Well done Siligon, that's ur first attempt at a sensible comment on n4g. Not that sensible tho, of course it matters who wins and loses from a public eye point of view. Who do u think gives these companies money? Us gamers no? So if I perceive (which I do) that the PS3 is doing so poorly compared to the past, I'm clearly not gonna get one, nor will I get their next console
As an economist I'll second that. Microsoft will likely benefit in terms of competition ie it will sell a larger proportion of all hardware due to the price, but will still see sales suffer due to the fact every1's a pauper
Microsoft are showing Square quite a bit of love, Square aren't gonna spit that back in their face are they? Square have said the 360 is easy to develop on and the fact it's taken them about 4 years to make FF13 on the PS3 (still no gameplay footage) and they're gonna be porting it in less than a year shows that they can't keep backing the PS3 any more. The install base just isn't what the 360's is, neither are software sales. If Square wanna tap the US market, the 360 is the way to go. All o...
Quite a few sites are saying FFvs will b coming 360's way. Square are probably waiting until FF13 is out, checking that the 360 version has dominated in sales (like with GTA) then will announce it's going to 360. I would've ended up having 2 get a PS3 for FF13, so them announcing it saved me a bundle. They said they were maximising the PS3 capabilities (as they always try 2 do with new hardware) and realised that they are basically the same as the 360. Just like every other dev. Gears 2 has t...
It's pretty obvious. Back then they had nothing to go on other than knowing that Playstation had formally dominated Nintendo, Microsoft and Sega. Now that they've got 5 million less than the 360 and thus have sold the least Square clearly took note. When pretty much every multiplat title sells more on the 360 it knows it'll be missing out on a huge amount of sales...like Halo 3 has sold twice as many as MGS4 (and altho I haven't played it, I'm pretty sure MGS4 is better). GTA 4 sold a few mil...
Well having a mandatory install is ridiculous? Why does a PS3 need it for so many games? I thought it was meant to be really powerful, and be able to read from the disc really fast? 360 can play all games fine without an install, why must we install on the PS3? That demo sounds sweet tho
Well shut up writing bull articles like this and come up with some amazingly revolutionary idea that could work as a game, go pitch it to a dev team and come back when they've said 'ur idea is awful'. If games aren't grown up enough, don't own a site about games, spend ur time thinking up 'grown up things' to put in games. 'As the medium that will lead youths into the next generation'? I played computer games in my youth, they were 2d and pixellated but I couldn't complain. Now that they're a...
Thanks for informing me of that, still don't think it'll sell as fast as Halo tho, for some reason a huge amount of people love it. It may be the 2nd biggest franchise but like I said, over half of PS3 owners will have to adopt it pretty quick to beat Halo's record...
What did I say that wasn't truthful? Look at the sales yourself, it's pretty clear the 360 sells more of most games...Japan factually bum final fantasy. And Halo's record is safe from GT5, I'm pretty sure of that...
Oh ok, least I got the 5 million gap correct so no matter. 360 doesn't need more first party games, Halo, Gears, Mass Effect, Fable, Ninja Gaiden 2 will all do fine thanks, since they're all AAA. No what it needs are the 'playstation franchises' (how are they playstation franchises? They're not made by Sony...) as quite a few of them are games I want, Devil may Cry, GTA 4 and FF13 would be a reason to get a PS3 but since they're coming to 360 I don't need 2. Y would I need more first party ga...
No fanboys are always right. However, Sony fanboys are often wrong. Until the PS3 has sold the same amount either of the other 2 competitors, it's losing, and until it starts bringing out amazing exclusives like the 360 it will fail to do so. I know PS3 has sold faster, but when it catches up let me know.
Yeah that's about 2.5 times as many as PS3 has. How can people even claim there's a console war between PS3 and 360? 360 = 20 mill ps3 = 15 mill install base...47 to 17 platinum games. An attach rate which is much higher...All the 360 needs is Metal Gear, tho can live without it...Killzone 2 looks good...LOOKS good mind, not is good. If it's like the first then Sony should flush it
Yeah 47 compared to 17. No wonder Square, Capcom, Namco and Rockstar decided to go multiplatform. The 360 versions of those games normally outsold the PS3 games, so they'd have lost a huge amount of sales had they remained exclusive. Even tho Japan bum Final fantasy I think it'll sell more on the 360 just cos of America. Making a game PS3 exclusive is more expensive and will sell less than if it's on 360, so why bother? GT5 will obliterate Halo? Are u drunk? There's no way in hell it will. Ha...
krakdol what are those numbers for? Did some1 ask? Didn't think so...PS3 has sold more in it's first 2 years than 360. That's not that surprising. Nor is it relevant. Sales to date is what counts when it comes to developers, as does the attach rate, both which PS3 is lacking. 360 came out a year before and has a sizeable lead because of that, but nice one for ignoring that fact...
The last paragraph in that article was the biggest loads of cheese I've ever read. The whole world should unite and every gamer should love one another. Yeah, or not. Rather there was some form of competition. I'm not surprised that the store assistant was appalled that that guys mate wasn't getting Gears 2. That's a blunderbuss
It's called PS3 fans crying over the fact that Valve don't see the benefit of learning to use the PS3 when it's this difficult when they could just make it on the 360, save loads on development and still sell a bucketload. Pretty much every multiplat game sells better on 360, including all of the former 'Playstation franchises.' Fact is, make a game on 360 and u have a lot more chance of making a mint. People who made MGS4 have sold only 4 mill and that's one of the most repected and establis...
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Their sales aren't great at all. Isn't baeting 360 and probably never will. And the attach rate is worse than 360. So it's getting whupped on software and a spankin on hardware. and that's just from the 360. I think Sony think that positive momentum is when u don't have negative sales...
Sony will continue to say things are going well. If they ever catch up with 360 in terms of hardware then they should start celebrating. 360 has sold more hardware and has a much higher average attach rate meaning more software 2. Sony is way behind on both fronts. Their reluctance to drop the price is harming them
Edge have always been ridiculously harsh for scoring. They gave Bioshock and Metal Gear 4 both 8/10 and they're both easily 10's, let's not joke about that. Gears got a 9 and R2 got a 6, seems that pretty much every1 loves Gears 2 (for good reason) and some people don't think R2 is that great and others think it's amazing. And Fallout a 7? Haven't played it but that seems off the mark as well. I think Edge love standing out and that's the only reason they do it. They're not biased, they're ju...
Yeah it probably will. I dunno why people are banking on it being so good. I know Level 5 are good devs and although it looks quite good that doesn't mean anything. It won't be marketed in the West and will flop hard. They'll go insane in Japan tho...Either way FF13 is gonna be about 10 times better. Spiteful PS3 owners who formerly heralded FF13 as something amazing forget that it still will be. Now that they're weeping over the fact it's not exclusive or gonna turn the console war around th...