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Forums - Sales - PS3 Q4 vs. XBOX360 Q4 = Uphill climb for SONY?

@psrock - You said ''What happened to q4 2009? The PS3 has Uncharted 2 and ? ?? , The 360 should destroy it starting with ODST's huge impact to Forza, left4dead 2 and 3, and Modern Warfare 2 which will kill the PS3 version.''

You sure thats all PS3 has for Q4 2009? Its more like this Blind man/kid. ummm... UNCHARTED 2 / DEMONS SOULS / RATCHET AND CLANK ACT / EYEPET: YOUR VIRTUAL PET / NINJA GAIDEN SIGMA 2 / GOD OF WAR COLLECTION With GOW3 Demo!!! / Pixel Junk Shooter and FINAL FANTASY 13 EXCLUSIVE IN JAPAN. I have both 360 and PS3 so dont even try to go there, PS3 is just giving me more choises than the 360. O and MW2 will do very well on PS3 youll see 4 your self when it comes out.

ODST (horrible game), Left 4 Dead 2 WTF im still playing L4D 1. C'mon Microsoft YOU really thinks im gona play these lame overpriced expansion packs while I could be playing Uncharted 2, MW2, Demons Souls,Ratchet and Clank and Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2. Only thing ill use my 360 for is Forza 3.




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Well your right about MS looking better for Q4 with Halo Reach, Fable 3 and probably Gears 3 but PS3 will pretty much dominate Q's 1-3 judging by the list of games you put down. I don't think a lousy Q4 for Sony will cancel out 3 great quarters.



Mr_Power said:

Games like The last Guardian, God of War 3 and Agent, however DO have the power to push console sales.


You do realize that neither ICO nor Shadow of the colossus managed to even hit 1 million sold? I highly doubt the last guardian will push console sales.

God of War 3 might and if Agent has even 1/4 of the impact that GTA3 exclusivity had on the PS2 then I agree with it too.



I wonder why most people seem to forget that Sony also has a motion controller, and of the two it will probably make it to the market first....



Chairman-Mao said:
Mr_Power said:

Games like The last Guardian, God of War 3 and Agent, however DO have the power to push console sales.


You do realize that neither ICO nor Shadow of the colossus managed to even hit 1 million sold? I highly doubt the last guardian will push console sales.

God of War 3 might and if Agent has even 1/4 of the impact that GTA3 exclusivity had on the PS2 then I agree with it too.

Shadow of the Colossus most definitely reached 1 million.



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TheDynamo said:

Playstation 3's Heavy Hitters for Quarters 1-3 of 2010:

Gran Turismo 5

M.A.G.

God of War 3

Modnation Racers

White Knight Chronicles

Heavy Rain

WAND LAUNCH PLUS UPDATES TO THE FOLLOWING: RE5(alt edition) LBP, Pain, Flower, Hustle King, High Velocity Bolwing, and EyePet.

And these new games designed for the wand:

Ape Escape

Echochrome2

Sing and Draw

Machi Suberi

Champions of Time

Motion Party

The Shoot

Tower

Michael Jackson SingStar (This is extremely likely... Not with wands though.)

The Last Guardian (maybe Q4)

Agent (maybe Q4)

Microsoft's Heavy Hitters for Quarters 1-3 of 2010:

Crackdown 2
Alan Wake
Splinter Cell - Conviction
Mass Effect 2

If Sony hasn't DRASTICALLY closed the gap on Microsoft by September 2010, how will they handle the following in Quarter 4 for Microsoft?:

Gears 3 (maybe)
Fable III
Halo Reach
The Launch of Natal Embedded XBOX360 w/New Games

You missed some games. Actually you also missed some 360 games (i think but i don't know which so i'm not gonna mess with that.)

 

Also Gears 3, Fable 3 and Halo Reach will have no impact on console sales. Sure the same might be true for some of the ps3 games, but you make it seem like those three are really relevent.. When they are infact not.



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themanwithnoname said:
Torillian said:
Meh, you're overthinking it. Even with its semimeager sales on PS2 The Last Guardian has a better chance of selling hardware than any of those three since it hasn't had an iteration in the current generation.

No, not really. Shadow of the Collosus didn't even break a million.

Are you sure about that?



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It makes so much sense to discuss Q4 2010 lineups now, really it does!



It'll be $250 and the only console with Blu-Ray + motion controls. Maybe they have sequels to Twisted Metal, J & D, Sly Cooper, and other well known IP's from the PS1/2 days due by then. Who knows? They'll have stuff planned.



  

Mr_Power said:
incorrect. A large percentage of Ps2 owners got 360s when they came out because they were core gamers who wanted the new core system at the time. A lot of them love The Last Guardian, for instance. But dont own a ps3.

TLG will push sales. I bet 100k more than usual the week it releases.

Where did you get your horrible interpretation of the words LARGE PERCENTAGE. Let me see, there are over 130 million PS2 owners and a large percentage bought X360 according to you (horrible logic btw) which would be at least 75% IMO, or I will even let you have 60% to be nice (though you said LARGE percentage). So 60% of PS2 owners would be 79 million. Now of course we would want to use the number of PS2 owners when X360 came out which according to this site was at 110.5 million, thus would be 66.3 million. Now let's take a look at X360 sales currently, oh wait we don't need to because they AREN'T 66.3 million even currently. Ok there goes that theory of yours debunked. To add more though, the sales for XBox original were around what, 25 million or so, so you are saying none of those bought the X360??? I will say that X360 picked up some of the PS2 owners but they also picked up a few new gamers (there are new people hitting the teenage years daily). I am bored with people claiming MS has stolen so much of Sony's part of the pie when there is zero proof at this stage in the generation. The Wii stole from both MS and Sony has more legitimacy even though we still need to wait until the dust settles.

 

As to the OP you bait your articles then pretend to be neutral. For example, you list the new Gears when it has been rumored by MANY sources that it won't be out this generation. This is 2009 and not all the games for EITHER console that will be out in Q4 2010 have been given release dates yet so you are being beyond premature. Natal isn't a given for Q4 (although I think MS will do whatever it takes to get it out) and you fail to look at Sony's wand (ugly ice cream cone sorry). The fact that Sony's wand set up is closer to completion and it has been mentioned by a lot of press (contrary to another poster acting like the industry only talks about Natal) means none of us know how the Natal vs Ice Cream Cone are going to work out, NONE of us.