Wtf? Do they fail at reading or something? It says 62% for the library of games available.. that includes all of the PS3's exclusives, I doubt many people buy a system just for 1 specific game, which is why its at the bottom of the list. There might have been 1 title specifically that pushed it ahead of competing consoles but that doesn't mean you'll only buy and play that title.

I can't imagine buying a PS3 and only picking ONE exclusive.

I bought my console only because of Metal Gear Solid 4. I probably wouldn't even own one now if this franchise didn't exist.

I buy Nintendo and Sony based on their GAMES first. Features like reliabilty (lol), free online, wifi, blu-ray (for PS3) are extra icing on the cake. :)

I dont care about the bells and whistles.

GAMES GAMES GAMES

To be serious I bought my PS3 as a bluray player. The games were just an extra, I don't buy all games, only some exclusives. But yeah my PS3 is a media device. And if anyone wants to know I am 32.

I think the integrated applications the 360 has are very appealing to, maybe a causal gamer. So, I guess the presumption (article) would be that most games are on both consoles anyway.

This study is about ONLY PS3 PURCHASES. Meanwhile the wii has nearly double the sales due to mario and wii sports.

This is a horrible misstatement of the study that generalizes it to all consoles. It applies to ps3 as that was the only console studied. If you doubt this, note the console with almost twice as many units sold has no features and sells on Mario alone.

If anything this study only suggests people buy ps3 for blueray, not to play games. This argument gets modded into oblivion here.

Yep, I said its years ago, the HUB and Extras and online content will outpace games, who doesnt see this , is not apart of the new gen movement but old school

I got for Gran Turismo 5 only

I bought one when I realized there would be no other way to finish the Metal Gear Solid story or play Gran Turismo 5.

Finally, the free online play gave me that motivation to go out and get one.

"I can do what my 360 friends can do without spending the cash!"

I bought my 360 to play games. I bought the PS3 originally play games as well, but also for a Blu Ray Player and when I realized how bad the online was for the PS3 I strictly started using it for media.

Most of my friends are still on 360 due to this...
Cross voice chat and the other features 360 has over PS3 are keeping them over there.

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1. Casuals want to play CoD, Madden, GTA, etc. they are all on PS3 & 360.
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2. Casuals look at the price tag on the shelf 299.99 each.
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3. Casuals then see the PS3 w/ Blu-ray, Wifi, Free Online, and other features.
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4. Casuals purchase PS3.
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i bought playstation 3 because it's playstation, blu-ray and whatnot was just a nice bonus.

in all honesty if the ps3 didn't have blu-ray i'd still be using standard dvd for movies, i don't care enough to buy a standalone player. i'm a blu-ray consumer by default lol.

I was looking for a BluRay player, they were $200+ for a decent one. Given that the PS3 had just had a price drop to $300 it was a logical choice ... plus I no longer had a games console so I would be buying one eventually. So I killed two birds with one stone :)

So I'm in the same camp as Logosz (same age too!) in why I bought my PS3, I too don't buy tons of games ... with a family to take care of some things are more important so I only buy a few ones I like.

I bought the ps3 because I had a ps2 last gen, and all my game series were on the ps3. Also because free online was very enticing.

This is crazy. I was just thinking about this earlier. I was just surfing some game sites, cheaking the comments, and I realized that people who manly use the 360 for their gaming talk more about Live than the actual games.

I think Live is pretty cool, but I wouldn't place an online service or any other features over the actual games. That's just my opinion anyway. To others, Live or PSN or Steam or whatever services or features that gamers use may be the reason they game in the first place. I just don't really see the reason to have a gaming console, if the features are actually more important than the games.

E: Man what is up with the reply system lately?

why settle for features when one can have excellent exclusives also

well I originally bought my ps3 for the bluray alone. matter of fact the first year I had the console I had 0 games for it. Granted I was still playing ps2 games I had missed over the years and I had a 360. I did however know i was going to get games for it so the bluray was a value add. Other than that though the features argument is pretty subjective all around. Especially considering both the ps3 and 360 have more features than the wii which is outselling them both.

Nope, that list doesn't reflect my purchasing influence at all. I bought my systems to play GAMES. I don't even use the blu-ray player for movies on my PS3 and I bought my 360 to ensure that I could play every game I wanted to, regardless of what system it was exclusive to. If the Wii were cheaper and had more games that I like I'd have that too, as it stands it would just collect dust since I outgrew mario and zelda a long time ago.
Don't get me wrong, the features each system are a bonus, but that's all they are, a bonus. FOR ME.

because I know sony will bring me the best collection of games at any genre,
like what they did in ps1 and ps2.
That's the thing that microsoft and nintendo cannot do!!!

and i like games in many different genres and not just shooters, i also like blueray and other features to get the full use out of my hdtv becuase i hate wasteing money and not useing everything i got. I also love the innovation of games and genres sony has. Its a breath of fresh air to always find new games in different genres and play online for free.

I have a life so i dont need cross game chat and kiddy club bs, and kids swearing at me online. Im a grown man so i chose the grown mans console and when i play games I focus on the game and not the convo like its some tea party lol.

ps3 is just better and you would own one if you are a serious gamer. serious gamers dont just play shooters..

If this is true then explain the success of the F'N Wii. Its damn near bare bones

library of games,hello.

I bought the console with the most features and games.

Yes the PS3.

No one can argue against the fact that the PS3 has the best games and the most exclusive franchise. Anyone with half a brain knew this.

No one can argue against the fact that the PS3 has the most features.

PS3. It only does everything.

It was a mixture of both for me. I knew that the PS3 would have the games I wanted, but what really pushed my need to buy it was what else I could do with it. The PS3 was marketed as a media hub and that was what I was looking for with my gaming systems. "One system to rule them all" I am not a casual gamer by any means. I just don't spend money on stuff that I would not get everything that I wanted.

@slave2Dcontroller - The success of the Wii is due to the price for one, motion controls, and it is built for kids in mind. Systems like the PS3 and 360 are not.

Depends. If you got a hardware need, it might. But then people bought the PS3 for playing BluRay movies, which isn't pushing game sales that much.

I never even used a BluRay movie in my PS3, just to be sure I won't stress that laser any more than needed. A dead BlURay diode after just 3 weeks I got my first PS3 Fat 80GB was enough for me.

I bet most gamers buy a console for its games. If not, its fail and the console has been sold to non gamers IMO.

For LBP, Uncharted 2, GOWIII, Motorstorm 2, MGS4, Killzone 2 I think the PS3 has been a good investment for me. The other hardware features? Not so much. I also think that:

"In the study of God of War III--a PlayStation 3 (PS3) exclusive--Nielsen found that the new game title had some influence in the sale of the console, but far less than would have been expected. In fact, buying a specific game was at the bottom of the list of purchase motivators."

One shouldn't specify one game, but the mix of games over different genres, its total library, is that attractive or not.

Last but not least, we see that friends as fans of a system are the preachers for the system in their friend groups. Like I've been jumping into next gen early at the beginning of 2006 and my friends that are interested in gaming all own a 360, thats about 10 people that bought a 360 because the group that start playing online has grown overtime. Non of them bought a PS3. Only one guy thats reviewing games for the newspaper owns both, but just because he got them for free and needs it for his work. Oh and I got both 360 and PS3, and even the Wii.

For BluRays I would buy a separate stand alone player, so I wouldn't have a dead BluRay diode in the PS3 again...