PS3 exclusive sales... whats the deal? (compared to 360 ones)

[NineteenSeventyNine]

It's because out of the 20 mil PS3's sold, not all of them were bought to play games. Think about it. It's the cheapest Blu-Ray player (I'm told) so some of that 20 mil bought the PS3 to play movies and not MGS4 (crazy, i know). I think the 360's sales are better because it's bought primarily as a games machine even though it plays DVD's. But everyone already has a DVD player so that function is moot.

[kwicksandz]

halo has sold 9.1 million???

Holy crap! no wonder people say ps3 games dont sell. thats craaaaaaaaaaaazy high.

[slak]

agree

[thor]

Gran Turismo 5 prologue sold 3 million

Motorstorm, Resistance sold > 3 million I believe

MGS4 is > 4 million I don't know where you got 3.9 million from

If you look at attach rate/time I think both consoles are pretty much the same... Look at game sales for e.g. Street Fighter 4, which is actually selling better on PS3 despite the lower install base.

[Snake Raiser]

I know that motorstom sold over 4 mil.

[Sexius Maximus]

Motorstorm was a freebie that came with the purchase of a PS3 for several months. Those are counted in total sales, but shouldn't be.

[Sackdude]

MGS 4 sold 4.8 mill units.

Res2 sold 2.5 mill units.

and KZ2 sales are not even official.

oh and btw reported.

[Mr Fancy Pants]

Why are people disagreeing with this guy? What he's saying is true!

It seems that we have 4 or 5 fanboys in denial around? That's the only explanation because who else would disagree with facts?

You can even find the info on Wikipedia for god's sake people!

[Jinxstar]

Why are sales low? Many Tech Savvy people buy the PS3 for BR alone. just because someone owns a PS3 doesn't mean they are a gamer.

Either way the companies are making money. 1 million x 60 bucks covers all expenses of the game. so any game that breaks that mark at least breaks even... Who really cares then eh?

[HtmL ps3 d00D]

i acctually like the fact that ps3 isnt selling more than 360, not in the sense that i like 360 better, but i like hopping on a match of CoD5 or whatever and its not jam packed full of ranty little kids (which is mainly why my 360 is hardly used nowadays), ps3 is more of a mature online expierence. so sells dont really affect me, as long as theres enough people to play with, does it really matter?

[GiantEnemyCrab]

/looks at your avatar

Is that you? Mature? I find usually the people screaming about immature and acting like they are so mature are usually the youngest.

Get some better people to game with on XBL. There are actually websites setup to cater to XBL gamers who want to game with "mature" folks.

PS3 dood? Ugh, maybe I'm just wasting a comment.

[Socomer 1979]

are you really wasting your time with this?
how does this interest you at all?
even with the fake numbers you gave I dont see a problem?

everything looks good to me and even more importantly the lobbies online are full. what makes a nerd count sales of games and consoles?
was it your experience with the original xbox or the dreamcast or the genesis that has a person like you totally obsessed with the figures?

i think youre hurting yourself seriously. there has to be something more productive you can do with your life. conversations like these are short for a reason.

[jsmoke03]

look at the games you compared, with xbox 360, 3 of those games are sequels, while ps3, only 1 was a sequel with any kind of good merrit. in the case of gears one, it was well marketed, plus it was the best looking game out for any system (imo) out at the time. i still remember the first add campaign with that old classic rock song playing in the background, it was amazing. ps3 on the other hand, only mgs4 had any real credibility to be a good game. resistance 2 i think didn't have as big a following, because resistance 1 was a bundle, so its not clear wether people bought the game, or bought the ps3 with resistance as a throw in. killzone 2 is a sequel, but kz1 and liberations were well received sales wise. lbp was a new ip that only hardcore gamers who researched games actually knew, while others had no idea. i think ms knows how to market established franchises while sony doesn't know how. if i were sony, i would have advertized during the superbowl at least once during the fourth quarter...would have done them some good for killzone 2

[memots]

I got Gear1 bundle with my xbox so really it is not important whats been given or not.

Fact is and no i am no fanboy here people. On the 360 there was nothing the scale of Halo. I mean really .. Why own a 360 if you don't have halo3 its still the most played game on xbox live because there is nothing else.
I played gear's online and it wasn't that fun. Cod4 well i got it on my ps3. So really the only game i keep going back for on my ps3 is Halo3. And sometime when my nephew comes over we play some gear ( awesome coop game ).

I still don't understand this fixation people got on selling numbers. Does that affect your enjoyment of the game? Really .. your gonna tell if a game didnt sell 2 million in its first couple of months on the market is a flop and its not good enough for you to play it ?

[memots]

I played gear's online and it wasn't that fun. Cod4 well i got it on my ps3. So really the only game i keep going back for on my Xbox360 is Halo3. And sometime when my nephew comes over we play some gear ( awesome coop game ).

