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Pristine20 on 28 April 2009

@OP

I used to think you were above fanboy banter...how disappointing.



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Phrancheyez on 28 April 2009

Splinter Cell date - working on it? Horrible comeback..

Forza 'strangely announced' cuz a dev said 'Forza'? worse comeback..

I bet you GTA DLC won't be October either..

In terms of quality games, 360 doesn't hold a candle to PS3 lineup..I'm sorry. ODST will probably be the highest selling game of the 4th quarter, but PS3 owners will have a lot more quality titles to look forward to.

The only game on 360 I'm looking to get this year is Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 so I can play online with my friends. The rest of the lineup doesn't excite me at all. And it's no surprise that I like the PS3 more - I've openly said it. But I don't hate the 360, I do own about 8 games for it and I look into and buy games that appeal to me. There just aren't ANY coming out that really appeal to me.

To be honest, however, I don't see the strategy in Sony releasing all these titles this year. Don't get me wrong - I want great games. But if Trico, Uncharted 2, God of War 3, Gran Turismo 5, Final Fantasy XIII (which is a game I've clearly changed my tune on since I've hated the past few, this one looked a lot better tho), then what is there really to look forward to? Not to mention I can't play and beat all those games at the same time, including COD:MW2, inFamous, etc. I need time between releases, I hope a few titles are pushed to february or march of next year just for that purpose alone. However if they all drop this year, this will probably be the largest release year for PS3 ever, and might remain that way for the rest of the consoles life span.



jaddow on 28 April 2009

band this guy ,if it was the other way around they would have band him



Euphoria14 on 28 April 2009
DirtyP2002 said:
One_touch_KO said:
No game can counter Halo ODST on the PS3.

But if you look at the Wii Front easily you get some games that will ridicoulously outsell Halod ODST by a insane margin:

- Mario Kart Wii
- Wii Fit
- Wii Sports Resort

I don't thing that this xmas hit for the Wii will be that sucessfull at the point to stand aside of those 3...

 

 That is why I said "PS3 has no game to counter Halo ODST this year". Nobody talked about the Wii here. Why do you guys always bring up the wii when there is obviously nobody talking about it? This is about Halo ODST on the 360 and the possible counters on the PS3. That's it.

You know, I had almost the exact same thing typed out and I thought "I don't want to act like a dick", but I am glad you said it.

Title makes no mention of the Wii, strictly a PS360 conversation.

 



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DirtyP2002 on 28 April 2009
Euphoria14 said:
DirtyP2002 said:
One_touch_KO said:
No game can counter Halo ODST on the PS3.

But if you look at the Wii Front easily you get some games that will ridicoulously outsell Halod ODST by a insane margin:

- Mario Kart Wii
- Wii Fit
- Wii Sports Resort

I don't thing that this xmas hit for the Wii will be that sucessfull at the point to stand aside of those 3...

 

 That is why I said "PS3 has no game to counter Halo ODST this year". Nobody talked about the Wii here. Why do you guys always bring up the wii when there is obviously nobody talking about it? This is about Halo ODST on the 360 and the possible counters on the PS3. That's it.

You know, I had almost the exact same thing typed out and I thought "I don't want to act like a dick", but I am glad you said it.

Title makes no mention of the Wii, strictly a PS360 conversation.

 

 

 you see, at least one point we do agree. We can build up on that!



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Euphoria14 on 28 April 2009

you see, at least one point we do agree. We can build up on that!

 

No worries about me agreeing or not. I could care less about sales I just want to do some gaming. PS3, 360, doesn't matter to me.



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Fei-Hung on 28 April 2009

so the OP is only trying to make 1 point:

regardless of how many great games sony releases, odst sales being higher is the only point worth talking about? okay, i'll agree with the op. 360 games and 360 will be > ps3 line due to them selling better.



Fei-Hung on 28 April 2009

lets just agree with the fanboys or these threads will last forever with no conclusion.



FilaBrasileiro on 28 April 2009
MontanaHatchet said:
The 360 should sell more software for the simple reason that its userbase is bigger. If I were Sony, I wouldn't worry about Forza 3. It really wasn't a big series until bundling started, and I expect Forza 3 (if it comes out this holiday season) to be outsold by Need for Speed with all platforms combined.

Microsoft said early on that they will attempt to control each holiday season by flipping between the Gears and Halo IPs. This is why we won't be seeing a Gears of War game on the PS3 any time soon, because Microsoft isn't going to give it up.

I don't know enough about Halo: ODST to make any predictions, but I'd be more worried about what the Wii will do. Even the 360's biggest hits might not look so big compared to what the Wii could do. And of course, these are all hypotheticals.

 

I can safely assume that Epic's asking price to keep Gears exclusive has gone up. Will MS pay? Will it be worth it to pay a lot of money for just one game? Stay tuned.



Jereel Hunter on 28 April 2009
The said:
DirtyP2002 said:

Hey guys,

we know PS3-fans like to hype their games, especially on this site. We saw this with Resistance2 and LBP last year and with Killzone and inFamous this year. But the sales were not as huge as some might have hoped. Some people said Resistance2 had a chance to outsell Gears of War2 or LBP would be the entrance for casual gamers to get a PS3.

Last Xmas the Xbox360 crushed the PS3 especially on the software-side. Here is a comparison of the last Xmas lineup. First the most successful multiplat games

  1. Call of Duty World at War - Xbox360: 5.33 million ; PS3: 3.19 million
  2. Fallout 3 - Xbox360: 2.29 million ; PS3: 1.38 million
  3. Far Cry 2 - Xbox360: 1.35 million ; PS3: 950k
  4. Dead Space - Xbox360: 770k ; PS3 580k

The top selling exclusives:

  1. Gears of War 2 - Xbox360: 4.8 million
  2. Fable 2 - Xbox360: 2.70 million
  3. LBP - PS3: 2.16
  4. Left 4 Dead - Xbox360:  2.09 million
  5. Resistance 2 - PS3: 1.57 million

So Xbox360 won last holiday season.

This season, it is all about the release of GT5. That is the only exclusive game that could outsell Halo ODST. If GT5 gets a 2010 release, this years holiday season will be like the past. Halo ODST will do even crazier numbers than Gears of War 2 did. God of War will do good numbers but nowhere near Halo ODST. The 2009 release of God of War 3 is still doubtful btw. Forza Motorsports 3 is very likely to be released this holiday season. Games like Heavy Rain, Resistance, Uncharted 2 just do not have the impact like a Halo this year or a Gears of War last year.

Multiplat games like Modern Warfare2, Bioshock2, Assassins Creed2 will sell better on the Xbox360, too. So I expect the Xbox360-Software to outsell the PS3-Software by a decent margin. Just like last year.

Do you agree? Which PS3-game could match Halo ODST saleswise?

WOW. I didn't know the PS3 X-mas lineup had done SO WELL. Thanks for the data. And look at all those third parties putting up big numbers for a system outsold 2:1 that holiday period. So nice to see that.

OT: Let's see how that works for you next christmas. Hopefully MS can cut the price again and go bankrupt when their sales can't do better than that.

I love when people say things like this. Do you even know who Microsoft is? If they gave away 10,000,000 360's for free, they'd still be BILLIONS in the black for the year, unlike Sony.