Sony expects PS3 growth; analyst says Wii will win:
Sony insists that its PS3 console will be a big success story over the festive period, although one analyst says Nintendo's Wii will win the bragging rights in the console market.
"The PlayStation 3 sold 121K units at retail for the month of October," Sony said in a statement immediately following the release of October sales data, which showed PS3 trailing Wii and 360 by a wide margin. Sony expects a great deal of momentum moving forward this holiday and beyond with the availability of new PS3 hardware and pricing. Based on internal data, the company is already seeing a great spike in sales with a 192 percent lift for the PS3 over the past two weeks."
Analyst Jesse Divnich, however, believes Wii will continue to dominate by a wide margin this holiday despite the recent PS3 price cut.
"Although the grass may look greener on the other side, the market still questions Sony's ability to generate strong first-party sales - a key factor to any console's success," he said.
As of right now, there are no monopolies in the games industry, and for the sake of the medium as a whole, they never should either.
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Huzaifa from eXputer: "2008 was home to the likes of Call of Duty: World at War, Dead Space, GTA 4, Far Cry 2, Left 4 Dead, and many other hits, which is outright remarkable."
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Those that were around before 2000's i am sure are like me that think we entered a world of non readers or those that follow without question.
I can not wait to see fallout 3 a goty game even though it was about water with non content until you add the dlc/updates then you got the performance/crashing
1998 - the best year in gaming! Metal gear solid, crash bandicoot 3, medievil, half life, ocarina of time, thief, tenchu, resident evil 2, Spyro, tomb raider 3, oddworld abes exodus, banjo kazooie.
It was a different breed of a gaming era. You’ll never understand what it was like back then. The aura of gaming, it was different!
I second this. Gaming was a lot more varied and fun than it is today. I'm 35 so getting on compared to some here but I got to see all the changes from NES up to now but I've never felt so disappointed in any generation than I have this current gen. I was expecting more from this generation rather than prettier versions of games that came before it. Game mechanics have become so refined that alot of games feel the same and has done for a while now.
Maybe it's time to have a break for a while. I love gaming but I don't feel I get much fun in the traditional sense out of it anymore.
Metal Gear Solid, Resident Evil 2, Abe’s Exodus, and Ocarina of Time are the only things from that list that I liked.
Here’s the 2023 game releases that I personally liked… and big releases that I didn’t care for:
- Dead Space Remake
- Wo Long Dynatsy
- Resident Evil 4 Remake
- Diablo 4
- Fire Emblem Engage
- Hogwarts Legcay
- Street Fighter 6
- Hi-Fi Rush
- Like a Dragon: Ishin
- Octopath Traveler 2
- Final Fantasy Pixel Remasters
- Final Fanatsy XVI (actually ended up not liking this, but it was still a big deal release)
- Baldur’s Gate 3
- Armored Core VI: Fires of Rubicon
- Lies of P
- Mortal Kombat 1
- Marvel’s Spider-Man 2
- Starfield (Ended up hating this one, but big release)
- Super Mario Bros. Wonder
- Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom (I’m an old-school Zelda fan, but didn’t really enjoy this game)
- Alan Wake 2
I mean, honestly I’ve never seen a year of major IP releases like that, ever.
Isn't it just a generational thing realistically.
I've been gaming since way back and I some of my favourite games go as far back as the late 80s for me each generation has a year or two of game changing releases one after another before an inevitable dry spell.
I kind of agree gaming had a different feel games hit different because we didn't have the internet nothing got spoiled and you really had to put in the effort to beat a puzzle which could set entire groups of people looking for a solution. But most importantly games were experimental and not as cookie cutter as today even basics like controls were not universal today r2 is shoot l2 is ads garunteed you can't deviate from that in a shooter back then it could of been square, R1 or R1 and circle nothing was standard.
But as time moves on a new generation picks up their controller they are going to be interested in different things that PS1 demo disc with the t Rex blew our primitive 16 bit brains back on launch but to kids today it's laughable.
The new gen of kids coming into to hobby seem to value different things to us there seems to be a huge focus on online play, streamers, gaming personalities, and social experiences, convience of digital downloads. To me I value none of that but that's ok like my parents not liking the band's I would listen to its just the natural cycle.
Just about every year in the 7th generation was great and something we most likely won't experience again.
2009 for example had Assassin's Creed 2, Batman: Arkham Asylum, Dragon Age: Origins, Uncharted 2, Halo 3: ODST, Killzone 2, Borderlands, Bayonetta, and Demon's Souls to name a few.
It still amazes me we got over 7 rockstar games ps2/ps3 but 3 for the ps3/ps4/ps5
Dragon age 1-3 and mass effect 1-3 in 7ish years what a generation.
so um wheres the 360 love..?? oh well..all 3 systems will sell during the Holiday ..let's hope Nintendo reserved enough Wii's for the holidays or they might end up leaving ppl with no choice but to get a PS3 or 360....which I hope happens..!!
It's not going to be that big of a success this year. Xbox 360 still has Halo hype and Wii has Mario hype in the states. Sony could have been the biggest success story of the year had the following occured...
Home released no later than this month
Rumble Controls for world wide release "I got mine, but do you all?"
Ratchet and clank, Uncharted, Haze, Little Big Planet, Unreal 3, All released back to back to back over the course of 5 weeks.
The 400 dollar price point is good. Keep this.
1 free psn download with the purchase of a PS3.
Those are a few things that would've really helped Sony this year. And they did get some of them right, but not enough to be a huge success. I see no more than 8 million Ps3's in homes world wide by years end. Wii will move units. 360 will move units... Ps3 will not. It'll do decent.. but not major.
360 is dead its between Wii and Ps3 now i dont care what any xbot say ROUND ONE FIGHT *Nintendo send out Mario.....Sony send out Snake...
So 360 is dead? Weird analysts
I wouldn't say they didn't win anything... I think they won a fair share of market here. I am one to agree, 12 million units over more than 2 years now, isn't much to brag about... Even more so when your competition both launched a year later and 1 is already beating you... but I think MS, as much as they have lost... have really hung in there. I just think the system is going to start showing its age this year and that's where it gets tough for new suporters of the system to come on board.
Why should we jump in if you're just gonna jump out with a new system the next year or year after? I can't help but shake the feeling MS is going to spring another 4 year life span on us and that makes me not even want a 360, aside from them all being RROD piece's of JOKE.