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Forums - Sony - Will 2008 Be Playstation 3's Year Of Domination?

ministaff on 17 May 2008

if you look in my sig then you will see when i believe ps3 will pass the 360 in sales. even thought technically 360 is in last place cuz it has the lowest average consoles sold per week. the only edge it has over the ps3 is the 1 year lead. without that the 360 is nothing. as for exclusives i personally think that the wii has the best, then ps3 the 360 in last place.



the nintendo wii will outsell the ps3 and the 360 combined by the end of 2008.                           

        PS3 will out sell the 360 june 2010.                                                                      

  GOTY of 2008 is super smash brothers brawl.... hopefully.

END OF 08 PREDICTIONS:

Wii: 45 million         xbox360: 26 million       PS3: 19 million (made beginning of 08)

wii: 44 million         xbox 360: 24 million      PS3: 21 million (made june 08)

wii code: 8094-5344-2140-1400

brawl code: 5412-9565-3232   

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The_God_of_War on 17 May 2008

Someone I just spoke to in another forum thinks the PS3 will overtake the 360 in SEPTEMBER of THIS YEAR because of MGS4!
He/she thinks 3 million PS3's will be sold in Japan starting from MGS4's release until September. He/she seems to be an intelligent person, but this is one hell of a bold prediction. MGS4 should close the gap by a fair amount, but this is insane.



  

Captian_Twig on 17 May 2008

No.



Sky Render on 17 May 2008

I wonder where this misguided idea that the MGS series is the "GTA series equivalent in Japan" comes from; it's not. Not even remotely, in fact. The game series which closest mirrors GTA's success outside of Japan, in fact, is Dragon Quest. Final Fantasy is a distant second in comparison; it's rare for a new series-mainstay DQ game released in Japan to sell to fewer than 3.5 million. And like GTA games outside of Japan, DQ games in Japan are very front-loaded in sales; most everybody gets a DQ game as soon as it comes out there, if they can manage it.

The short of it is that MGS4 is not going to do nearly as much for the PS3 (especially not in Japan) as a series-mainstay Dragon Quest game would. Or even a series-mainstay Final Fantasy, for that matter. The former isn't on the PS3 release schedule, and the latter has been in "development Hell" for the last 2 years. So don't expect some sort of mass core-market breakthrough in Japan for the PS3 any time soon.



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FinalEvangelion on 17 May 2008

PS3 will most likely get second place, which really doesn't matter too much to me, as my two favorite consoles (360 and PS3) are both going to be second place consoles this generation.



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PSaiki on 17 May 2008

In 2009 Ps3 will take 2nd place.



stranne on 17 May 2008

Xmas 2008...BUSTED

Xmas 2009...PLAUSIBLE



PS360ForTheWin on 17 May 2008

2008 will be great for the PS3, it will close the gap on the 360 to 2-3m by 31/12/2008 largely thanks to majour releases like MGS4, LBP, Resistance 2 and increased blu-ray adoption.



The_vagabond7 on 17 May 2008

Mathematically speaking it's going to take the PS3 at least two years to catch up to the 360. For it to happen any sooner either the 360 would have to crash and stop selling, or the PS3 would have to all of the sudden have wii like numbers. And as much as fanboys assume that either if not both of those scenarios are likely or even certain, they are not. The sales pattern that you see now is going to likely be the one for a good while since Sony has said they aren't cutting the price again any time soon.



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PS360ForTheWin on 17 May 2008
The_vagabond7 said:
Mathematically speaking it's going to take the PS3 at least two years to catch up to the 360. For it to happen any sooner either the 360 would have to crash and stop selling, or the PS3 would have to all of the sudden have wii like numbers. And as much as fanboys assume that either if not both of those scenarios are likely or even certain, they are not. The sales pattern that you see now is going to likely be the one for a good while since Sony has said they aren't cutting the price again any time soon.

have u factored in majour releases and inceased blu-ray adoption? im not a sony fanboy, i have all 3 consoles, i do think PS3 will catch the 360 in less than 2 years though.