Take a look at just how far Xbox fans in the media are willing to go to trash a major PS3 exclusive:
http://www.neogaf.com/forum...
That post is just a tiny summary of what was essentially a year long smear campaign by a major gaming website to try to trash Killzone 2 in the eyes of gaming public before it launched.
I wouldn't expect anythin...
"I think it's time people stop playing the victim card on this site and realize there are a even amount of disgruntle fans to go around from all sides"
Oh please...
A good example of just how threatened Xbox/Halo fans are of Killzone 2/3 just look at this post from someone who finally had enough of the Xbox fans at GamesRadar who had spent the entire year leading up to the release of Killzone 2 trying to trash the game in the eyes of the gaming ...
Fanboy Goggles
I don't see how anyone can not see the PS3 reaching PS2 numbers. The math pretty straightforward.
When the PS2 dropped to 200 dollars its sales were around 20-25 million a year for about five years then dropping down to the 10 range and eventually now down to around 6 or so million for 2010.
Sony reports they are on track to sell 15 million for the current fiscal year. That is with the PS3 still at 300 dollars and 42 million already sold.
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"what would it be like if we were to remove the duplicate ps3 sales numbers as well? "
Go right ahead. Take away .1 percent of the PS3's installed base...
Every report of the PS3's hardware failure rate has been sub .1 percent. Nothing surprising and just like every other console(except the RRoD plagued 360) and major consumer electronics device.
The PS3 is easily going to end up in the 120-140 million worldwide range.
With the PS3 being the third fastest selling console in history behind the PS2 and Wii it really makes no sense saying the price was too high.
There's nothing impressive about getting your existing userbase to buy millions of duplicate consoles due to you shipping the only console hardware in history with a know design defect resulting in a failure rate somewhere in the 50-60 percent range.
Take away the millions and millions of duplicate Xbox 360s and you end up with a userbase that is almost the same size as the first Xbox.
It really is amazing when you look at the Xbox compared to the Xbox 36...
One look at how many more PS3s Sony is selling worldwide in 2010 so far, 2-3 million already, there isn't really going to be any room for arguing.
The only reason it is still even being argued about is Microsoft still lying about their actual installed base by passing off their shipment numbers for the quarter as actual sales.
The PS3 is going to soon be far enough ahead that the actual PS3 installed base is going to be greater than Microsoft shipment num...
Xbox fanboys at Eurogamer still think it is 2006.
"And every other console ever made other than the PS3."
And every other console ever made other than the 360.
Sorry Ares84PS3, that wasn't meant for you.
"The Wii has a failure rate of around 1% or 2%, meaning that very few gamers have been forced to purchase replacements. "
Just like the PS2.
And every other console ever made other than the PS3.
Except that, no, the Wii, PS2, PS3, or any other non-Xbox 360 console, doesn't have anything remotely close to a 1 or 2 percent failure rate. That would mean that 1 out of every 100 console dies.
The Wii, PS2, PS3, and e...
"I'm pretty sure everyone already has a Wii. I think that's the main reason sales are down."
I wouldn't say that.
The PS2 has sold over 150 million worldwide while the Wii is only around 70 something.
If the PS2 can sell some 70-80 million more consoles than the Wii, the market isn't saturated.
Previous GT games have sold in the 10 to 15 million range. Hard to imagine GT 5 not selling similar numbers.
The GT5 Prologue demo alone sold 5 million copies.
"You can't compare an exclusive games preorder number to a multiplatform games preorder number."
5 million in sales just for the GT Prologue demo.
Previous games have sold in the 10 to 15 million range.
Graphics that make other racing games look a generation behind.
Features and content unmatched by any other racing game.
Yep, it's totally gonna bomb!
How about a gif response then:
http://i211.photobucket.com...
Sony is predicting 15 million for their current fiscal year.
Nintendo is predicting 18 million. But Wii sales have been falling quite rapidly while the PS3 has been rising. The PS3 is already outselling the Wii 2 to 1 in Japan.
I would assume the Wii will still outsell the PS3 this holiday, but that will most likely be the last time it ever does.
They most likely saw a standard online company's default shipping date. Very often these default to the the 1st of whatever year.
Why would you wonder about fake sales numbers?
Just more garbage to ignore from the discredited vgchartz fake sales site.
Not only do we have major gaming websites trying to trash major PS3 exclusives this, we have actual Microsoft employees doing themselves:
MS employee caught trolling GT5 release date
http://www.highdefforum.com...
And for the past two years, a pathetic Microsoft/Turn 10 employee that goes by the handle of chespace on ...