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Is the PS3 stuck in third place?
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The Wii sales will overtake 360 sales sometime in the near future. And then the PS3 lags behind by quite a big amount of units.
On the latest 1UP Yours, it was mentioned that if ALL 360 sales were ceased, it would still take the PS3 thirty months to catch up (given it sells the same amount it's selling now).
It seems obvious the Wii will be the sales giant of this generation.
Does the PS3 really have any chance of overtaking the 360 or the Wii?
On the latest 1UP Yours, it was mentioned that if ALL 360 sales were ceased, it would still take the PS3 thirty months to catch up (given it sells the same amount it's selling now).
It seems obvious the Wii will be the sales giant of this generation.
Does the PS3 really have any chance of overtaking the 360 or the Wii?
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Didn't Sony say that they actually believe in selling 10 million PS3s in the fiscal year of 2007?
Nintendo is Doomed.
But they will pay big bucks for exclusives, so it will still get good games.
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Are they stuck? I dunno. They are a bit more competitive in Japan than Microsoft, so they still have an ok chance to make some damage when the big hitters arrive over there.
When is that going to be? Well, quite some time from now to say the least.
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"Sony have been talking financials today, confirming their Q1 2007 results, revealing their sales to date and projections for the future. Perhaps most notably, the company are predicting PS3 worldwide sales of 14.5 million by April 2008.
Back to the present, however, and at the end of Q1 worldwide sales of the next-gen system stand at 4.48 million units. Q1 sales totaled 0.71 million worldwide, with the majority of the consoles sold so far being shifted in Q3/4 2006. The platform holder needs to sell 10.29 million units in the remaining three quarters of the year, to hit the 14.5 million target. That's quite a lot."
Copied from the video game sales thread.
FF XIII is coming out anytime soon? I think not.
Nintendo has four heavy hitters we know about coming out within a year. Metroid, Brawl, Galaxy, Mario Kart. You can buy two Wii's (if you could find them) for the cost of a PS3. A whole bunch of the PS3's big titles this year are on the 360, which itself is up to $200 cheaper.
I mean, the Wii at the moment, shows no sign of slowing down, sales wise. It's selling more than the PS3 and the 360 put together, every month.
I also have to wonder though, did Sony come too late to the party? Sure the Wii was released around the same time as the PS3, but the Wii is a shit load cheaper.
Now, considering that there might be a lot of people like me who have their PS2 and won't need a PS3 for a while and the xbox360 doesn't have much to draw me (yet), we will probably stick to our generation 1 PS2 for a long while until FFXII, MGS4, AC6, GTAVI, and any other sequel of glory comes out.
In the meantime, we are really pausing and looking at the Wii for the virtual console. The fact that we can easily get these old school games we love for a low price (legally) is really exciting and for today's parent who is worried about the game making their kid a serial killer. Why by a new controversial game when you can by an old school masterpiece for much cheaper. (the previous was a concept that has not been realized by the major networks).
Is it true that the xbox and 360 have yet to make up their development costs?
edit: If Sony could engineer a way for their older PSOne games to suddenly become online on the PS3 then things could become veery iiinteresting.
According to Sony, FF XIII is thirteen percent done. That isn't even counting how long it will take for it to be translated. FF XIII versus is listed as 1.3 percent.
Is this real? or are you bullshitting us?
That's a joke right? 13 13 lol?
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Oh. Didn't see anything on it being a joke afterwards.
None. That's why its always prefaced with the word feeling. It is really hard to come up with actual numbers that say that when you start expanding your market you somehow lose sales.
Consider this. Zelda is only around 100k units away from being the best selling non pack in, non comes with a controller game of this generation. It has already outsold the last two console mainstream zelda titles. People, and not just those who owned a gamecube, are buying this system, and will continue to buy titles like Brawl and Kart and Galaxy that cater to both hardcore and casual players.
hasnt sony gone on the record by saying they wont pay for exclusives?
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Even if they have, do you believe them?
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yes
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yea, when the ps2 launched, its mayor competition was the bleeding sega with their dreamcast, oh, and it had a decent amount of time to build a userbase, and it was sold for a sane price.
the ps3 launched last, with an "ok" lineup, for a stupidly high price, and its competition? microsoft, determined to win the console war, literally, no matter the cost, and a new revitalized nintendo under Iwata and the gargantuan success of the DS.
Sony is using the same tactics in a different battlefield, IMO, thats why they are losing.
They pretty much did an interview the other day talking about buying up some unnamed Rockstar game.
I honestly believe that they were trying to get out of the whole paying for exclusive things, and then they learned that they couldn't sell a $600 forman grill with no good exclusives on it.
Whenever folks talk about the Wii losing interest/momentum, I always look at this:
Graciously stolen from Htown from the sales thread:
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=6940463&postcount=294
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PS3 vs Wii: Weekly shares of 13.9 / 86.1, PS3's highest in a month. This brings the total shares to 24.8 / 75.2; Wii hits the PS3 triple point. Due to PS3's higher-than-usual week, if Wii stopped selling and PS3 continued at this week's rate, it would catch up to Wii in 161.5 weeks (August 4, 2010).
Ho-lee shit!
Ho-lee shit is right. The ultimate momentum loss is total stoppage. Even with that impossible idea, still 2010 till the PS3 catches up...damn
That said, I don't see Sony dominating this generation like the last, I'd take a guess and say it'll be relegated to a reasonable third position (maybe somewhat better than like the Gamecube had) with the Xbox 360 and the Wii both being very strong in terms of games, install base and additional features, but aimed at slightly different areas of the gamer market.
It is an expensive, but amazingly capable game playing machine.
Xbox 360 is aiming for a slightly cheaper demographic.
Wii is a arcade console
The PS3 is more for Serious gamers I'm led to beleive, Xbox is more for the relaxed persons.
The Black Hunter's thought process is different from that of rational people, so don't feel bad.
Why? Because it's fucking expensive.
Shut up, my mind rays are picking something up!
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What i mean is the Xbox tends to have games geared towards good, short bursts of super fun (Halo for example) which attracts your basic high-school/college male.
PS3, with all it's JRPG's and the like would tend to attract serious gamers.
@Dublo: Cool, accidental logic.
Yes the PC would attract alot of hardcore gamers, though it does get its fair share of attention for your average knucklehead, though it isn't well known in those particular social circles as the Xbox is. The PC is usually "Internets and msn". And you have to be fairly dedicated to keep your PC in the hardware/software "loop" of modern games.
I love this post. It is full of awesome and win. And it confirms that Lost Oddysey/Blue Dragon/Eternal Sonata are not only not JRPGs, but will only be 10 hours long! Oh noez!
while the 360 is starting to get jrpgs, they're still lacking and sony has always had the upper hand on JRPGs l
Hey guys! let's take someones opinion and assume they mean everything in the most extreme sense!
I like how you somehow think JRPGs are "hardcore" and FPSs are "Casual". The PS3 and 360 are the same machine as far as I'm concerned... only one's $200 less.
they are not the same machine
i'm not putting 360 down as i am very interested in buying one but they are not the same machine