Bruce on Games is one of the worst 'analysts' in the industry. He is even worse than Pachter. There is little point in listening to what he has to say.

Gebx, don't you think your comparison list is a little, scratch that... I mean, VERY unfair when 3 of those games on the list, which are Lego Indy, Kung Fu Panda and Marvel Ultimate Alliance were heavily bundled?

Take those 3 away and other than the top 3 sellers, things do not look much different for either console.

Guitar Hero 3 was also part of a holiday bundle for walmart this past holiday, being given for free with every 360 purchase. Guitar + Game. Was CoD3 ever bundled with the 360?

Maybe Activision should do one of two things.

1.) Bundle games for both consoles heavily.

2.) Drop PS3+360 support other than Call of Duty and Guitar Hero.

When you see the real picture here you quickly realize just how bullshit this article really is.

Wow this was open from ages back. Hmm Yeeeeah it wwwould be better for everyone involved to just make better games but it isn't that easy, if they could just make better games then they would do just that.

7.54 million - that is the amount of lead the 360 got just from lego indiana, kung fu panda, and marvel: ultimate alliance...3 games that are bundeled into 360s. 

41.1% - the percent of the difference between the 360 and the ps3 in terms of software due to the games the are bundeled into 360 console sales but not bundeled into ps3s.

seriously?!?! do you think these numbers are that great when 3 of the top 5 360 games are heavily bundeled and the 360 has an extra year worth of sales (which makes a huge difference on really old games like CoD 3).

Hehe, yeah we know this... but investors don't...

Patcher is a perfect example, it doesn't matter how often you can be wrong. Investors, journalist, etc will keep coming back to them for info.

Agreed. Us wii owners are used to him spouting shit out of his mouth and making little to no sense. The reasons I think the Activision thing is more serious is not because Bruce yaps but more because of data like in ant fromtashkent's chart.

Quite true. Which is why I'm puzzled that an obvious MS shill like Bruce would advocate cutting HD development. He's not really doing his team any favours here.

@ Gebx

I was providing insights into the composition of your list, as having a list and providing an average for the sales of some of the games on that list is not very descriptive.

And the point of my final sentence is that bad games usually wont sell well, though I realize I should have expanded on that. Taking platform and userbase into account is important for how well a game does as well. You can't just expect one game to reach the same attach rates on both platforms, because the platforms have a lot of similarities.

To add to the whole thing though, three of the games on your 360 list were quite heavily bundled, and some games that were released a long time ago will have felt a greater impact from the smaller PS3 userbase, like Guitar Hero III or Call of Duty 3.

I'm not saying you are wrong, but looking at it from a perspective of black and white with no other nuances won't get you the full picture.

Moot point... even if we took out those numbers (31.12 million - 7.54 million = 23.58 m), the 360 number ends up being almost double the PS3 number and the attach rate is 0.77(360) vs. 0.53(PS3).

Your argument doesn't prove anything, it still shows Activision titles struggling on the PS3.