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Xoj on 18 December 2009

it looks like FPS To me



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ShadowSoldier on 18 December 2009

This should have been an exclusive.



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Tallgeese101 on 18 December 2009

People finished ODST and traded it in for Borderlands. With the exception of ODST (which had a 3 hour campaign and MP most people interested already had) it was the only big action game for 360.



Triple Chix on 18 December 2009
Aj_habfan said:
Three main reasons:

1. 360 has a much bigger userbase

2. It's a shooter which are generally more popular on the 360

3. It's much bigger in the USA than Europe, which plays against PS3's userbase


1.  The userbase is not different by 3:1

2.  This is a false.  There are more core gamers on 360 than PS3 and this is why it sold better.  It is an RPG/FPS not just a FPS so the appeal is to core gamers.  If you look at most core gamer games, they typically sell much better on 360.  The only difference is games that are associated to the PS brand...  Tekken, Street Fighter IV, Devil May Cry, etc. are associated with PS brand.  Games like Dragon Age Origins, Prototype, Brutal Legend, etc.  are not shooters but appeal to core gamers more and sold way better on 360.

3.  It is not much different on 360 throughout the world.  The percentage of software sales on 360 tend to be disproportionately higher no matter where you look...



finalsquall on 18 December 2009

too many new games on the ps3. I'm playing game after game, and now multi games. PS3 is getting flooded by great games - 1st party and 3rd party.



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kjj4t9rdad on 18 December 2009

We're to busy playing all the AAA games that came out this year to be bothered with another average shooter, which is exactly what Borderlands is.



huaxiong90 on 18 December 2009
Reasonable said:
Three things I can see in the sales as shown here are:

1 - the title sold way more in US on 360 than anywhere else, centering the US 360 FPS audience as key to it's success. Right now it's showing 0.75M in US vs 0.27M Others, a huge skew.

2 - when an FPS does well in US on 360 it's PS3 sales are almost always negatively impacted vs PS3 exclusives (obviously). Therefore in US the PS3 version got very little support at all with a current split of 0.22M to 0.14M in Others

3 - in general, very know franchises apart, if a multi-platform FPS does most of it's business in US then the 360 version massively outsells the PS3 version

And that's that. With titles like Batman AA and the like in ratio terms recently PS3 versions are actually doing better, with 360 seeing a smaller advantage vs the install base difference.

But not with FPS titles. This has never been the case. Heck, look at sales of PS3 exclusives in US vs outside US, and you'll see that for a PS3 title to do well it must sell well outside US and gain moderate sales in US. Borderlands simply isn't that title, having seemingly only went down well with the 360 FPS crowd in US vs more limited take-up elsewhere (both on 360 and PS3).

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Vetteman94 on 18 December 2009
kjj4t9rdad said:
We're to busy playing all the AAA games that came out this year to be bothered with another average shooter, which is exactly what Borderlands is.


You've played it to know this?    Cause Borderlands is far from an "average" shooter.  



kunaixhaku on 18 December 2009

same thing as asking why the 360 version of tekken hasn't reached half a million yet while the ps3 version will hit a million next week? they jus prefer shooters on the 360 and fighting games on the ps3...since most ppl nowadays own both consoles whichever it feels better on, they choose...unless a game is exclusive to a particular system it comes down to the preference of which feels better in terms of control, where the friends are and any minor differences in between them.



heruamon on 18 December 2009

I bought it, and sold that shit after Randy kept running his mouth about Valve...so that helped reduce the 360 numbers...lol.



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