Comments on: PS3 Outselling 360 On Third Party Software

By: w3stfa11

w3stfa11 — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 00:56:13 +0000

Hmm, I’m not sure what the explanation is. EA’s second quarter reports seems to put it back into X360′s favor.
X360 25%
PS3 11%
PS2 6%
Wii 4%
PC 10%
DS 5%
PSP 4%

You can see some interesting figures about “PLATFORM NET REVENUE MIX” at this link.
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/081030/20081030006325.html

By: SL33PY

SL33PY — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 08:53:16 +0000

Well darrin, since microsoft claims that their hardware sales are so high, how about looking at software sales per hardware unit sold for a number of cross platform games?

Microsoft also touts that their software attach rate is higher then the PS3, altough I still need to see those numbers too.

Unless more data is released or being compiled into other views on the market, we will not know per sé why ps3 games move more cash to the publishers then xbox games

By: JimmyStewart

JimmyStewart — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 00:37:13 +0000

Very surprising indeed. I agree that it probably has nothing to do with piracy, but at the same time I’m not really sure what does explain it. Just in terms of title availability it doesn’t make much sense.

Just off the top of my head I wonder if it has anything to do with the first party exclusives. I mean on the 360 if you’re buying the top shooters you’ll buy Gears of War or Halo. Those will move huge numbers. Only after that do you move on to the games like Call of Duty. Mass Effect also probably moved some numbers. On the PS3 I’d imagine an FPS gamer would start at Call of Duty and then perhaps move on to Resistance. The biggest selling points of the 360 are probably it’s first party software, on the PS3 you’re mostly left with games available on both consoles. I know that when we stop in the games store we can rarely find anything worth buying on the PS3 that isn’t a third party title (i.e. that we don’t already own on the 360). But the PS3 is making some progress with LBP, a game that makes up for the first party titles like Viva Pinata and Banjo that my wife is in love with. But for our house the biggest game will be here next March… God of War 3. I’m already predicting that to be my game of the year for 09.

By: François

François — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 22:13:33 +0000

Third party are slowly getting behind the ps3 based on their prediction of the market which seem to favor the ps3. But people need to get behind the console as well, we have seen the 360 slightly passing the ps3 over the last month console sales. I believe that given the financial crisis, price may end up the decisive factor for many and ps3 may lose its momentum for the holiday season. I hope I am wrong.

By: Office Ninja

Office Ninja — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 21:38:24 +0000

Very interesting. I’m not sure if piracy is the main factor here not.

I just hope that third party developers start showing the PS3 the love it deservers. Third party developers should at the very least start using the PS3 as the lead platform for development. Most of the developers mentioned release multiplatform titles anyway, so unfortunately I don’t think this will mean more exclusives.