During a conference call today, Activision Publishing CEO Mike Griffith detailed the company's expectations for console sales across 2008, revealing its belief that the PlayStation 3 will sell more systems than the Xbox 360 this year.By the end of the current calendar year, Activision believes the consoles will sell:
* PlayStation 3: 8 million units
* Xbox 360: 6-7 million units
* Wii: 15 million units
* PlayStation 2: 4-5 million units
Griffith also noted the company's expectation that handhelds will grow "in excess of 24 million," but did not provide a specific breakdown between PSP and Nintendo DS.
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Just go back to ruining CoD WaW.
Sadly, it's because the idiotic public are attracted by something that is deemed "revolutionary", even though everything on it is s***e. I wanted this to be the Jaguar all over again!
Sadly, it's because the idiotic public are attracted by something that is deemed "revolutionary", even though everything on it is s***e. I wanted this to be the Jaguar all over again!
They're not buying it because it's "revolutionary". They're buying it because it is fun.
Actually they do. They always have in fact. Their first party games sell their consoles. Period. Can you find someone who bought a wii to play "raise a horse" or one of the other shovelware? They buy it for smash brothers, mario, etc. Thus, Nintendo games sell nintendo consoles, and without that the Wii would not have gotten far at all.
Games are a personal preference.
Saying this, I can also see the PS3 doing better than the Xbox in the long run. I've spent the last few months looking at games from both consoles (trying to choose one) and,from what I've seen, the majority of Xbox games seem to be aimed at hardcore gamers.
I'll explain further. My Mum, sister and I have all enjoyed playing games on our old PSOne (Crash, Spyro, Gran Turismo). Now I look at the exclusive Xbox titles and I can't see a single game that would interest anyone else in the family but me. I look at the PS3 and while it doesn't have as many exclusives, the variety of them is much greater. You have games like Ratchet & Clank, LittleBigPlanet, the PixelJunk games, which are aimed at anyone - even Uncharted looks like it has a fair amount of universal appeal.
Exclusives are worthless unless you can get a decent variety.
Last edited by Galley on 02 Aug 2008 - 03:33
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well said.
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