Ratchet & Clank is a SHOOTER. Change it back.
Uncharted is a shooter / Gears of War clone. Change it back.
Ratchet & Clank is a SHOOTER. Change it back.
Uncharted is a shooter / Gears of War clone. Change it back.
saicho said:
and where is the data for PS3? How can we compare if you only offer data for one side?
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Ah, this thread is about laying to rest that the 360 = shooterbox console, this is not a comparison between the PS3 and 360. Just because I showed data thats different then the result you wanted doesn't mean its wrong.

| kowenicki said: @slumsofhio thats bogus... shooters are played online more for both PS3 and 360... because that is the nature of online play... its the FPS domain on the HD consoles. |
Online play? UFC Undisputed demo has no online play at all. But its on the list. Did they go by downloads then?

Yeah, you failed to put the 360=shooterbox phrase to rest, based on the replies on this thread. It's okay, the 360 owners (like myself) agree with this.

kowenicki said:
Yes I did put ratchett as a shooter and I put Killzone 2 as a platform.... can your brain work out what may have happened there??? jesus christ. Secondly adding in multiplatforms wont make jack difference as they sell pretty much pro rata for the 2 consoles concerned... Plus if the "world" knew the 360 was the shooterbox then developers wouldnt make exclusives that werent shooters.. after all who the hell is going to buy them? I have no idea what you are inferring by me selecting exclusives... perhaps you can enlighten me? But I doubt it. The generalisation is dumb and wrong... |
Well if that was a typo, maybe you should be more careful when making threads. And I emphasize that you should at least learn how to spell my name correctly. Jesus tap dancing Christ! It's not "Monatan" or "Monatana", it's Montana! You're making me sound like a Pokemon. But I think you'd be better off just trying to spell other words because I don't even know what you're saying in your second line.
I don't really care whose right and whose wrong. I actually agree with you in that neither the PS3 or the 360 are shooter boxes, and that most of the stereotypes are pretty dumb. But by acknowledging the people who say this, and making a thread whining about it, you're just stooping to their level. You're no better than them. And if you want me to enlighten you, I can (I think you need it). Picking a list of exclusives isn't a good idea because most of the exclusives are first or second party, and these companies make games to push hardware rather than sell well and make money (at least, most of the time). And as I showed before, the sales levels of some exclusives aren't representative of the userbase. Since you obviously need things repeated for you twice, I'll say it again. Too Human sold poorly and was considered a flop by many people, but that's in the 360's top 20 selling exclusives. Make any sense? No. The game didn't fit the interests of the 360 userbase, but it's still included in the list with games like Halo 3 and Gears. Hrmm...
| kowenicki said: Yes I did put ratchett as a shooter and I put Killzone 2 as a platform.... can your brain work out what may have happened there??? jesus christ. Secondly adding in multiplatforms wont make jack difference as they sell pretty much pro rata for the 2 consoles concerned... Plus if the "world" knew the 360 was the shooterbox then developers wouldnt make exclusives that werent shooters.. after all who the hell is going to buy them? I have no idea what you are inferring by me selecting exclusives... perhaps you can enlighten me? But I doubt it. The generalisation is dumb and wrong... |
The generalisation of saying that the 360 is only a "shooterbox" is dumb and wrong as most generalisations are.
Had you gone the way of saying: "I don't care about the sales, what matters to me is that a 360 owner has a wide variety of genres to choose from, and for each genre there are excellent games" then anybody would have had to agree with your argument.
But you instead went the way of numbers and sales and statistics to demonstrate that an average 360 gamer is not skewed towards shooters more than a different console owner, and there you point was not made, actually it failed in multiple ways.
1) Because counting games from a top 10 is empty of any real significance.
2) Because you chose to only count exclusives.
The numbers I pulled from this very site demonstrate a simple thing: if a random, average gamer goes into a shop and comes out with a big game (top 25) for the 360 then in 48% of the cases it's a shooter. If it's for the PS3 then it's a shooter in only 24% of the cases.
Doesn't this answer your original post about the inclinations towards genres of the 360 gamer? After all your OP started with:
"360 gamer = shooter whore.
The slightly aloof arguement goes like this. Sony has a more diverse demographic (pompous much?) and the 360 owners just buy shooters. However the following evidence of top selling exclusives would seem to disagree... actually it blows that myth totally out of the water!"
Please comment on these numbers, you've done enough patting on the back of those who agreed with you :)
people stop being horrible & hostile to kownicki
is saying ANYTHING good about xbox 360 illegal here?
MGS4 is NOT just a shooter.
You can go through almost the entire game without firing a bullet.

| WereKitten said: As someone suggested, I tried using the VGChartz categorization. If you take the top 25 sellers on each platform including multiplatform titles, then calculate the percentage of sales of each category versus total sales of top 25 you get: PS3 360 FPS 23.92% 36.58%Shooter 0.00% 11.68% Action 23.68% 7.64% Racer 15.83% 4.33% Adventure 9.57% 8.46% Platformer 6.18% 3.12% Sports 15.28% 5.11% RPG 2.35% 13.29% Other 3.17% 9.78% Edit: updated to latest sales data |
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| The Xbox Man said: people stop being horrible & hostile to kownicki is saying ANYTHING good about xbox 360 illegal here? |
Weren't you the one who said that Hitler should wipe out all the Sony fanboys in some kind of second holocaust?
So yeah, shutup.