The Wii's sales should be compared with the original Xbox and PS2, not the PS3 and 360. Until they can provide a hi-def gaming experience, their hardware should not be compared alongside.
Hmm... that is a lame list. The PSP continues to struggle in terms of games. If you look at GameStop's web site, the upcoming titles for the PSP only spans 5 pages, while the DS has 11 (of course, Ponyz, Dolphinz and Imagine titles make up a page or two themselves... sigh).
Without further ado, my comments on why this list won't mean a hill o' beans to the PSP success/failure stories this Christmas.
10. SWAT: Target Liberty. Hmm... a port of a franchise that star...
Newell vs. Jaffe in a cage match.
Awesome post, very thoughtful, no flaming in there at all. Bubbles for you!!!
Just wait... just wait... my dad will get your dad!!! Cry cry cry... blah blah blah.
Go stare at your PS3. You know why they never overheat? They don't get used!!!
You're listing LBP, KZ2 and Uncharted as AAA titles, and they haven't released yet. Let's not forget that Lair was supposed to be AAA as well. Don't count your chickens....
Halo 2 sold 8m copies. But according to the web site you link to, the big two that Sony are dependent on for the PS3, MGS and FFXIII, didn't fare as well in the PS2 generation.
In fact, MGS2 sold 7m, but MGS3 sold only half that, 3.7m. So MGS could be seen as a fading franchise... no?
Meanwhile, FFVII sold almost 10m copies on the PS1, but FFX sold only 5m on the PS2.
And don't forget that that's on an install base that is 4X that of the Xbox.
Always fun to see the big wigs flame each other.
When someone says, why should I buy your console now, your answer is "Just wait for the future." Sorry. I'm not putting $500 down on potential. I want AAA games and a better price tag.
Sony is trying to sell their console with marketing, because they don't have the games. And Jack is the car salesman at the moment.
The point here is that Jack is the one selling it, not Solid Snake.
Sony expects GTA IV to help it next year? Why?
MGS4 and FFXIII are what Sony is banking on. That and some new IP (Uncharted). HS, Lair and Warhawk have failed to inspire the kind of kick start Sony needed... there's not much to inspire a holiday push that will rival the Bioshock/Halo 3/Mass Effect machine that MSFT is driving into the holidays.
That doesn't mean it's game over, though, folks. MSFT may win the battle, but the war is far from over.
I'm sick of seeing great single player games get lousy scores because their multiplayer modes suck. Treat them as two distinct scores.
If Sony truly falls that far behind, not only do they have a ton of catching up to do, but a lot of the 3rd parties will simply HAVE TO port their games to the 360, just to recoup development expense. I know FFXIII is PS3 only. Okay, we get it. And maybe MGS4 stays on PS3 only as well. Will those two alone help Sony catch up? They'll make up some ground, I warrant, but I don't think they catch up.
So more pressure on 3rd parties to take all their franchises to where the install...
Okay, in the original Xbox lifecycle, MSFT was missing some genres that Sony dominated in. But in the 360 cycle? I don't know which genres you might be pointing to. Everyone assumes the 360 is only shooters... but they've got racers (arcade & sim - Forza), they've got RPGs (Mass Effect, Fable 2, Oblivion) and JRPGs (Blue Dragon, Eternal Sonata, Lost Odyssey, Last Remnant), 3rd person action titles (Gears, Conan). So what don't they have? Platformers maybe? But Sony doesn't really have a p...
Just Wait.
Can't we count the Wii as Nintendo's last gen offering? Shouldn't we be comparing Wii to PS2 and Xbox? When the Big N gives us an HD console, then we can compare them with PS3 and 360.
Even if x360 destroys ps3 this holiday season (and it certainly appears that it could, given sony's lack of high profile games/Home slipping)... that doesn't win the war. That's one battle.
"We're almost there?" To what? 2nd place? That's the same place they were in the last gen. So ending 2nd to Nintendo is their goal? And what happens after Halo 3? I love my 360, and I love the games they have on it... but I'll likely eventually get a PS3. So what's MSFT doing AFTE...
The topic isn't hardware failure rates; it's online. Xbox Live is an integrated, centralized structure for supporting online play. It's been around for like 5 years, so there's a lot of experience involved in it. Sony's structure is not centralized, nor integrated, and while they had online play in the last gen, it was severely limited. Sony will struggle to get their online strategy off the ground and accepted, as delays like this only further show how difficult it will be for them to catch ...
Sony's new motto: Just Wait.
Of COURSE the MSFT guy is gonna say mean things. But he's likely right. Sony's online strategy appears haphazard when compared to an integrated, centralized structure like Live. That doesn't mean that Sony's won't work; it's a different model, and one we're not used to, so it'll take some time to get accustomed to it... and in the meantime, everyone will compare it to the well-oiled Xbox Live... which also struggled in the beginning.
So this is really getting old. Sony's new motto -- which we hear on N4G all the time -- is "Just Wait."
Now here's another piece of software that slips into 2008. Is there anything left in 2007 to help spur PS3 sales?
I love Halo 3, especially with friends. It's a good time. The melee thing has been annoying me for a while, because I seem to always be on the losing end of the melee battle, even if I'm the first one to strike. So I'm glad I have the explanation on why this is happening. Other than that, I tend to agree on the maps. I hate shotty snipers, so I always veto that... My friends and I would really like to see a new Turf map; that was one of the best maps from Halo 2.
I was really ...