Do you think your average consumer cares about review scores? Some of the best selling games of this generation are under 80% on MetaCritic, and I doubt many of the 90+ would be in a top 10/top 20 selling games so far.
I always find it funny when people comment that Sony withstood Kinect, Halo, 500 million dollars in marketing, and make it sound like Sony was sitting idly by as it happened.
They had Move and GT 5 in the same time period, and if anything the fact that they didn't sell better is more telling.
As I stated before, at this rate, the race for 2nd/3rd is just for fighting amongst fans, it really only matters at the start of a generation when securing exclusive...
Except they didn't quote the number which I believe is something like 50.7
People say that, and it isn't wrong.
But Pachter is an American-based analyst, why should he factor in how they are doing in Europe and Japan when his main clients are in the States?
I mean ideally, you want a system with a ton of games that sell well and get people to buy the console.
Its not like the 360 and Wii don't have good games...
That was an interesting article, at first I was gonna say the cost/benefit probably wouldn't really be worth it. I mean Dante's Inferno had a commercial last Superbowl and it did nothing for the game
You do realize these numbers are from MS and Sony's financial statements?
Not some website or forum, right?
You can find it on their website somewhere.
Honestly, the notion of 1st/2nd/3rd place is only important at the start of the generation, and even then it wasn't the case for this generation.
You want your console to be first so that you get the bulk of 3rd party support and key exclusives. As we know, things didn't work out at all like that this generation.
Now its just a bragging contest.
I never get why people make it sound like Sony was weathering a storm.
They released Move and their biggest franchise in GT 5, so it was a comparable time for both companies.
I think because its an American centric show, and the gap between PS3-360 is much larger in the States.
Since they've had Twilight Princess... and Twilight Princess since then...
(I count the handheld versions differently)
They also released it on GameCube, could have just bought that version...
I think people like to re-write history, PS3 was declared the winner of this generation long before it started. Nintendo was gonna be a footnote, and MS would carve a bigger niche for itself.
Only after the price and the piss-poor showing at e3 did things turn against Sony. Even then, you still can't say its an accomplishment ro lose 1/3 of your market share, and wipe out any profits you made during the PS1/PS2 era.
At the end of the day though, its the first number that is more important. Granted, at this point in the generation, the total number really means so little. 3rd parties already made their beds.
I've noticed that as well, but its easier to talk sales when its in your favor.
Probably won't get much for this comment, but its an achievement for the 360, its kind of a disappointment for the PS3.
I mean really when you are coming from the number 1 console by a LARGE margin last gen to fighting for 2nd/3rd and at 1/3 the sale of your last console... its hard not to see it as a disappointment.
So you think its better to milk a franchise in one-gen rather than spread out over 25 years?
Or one of the 85 million people who own it. :P
And that doesn't even touch their handheld offerings, which people seem to ignore when discussing Nintendo and IPS.
Wow, this article is just... well I guess bad.
How is it Nintendo went from being the underdog from the Cube to the Wii and now are the underdogs when going from the Wii to I guess the Wii 2.
Everyone points out what Nintendo does wrong, and how MS and Sony are nipping at their heels, but when you are the front runner, and not by nickels and dimes, you are obviously the one who did something right. HD graphics are nice, no one would deny that, but how many of...