You also have to consider COGS, its not going to be 150 dollars revenue per unit.
But thats where software comes in. Sony was in the whole because of R&D for a while, but still made some good profits off of software. So MS should spread that advertising budget, which is huge, across the hardware and all the launch games.
I see what your saying about Sony releasing alot of games, and how that can cannibalize some sales from each other. But when you think about it most of the games are different.
Say I like hack and slashers. God of War 3 would be the exclusive to get earlier this year for PS3. Heavy Rain also released in that same time frame. But they are both different genres. MAG also released in that time frame, but again, its a different genre. A lot of games, spanning multiple genres...
Wont be flying off the shelves? well, maybe not flying, but it certainly is selling from the latest sales data posted on N4G which said it sold 1.5million copies worldwide so far.
Well in the article they actually mention that. Saying that multi platform development hindered them a bit, since they attempted to produce an engine that would work across all platforms.
So Multiplatform development did hinder the project, as far as release date anyways.
Agreed, I love the beta.
Why all the disagree's? Is it because I mentioned PS3 or something else?
Oh well, opinions are opinions haha.
Sadly Sales
I like to play good quality games, regardless of how much they sell. But sadly quality is usually covered up or overlooked because another game sold more.
@hudsoniscool
Its funny I've always heard the exact opposite, that MS uses shipped numbers and Sony reports Sold. I always hear Sony at conferences saying units sold, unless I am mistaken.
Not saying your wrong, but would you mind providing proof of your claim. Haven't seen many people take that stance.
Edit: I agree Stan, they should all report the same figures then, all report sold or shipped. In reality the numbers should be a...
I agree, with above, VGCharts wasn't mentioned. In fact VGCharts doesn't even have that number of 1.5 million Move's sold. They have a much lower number.
But I do agree VGChartz sucks for accurate numbers if your looking for some. They can give a good estimate, but nothing else. They don't even update their Hardware sold for PS3, just updating the Xbox hardware sold. Not sure why, but it don't really bother me either way.
Agreed, good numbers indeed.
I don't know if Sony would release theirs, but im not surprised to see they weren't up YOY this month, seeing as how the Slim was released last September. Hard to top that momentum that was created at the time.
I wonder if Xbox will be up this year over last year. PS3 already seems to be on that track so far.
Yes, lets stop blaming the developers for their mistakes. Especially when other developers have come to grips with the PS3 and have made some very respectable games. Of course its Sony's fault for trying to do something different instead of relying on old technology just to make it "easy" for developers.
If anything them making it harder to code for is a good thing. Pushes developers more and makes them want to do more ambitious things. Unfortunately it does...
The video actually offers some good information for people that didn't know to much about HD TV's. And the video is not suggesting you buy a TV just for gaming. She is saying if you game more often than watch movies, you might want a TV with higher frame rates. If you watch TV shows or movies more often, the higher frame rates aren't as important. And most TV's will do all of those well, a lot of them are full 1080p and run at 60hz or higher now, so they would be good for s...
I agree completely. And one of the cameras, I believe the depth sensing camera only works at 30hz. So make sit even more unlikely that its faster than a button.
I agree, when I first played it through the Beta I think, it was awesome. I was so used to playing COD that it was a nice change of pace.
Haha, well exclusive to me would be only available on that one platform.
1 platform. Uno. Not 2, like PS3 and PC, no, thats 2.
Yea, Mass Effect 2 isn't exclusive anymore, might want to put another game in its spot.
Don't know why its being blindly approved without noticing errors in the article. But any other article with an error gets reported.
Okay, I get that they couldn't offer it for free.
But why 540 MS Points?
Why not 400? or even lower?
If anyone has any insight on this please reply with it, it would be appreciated.
Sorry, didn't know I had to "fight" for the free content release every 2 weeks.
Don't get me wrong, I don't like the approach they are taking, I want to be guaranteed the beta.
All of a sudden a beta comes along and everyones getting their panties in a bunch?
Yea I know it seemed like all Plus members would get the Betas, but oh well, we didn't, but this is still the best chance you have of getting in this beta, so i...
Its easy to say that, but honestly some gamers don't want to get up to change discs, so its unfair to just say that Xbox players don't care about switching discs.
Now if you can install it onto your hard drive, which remember not all Xbox owners can cause they all don't have hard drives, then I don't see a problem at all.
Just sayin
Actually Light the PS3 version of the game well outsold the Xbox version.
So lets think about that, more revenue from PS3 version. The cost of having to produce an engine just to go multi platform was probably expensive. So in reality going multi platform cost them more money having to spend that extra time on the engine. I don't know what they made off the Xbox version as far as revenue vs how much the engine cost to make. But the point is, the PS3 version netted the...