Push Square: "This year’s E3 was very special for PlayStation. Despite dominating the industry with the PSone and the PlayStation 2, the company has assumed the role of an underdog at times during this generation. While the PlayStation 3 has played host to some phenomenal games – and posted some impressive sales figures in the process – there’s never really been daylight between the current flagship console and the Xbox 360. But with a series of knockout blows during its media briefing on Monday, the company really stunned its closest competitor, putting it in a promising position prior to the platform’s launch later in 2013. And yet, in spite of a positive showing, there’s one area that we’d like the Japanese giant to address before it returns to Los Angeles in twelve month’s time."
From Software parent company Kadokawa has released its financials for the year, and while profits are down, Armored Core has performed surprisingly well.
Capcom has announced that Resident Evil 4 remake sales are now at over 7 million units, Street Fighter 6 is at 3.3 million and more.
Fallout 76 players have dropped the big one on Phil Spencer in response to Xbox's closures of Arkane Austin and Tango Gameworks this week.
Yes and that is how to make millions of gamers angry.
"there’s never really been daylight between the current flagship console and the Xbox 360"
LOL
The PS3 crushed the 360 in sales this gen despite:
* The 360 being rushed out the door a year early in the US and Japan and a year and a half early in Europe
* Being 200 dollars more expensive than the 360
* Tens of millions of duplicate 360s being sold over and over again to US and UK Xbox fans from the RRoD fiasco
* Microsoft being the only company that inflates their worldwide installed base numbers by reporting their shipped to retail store numbers and not actual sales to consumers like Nintendo and Sony do
* Hardcore Xbox fanboys pumping out fake sales numbers on sites like vgchartz
The true Xbox 360 installed base is tens of millions lower than the numbers that include the 4-5 duplicate 360s the average Xbox owner bought this gen.
If Microsoft got beaten this badly this gen by Sony despite all that, it isn't hard to see how Sony is going to absolutely crush Microsoft next gen where Microsoft:
* Doesn't have an extra year/year and a half to pad out their installed base numbers
* A 100 dollars more expensive
* No RRoD to inflate their installed base numbers by tens of millions
sony doesnt need to learn from ms. but ms needs to learn alot i mean alot from sony
"There's one thing Sony could learn from Microsoft"
Yeah, what NOT to do.
Sony can learn not to block used games nor be always on line to play standard games.