Munkeh111 said:
starcraft said:
I don't think equating the potential success of the shooters in NA for Sony with the potential success of GT5 and FFXIII in Europe and Japan respectively is intelligent.
The problem is, Microsoft has the US shooter crowd locked up, whereas they do not have the Europe racer crowd or the Japanese JRPG crowd locked up.
MAG is a LONG way off, Killzone 2 has been relegated to the sales dead zone (regardless of whether it is any good, there is a limit too how many systems it can sell in February). And Resistance 2 isn't going to bring in anyone that doesn't already have Resistance 1. Furthermore it is unlikely the Ps3 will receive a price cut prior to March (end of Sony's financial year) as the company doesn't want to loose too much. |
MAG is not a LONG way off, it is next year. Why is KZ 2 in the sales dead zone, GTA and MGS managed to move masses of hardware out of season, and I know they are much larger franchises, but KZ 2 will move some consoles, and having that game on the console will help people make their decision come chirstmas
Resistance 2 has improved in every way over R1, and people who bought the console for R1 would have been early adopters, R2 is going to have better reviews (well it has so far) and so will move a good number of consoles, though we only have a week to find out
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No this is largely incorrect. MAG was announced and will be out at the end of next year at the EARLIEST. It has absolutely NO hype at this stage. GTAIV and MGSIV could have launched on January 1 at 9am and they still would have shifted millions and a million first week respectively. Killzone 2 is the sequel to a bad game with most of the non-PS3 owning (i.e. the people the OP is talking about) either being unaware of its existence or aware that the first one was bad.
At the end of the day, early impressions seem to indicate that Resistance 2 will not be as good as Gears 2. I don't think there are many people in the shooter crowd left in in the USA, but the few that there are this holiday season are more likely to go to a console that can be had for as little as $200 and is launching what will probably be the shooter of the year in a week's time.
The people that really need to be caught in the US is late adopters/casuals. On that side of things the Wii is in front, the Xbox 360 is second, and the PS3 with it's enormous price tag is lumbering far behind.
