The chart says it all again this month. Xbox 360′s sales dropped off by more than 30% this month, despite Microsoft releasing its most important title in its history — Halo 3. The Sony family once again reclaimed its throne for the month, pushing impressive hardware sales through the retail channel.
With Sony reaffirming its dominance in the US coupled with waning sales of the Wii in Japan, Sony is poised to easily win this generation. We don’t blame consumers for choosing the Playstation brand: it’s associated with superior quality. The competition simply cannot compete.
@animekid
Nope.
With the PS1 it was great timing and Nintendo and Sega screwing up with their systems. Along with the ‘next gen’ systems being bombs. The 3D0? Powerful and somewhat of a good idea. However it was over priced, and the games for it sucked at the time as most where the god awful FMV games of the day. The CD-I? Same thing and really bad controls. The Atari Jaguar had one good game (Aliens vs Predator) other then that sucked. And Nintendo was putting out the N64 that was somewhat behind the times, and the Virtual Boy that sucked. Also Sega had done the 32X and Saturn, both doing not so well.
The PS1 just came in at the right time, yes it was a good system. However again all that was out there was really the Saturn and N64.
As for the PS2, it had a few things going for it. It sold big over in Japan at first due to it being Japans first DVD Player. Know what the biggest selling software was for the PS2 in Japan when it came out? The Matrix on DVD, in the US it was the hype behind it. Also the Dreamcast tho a great system was hurt by it’s ad’s and the like here in the States. Sorry but the whole Dreamcast ‘hiphop’ ad’s showing off Ready 2 Rumble didn’t help the system.
Also add in that the Xbox was priced higher then the PS2 when it came out. And Nintendo was just late to the game if you will.
So no those lies didn’t help them at all, what helped is Sony being at the right place at the right time. And really if you look at it, Sony pulled an N64 for the most part with the PS3. It’s hard to develop games for, it’s still priced higher then the Wii and 360, it has a ‘few’ good games where as Microsoft and Nintendo are offering more. Microsoft hands down has the better online system for play with Xbox Live. And the big thing is, Sony spent the last year selling it more as a Blue-Ray Player rather then a Gaming System.
hey, until sony loses, don’t complain.
coldyellow: 10) OVer 5million have bought it, and there are VERY VERY few worthwhile games, so yea i’d take it as a true statement.
9) if you READ the article it links to its about stealing the sensor n stuff nor who made 3d first. and INFACT Sony filed for a patent FIRST but never carried it through. Do not have source, go google it.
8) At the time PSP was selling more. (remember software and price per console)
7) PS3 runs linux and can use many many applications such as a computer would
6) They are. Opinion is opinion.
5) Maybe so, but they are releasing one now so who gives a care?
4) Too Cheap for them, losing money per console, technically it IS too cheap cos we are paying less than we should for the hardware.
3) A prediction, a misconeption… haze was meant to be released 30November, it didnt, boohoo those LIERS!
2) Sega? bs.
1) Lol you havent read the microsoft reports?
http://www.mcvuk.com/news/28909/Bach-Xbox-Live-has-no-competition
I feel the arrogance flowing off him.
Btw Snes didnt have 3D games… seriously -.-
As in never made full use, PLaystation had the masses of 3d games in every released game. The Snes were barely 3d.
yes, snes could have polygons in the games, but they looked so shit, they were barely used…
if sony copied nintendo’s 3d, then nintendo copied 3d altogether, not like they are smart enough to come up with the calculations of 3d objects, they just used it, the first system to 100% use 3d, was the ps1… well, i wasn’t a gamer back then… so correct me if i’m wrong…
and hey, by arrogance you mean that japanese guy who said “microsoft is copying sony” technically they did… they made a console.
BTW, the SNES did have 3D games. Starfox the only one i can think of but a few games had the FX/FX 2 that actually made them 3D.
And I cant really argue your opinions about that top 10 list. And I can say that all companies, Gaming or not, are arrogant liars. So whatever, I dont care.