[BlackCountryBob]

I don't think that that many PS3 owners bought only for BD. IMO I think it is very much about the demographics of the consoles. The PS3 is largely (not exclusively) bought by slightly older gamers than the 360 (mainly because they can afford the outlay) and I think that the older gamers get the more it takes to impress and are similarly less likely to get caught in a web of hype and publicity which accompanied many of the games you list meaning that they are more likely to be picky and wait for a demo or a price cut.

I also think Xbox live plays into it, the very tribal nature of online gaming and the fast movement from one game to another I think means that many 360 gamers will buy a game they perhaps are not sure about to make sure they are able to keep up with what there friends are playing and not be left out while the more single player nature of PS3 gaming means that this tribal compulsion is less.

Either way, take Halo 3 out of the list (which is a sales phenomenon akin to a Star Wars movie) and there is not much difference in terms of sales taking into account the different lengths of time on the market. Perhaps the sales end up much the same but while 360 has a stellar launch week followed by a swift drop off, the PS3 sells with more a slow burn over a period of months.

Regardless, leave sales data to multi national companies and just play the games; if only 1 other person buys the game then it doesn't harm our experience in an way (except a sparse online obviously)

[seijuro]

Those sales figures you have given are wrong. And KZ2 is going to be more than 3.5 mil, the pre-orders in Europe alone are more than 1.1 mil.

[Pootie Tang]

PPl keep throwing out that 1.1 million preorder in Europe, well what are they waiting for??????????
Only 350,000 sold in Europe in first 2 days, u mean all these ppl preordered the game but don't even want to pick it up for a weeks? That makes no sense, I wonder where that number even came from

[KingJM]

It means that 350,000 copies were bought from shops. Desnt include pr-orders from the internet. Also 350,000 in 2 days is pretty impressive if you ask me

[ThatCanadianGuy]

It's called "marketing"

[slak]

The ps3 needs better marketing ms is doing a good job

[panasonic23]

here the problem the average age group for the ps3 is 35 and up right they all unemployment aahhahhahahahh they broke biatch.

[slak]

funny guy here

[FPShooter]

dude do you even think about what you say or do you enjoy talking out of your a$$. the PS3 is the most expenesive console and your calling us broke and btw im in my 20s

[Pootie Tang]

It is a huge problem for Sony, developers aren't blind -they want sales and the 360 MOVES software big time. I wonder myself why the PS3 isn't selling, I just got off playing KZ2 and it is a really good game. The game I was is never got over 23 ppl outta 32 now I know it's Thurs midnight where I am but still should be jam packed in there.

I really believe poster above me is correct---it's all about marketing, and Sony can't hold a candle to the 360's marketing powerhouse.

[SpikeSpiegel]

Regardless of who sold more or not, the fact is that those franchises still sold well. That means we should continue to expect more of these games(or developers) in the future.

[gidzilla]

PS3 games are more expensice,

[Firstkn1ghT]

Like the first post said. The majority of ps3 owners bought it for the bluray player and not the games. I personally know about 8 people that own a ps3 player and a crap load of bluray movies and zero ps3 games.

[LordDhampire]

mgs4 has sold 4.5 mil as of december 31 probably 5m by now

[You Already Know]

people get the 360 to play Halo, Gears and some of the other games...

Halo is a household name now and it's no shock that it sold that many...

I own a PS3 only and only because I can only afford one system and I like Blu-ray movies....it's personal preference..

I haven't played the MGS series until I played 4 and was blown away...

people who get the 360 get it because of Halo and get a bonus with Gears of War....not to mention the other great quality games they have in their lineup...but the brand names on that system that are exclusive are not well known...

the PS3 is purchased for brand names like MGS and God of War...but the other top names are now on both systems...like Final Fantasy, GTA, Resident Evil etc...and even though Resident Evil made it to the Gamecube before, it was still dominant on the Sony brand...

the newer quality games that Sony has put out and have coming out are new games that aren't well known even after putting out a game already for the console..like Uncharted, Resistance and LittleBigPlanet ....and then you have Infamous, MAG and the other titles that everyone is sick and tired of hearing about...

the point is...Halo sells the 360 and Gears kind of stole some of it's thunder except Gears 2 which I consider a ripoff since it's pretty much the same as gears 1...

Sony is busy re-building it's exclusives lineup while the 360 is putting out what is expected...

both systems are great, I just didn't want RROD, so I scooped up a PS3....and for the BD as I said before....but I am a gamer point blank..

[raddbj03]

1. not everyone who bought a ps3 uses it for games (i have five friends alone who just bought it for the blu ray and picked up cod 4 but that's it)

2. marketing - why has the average american probably heard of halo but not solid snake? microsoft isn't a marketing genius, but sony sure tries to make them look like one. just imagine if sony hired the apple marketing department. that alone would turn this thing around for them.