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Killergran on 07 September 2009
TWRoO said:

Is this some kind of competition to get the most "MGS4"s into a reply?

Besides the Ps3 was outselling the X360 before MGS4 as well: http://vgchartz.com/hwcomps.php?cons1=Wii&reg1=All&cons2=PS3&reg2=All&cons3=X360&reg3=All&start=39537&end=40055

What I see, is a PS3 outselling X360 by about 50k or 25-30%.... GTAIV as a platform seller had been working it's magic long before this of course, but in the run up to GTAIV the X360 caught up somewhat and they were selling roughly even (though PS3 still in the lead)... GTA players are majority casual PS2 owners (ie last gen had a PS2 with just 3 games, all of them GTA) and as such the X360 recieved a better boost because it was a cheaper way to get GTAIV. Metal Gear Solid 4 came out with a "last chance to get a Backward compatible PS3" model, and managed to spike PS3 sales with a short lasting effect for a couple of weeks.... After MGS4's 2nd week, the PS3 was already doing comparitively worse at outselling X360 as it was before GTAIV (about 40-45k or 25%)

That is not system seller material.... you can generally tell a system seller by the fact that the game at least makes an attempt at 10 million sales... usually succeeding.

Thanks TWRoO, sparing me the trouble.



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