not missing out any more than we are.



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think-man on 08 September 2013

Ps3 owners dont like games thats why :P



 

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Goatseye on 08 September 2013
naruball said:
Goatseye said:
naruball said:
Goatseye said:

I still don't understand why a whole nation decides to ditch titles like Halo,Gears,Forza and XBLA.
To me that's kind of missing a generation right there.
Do they have a unified center of intelligence that's connected to all the gamers? It looks like they have a singular taste for everyone.


You mean like how jrpgs don't sell well in the West? 

Wanna compare them to FPSs in Japan? TPSs? WRPGs? Western Sandbox games?

Sure, have you checked sales of Call of Duty, Halo and Gears over the years in Japan? They're not missing out any more than we are.

Just Pokemon Black & White sold more in US than COD,Halo and Gears put together in their whole existence in Japan.



Farsala on 08 September 2013

1:Multiplats used to be better on 360
2: 1 year head start (1.5 year in Europe is huge)
3: US dominance



Goatseye on 08 September 2013
Farsala said:
1:Multiplats used to be better on 360
2: 1 year head start (1.5 year in Europe is huge)
3: US dominance

2: UK. Xbox don't sell in the rest of Europe.



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Farsala on 08 September 2013
Goatseye said:
Farsala said:
1:Multiplats used to be better on 360
2: 1 year head start (1.5 year in Europe is huge)
3: US dominance

2: UK. Xbox don't sell in the rest of Europe.


Xbox sales are still decent in other european countrys and rest of world.


UK is about 36% of tracked as Europe. Then they got even more sales from the rest of the world, primarily european countrys imo.



Mr Puggsly on 08 September 2013
psrock said:
United States

Pretty much this. People in the US buy more games and that is where the 360 dominates the PS3.

Not all games sell better on the 360. But annually the 360 does move more software.



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vfguy on 08 September 2013

For me, I have certainly preferred the 360 version of multiplats this generation based on achievements and the better online experience. Even with single-player games or offline play it is nice to be able to party chat with people.

The 360 games are also usually much faster to get up and running with fewer lengthy patches and forced installs.

Therefore, I have bought probably 50 more games for the 360 than the PS3 this generation.



Cos on 08 September 2013

Let's look at the overall Software sales L-T-DPS3: 691 Million 360: 777 Million (Both Rounded up for this example) Xbox: 86 Million pices of softwar lead over PS3 Say what you will, but a year head start doesn't equate to this large a difference Xbox 360 Has outsold PS4 EVERY YEAR TO DATE, with the excpetion of this year.  This doesn't mean its a better system, but definitly has made it's compny a lot more money. Sony is leading this year by 10 Million pieces of software, maily becouse MS hasn't done crap for new IPs or software.  At the end of the day it would take the PS4 8+ years to catch up. It will be much different this time around, but 86 million pieces of software equates to over 1 billion dollars in extra revenue (estimated)



Scisca on 08 September 2013
Cos said:
Let's look at the overall Software sales L-T-DPS3: 691 Million 360: 777 Million (Both Rounded up for this example) Xbox: 86 Million pices of softwar lead over PS3 Say what you will, but a year head start doesn't equate to this large a difference Xbox 360 Has outsold PS4 EVERY YEAR TO DATE, with the excpetion of this year.  This doesn't mean its a better system, but definitly has made it's compny a lot more money. Sony is leading this year by 10 Million pieces of software, maily becouse MS hasn't done crap for new IPs or software.  At the end of the day it would take the PS4 8+ years to catch up. It will be much different this time around, but 86 million pieces of software equates to over 1 billion dollars in extra revenue (estimated)


Actually if you divide the number of copies sold by the number of years on the market you'll see that 86 mil is less than what these consoles sell in a year, so the X360 advantage pretty much comes from the year/year and a half headstart :P



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