Thank-you for posting. You have a lot of good points. I’d like to know those license numbers are, though, because the example you give of 500,000 units versus 1,500,000 units sounds a little far-fetched, but you may be right.

You say that Microsoft has dozens of RPG’s in development. That’s at least 24. An amazing number.

You also say: “Resistance is a good game but it doesn’t compare to a lot of shooters on the 360.” I take issue with that. I think that there’s potentially only one shooter on the 360 that’s better than Resistance on the PS3, and that’s GoW.

I also don’t like that you’re pulling number out of thin air to support your theories. 10 million PS3′s versus 25 million 360′s? That may happen, sure, but we don’t know what the number will be. Microsoft certainly hasn’t sold as many 360′s as they were hoping to in its first year. And the PS3 has already outsold the 360 in Japan, the land of RPG’s. I think that’s a strong telling point.

You say: “Price is what causes people to buy systems. Games come second.” I think that is totally backwards. Games are foremost. Over the life of a system, an extra $100 doesn’t matter.

Scott:

Fanboy isn’t a dirty word on this site, at least in my mind. I have no problem with people being loyal to a platform. Obviously Pc is loyal to PS3 and matt is loyal to X360. I have no problem with that.

My only problem is that “fanboy” is becoming a dirty word, which I don’t like.

Sporty:

Thanks for getting us back on topic! And you’re right. The fact that it’s only been announced for the X360 is worrying. I’m a big CoD3 fan (if you haven’t already figured that out), so this is a disappointment.

I would expect more exclusive after market content in this generation. Its one way for hardware makers to have an edge on the other.

One thing a lot of people seem to discount other then 360 with a HDD is less then the costs of 2 games differance in price to the 20gb PS2. 360 hasn’t captured the Japanese market. Blue Dragon couldn’t even break 100k units in 2 weeks. That isn’t going to convince Japanese developers to jump ship. If developers can’t sell in Japan they are loosing a lot of sells. US may be a larger market but you wont see FFXIII jump to 360 when they can’t sell in there home country. They also dont have ‘dozens’ of RPGs coming, After Lost Odyssey it’s the few strategy RGPs and american RPGs. They have a lot better selection then the first Xbox though. You might see more titles cross over in US like Konami did with Silent Hill 4. Not release it in Japan anywhere but PS3 but in US on both systems.

360 didn’t have a rosy first couple of month either with defects, scratched disks, power brick overheating and less then stellar launch titles. But they did recover pretty well.
They also aren’t flying off the shelves as fast as most expected this season. You wont see a 25 million lead on any console this generation. The 10 million lead they said at E3 turned out to be less then 7 million.

PS2 had a more harsh launch then PS3 but it it turned it around the following year. A lot of gamers have select very short term memories.

You may call Resistance nothing but a ‘good game’ and Motorstorm not good enough to buy a system. But could say the same thing about any 2 games on any other system. I enjoyed and continue to enjoy Resistance far more then I do Gears, but to each their own. I still enjoyed Gear, and still have it in my collection.

fanboy alert

Gears of War isn’t a FPS btw.