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It is a very Japanese game but the worldwide PS3 audience is generally more open minded and into various genres and themes as compared to the 360 audience, IMO. We see this with basically any multiplatform game that isn't a shooter involving bulky, steroid filled space marines or aliens, or generic sports games.

It's been like this since the PS1 days when there was a multitude of genres and themes to choose from. It's great to have variety, you know?

I would like to know what ya'll are basing this "PS3 fan's like a bigger variety" argument on. I like Xbox more and I like a variety of game's, So you are wrong about me so how many others are you wrong about. Most of the people I know that have just a PS3 play the same games I am playing, they have similar taste when it comes to games. So why do you act like the two different fan bases are different races or religions. It sounds stupid, and you are dead wrong. Also the highest selling type games are the same on both systems. To be honest I think Xbox has more variety than PS3, I can't think of a real RTS on PS3. I am not sure, they may have a bunch of them, but please stop trying to make you senseless opinion sound like a fact.

Shooters and sports games tend to do better on the 360, although there are some exceptions, while more nichè games do better on the PS3. Why do you think games like Yakuza 3+4 and Valkyria Chronicles will never see the light of day on the 360? They're obviously very Japanese influenced or themed, and are generally more nichè titles.

It's also reliant on install base, most of the 360's worldwide sales are in the USA, most of it's sales are shooters as the Halo and Gears of War franchises helped polarize the XBL community to be predominantly shooter players.

The Wii may lead in worldwide hardware sales but for the most part has little to no hardcore games and users, most only use theirs for an hour or two a week to humor company with party games. There's nothing wrong with that, it just shows in sales when more hardcore games struggle to even break the 1 million mark, arguably the breaking point when developers start to see profit on the Wii (after Nintendo's fees and development costs).

The PS3 has solid worldwide sales, especially in Asia because it's arguably the only "hardcore" Japanese console available. There's a mix of Japanese pride and poor marketing going on in the East if you ask me. Not only is it hard for Microsoft to break into the Asian market but they aren't going about it the right way.
They've only been securing timed third party exclusives at best while neglecting other issues like their nonexistant first/second party studios, heavily advertising in the Americas and some of Europe while they only lead in hardware sales in the Americas.
It seems to me like they've had somewhat of a half-assed strategy to try to break out into other territories with the 360, securing timed exclusives and DLC while shutting down what they should be building up: first and second party studios. If they had as many as Sony or Nintendo they could be pushing out more exclusives, more variety to market to different regions as well (as we all know certain game types don't do well in certain regions).

Many writers and websites were crying that the day of exclusives is long gone, if you ask me, we've never needed them more.

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Fair enough I guess. I still don't really agree, but thanks for having a discussion instead of just calling me a troll followed by a list of insults. I just see people say that on N4G all the time, and in my life experience it's not true, but I didn't know if there was a reason I see it repeated so often. Anyways thanks again for the civil post.