What I do want to argue is number 2. I would agree that this generation started with the Dreamcast. It was lightyears beyond the PS1 and N64, and we havent seen a jump like that sense. Also, remember when everyone keeped talking about the Bit rates of their systems? The PS1 had 32 bits, an Nintendo had 64 in the N64 (hence the name). Well the Dreamcast, Gamecube, PS2, and Xbox have 128. So do the 360, PS3, and Wii. They dont make a big deal outta it because it doesnt sound better than last ‘gen’.
So thats the hardware, what about the games? They look better Right? Sure they do. But is that what generations are measured by? They are getting closer and closer to looking real life. But they dont, no matter how hard they try they still look like video games. And until they do I wouldnt say its anything more than Last gen with better graphics. I would also mark a new Generation by a extreme improvement in AI. Both in game and the hardware itself. If it started to ‘think’ on its own then yeah, It would be the next great thing.
So no, this Generation hasnt been that spectacular. The games look better, but its still the same ol’ crud from the last consoles.
i would like them to stick with current graphics, and build better gameplay engines, physics engines and such, and perhaps use massive disc space to have a huge game world, and a long single player mode, instead of cramming it with massive textures and such.
(halo 3 as an example)
Im not sure, i could be wrong, but I would think it would be safe to assume that everyone copied 3D from PC gaming. I dont feel like checking the dates or anything, Im just guessing that if anyone one did it first at that time it would be a PC programer.
Halo 3 isnt the only perpetrator. Heavenly Sword seems to be using the Graphics over Gameplay model as well. So instead of pointing a finger at one title (lame as it maybe) you should point it at the entire industry. In rare cases there are games that focus on the game play or story over the graphics, but when it comes to the top of the line, super hyped, big named titles this is usually not the case. The one game I can think that didnt focus on the graphics and the game play was outstanding was Portal. It may have been short but my God was it a great game. Games like that, to me, are truly next gen.
two days naves
ps3 has alot of good games comming out NOT
xbox 360 = pwnage
ps3= cock sucking
here we go… kingbully, save your frat-boyishness for youtube
lol @ kingbully.
Well in terms of ’3d’ games…
We had the Ultima games that did have 3d Dungeons. Not fully 3d but 3d none the less… Hell Ultima Underworld was fully 3d and way ahead of it’s time.
The SNES had F-Zero, Pilotwings, Starfox, Doom (even tho it looked bad) Wolfenstein 3d. Other games had some 3d ‘elementals’ in them as well. Or had ’3d’ levels like the Super Star Wars line of games.
So yes other systems had 3d games LONG before the PS1 came out.
I eagerly await the day that “The Sony Family” gets outsold by the Wii or the DS alone. SDF is so awesome that you just know they’ll spin it somehow.
ps3 and sony fail
no… they’ll just not make a chart about it…
[url=http://img88.imageshack.us/img88/7628/ownednu4.jpg]This[/url] is what the chart [i]should[/i] have looked like, too bad…
Well yeah true 3d gaming didn’t really take off untill Wolfenstein 3d came out (which was between 1990-92. But before that (i think) John Carmack did a game called Catcombs 3d but that wasn’t very successful.
@Wolfwood
Yes it’s easy to say that 3d gaming came from a PC programmer because your right. PC did do alot of things first before console (FPS, adventure, RPG’s, strategy, action, sports, and even 3d graphic chipsets).
Yes The WHOLE Playstation Family is beating the 360… What a surprise, you fanboys amuse me
When the fuck are you fucking goddamn faggot asswholes ever going to do it right. If you put SONY FAMILY then also put NINTENDO FAMILY and watch how bad your stupid fucking idiotic Blu-Ray DVD player is.
http://www.gamespot.com/news/6183452.html
http://img88.imageshack.us/img88/7628/ownednu4.jpg
what the chart would look like if it didnt have “sony family”
because all the 360 exclusives end up on pc or are on pc
gears
shadowrun
halo
mass effect
bioshock
fable
Guess what they are still exclusive because they are exclusive to MICROSOFT jackass. They have never said they where exclusive to the 360. They where exclusive to MICROSOFT. Only reason the PS3 user are getting lost Planet is because they are nothing but whiny bitchy losers who have no life.
Sony on top as always.
For once there is a site that tells it as it is!
Pssst… no one believes your rigged charts, the comments prove it.
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