mrstickball said:
The problem is your singing the heralds of PS3's first week, which had it's best market in Japan. When that happens for a 360/PS3 game, it usually doesn't end up very good, unlike SFIV which it's primary market wasn't Japan. If you want to gloat over a few people that were dumb about 1st week sales, that's fine. But given the skewing of sales - large NA gap, no Euro gap, large JP gap, it's pretty obvious where it's going to go. The PS3 version of RE5 may sell another 50,000-60,000 units in Japan in it's entire life....That's really not telling of PS3 platform domination, considering the fact that NA will account for a very significant portion of RE5 sales when everything is said and done. And for every SFIV, I could give a Guitar Hero or Lego game example, and prove the exact opposite: That the 360 does very good on games that aren't shooters. Come back in 3 weeks. If the PS3 version is still leading by anything discernable, you may have a point. But with a 160k week-1 gap in America that is unlikely to ceede to the PS3, I don't think this one is gonna be too close in the end. The 360 will wind up with a 500,000 unit worldwide gap. Which won't be bad, given the fact that Resident Evil has always been a Playstation franchise, and this is the first RE that a MS system has ever got. Heck, being in the same area is quite a feat for it. |
The idea people throw around these forums is thatps3 doesn't sell games. It's owners all watch movies, etc. In reality, ps3 holds its own in every genre except shooters. The problem with games like guitar hero and lego is the fact that those are casual games. Our users here like to show that the 360 is teh hardcorez choice with the magic attach ratios. The fact that guitar hero and lego perform best on wii is more proof of their intended market. The 360 is actually the console with more casuals than the ps3 simply by price tag alone.
My apparent gloating may appear that way but that really isn't the point. It's just a need to dispel stupid ideas that keep getting regurgitated on the forums. At the end of the day, RE5 looks like it was built with america in mind and the 360 still has double the userbase here so I agree that it's version would ultimately overtake. Howver, ps3 will always have the higher attch ratios. That one's for sure.
RE may seem like a PS franchise but it did lots of branching even when the ps was the dominating platform so I won't be quick to call it a PS only series to the class of say Devil may Cry. Also, the RE now isn't the same as the versions that only appeared on ps platform (not saying that I know what it could mean but it feels like a new franchise really).
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