Rpruett said: Xbox is Halo. Nintendo is Mario.
Sales are not some meaningful way to evaluate quality or caliber of a game. Sales reflect the consoles current (Price, Market position, Game library, User Base available, User bases game preference, As well Marketing of the game in general). Speaking of, I did not see ONE commercial on American TV before Kill Zone 2. Conversely, I saw billboards, Master Chief on Coke products, Mountain Dew products, etc.
Xbox 360 is a shooter console. Shooters sell on it better than PS3. It's a fact of the industry. Then again, Platformers, Action games, Fighting games and a whole host of other games. Generally sell better on the PS3 when you factor in the amount of people that own the system.
No one in their right mind would have suggested that Kill Zone 2 would surpass one of (If not the largest) openings in Video game history of Halo 3.
Sales do not reflect 'killing' of a game. If Kill Zone 2 is viewed positively among game players. It will garner further hype and further sales (And have excellent legs from people on the fence about it).
Kill Zone 3 then could become an established franchise with it's own fanatical following.
Halo 1 didn't sell that amazing initially. It garnered more attention and more attention. By Halo 2 it exploded with sales (Initiallly) and eventually many people owned Halo 1. |
That is a made up fact and I call bull crap on it:) Truth be told, multiplatform sells generally get divided pretty equal to marketshare. (i.e. 60% on 360, 40% on ps3). That goes for almost every game out there. You say figting games, so if we look at soul caliber 4 which has been out for a while now, the ps3 has sold about 45% to 360's 55%. When combine the consoles sale numbers, ps3 would have 42% and 360 would have 58%, so you can see the game divide's pretty darn evenly. While, if you were to look at assassins creed, which is a stealth/action/platformer, the ps3 has 42% and the 360 has 58%, which goes along very well with the system numbers. If you actually look at the games you would see that is pretty much how it GENERALLY is, with a few exceptions like devil may cry which is a former ps exclusive and therefore most of it's fans are ps owners. When people say the 360 is a shooter console, I tend to think it an ignorant statement, because to be fair, it only has like 3 shooters that the playstation doesn't, that being halo and the 2 gears. I would say it is an RPG console more than a shooter, because it certainly has a heck of a lot more rpg's than the ps3 has. However, like I said, multiplatform games are pretty evenly divided in sales, there isn't one core demographic that owns a system and only plays a certain type of game.