Seeing how the 360 has taken second place again, and how great the "awesome AAA+++ exclusives!!!!!1" ended up being, I don't think the PS3 has much of a shot at beating it anymore.
Looks like it'll beat my lowest expectations and hit at least 30 million though.
| El Duderino said: @ jimmay: I´d be impressed if MGS4 sells 4 million copys withing a half a year, 4 million PS3s I just can´t see. You can only count consoles sould within a somewhat short timeframe of the games release, otherwhise you could claim MGS4 has already sould 4 million PS3s since everybody who has one got it for that game... |
"But as always, technology refused to be dignity's bitch."--Vance DeGeneres
If it will, it will happen after the release of the next Xbox. In that case, PS3 will kinda defeat the Xbox 360 the way the SNES defeated the Genesis.
I think Lost Odyssey is going to say something about the 360's success. It will be the test to see if it can truly expand the demographic beyond FPS/Sports games.
Interestingly, I see Lost Odyssey and other jRPGs for the 360 more hyped on ps3forums than teamxbox.
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| FinalEvangelion said: I think Lost Odyssey is going to say something about the 360's success. It will be the test to see if it can truly expand the demographic beyond FPS/Sports games. Interestingly, I see Lost Odyssey and other jRPGs for the 360 more hyped on ps3forums than teamxbox. |
I'd agree about the Xbox's demographic last generation, but I don't think the sports/FPS label holds water with the 360. There's already 5 games that are million sellers on the console that are neither sports titles nor shooters. If you include racing games as separate than sports, there are 9.
scotland yard said:
I'd agree about the Xbox's demographic last generation, but I don't think the sports/FPS label holds water with the 360. There's already 5 games that are million sellers on the console that are neither sports titles nor shooters. If you include racing games as separate than sports, there are 9. |
I looked at the top sellers, and I do stand corrected. 3 of them are Japanese games. It just needs the Japanese RPGs because that equals alot of female gamers and "casual" gamers.
"Naturally the common people don't want war: Neither in Russia, nor in England, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, IT IS THE LEADERS of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is TELL THEM THEY ARE BEING ATTACKED, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. IT WORKS THE SAME IN ANY COUNTRY." --Hermann Goering, leading Nazi party member, at the Nuremberg War Crime Trials
Conservatives: Pushing for a small enough government to be a guest in your living room, or even better - your uterus.
FinalEvangelion said:
I looked at the top sellers, and I do stand corrected. 3 of them are Japanese games. It just needs the Japanese RPGs because that equals alot of female gamers and "casual" gamers. |
I completely agree with this. There's so much talk of Wii appealing to 'casual' gamers and a seemingly endless number of cutesy stories about senior citizens with their Wii bowling leagues, but the true driving force behind the Wii's success has been women. It's quite short-sighted that gaming companies have ignored 50% of the buying population for so many years. Efforts to sell to women have been paltry, at best, and patronizing, at worst.
Women will buy and play games that appeal to them -- and they don't have to be as ridiculously simple and 'feminine' as Barbie Horse Adventures. If you want to see the true power of expanding a game's demographic to include women, you need only look at the sales numbers of The Sims and World of Warcraft. The Sims is still the best-selling PC game of all time, and some reports have the userbase as high as 60% women.
Both Microsoft and Sony have not done nearly enough to attract these users, and it's no coincidence that their sales are lagging well behind the less testosterone-drenched Wii.
jimmay said:
No the title of this thread is when will the ps3 over take the xbox360. My opinion is it will over the 360 in 2009. By the end of 2009 i expect all the games i listed to have come out by then and atleast half of them to have come out by 2008. As for killzone 3 that was typo i meant killzone 2. |
We were just argueing about 2008 now your pushing it into 09? when will it end?
With regard to Call of Duty 4 having an ultra short single player campaign, I guess it may well have been due to the size limitations of DVD on the XBox 360, one of various limitations multi-platform game designers will have to take into consideration-Mike B
Proud supporter of all 3 console companys
Proud owner of 360wii and DS/psp
Game trailers-Halo 3 only dissapointed the people who wanted to be dissapointed.
Bet with Harvey Birdman that Lost Odyssey will sell more then Blue dragon did.
jimmay said:
I could give a long answer but i'll give the short answer instead. Sony isnt the only company with system sellers, but it has significantly more left to come out then the competition does by the end of 2007. |
Yes i agree, almost fully maybe no a huge ammount more but def more.....
When i mean this im just saying if xbox gets the boost like its supposed to like ps3 will get in early 08 /late 08, then will they still not be equaling out? im trying to say how can one have such a huge boost from games while the other cant? Thats all im saying. Im trying to say ps3 will need more then that if they want to retake the lead, they need to hit it right and hard.
With regard to Call of Duty 4 having an ultra short single player campaign, I guess it may well have been due to the size limitations of DVD on the XBox 360, one of various limitations multi-platform game designers will have to take into consideration-Mike B
Proud supporter of all 3 console companys
Proud owner of 360wii and DS/psp
Game trailers-Halo 3 only dissapointed the people who wanted to be dissapointed.
Bet with Harvey Birdman that Lost Odyssey will sell more then Blue dragon did.
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